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Episode Post Date: March 23, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 3006
Transcript
Does Universal Studios have better food than Disneyland? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Last year, we pitted Universal Studios food up against Disneyland Food. And you know, one of the cardinal rules of this show that we always hold to is that we never repeat a format. Under any circumstances, okay? Mm-hmm. Right. But we have decided to make an exception just this one time. Just this one time, we're gonna try it again. We're gonna try more foods from both places. Because we didn't eat everything and they have so much to offer at both of these parks. We gotta get to more of the food. It's time for Food Feuds, Disneyland vs. Universal Studios, The Sequel. You already know a lot about Disneyland and Universal, but before we eat, wouldn't it be great if someone set the stage with the gravitas this matchup deserves? What does amusement mean to you? Arousing loopty loop, the jerk of a jerks bumper car bumping you, perhaps. Both Disneyland and Universal Studios claim amusement as a moniker and both supply such delights in the like in spades. So amusement, it must mean those things to everyone, right? Wrong. Not me. Not us. Not the we who prefer a steamy dish to a steep drop or sweet viscosity to speed and velocity. For us, amusement isn't Thrill Rides and Masked Mascots. It's first bites, the last slice, flavor, and mouthfuls to savor. For us, it simply means, delicious food. So is there an amusement park out there for us? Is it Disneyland? Can its snacks satiate enough to Mickey my day? Is it Universal? Can it's treats Transformer my hunger into a plump and appeased pot belly. Can Rhett and Link put both to the taste test and find out once and for all right now? Yes. Yes they can. And for the us, they shall. We shall. Can I have your leftovers? We, yes sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you. Standby. More than earned it. First off, we've got chicken sandwiches. On Rhett's side, we've got a beautifully stacked Disneyland's sweet heat beignet chicken sandwich. Wow, wow. This is at Tiana's Palace for $15.29. On my side, I've got Universal's chicken and waffle sandwich. Available at Cletus's Chicken Shack for $16.99, that is a Simpson's themed restaurant. And Tiana is a, uh, princess. Princess and the Frog themed restaurant. I feel like we should smush. Yeah, I'm gonna smush with a spoon. Because you can buy the beignets at the window. Would you like me to cut? I'd like for you to cut. I'm gonna, and I'll do that. Is that helping you? No. What about that? Is that helping you? Yeah, not being able to see doesn't help. Take that out, it's ruining everything. Oh, the fork. Yeah, the fork. Uh, I mean. Ruins everything. Lemme just say. Say it. Beignets are not very big. This chicken is overpowering that, is that part of the deal? Ain't nothing wrong with a little chicken coming out of the thong. Oh, it's um, it's a thigh. This is a thigh. That's beautiful. Can you explain what you just said? It just rhymes. Sometimes when it rhymes, you don't have to explain it. I don't want a chicken coming out of my thong. I'm sorry I said it. Hmm, hmm. In fact, if I was enjoying looking at a thong and a chicken came out of it, it would change everything. Yeah. Ain't nothing wrong with a little. So no, so something is very wrong with the chicken coming out of a thong. Yeah, okay. Yeah. I retract my statement and I replace it with something's very wrong when chicken come out thong. But this sandwich, there's nothing wrong with this sandwich. Hot, spicy chicken. This is served with collard greens and house made pickles. We don't have those. Pretty good. Um, hot chicken has gotten so good in so many different places that it's really hard to compete with what I know it could be. Does that make sense to you? Yeah. So. I wouldn't even call it like in the Nashville hot chicken sandwich. No, it doesn't get that far. It's just a hot sauced chicken. Now this is much better proportioned. It's a lot of waffle though. You want to help me? No. I'm not gonna get close to you while you have that. Looky there. I did it. I succeeded. That's my half. Okay. Don't touch. I already did it. Okay, and it's falling apart. This is a chicken breast. A lot of bread. It's tall. It's got the mayonnaise, it's got the lettuce. Oh. How you feeling? Well, first of all, it's a breast, so it's a little dry. Add to that, two giant pieces of bread, that are also dry. Add to that, a sauce that tastes a little off. It's a sweet sauce. Now what is that? Um. Maple mayo sauce. So weird, that's a little too weird. I don't enjoy that at all. I don't love a sweet bread with the chicken sandwich, and both of these have that, but I, I mean. A beignet on a chicken sandwich, the only other place I had that was at that we went to a, a Hollywood party somewhere, remember that? And they were serving beignets with all types of savory stuff in it. It was so good. Oh yes, I remember that. The burgers were good and there was a whole place that does it. A whole place, um. We gotta choose one. This is not great, but this is. We don't have to choose one. Such a disappointment. We have to score to them. I know we've never done a format twice. Right, so how would I know how to do it? It's really easy to forget how the show works. On a scale of one to 10, I'm gonna give this a. Five. A five. Over here, I'm gonna give this a two. It just doesn't come together. Um, I'll give it a three. Neither one are great. Let's move forward. You want some ramen while you're at a theme park? Why not? Well, you're in luck. On my side, we got Disney California Adventure's Beef Birria Ramen, available at Lucky Fortune Cookery for $15.99. On Link's side, we got. Okay. Uh, Universal's Despica-bowl Ramen available at the Minion Cafe for $18.99. Get it. Despicable. Despicable. Bowl. Bowl of ramen. Bowl. Yes, I do understand. I feel like we were really down on the first round. We gotta pick it up even if we're being dishonest. No, we gotta keep it real, man. We each have our own bowl. Now, KG did go out yesterday to get these. She got paid to go to two theme parks. Mm-hmm. Three, three parks. Three parks. Yeah, technically three parks. We're gonna eat with a fork because, um, we gotta keep. And we can see your adventures on the Mythical Society. Yes, we can. So we've got house made birria, soft boiled egg, Monterey jack, cilantro, roasted corn, onions, and radish. It's very interesting. It tastes pretty nice. I like a fusion. Hmm. Yeah, it's fun to order, it kind of motivates getting ramen at the Big Hero Six themed restaurant. How'd you know that? 'cause I can read it, on the little cheat sheet. Wow. Very good. Very good. That's very solid. I just don't. And I'm not being dishonest. Know, there, there's nothing. Special. There's nothing universalized about this besides the name. Everything is just how you would expect to have normal ramen with the pork pieces and the pork broth and everything. But how does it taste? Very good. I'm gonna just gonna drink a little bit. It is good. I'm gonna go full piece pork. I would be happy to have this ramen. Especially if it was cold at the park. You get all the way back up to the top of the escalators. There's so many escalators. The wind's blowing, it's cold over there. I mean, the longest ride is definitely the escalators. Yeah. So there ain't nothing wrong. And my favorite. With this at all. It's the only one I don't get motion sick on. You know. Everything makes you motion sick. Unless I like make eye contact with somebody who's going up. Like I see somebody I think I know and then I just throw up everywhere. And I wonder if they take it personally. Yeah, they should. Um, both of these are good. This one's more interesting. I think this one actually tastes a little better. I don't disagree with you, I wanted to confirm that by coming back over here. We gotta reward the fusion of it all. Trying something. I like rewarding fusion. Yeah. I'm gonna give this a solid seven. Seven. Me too. I mean, it's not at a ramen restaurant, you know, but they swung for the fences. Over here, super solid. The taste is great, but it's not exciting, so I'm gonna knock it down to a six. Seven. You're tying them because this one's good and creative. This one's almost great and ordinary. Yep. Now we have pretzels, bagel flavored pretzels, to be specific. On Rhett's side, we got Disneyland's Cream Cheese Filled Pretzel. Uh oh. Available at refreshment corner for $7.29. For $6.99, over here at Universal, you can get the Everything Seasoning Pretzel from the Universal Tower Snack Bar. Now my favorite Disney movie is Refreshment. So, I love Refreshment Corner. I love the Princess, Princess Refreshment. Her breath smells like mint and her farts smell like tulips. Uhhuh. Okay. Cream cheese filled, you say? I do. Oh. I did say. Yeah, all throughout it. The whole thing. Look at that. That's pretty impressive. Would you look at that? Look at it, just coming there. I'm not gonna dip it into the nacho cheese yet. I'm gonna just try the regular cream cheese. I don't even know how they do that. I mean. This is so cool, man. These imagineers, these days. Coming up with cream cheese, putting it in a pretzel, calling it a bagel. Hmm. It's a sweet cream cheese too. I have a friend who's an Imagineer who, who, who works on the, uh, lots of things, but he goes on the Disney cruises to like, imagineer the cruise, and they go and they, they go on the cruise for like a, he's gone on cruise for a long time. Well, of course he is. He's cruising around, imagining. Once you're on the ship, can you imagine how long it would take to get back? It's like turning a ship. That's good. I like how it's already in there, it means there's less bread. I would think you would. And less mess. Prefer those over a regular pretzel because it doesn't have the pretzel taste, which. Mm-hmm. You think tastes burnt. Yeah. I was tricked into thinking it was just a bagel. 'cause look at that. Yeah, tricked. Now it's smaller than the universal pretzel. It really is a bagel that is just shaped like a pretzel. And you have a friend who works at Universal theme parks. Yep. So we kind of are on opposite sides of this. That's that's true. You wanna fight? Let's get our friends to fight, or let's get our friends to give us both free passes. Yeah, I. And be done with it. I've, yeah, I haven't thought about that. I want to eat more of that. I don't want to dip it in cheese. This one looks like it's, it's been cooked. Yeah. But maybe it's just because of all the, you wanna do that? Make a wish. Oh man. Make a wish. I guess I knew I was gonna lose. Oh, that's incredible. That's incredible. This is just a pretzel. Leave it to Universal to just not go all the way. Sorry, my friend who works there. Pretty high up. I guess that's a personal critique. No, it's not, Brian. Sorry. Does Brian watch these episodes? Something tells me he might see this one. Now that that just happened. Uh, yeah, but that's just a, I mean, everything bagel seasoning is fun. But you didn't ream out a pretzel, completely turn it into a bagel. Yeah. And make me happy about it. The, the day that someone imagineered this, they went home and they were a hero in their house. You know what I'm saying? They were a hero in the boardroom and then a hero in their house. Mm-hmm. It was an incredible week for this person, whoever that was. An imagineer on the ship and a freak in the sheets. I'm gonna give it eight. I'll agree with that. It's warm, it's nice. 'cause I actually, I would give it a nine, but I actually wish it would taste like a pretzel and not a bagel. Oh. Hmm. Over here. 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It, maybe, I actually think they were just sharp. Oh yeah. Sharp, hot, feels the same sometimes. Yep. Spare ribs, they say. Not baby back. Nope. They're both pretty equally sauced. These are hand sauced by KG. She said she used these three fingers. Wonder why though. I don't know why. They don't sauce the ribs for you. Uh, not at Disneyland. They have a, they have a sauce station though, but to match Universal I put sauce on it with these three. Sauce station. Okay. Well, I ate the whole rib. This is, this is pretty good. I mean, this is my idea of a nice midday meal. Take my shoes off under the table. Take your shoes off at a theme park. Yeah, I. Bad boy. I gotta do that. My dogs are hurting, I got to, I gotta take my shoes off and then eat a rib, just gnaw on a bone. Don't be that guy. Y'all go, y'all go on another ride and come back and get me. I'll be the guy gnawing on a bone. With his shoes off. Um, if I'm comparing these to all the ribs in the world, they're not great. But I'm not, I'm just comparing them to. They're not horrible. They're just not now. Now why we got such big slabs here? Yeah, they're going bigger with it. Watch out, I'm about to sauce you. Oh god. What? I just, what is it? This is at the Harry, Harry Potter themed restaurant. What's happening. Did they say this is like owl bones or something? Owls are a lot smaller than you realize. You ever seen one of those pictures of an owl without its feathers? I hate that, for them and us. Nobody wins with that. They look so stupid. There's a lot more meat on these ribs. They're a lot more spare ribby, which kind of exposes the, the meatiness, the, the, the unsauced, unsmoked, kind of like, bottom of the barrel rib experience. I feel like I'm tasting that maybe with both of these, though. A little, mostly boiled kind of a vibe. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think they were boiled, but they taste boiled. There's nothing fun, there was nothing added to each of these. Like, where's the fusion? Where's the fun? Where's the, you know, uh. Look at my fingers. Sprinkle some mouse turds on it or something. It's just black pepper, but we call it mouse turds. That's right. You know. That'll bring 'em in. Tell Brian that. I'm a. Well no, I'll tell, I'll tell Matt. Tell your guy. Yeah. As much as we love ribs, this is kind of a disappointing round. I'm gonna text him right now and be like, hey man, I was imagineering something on my own. Yep. Yeah, yeah. I I won't mention you 'cause I don't think he likes you. Um, and I'll say, um, got an idea now, all the black pepper at Disney, mouse turds. Yeah, yeah. Don't credit me, I want it to go through. Yeah. I'm gonna give these ribs just an average five. Four, I'm sorry. Over here, I've just gotta dip all the way down to. Ooh, don't. Three. Um, I think they were pretty even and I didn't like either one of 'em. Four. Dessert time, which means churros. Yes. Actually churros can also be a dessert, dessert. On your way outta the park. You might need a second dessert. Just grab one up. Yep. Start gnawing on that puppy. Of course, Rhett's got the Disneyland churro. Found at Donatello land. Iconic. Got it, you can get it at various churro carts throughout the park. Are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a Disney program? No. Okay. Are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles a Universal property? I think they're like a Nickelodeon something or other. Well, boy, I wish we had switched sides. 500 and, 575 cents for this. $575. They're so iconic. Uh, Disneyland is cheaper than the 649 cents, uh, churro from the Universal Tower Snack Bar. Now, both of these, again, they would be incredible right off of the shack, on the day. But they are equally in time removed from that time, so. Equally aged. We're seeing through time and knowing what makes this a good churro in the moment. It's long. You can't see to it. It's gooey inside. It's crispy on the outside. It's very solid, great flavor. Looks pretty identical. I mean, the only difference is the handle. So far. Disney give you a little paper in the middle. Huh? Crispier. Crispier. Cinnamonier. More cinnamon. But not that much different. I do recommend always keeping one of these in the line of sight. That's why they have them sold throughout the park because, not just because they're easy to sell, but because, for families who, who believe in caning. We used to. They just used these. Then we read a few books. To just give a little, um, a little discipline. Spare the rod, spoil the child. I don't believe that. I don't believe that anymore. Spare the cane, spoil the tourist. Spare the churro, spoil the park goer. Um, I will take back my thing about cinnamon because once I had both ends, it was the same. These are absolutely identical. I think they're made by the same person. Somebody just interlopes back and forth and churros here, churros there. You never know where they're gonna churro next. So, I mean, are, are we saying that the universal churro is even with the iconic Disney churro? Yes. I feel like I am. Yeah. Yep. This is. They're both very good. This is a wash, we are not gonna score this round at all. Well, uh, how about we just give nines across the board just for the sake of, uh. Just, just so that they can do more math. Just for math's sakes. All right. We're giving everything a nine. Nines. Let's see the overall results. Universal coming in at 54. And Disney coming in at 67, actually winning by more this time, and that is the second time. Mm-hmm. That Disney has won, so you are officially the happiest plates on Earth. And I don't know, I don't think we need to do this again. I mean, I think we've proven it. But you have won a chance to sponsor to a future GMM episode. Does that mean that my friend is better than your friend? Yes. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hello. My name is Caleb. My name's Hayley. 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