YouTube Video ID: 4kDEC02_JMU
Episode Post Date: May 11, 2026
GMM Episode Number: 3041
Transcript
Which fast food place has the best hot sauce? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Eight years ago, we blind taste-tested fast food hot sauces, and we were gonna revisit them just like we've been doing with a lot of our other old blind taste tests, but as it turns out, the fast food hot sauce game has changed. Yes, there are so many new options out there that we had never tried before, so we decided to start from scratch with a brand new taste test. Even with some familiar flavors mixed in, will any of these new ones stake their claim as the absolute best? It's time for Fast Food Hot Sauce Taste Test, The Reboot. As you can see, we can't. Now, Kalyn, it is my understanding that in preparation for this episode, you've been neck deep in hot sauce. Is that right? That is absolutely right. It's my favorite pastime these days. Mm-hmm. Ooh. You're gonna get a rash. Okay. Okay, today you'll be tasting hot sauces from, in no particular order, Del Taco, KFC, Jack in the Box, Popeyes, Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Wendy's. They will be served via the still patent pending Saucy Finger from our first taste test. Let's bring the first one in. Still very, very saucy. So w- we're supposed to, we're supposed to suck, suck on a saucy finger? You, are you nervous? Hot sauce nervous? I have no point of re- I don't order hot sauce in any of these places, and I didn't know that any of the non-taco places had them. Mm. Oh, that is not a fun thing to do. At least it's not a real finger. Hmm. Woo! Ooh, that's hot. Oh, yeah, baby. It's like a, um, it's a high hot, like a- High hot. It's a prickly hot. It's a, um- Hmm ... it's a stingy hot. It's, it's not, it doesn't have a lot of depth to it. Hmm. Sounds like you're complaining about it a little bit. I'm just trying to figure out what kind of food would this go on. I think I know what kind of food it would go on. Is that how you're thinking about it? That's how I'm getting it into categories in my brain, and then I, and then from there, I really don't know where I'm gonna go. On a scale of one to 10, how much do you like it? It had a lot of bite to it. Um- Acidity. It, it, it had some s- it had a little depth to it as well, though. Like, I would say- It's still there. But it tastes like a manufactured sauce. I'm staying six. I think six is a great number, and I'm going to agree with that. All right. 'Cause it's pretty good, but it's, it, it's definitely not great. Ready? Okay, time to guess where this hot sauce is from in three, two, one. Del Taco. Tell, uh, Taco Bell. Taco Bell. What? What, what, what did you just say? I- Tell. Uh- I, I wanted to say Taco Bell. You said Del Taco, and that made me start saying Tell Taco. Taco Bell. Okay. But it's either Taco Bell or Del Taco, and I have no idea which one's right. Sucking on a thick finger. Oh, God. Ooh, whoa. Uh. What is that? What? How ... Holy, it's buttery. What the- Oh. I, I think I love it. It was weird. Oh. Did, was it gritty? It's gritty. It's gritty. Greasy. And the hotness builds. What in the ... woo. I've never tasted that before. That's weird, dude. I would remember that, and I would've- Had dreams about it sometimes. Oh. Yeah, definitely hotter than the last one. Mm. Where is the hot sauce gritty? Ah. Like, it's got pieces of something in it. That is strange, isn't it? I think I like it, though. I think I like it. I think it's an eight. I think it's an eight. Was it not buttery? I said buttery. I said buttery. No, you said gritty. You said butter, I said greasy. You said buttery. Greasy? Buttery? Yeah, I didn't say buttery. I said greasy. Uh. I'm ready. Okay, guess where this hot sauce is from in three, two, one. Popeyes. Popeyes. So you knew this, right? No. You, were you faking? No. 'Cause we flipped out about the- It tastes like the sauce that was on that chicken- the boneless chicken- ... those chicken wings. Mm-hmm. That, so that's gotta be it, right? And we flipped out about that here, and I subsequently, uh, ordered some a couple weeks ago, so. Oh, really? Yeah. So you're definitely right. Uh, well, we were both definitely right. I did not have recent confirmation, but now I feel good. I gave him recent confirmation. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Saucy. Um, viscous. What? It's like baby food. That is not great. Am I wrong? Very syrupy. Scary consistency. Huh. I'm just think I'm realizing that I haven't had- This is weird ... a lot of hot sauce at fast food places. I mean, I can start to pick out ... I think this is, like, a multi-pepper. How many peppers do you think are in that? Three. Which ones do you think they are? I don't know the, I don't know them. I only know green peppers. That one's kinda going, like, to my brain. In a good way? It's tangy. It's got this, like, jaw tang that's happening. Seven, I like it, now that it's fully rounded out. Uh, three for me. Mm. Don't like it. Okay. I don't know- what I would be putting this on, but I do think I have an idea of how I'd get it on there. You mean like, uh, a squirter? Yeah. In general, yes. Okay. Ready to guess? Yeah. Three, two, one. McDonald's. Jack in the Box. So I think it's a nugget dip, because it has that- Oh, I agree with that. Stickiness to it. Yeah, but I feel like I've had the McDonald's hot sauce. I don't know. Maybe I haven't. I feel lost. Good. How long do you think it would take the world to grind to a halt if all sauces disappeared? I don't think it would at all, dude. Uh, I, I, I guess, uh, 50 years. 50 years? Yeah. I give it three days. Three days without hot sauce? Come on. All sauces. Oh. Well, it's not like they use them as lube to, like, keep the world turning. I think it's- Hello? Hello? Hello? Who's there? I think in some ways, sauce- Are we onto something? Is that what... What does that mean? What, what does that sound effect mean? Yeah, see, it means that I just had a realization. Oh. That was your brain. Sauce is the world's lube. I think without sauce, everything grinds to a halt. Like, I think sauce is doing a lot more heavy lifting than we realize. Huh. You heard it here. Okay. I... We're back in high sauce territory. More acidity. Huh. I, I'm still on a five for this one. I'm on a six, but now I have to make a decision if I'm going to flip it or I'm going to- smack it up. Rub it down? Rub it down. Uh, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm, I'm feeling really good about my choice on this one. Okay, I'm excited. Give me your guesses in three, two, one. Taco Bell. Jack in the Box. Oh, you're right. That's what it is. Because- Yes, that's what it is I mean, I've never had it, except for last time we did this probably, but I just think that it's taco sauce from a burger joint. I think you might be a sauce master. Sucking on fingers. I just can't get enough. Ugh. This one's- It's got a jalapeno in it ... fruity? Yeah, it's fruity. Sa- um, sa- uh, thick, thick saucy. Um, Kalyn, I know that, um, last time we did this, we tasted glove. And this time we're not tasting glove. How did you get gloves that don't taste like glove? So we actually did have people test, you know, with just different types of gloves to see if they have a taste. And so we found the ones that just don't have a taste. Tasteless gloves. Yeah. These are tasteless gloves. It took real, real work from our, um, art department. Well, they pulled it off. This d- sauce really has dimension to it. I don't like all of them, but I will say- I will say ... I will give it credit. I'll say. Do you think that this is, uh, this is a tier above sauce? A tier above sauce? The other ones, yeah. Um, no. It tastes- Did I just- ... More expensive. I think I d- I had sauce on my hand and I think I just put it under- Six. I don't know. How did I get hand sauce? It's g- it's got some depth to it and some darkness. I bet it's a dark sauce. It's tastes green. Oh, I disagree. Okay. You think it's green? It tastes green. Verde? Yeah, I don't know why. I don't know what to give it. Six. I don't know, I'm lost. I, I, I don't love it. I'm just staying at five for that one. I'm lost in the sauce. What am I gonna do here? It's such a we- I don't even know what food this would go on. I, me neither, man. Ah, crap. Okay. Is it chicken? Time to guess. It's not ch- I wouldn't go on chicken with it. I don't care. I don't- Okay. I, okay. 3, 2, 1. Del Taco. Wendy's. You think Wendy's? Ha ha, I lured you into a slumber of not caring, and I'm pulling ahead. I'm pulling away. I'd like to give a wholehearted promotion for this Essentials long sleeve tee. I've got the navy one on. It's got a three-dimensional Mythical logo here. It's very high quality. I'm holding up the bone one. Ha. It's not white, it's bone. Yeah, get your bone at mythical.com. Get your bone on. Give me the finger. Uh. Wow, that is almost sour. Yeah. Yeah. Ooh. Yeah. What? I've lost- What? ... every point of... It's almost like it, is it alcoholic? I need to dip things into sauces is what I'm realizing- It's- ... Besides a finger. It's not Tabasco-y. It, it is a little bit Tabasco-y. But it's kind of a little Tabasco-y. Eh-hem. One. Oh. Yeah, gotta be harsh on this. Um, when you said, I gotta drink some water. When you said Tabasco, it made me start liking it more. You told me to put Tabasco on something the other day and it revolutionized it. Chowder. Chowder. I gave you chowder tips. That white thick old chowder, boy, I mean- Well- You didn't actually ... to be honest, it was a Serbian waiter that told me. Yeah, that's right. And, uh, and then he, he's, he was a fan of the show, and he said he was giving lots of, uh, suggestions. And we took them all. And he, and he, and he said, and every time you would take it, he would say, "I appreciate you listening to me." Thank you for taking my advice. Yeah, thank you for taking my advice. And he had good advice. One of them was, "Put a little Tabasco on the chowder." Put a little Tabasco on your chowder. Thank me later. That, that is the p- that is the place that I love Tabasco. Did I give a score? 'Cause it's five. Um- Ooh, my eyes are just watering under here. I'm glad I got this sponging it up. Okay, you ready to guess? No. Isn't that obvious, Kalyn? Um, it's not. Who, who, who? I don't... All right. So who have I not guessed? Oh, you're gonna play it that way. I don't know. Lot of confidence. Who serves chowder? Everyone's got chowder these days. It's the new chicken sandwich. Okay. Cr- oh, I know it's not that. Uh, okay. All right, in three, two, one. McDonald's. KFC. Why'd you say McDonald's? There's no freaking way. Well, 'cause I don't know what the hot sauce tastes like at any place. Except Popeyes. I just don't think that tasting sauce v- via finger is a valid... I think that if you're a sauce taster out there, mm. I tried to make it a little more interesting, but making it challenging for my finger. Man, my finger man. My finger woman? I don't know who's over there. Man. This one's not bad, it's a little mild. There's so many good hot sauces out there. I'm gonna give this one a seven. I'm gonna give it a six. Hmm. Uh, what do you think about this sauce? Uh- Where do you think this sauce belongs? I think I know. Let's find out. Okay. Guess where this hot sauce is from in three, two, one. Del Taco. Taco Bell. Oh, so it was the Del Taco, Taco Bell reversal. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And now it gets funky, doesn't it? Saucenstein. This is the last time I get to put a finger in my mouth. Not true. Not true. Hmm. There's two in there, you say? Okay. Well, I know one of them. Are you sure there's two in there? Yeah, there's two. Hmm. And there's one point for each one. One point for each one. Woo. It's g- I mean, the heat is just going up in there, like it's all in the sinuses. It's g- it's a good thing, but I'm, I'm struggling a little bit. Whichever one was the hottest- Who would do this thing that we have done? I can't taste a second one. Who would take two different hot sauces from two different restaurants and mix them and then dip their finger in them? No one. No one would. Oh, is that what you're getting at? That we're special? I was racking my brain. This is a clueless exercise. Oh. Oh. You don't believe in it, do you? 'Cause, 'cause you think you're losing? Well, I feel strongly that I'm losing. But you know what? I've thought that before. And you ... Every single time, it's just not the case, I think. Um, okay. I, I know one of the sauces, so let's get that one out of the way. I just can't identify the second one. Okay. Time to guess the first sauce in three, two, one. Popeyes. Popeyes. It, it was less gritty, 'cause it, but it was, it w- it was entirely the taste of that sauce. Yeah, it got ... But Popeyes wins out on that. If that's what Popeyes is, it wins out on that one. Um, I just have no- I know it's not one of those, and it's not that, and it wouldn't be this, but it might be that. And I think it's this. It could be, it could be that one. And I'm, and I'm gonna go with that, because why not? And if you could, then you would. And it, 'cause if it was that- But should you, is the question ... then I would experience something different than I'm experiencing. Sometimes just because you can and you should doesn't mean that you would. Sometimes if you can and you would doesn't mean that you should. And sometimes when you did, you shouldn't say that you would, or that you have. Sometimes just because you thought about wanting to do something doesn't mean that you should've done that. Just because you will doesn't mean you want to. And if you want to, doesn't mean you can. But if you could and you did, then I won't tell. And just because you think about wanting to do something, sometimes you might want to do something because you think that someone else thinks that you want to do it, but you don't actually want to do it. And the question is, if you should do it and you could do it, would you do it if it's a good thing? And if everybody did it, would that mean you should do it? Yes. Yes. Okay. Second hot sauce. Oh, oh, oh, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I had it. But- I had it. I had it. I had it, too. Oh, no, I had it. Okay. I remember. No, no, no, I had it. Yes, I've got it. I had it. I remember. I had it. I remember. I ... Okay. All right. I have it. Okay. Are you ready? You have it? Yeah. 'Cause when you have it, you can give it. Yes. I know. But if you don't have it, you can't give it. You can take it, though. But if you gave it and you can't remember it, then did you ever even have it? But you, you can have it in two ways, by either g- taking it or breaking it. If you g- can you give something that you don't have? And if you take it- Yes ... and then give it- A sacrifice ... that, if it wasn't yours to give, did you really even give it? Or did you just steal it? I'm ready. Are you sure? Yes. Okay. Second hot sauce in three, two, one. McDonald's. KFC. Oh. Ha. You think it was double chicken restaurant? Yes, I did. Because I couldn't taste the second one at all. Good gracious. I can't see a darn thing. It's been a long little morning for us. Okay. So Rhett, you got four correct. What? What? No. No way! That means, hold on, hold, four? Mm-hmm. Hold on- Yessir ... but that also includes the two at the end. Okay, so it's not that great. It's kind of wild because- Yeah, four out of nine potential points ... yeah, we, we know that we both got two, so all I need to do... I, I, I beat you, it's just a question of how much. Yeah, by how much. Okay. And Link, you got four correct. Which means that both of you are the winners. You're both officially the Hottie Hottie Like a Bag of Takis- No. Like the Katseye lyric. And you get an extra sauce-filled bag of Takis as your prize. Okay. You gotta tell us which ones did we get right? Did you have that information? Yes. So Rhett, you got Taco Bell, Popeyes, Del Taco out of the, the first seven rounds correct. So I got Taco Bell and Del Taco right. And then you got Popeyes correct in the Saucenstein round. So you, so you're Taco Boy. Taco Boy was right. These are good. Okay. And then Link, uh, you got Popeyes, Jack in the Box, and KFC correct in the regular rounds. I'm kicking y'all. And then also Popeyes, right, in the Saucenstein round. And Popeyes was your favorite overall for both of you. Which totally makes sense because I don't, I don't put hot sauce on my tacos. I rarely eat fast food tacos. Why you fogging up? Because I've been eating hot sauce this whole time. These are good. What kind of sauce is on them? Popeyes. Taco Boy, Chicken Boy, with our powers combined, we know our sauces. We can take over the world and keep it from grinding to a halt when the sauce goes away. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, I'm Joe. Hi, I'm Harper. And we're doing the International Hot Sauce Challenge. And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. Hot sauce taste test with Dad. Or, I mean, they could be, I mean, I don't wanna- Or brother and sister. It happens sometimes. Or brother and sister. You have a baby late. Right, right. You know what? We wanna appreciate a very special group of people. That is middle schoolers currently faking sick to avoid cello practice. 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