Channel: Good Mythical Morning
YouTube Video ID: AAh4V4AiwUQ
Episode Number: 3051
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Which convenience store has the better food, 7-Eleven or Circle K? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. We are about to compare 7-Eleven foods to Circle K. But first, this portion of today's episode is sponsored by AG1, the daily health drink that combines your multivitamin, pre and probiotics, super foods, and antioxidants into one simple green scoop. We have done a lot of travel this year already for work. Yes, we have. And I don't know about you, but it can get in the way of my routines, plural. I have many. Yes, uh- And they, and everything changes. I see. Like, well, my dogs aren't here, so where do I find dogs to walk? Well, as someone who travels with you, um, and sees you get out of your routine, I can attest that this is, does not go well for Link, or for the people who are traveling with him. Because, because things are good the way that they are. Well, travel can be disruptive, but it shouldn't be the excuse to completely abandon your health goals. Nope. 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Well, through our link, uh, our Link, who's showing you these things- Yes ... uh, get an AG1 flavor sampler and a bottle of vitamin D3 and K2 free in your welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription, and that is a $72 value. Thanks again to AG1 for sponsoring this portion of today's episode. All right. Convenience stores, they're a funny thing. I mean, to roughly paraphrase Britney Spears, they're not a grocery store, not yet a restaurant. Mm. They're something different. Mm-hmm. Something better. Mm. A magical place where you can buy a car air freshener with a side of warm taquitos. But which small but mighty mini mart is the mightiest? It's time for Food Feuds: 7-Eleven versus Circle K. Before we get started, I wonder if there's any kind of fun way to set the stage with a little background information about these chains. Well, that would be great, and Josh usually does that, but he's out of town. Yeah. So I guess we'll just have to start the episode. Okay, that's- Not so fast, boys. Today we're doing it, Nicole style. Two houses- both alike in dignity, both hailing from the lonesome Lone Star State. One hot dog roller heated rivalry, one 7-E, the other, Circle K. The former with its hip konbini fame, once slung no Slurpees, only ice in blocks. Hmm. And soon the Southland ice co changed its name, reflecting new store hours and new stock. But not so fast my friends. Hold your applause. For in the other corner is a store, El Paso born, now owned by the Quebecois. One thing's for sure, this means convenience war. Will Circle K be crowned the Circle King? Or will the home of Slurpees reign slurpreme? Slurpreme. Slurpreme, you get it? What, what, that was like, that was like Shakespeare. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Our first match-up, the most important meal of the day, hot dog. I have in front of me a Circle K hot dog for $2.50, and another one for you. Thank you. And in front of Rhett we have the 7-Eleven big bite hot dog for $2.49. One cent cheaper. Uhhuh. Now, you may be asking yourself, "Why does my mustard and ketchup look like that?" That's because the real packs were used. Yes. You know? Yes. It, it's pack squirt. Yeah. And when you squirt pack- It's kind of erratic. All right, let's start with the 7-Eleven. Do we really think there's gonna be a big difference? That's a good hot dog. I can definitely tell that the hot dogs are different. This one is a lighter dog. There you go. You don't need to hand a man his wiener. Let a man grab his own wiener, you know what I mean? I'm just like a, I'm just l- l- speeding you along. I g- but it didn't help. It slowed us down. Now we're talking about it. Well, I didn't talk about it. But no, I would never hand you your wiener. Yeah, don't ever hand a man his wiener. Hmm. They're the same diameter. They're not the same color. They're the same length. Hmm. Can I tell a difference? Is it the same dog? It's not the same dog. But it's so close to being the same dog. Hmm. 7-Eleven's a little bit better. The wiener's better. It's smokier. Mm-hmm. Okay, we've discovered it. The wiener is smokier. But the skin- But never hand a man his own. The skin's not bad on that. But it just doesn't have the, the, the level of taste experience. It's a little bit better over here on the 7-Eleven side, I will say. So, on a scale of one to 10, what are you gonna give it? One, one cent cheaper. Um, is this on a scale of convenience store hot dogs, or is this on a scale of all hot dogs that exist everywhere? Let's go with convenience store hot dogs. Eight. I'm gonna give it an eight as well. I mean, it was hard to figure out that this was different, but I'm gonna notch it down two. I'm not changing it out one 'cause I still liked it, especially when I went, when I went back to it. All right, fine. I'm gonna keep it at a seven too, because I do think it should be kind of tight. It, and it's a s- it's solid. It's just there's a slight difference. I think that's, we're in a good place. Yeah. Eights and sevens. All right, it's potato time. In front of Link, we got the Circle K potato wedges for $2.49. Okay. As expected. And I have something I didn't know existed, the waffle tots from 7-Eleven for a dollar. What? For a dollar. Just a dollar. What is, what is this? Let, let's... Wait, wait. Let's, let's save those, 'cause I'm excited about it. I'm not excited about it, but... They look a little burnt, but let's start with the wedge. These look like the tater wedges that used to be at the T-Mart. Local convenience store in Lillington, North Carolina. Mm-hmm. They taste pretty similar too. Yeah. They've got like a, a very stout breading. Real greasy. Yeah. In a good way. And it's, it's, the seasoning is nice. If I just asked you, do you see more Circle K's or more 7-Eleven's as you traverse this country, what would you say? I'd say 7-Eleven, but back in North Carolina- Not many 7-Elevens, so at least there was- A lot more Circle K's. Well, there's almost twice as many 7-Eleven, there's- In America. In America. Right? In America. Okay. Um, over 12,000 7-Eleven stores. 12,238 when this was counted. And Circle K operates 7,000. That's the number that we found, 7,000. Substantially less, but still e- enough to do this. And California has the most 7-Eleven's, 18, over 1,800 just in this state. What do you think about this? I want you to eat this one and tell me. Wait, wait. Oh. Did you do something to it? I broke it in half. Okay. All right. Be- because- You would say it's too much potato. It's, it... Look at how much potato there is in this. I mean- You don't really like potato. Well, there's the risk of it becoming uncooked in the middle. I get scared when the wedges get really big. Scared? I like to have the surface area. Well, this is- This is nothing but surface area. This is a tater tot made to look like a waffle. But because- Watch out. I heard. Oh, God. Because it has holes in the middle, it's nothing but surface area. It's crispy all the way through. Did y'all know about these? It's like taking the shavings off a tater tot and forming them into a waffle. Good God ... and frying the whole thing. There's no potato in that at all. Well- ... I guess it is, but- It's gone. Good gracious. It's nothing but- I feel like one of those dogs chewing one of those dental chews. Oh, man. These are just, these are burnt. They can't... Maybe- It's crazy ... maybe they can get better than this if they don't cook them as hard. Well, I kinda like it though. Like, it's crazy. They don't taste good. You know... Well, you specifically don't like the little burnt french fries. No. But if you do like those, and I do, it's basically just that. I can't stop eating them. You need to try it once. But then once you do, you may give it a two, like I'm about to do. I'm not gonna give it a two. I'm not gonna l- I, I, I- Or you might give it an eight, like Rhett's about to. Uh, I'm gonna give it a seven. Um, because- I'm gonna give it a three ... I like them. But maybe they would be even better if they weren't... I think if you got some from the store, there might be some white in there. I don't know. I'm, I'm leaving that out. Yeah, there, there's still hope. Um- These are expected. It's not shaking me up. I'm choking though. It's choking you up. This is just standard potato wedge. I'm not excited by it, but- Five ... seven. I'm gonna give it a seven as well. So I'm, I'm seven across. Hm. Potato time moves right into chicken sandwich time. I have a Cajun chicken sandwich from Circle K and this thing cost $6.99. And over here I have, for just $4, it is smaller, a honey butter chicken waffle sandwich. Somebody in the boardroom at 7-Eleven was like, "Waffles. We gotta do waffles. Everything's gotta be waffles." I mean, look at that. It is a buttery, syrupy little contraption here. I'm gonna just leave it alone. Let's start over here because this is like they're trying to get in on the chicken sandwich game that everyone is in on, right? Yeah. That's a little scary looking. Which I had no idea- The bun looks good ... that they were trying these things. It's extremely Chick-fil-A coded. Pickle brine, but spicy. Foil bag. Hm. Not too much spice. Pretty good. I'm just gonna eat a little bit of the, of the chicken sandwich. I gotta say- Just a chicken filet ... that is surprisingly good for a convenience store sandwich. Yeah. It's not Popeye's, okay? I'm not crazy. Yeah. And it's not Chick-fil-A, but it is very close to that. Hm. Wow. That's solid. Yeah, it is. I also like their, their packaging. That thing's wrapped like a biscuit. Yeah, it seems like they took something that left breakfast town and then brought it back into breakfast town. 'Cause chicken and waffles, it's, it's kind of the subversive, let's, uh... Hm. Ooh, look at mine. What happened to yours? Yours is sausage. Oh, they're burnt. All right. We're gon- we're gonna- Don't eat right into the burn, though ... we're gonna, we're gonna do the best we can. Yours looks dry, too. Mine's so wet. Hm. Hm. Very sweet. Try the back of mine. Yeah, maybe we had a little... Oh, you took a McDonald's CEO bite on this thing. I mean, look at that. What happened? You barely got to the chicken. I was trying not to bite the burnt part. Do a Burger King CEO bite on that. All right. I think it's pretty good. Oh, yeah. I miss the spice a little bit, though. The spice is nice on this one. Hmm. I'm gonna assume that the burnt nature, the over-drying, has a little to do with our reheating process. It's fine. I'm g- I just don't wanna... I- No. No? You're saying no? No, it tastes- No, because that one is com- mine's completely wet. I think this- So you're thinking that they did that, so I am gonna throw them under the bus, not them. Yeah, do. Do it to them, not us. It's how long they left it out at that particular place. Exactly, yeah. You know what I'm saying? But I wonder, can you choose one? Two different batches. If you can choose- Well, it's wrapped up. You might not be able to wra- you, you might not be able to choose. But I agree, I don't think you can hold that against them. But this is, this is a travesty over here. Hmm. Yeah, that's a travesty. Well, that's why we got two of them. It's so sweet. Actually, the reason we got two of them is because there's two of us. I really like it. I mean, it's a naughty, naughty treat. It's a little, um... It's Mc- it's McGriddles-coded. All right. We're both coding things today. Um- Chick-fil-A-coded, McGriddles-coded. We're pretty blown away on both sides of this. Both sides. Eight. I'm gonna give that an eight for ingenuity. You're not gonna get that anywhere else. So I agree. But I really got surprised by this sandwich. I keep wanting to eat more of it. So- And when I wanna eat something, I just do ... on a- That's kind of my thing ... convenience store scale, I'm gonna give it a seven. I was so impressed by that, for what it is and where you get it, that I think I gotta give it an eight, too. I know I'm just giving both places the same score, but I feel justified in doing so. Yeah. Well, that's so Rhett-coded. Eight and eight. Yeah, Rhett-coded. Hey, guess what, Mythical Beasts? The new Pride collection is live now. Yeah. And we got a lot of stuff in this collection, and we did something very cool this year, and that is we actually partnered with some of the Mythical Beasts in the LGBTQ+ community who actually designed all of this stuff for us and for you. Mm-hmm. Very, very cool stuff over at mythical.com. Yeah. Plus, we will be donating 25% or more of net sales, up to $50,000, from this collection to OutRight International to advocate for LGBTQ+ human rights. Yes. So go over to mythical.com and get you some from the Pride collection. Thank you. Okay. Cookie time. Moving on to chocolate chip cookies. Over here I got a 7-Eleven chocolate chunk cookie for $1.58 each, and then Link has the chocolate chunk cookie, I guess they're calling them the same thing- Okay ... uh, for $1.25 each at Circle K. So they're bigger on Link's side. Yeah. That's the first thing I noticed. And these are particularly... They, they're cooked a little more It's a soft batch situation I thought that there was a pattern of 7-Eleven just burning stuff. 'Cause the last two rounds, the waffle windows- Yeah ... and then the waffle- Yeah ... chicken sandwich. Overdone. But not these. This is the, this is the doneness of a cookie that I like to see. Hm. I like the consistency. Taste is fine. It's okay. It's okay. I'ma go for the- Nothing to get too excited about ... the nice middle. Does this one taste much different? The cookie's bigger, the chunks are bigger. You're paying more- Yeah ... for, for my cookie, and you're getting less cookie. But do you need more cookie? I mean, when you're buying a cookie, how much cookie do you need? All the cookie you can get? I mean, when you can go across the street and buy another cookie, yeah. I like the taste of the 7-Eleven cookie. There's a little bit of an oatmeal thing happening up in my brain. Coming back to this one, 7-Eleven's better. Convenience store cookie, I'm gonna give it, um... It's not wowing me in any way. No. No. I'm gonna give it a seven. Oh. I'm gonna give it a six. Over here, I gotta go down to six, five, four. I'm going down to four. I'm going to four as well. Just not loving it. Doesn't taste as good. Overcooked to me. Time to go taquito. Mm-hmm. All right. The 7-Eleven taquito is a jalapeno and cheese taquito for $2.69 each. And on my side, I got a cheesy pepper jack tornado. Oh. Watch out! New name. It's a tornado. I just don't know about naming it after a, you know, such a, such a catastrophic act of God. Well, I mean, like hurricanes, you know. I don't know about that either. Carolina hurricanes. Um. They look exactly the same. Now, they sell multiple flavors of taquitos- Exactly ... at both places. So we're not doing a flavor comparison exactly one to one. We got the closest we could get. So it's how well it meets the expectation of a taquito that would be this flavor, I guess, is the best way to do it. Thank you. This is what I wanna do. Take that other half if you want it. It looks like there's just cheese in there. Is that all that- I think it's cream cheese ... cheesy pepper jack? No, no, jalapeno and cheese is all it is. Yeah, it's kind of like a, a jalapeno popper. Very cream cheesy. Exclusively almost. Which I'm not complaining about. Was there ever a place in your life for this? There's always a place in my life for these kinds of things. Like a gas station taquito? I just feel like I have a little bit too much pride. Okay. I mean, listen, if there weren't other people in the world to judge me for things, I would go to that meat section with the big red sausages in a gas station- I know you would. I know you would ... and I would just suck on those things But I, you know what? I'm shame-based. So. This is a, um, an oranger inside. Monterey Jack, American cheese, jalapenos. I'm not gonna compare the cheeses too much because they're not exactly the same type of cheese. I'm kinda comparing the, like, the whole taquito in itself, including the tortilla? They look exactly the same. The Tornados are thicker in a way that I don't like in terms of the tortilla. I think they're made by the same people, dude. It's breadier. It's breadier. Well, interesting that you say that. They wanted to be m- made by the same people because at least Circle K tried to buy 7-Eleven last year in a failed $46 billion bid. So they wanted to take 'em over completely. Oh, yeah. Eliminate the competition. In a whirlwind. Didn't happen. So they must have thought that they were doing something right. I think, I don't, in this round, I think that they're both okay. Yeah. 7-Eleven's a little bit better in my mind. I, I think, uh, Circle K's a little bit better. Okay. Why? Because I am comparing the cheese, and the, this cheese blend is tastier to me. Well, can I just say, in just defense of my logic. Yeah. You can get, like, one that's got a different type of cheese in it. So because you could probably get one that has not just cream cheese in it, I didn't wanna judge the fact that this was, this was a choice that we made because we were trying to get ones that were comparable. But the fact that it's only cream cheese is a choice that was made, not 7-Eleven's, like, screw up. Well, in that case, there's no difference- Okay ... in my mind. Maybe you say this is a little bit thicker, but- Thicker in a way that I don't enjoy ... to, to me, this has no impact overall. Six, five. Five, five. There we go. All right, let's see our results. Circle K comes in with 59 points, and 7-Eleven, 66. The big win. Congratulations, 7-Eleven. You are officially the Gas Slay-tion. And have won the chance to sponsor a future GMM episode. Here we are just waiting for that. Come on. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, I'm Taylor in Chicago, and I have my free Slurpee Day Slurpee, and I'm watching Rhett and Link try theirs. And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. Oh, there's a cat. Oh, your cat wants some of your Slurpee. No, the cat wants to be a star. Get me in that video. Hey, listen, we got one thing we want you to keep in mind today, and that is under any circumstances or under no circumstances- Well, which is it? Should you Google eyelash mites microscope. Don't do it. 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