Channel: Good Mythical Morning
YouTube Video ID: DNlV87B8Yq8
Episode Number: 3061
Transcript
Were the best snacks made in the '90s? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Back in April, we asked you if we should bring back discontinued snacks or let it slowly fade away like the poke function on Facebook. Remember that? Oh, yeah. But w- nobody knew what the poke function's purpose was. Uh-huh. Uh, so we were unclear on that, but you were very clear that we should bring this format back. And since you are absolutely feral for watching us eat expired food and determining whether it deserves a second chance, we're doing it again today. Bring on the Boggs. Uh-huh. It's time for To Be Discontinued. Today we are very limited in our options to freshen our breath. There's gum, there's mints. What about mouthwash? And a little bit of mouthwash. Little bit. But there's nothing that gives you fresh breath with the shock of ice but from one glorious year. From 2003 to 2004, folks were living the dream with Ice Breakers Liquid Ice. You've heard of Ice Breakers, but have you heard of Liquid Ice? Now, somehow Link and I completely missed this. But Chase- I was a newlywed … you were saying that you were playing with this on the playground, passing it around? Yeah, I remember, like, it was a hot commodity that everyone wanted the, like, a little one of those little balls. Uh, so it was, like, pre-boba too, right? But I think everyone was- Pre-boba … really into, into, like, the tiny little- So- 'Cause you, they burst and then it's a pop of just explosion ice minty flavor- Whoa, whoa, whoa. Be care- don't open it … overwhelming. Or at least it was. I don't know what else is- It packs a big punch is what you're saying. A hundred percent. We paid $100 for this. A hundred freaking dollars, dude. $100. Liquid gold. I mean, Jessica Simpson and her sister were in the commercial. Hey, give Ashlee some respect. Ashlee. So it looks like a tongue. Should I take it out like this? I don't know how to open- Oh, yeah … No, like, yeah, the Tic Tac. Oh, there it is Whoop. Oh. Just two. Just give you two. Hold on. Don't you want two at once? It's like caviar. Maybe we should start with one each You got two in there? It was hard to bust. Well, that's just- Whoa … that's 'cause it's old. Take, take one, homie. Oh, I can smell you from here. Woo. Holy moly, that was from one? Good God. Yeah. That was one burst? And then you spit out the, it looks like a, a shriveled up contact lens. You just spit that out, right? Oh. I distinctly remember- Oh my God … a lot of those bubbles being just, like, on the side of the playground. Like, people would just spit 'em out, like- Yeah, it's like- … sunflower seeds … it's like little kids taking hits of drugs. I'm not dic- I'm not, I'm swallowing that. I don't think it's necessary to swallow that. It's just, well, it's fiber I guess. It's fine. It's like a pill. Um- It's a pill that you chew. Remember those, uh… People use those tongue strips still? They doing that now still? That was before this. Listerine strips. But yeah, those are still around. This is a Listerine, this is a Listerine ball. But, um, mint breath strips, the sales started to dwindle in 2003. Boy, every time it pops it shocks me. I mean- There's no way it was this hard actually in 2003. I think they're just, 'cause they're 23 years old, they've gotten hard. But the fact that they still pack such a punch is absolutely amazing. I mean, we are soft these days. We need a mint that'll kick our ass. Um- This needs to come back. I think that's very clear, right? I thi- I, I don't know. Here's why. I think there's a subtlety to these kinds of things, and when you- Wow. Pop that ball in your mouth, I immediately smelled it. And you, and you weren't even breathing on me yet. I wasn't. You don't wanna be the… You don't want people around you to know that you just broke ice in your mouth. You don't want people to know that. Just busted a capsule. You want people to be like, "His breath is always good." But you don't want them to be like, "Oh, he's doing something because his breath must be bad." You- All you gotta do is crunch on it when nobody's looking. Okay, so it's just a bathroom thing. You go to the bathroom- Yeah, like- … you do your business, you crunch on- Like the other drugs … you crunch on a ball. Yeah. Yeah. And then you go back to the party. No. And you're- Don't glamorize that. I got allergies, man. That's what I'm talking about. Uh, okay, don't let me argue out of it. I, I love this. Everybody loves it. It's still good after all these years. We paid $100 for it. Okay. Ice Breakers. It j- it seems illicit. Ice Breakers. Liquid Ice. Bring it back. Bring it back. You know, pork rinds can be a little bit divisive. Mm-hmm. Some people love 'em, some people hate 'em. But maybe if all pork rinds sat in a can for 70 years everybody could get on board. Yeah. Yes, these are Wilson and Company's canned pork rinds from the 1950s, y'all. All right. And it comes in the old school thing where there's this key on top. Let me see if I can pop that off. Pop the key off. We, we paid $89 for this piece of culinary history. I need to take a- I really like the- The can design Oh yeah, look it's working. Ooh. Ooh. Smell it out. Smell it out Nothing. Nothing? Nothing. Nothing at all. I think they are dry. I mean, they were probably dry at the f- at the beginning. It's so satisfying to unfurl one of these things. It's … Look at that. That's cool. I mean, plastic bags just don't have the panache of this. Ooh, and look at there. 70. This is as old as your granddad. Pour 'em out, homie. This is as old as your grandpappy. No, not on that. Pour 'em on the table. Why? I want people to be able to see 'em. Well, they're lighter, they're lighter than that. They look like Rice Krispies. These are little pork rind pieces. Looks kinda like insects, and this is cool to look at. Okay. What you did there. I got a whiff. Let me, let me- They've … That … I mean, they've held up surprisingly well, but … Uh. It's, it smells like those, uh, insects. Insects. I don't know if we should eat it. But you- But we do have ice breakers. To protect us. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's got a- There's no way. It, it does have a little Boggs to it. Uh, a little interesting backstory here about Wilson & Company. Oh, I love stories. Wilson & Company acquired a failing, um, meat packing house, like, where they would, like, do the pigs in, you know, and turn 'em into food. You mean a slaughterhouse. A slau- I didn't wanna say the word slaughter, but yeah, slaughterhouse. Okay. Yeah. Wilson & Company bought that in 1916, and then ultimately started making sporting goods. Oh, 'cause all the hides. Does Wilson from Cast Away ring a bell? Same Wilson. Same Wilson. So, so the pig that we are about to eat also made, was made into footballs and volleyballs and stuff. Well, and- It still is. To be clear, the same part of the pig, the skin. Yeah. I know. Isn't that clear? Footballs are made from pig skin. This is pig skin. This is a football. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna taste one of these. This is a deflated football, Tom Brady. Come on, me and you both together. Oh. Just get a little piece. I don't want to. I mean, it's- 70 years? It's not even food anymore, is it? It's like, it's like plastic. Mm. I'm not swallowing that. I'm not swallowing that. 70-year-old pig skin. I don't hate it at all, though. Think about it like this. These are older than 90% of the people on planet Earth right now. You know what? That really helps me appreciate it. I am so appreciative of us and the fact, the fact that we pla- paid $98, $89 for this. But what are we really doing here? You know, b- bring back pork rinds in a can? No. Yes. Little teeny, like- That is the question. The answer's no … do you think that they were, um … Well, they're on there. They were, I think the thing that makes these different, that I do find, uh, a little bit intriguing, is they're small pieces. Like, today if you get pork rinds, it's big and it really makes you realize that you're eating skin. Mm-hmm. And maybe that's a turn-off for a lot of people. Maybe bring it back- Yeah, we need, like, Rice Krispie-sized pork rinds- Yeah, yeah … and then throw it in the can because it's a beautiful can. And we loved how you open it. So, all, this whole throwback thing is all part of it. So yeah, I think- Yeah … as it is, change nothing. We've completely changed our minds. We've changed our minds. Canned pork rinds that are little. Bring it back. Bring it back. Baseball is America's pastime, but should it also be America's breakfast? This is Major League Grand Slams Cereal, and boy is it shiny. Oh, man. It looks like an upper deck baseball card. Remember those? Yeah, foil coated. We only paid $10 for this. Came out in 1998. Steal. It's got Mike Piazza, Frank Thomas, and Mark McGwire on the front. On the back, I mean, this is a- an officially licensed MLB product, and- It's got, it's got Cardinals version, uh, Mark McGwire on it. Is that what that is? Don't know. You've got, uh, corn baseballs, and then you've got marshmallows that are stars, diamonds, pennants, home plates, gloves, and bats. So what we've got, what it seems to me, I haven't seen it yet, I think we've got Lucky Charms, uh, in baseball form. But let's just verify. Yeah. Pour a little bit of that and then I'll pour a little bit of this 'cause it's kinda my thing. Oh, the marshmallows have, they've all gone. They've all, they're gone. Oh, there's one. They've, they're, they're all gone. Oops, all baseballs. Oh, there's one right here. I think they settled. This one, this right here is a pennant. We got one pennant. Oh, they're just light on the marshmallows. So light. Look, they're really light on the marshmallows. Back in '98. Look. Here we go. There we go. There they are. They're in the middle. There they all is. Uh, could you pour? I mean, there's so much cereal now that- Yeah, yeah, it's fine. It's 98. Baseball, I mean, it's, it's, uh, I know it's big in LA, but I think baseball is kinda coming back. At le- definitely in LA. Well, ever since Randy Johnson hit that bird in 2001, it's been on, it's been coming back. How often, how often does, how often does that just, uh, I just wanna know what your f- your, your feeds are like. How often does that come up in your social media feed? It has n- A lot? A lot? It has not. Well, yeah, okay, yeah, I see. You know who you are. Randy Johnson hits the bird. Look it up. So he was pitching- And a bird flew in front, and he hit the bird and killed it right there in the middle of a game. And then, then what happened with the ball? The catcher caught it? Doesn't matter. I think, I don't, yeah, I don't think that's really the point of the story. Okay. I think the point of the story is that a bird was killed by a pitch. That's sad. Well, but they, they, so- But awesome … they do the, the pitch clock now. If you've been to like, if you've been to like a baseball game, it's like you sit down, you get your hot dog and next thing you know, it's over. Oh. You're like, "Oh, wow. Okay, I just got settled in." I went to my nephew, Nehemiah's, uh, Little League games. Oh. I went to three. Three weekends in a row. Oh, amongst the youth. And- Is it coming back? Oh, it was, it was big. Talk about the level of organization. There is a, a, a baseball player mom on, on the, on his team, but then also there was one on the other team, too. A baseball player mom. Yep. And she- She, she's like a player coach? Nope. She's sitting there and she's got an app and she's like doing everything in an app. She's a statistician? They're doing the statistician type thing. She's got a speaker out there. What? And when every player comes up there is, they, she plays the beginning of their- Walk-on song? … walk-on song. And one team, the, the, they played one team and she had it, and I was like, "Man, she got it going on." And then they played another team, and I saw this other woman setting up shop on the other side over there, bigger speaker. And I was like, "Ooh, this is gonna be ugly." And then they started having like a walk-on like cipher, like a playoff, and this woman had used some sort of AI or had hired an announcer because every single walk-on it started with, "And next up we have Bryce McCaffrey coming in." And then the music starts playing underneath. Oh, I wanna go back in time and be a, a little ballplayer again. It was, it was, uh, it was a lot, dude. We didn't have any walk-on. We just had dads yelling at you. And a lot of people smoking. Are there people smoking out at the baseball fields? Uh, I saw one guy like doing some really intense loading of his vape with a bigger thing. Oh? Like a jug. Yeah. He had like a jug of like black liquid, and then he was like, and then he had this little vape, and then he was like turning it over and like- This is one of the Little League players? Getting all, just squeezing all this. In, in, in the dugout? Just, he has his own walk-out song. Lung cancer juice just like… Right. We don't know if it causes that, Link. And then, and then he's just- The jury's still out. I mean, it was, it was just a black sludge. I mean, I mean, dang, son, if you bite it and it's just already in there and you don't know. Hold on. You know, I, that doesn't sound like vape juice, man. I don't- Is the cereal, like do you really not wanna eat it? This is a long story. But here we go. Yeah. Here we- Oh, come on, Chase. Come on. After this Sporked segment. But, but this is- Don't expose us. This is good for you 1980… 1998? It's almost 30 years old, man. Yeah, I just, you know, I f- you're really taking one for the team because- Uh, go ahead, man. I, I want you to taste the human growth hormone. Oh my God. Oh, God. Mm, mm. It's, I mean… Oh, oh, uh, put that away. Oh, no, I exposed the Boggs completely. Okay, let me put that back on. Just open this 'cause… I mean, if, if there was ever a time to, like- It's pretty, it's pretty Boggs-y … compare it. It's pretty Boggs-y. Oh, God. Let me see how Boggs is doing. It's so- Ooh, he- He never lets up. He's evolving. Yeah. He's evolving. Yeah. He's alive and well. He's starting to smell… I don't know, it's starting to smell like chocolate again. He's graying a lot, but- Hm. He smells like- Don't hide it … chocolate from a scratch and sniff sticker that's represents chocolate. Mm. I could taste- We gotta, we, we gotta reseal this. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, we gotta- I mean, that's, we can't let the Boggs out. We can't let the Boggs just float around. That's my bad. Even though baseball is coming back with a vengeance and the kids are vaping and Randy Johnson's hitting birds everywhere, uh- It was an adult that was- What we're gonna say is Major League Grand Slam. Nah, that's wack. Nah, that's wack. You want to get a shirt like the one I'm wearing? Well, this is the glow in the dark Cockatrice summoning tee. Look at this. Show 'em the back. Look at this. Look at this. Look at that graphic. Now, that thing is cool. Light up your life at mythical.com. We also got some sticks. Stickers. That's what they're calling stickers now, by the way. I'm gonna put it on my hand like it's, like it, I'm a make-up, uh- Oh, you've been watching the Tuts. I was shortening everything lately. Oh, I was holding it upside down. You've been watching the upside down Tuts. Oh, my God, I'm not a good Tuter. There it is. Now I'm holding it right. Get it. Does this glow in the dark too, right? The sticker doesn't. The sticker doesn't. This does not glow in the dark. I just want to let you know. I was about to say, it's very shiny, but I- It's, it's a shiny sticker. Yeah, I mean, if you sh- l- listen, if you shined a light on it- It would- I mean, it would bounce … it would bounce off. And that's- And if you did that in the dark … that's really all you, that's really all you want from a sticker. You did that in the dark, it'd be- You want a shirt that glows in the dark. You want a sticker that doesn't. Yeah. And that's what we're selling. Okay. Mythical.com. I really messed that up, but let's keep going. Keep going. D- don't stop. Don't acknowledge it. Don't acknowledge it. Don't take responsibility. You know what's gonna distract people? Like- Life Savers … talk about a super hole. Super holes. Okay, this is actually kind of interesting. Huh. So- And that's good enough for us, kinda interesting. I, uh, uh, there's a lot of th- the thing I'm learning about myself today is that I must have not been paying attention in the '90s because there was apparently something called Life Savers holes. You'd think we'd know about that. Just like donut holes, right? They're the inside of a Life Saver. They were discontinued in 1991. Yeah, and they were discontinued apparently because it was a choking hazard? But I mean, come on. Yeah, 'cause there's the, uh, the size of the Life Saver hole- Yeah, but- … is so small. There's so many things that are choking hazards then. I mean, pills. Yeah. Yeah. Anything little, you don't need to call 911. Well, they discontinued it, but then they brought- They brought these back and they called them Super Holes because they were bigger. And they brought them back only within Trix the cereal, which is for kids. And they brought them back- Yeah … in two flavors, uh, sour and red hot cinnamon, and we paid $40 to get these. They were once inside a bag, box of Trix. Think about that for a second. Yeah. Where else are you gonna see that? Nowhere. That's your whole point. I'm building it up because- That's your whole point … I just think they're gonna be like little red hots and we're not gonna care about them. Well, of course they're gonna be- Ooh, ooh, they're, they're crusted. They're crusted little things. Nice smell. They've held up- Hold it up like a toot. They've held up, they've held up well. Oh, oh. Oh, the rats are gonna come back. Ooh, boggsing, boggsing. Uh, it's a, I would say mild boggs, but the fact that it's got a The red hot cinnamon flavor makes me feel like it's safe. You know what I'm saying? There's just, it feels like bacteria don't care about this. Yeah. Don't… It's a choking freaking hazard, man. Hold on, 'cause you just threw it to the back of your mouth. Well, I thought it was appropriate. Yeah, it was. There's so many people here who've, like, taken CPR and high school classes- And nobody rushed to help you at all. Hold on. That's fun, to do a little drill. Do it again. Yeah. Again. No, no. That's enough. Two's enough. Two's enough. I couldn't help but notice that you didn't try to help me. I guess it came up too quick. Oh, here it is right here. I don't… Honestly, I'm- Don't know if it came out of you or me … I gotta be honest with you, I'm very scared about somebody choking in front of me. Looks like a virus. You know? I'm more scared about someone choking in front of me than me choking myself, because then I have to figure out what to do. It's just like, are you gonna… I mean, case in point. You talking about my nana? We, we, we were recently in a situation with Link's grandmother. And boy, did she, she started- And she started choking. Well, she- We were all sitting at a table and- She started coughing … she started, it was… But it was, she's like- It was like a deep cough … she's like 95 years old, so. Well, she's 94. Okay. When somebody who's that old starts having that kind of issue, everyone is like- You stare awkwardly … "Is this it?" You know what I'm saying? That's what happens. And so we're, like, looking at each other, and I'm like, "Well, I'm not related to her." Well, see- But then I was like, "What are we gonna…" When… If you're making noise, you're not supposed to give the Heimlich. It's when there's no noise. And you don't wanna do an Heimlich on a 94-year-old woman. No. You'll break, you'll break a lot of things. Oh, yeah. Yeah, don't wanna do that. You don't wanna do that. But anyway, I'm just saying- I think we just let, we just let it ride out. She got it through. The sternum's gonna break when you do the Heimlich most of the time. Right. And if you're 94- Anyway … you're gonna break m- many ribs. Yeah, that's true. Still feel like these are a choking hazard. Where we're going, we don't need holes. Yeah, we don't. Life Saver Super Holes. Life Saver Super Holes. Nah, that's wack. Nah, that's wack. When you've got an upset stomach, you might down some Pepto or drink a ginger ale- Done it … just to settle things down. Yep. And I did not know about this product, but back in the '80s, folks were reaching for Coca-Cola Medicinal Syrup. What? Again, how did we not know about this? So this one expired in 1991. Um- Is it just straight up Coke syrup? But they were selling this stuff even back when it was, like, in the glass bottles. You're talking '50, '60s. Okay, so this has always been like this- For relief of simple- … something on the side. For relief of simple nausea or vomiting, uh. But is it just the syrup? Prepared with high fructose corn syrup- Yeah … and/or sucrose, water, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors, and caffeine. So it's basically just watered down Coke. It seems like concentrated Coke. Which you can get if you like, if you own a restaurant or a movie theater that has a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine. Uh- Directions You can suck straight on the syrup. Pour one or two teaspoonfuls over crushed ice, which you have here. Sip slowly. May repeat in one to two hours if needed. No more than four to six doses within 24 hours. Consult a physician- Why not? It's just Coke … if symptoms persist. I'm shaking it up because- Don't consult a physician before you do this, though. Just do it. I mean, it's got that, like, medical top on it. Oh, yeah, it's good. It's good. Smell like Coke? Strange. Maybe I wanna sneeze. Ooh. So it looks like- I missed it … it's thick. Oh, was it cool? Yeah. Sorry, yeah. Yeah. Sorry. It's just, it just looks like thick Coke, yeah. Let's just- Go all the way. Ugh. I mean, it's not quite as thick as I thought it might be. Thick Coke. You got New Coke, you got Diet Coke, Thick Coke. It could sell. Oh, God. Oh, God? I don't think that would be good. I, I'm gonna leave some in here in case we get nauseous later, but I'll drink a little bit after you do. I mean, it's just Coke. It's just old Coke. Just taste it and spit it out. What? Mm. What? You swallowed it? My tongue is numb. My tongue got numb. Numb, numb tongue? But I liked it. I kinda liked it. It didn't taste, it didn't taste bad. It's kinda nice. Kinda nice? It's sour. But in kind of a nice way. Yeah. It is nice. But, but- Thick Coke is nice … but I wonder if it was supposed to be sour. We don't know if it was supposed to be that way. Mm-hmm. Rhett, you, you… Is, it's not supposed to be sour? Yeah. Okay. I'll, I'm gonna spit it out real… Ugh. Don't worry. If it upsets your stomach, just drink some more of it. Yeah, I know. Vicious cycle. I mean, I definitely like Coke-branded s- stuff. It kinda makes sense because- But they're making… To, when I'm sick … well, cola has this like, it does have a medicinal quality to it, right? That's why- Sure … I mean, you go all the way to Dr. Pepper and you get really m- medicine-y. But like- Oh, yeah … they're, they're on a spectrum, and Dr. Pepper's just more medicine-y. I just like the idea of it because it seems l- less medicine-y and more fun. And I like having a lot of little brown bottles in the house. And it's infused with- You know? … caffeine, which, you know, a little pick me up when you're feeling like crap. I don't even, I kinda like- I mean, I got so many hydrogen peroxides. You know what I mean? Just like I got so many hydrogen peroxides of different sizes. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't even know why. It's just like, 'cause you get it and then you forget where you put it, then you get another one. And what. What am I gonna do? I guess combine them all into one big thing, 'cause I could probably mix hydrogen peroxide. It's not really, it's not like they're gonna go bad. Just take all the rest of them, mix it, and then use those other ones as, like, little planters. You cut the top off, put a plant in it. Put a little cactus in it. So we're bringing this back. Maybe a succulent. Maybe. Oh, yeah. We're bringing that back. Coca-Cola Medicinal Syrup, bring it back. Bring it back. It'll make you forget you have a tongue. I think that would be great if it was, uh, not sour. And, um, yeah, I think we learned some things today. Ice breakers, coming back. Canned pork rinds, coming back. Coca-Cola Medicinal Syrup coming back. We, we're doing it. We're changing society. You're welcome. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi there. My name's Leo. I'm in Ontario, Canada. Today is my birthday, and also my nine and a half month anniversary of being on testosterone. So we wanna wish you a happy Pride, and that it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. Happy birthday. Happy Pride. Oh, it's a birthday, too? It's both. Okay, yeah. 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