GMMore 1491: Beyond Meat McRib Taste Test

(rooster crowing) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. – 10 word story. You start. – Please – Don’t – Confiscate – My – Slightly-used, It’s a hyphened word. – That was two words – Slightly – Belly-button – Because – It’s – Dang. – Please don’t confiscate my slightly-used belly button because it’s dang. I don’t know if that’s 10 words or not. – I thought we had to remove used. Please don’t confiscate my slightly belly-button because it’s dang. Either way, we’re beyond it now just like that meat. But we’re not, are we? There’s more meat. Because we’re in More. – We’re gonna bring in some mythical team members. – Alex and William. Y’all want to sit in the middle or you want to sit on the sides? Sit in the middle. – Sit in the middle. – I love the middle. – Sit in the middle. You guys hungry? – Oh no. Hello. – Have you had the McRib at McDonald’s? – I actually have not, I have not. – Oh well you’ve been missing out, my friend. – Really? – Yeah. I mean I get like one or two a year but it’s always a special point. – Is there bone in it? – No ribs at all. There might be ground bones in there– – It’s shaped as if it has bones in it but those shape bones part are just more of that weird meat. But you have to explain to them why you’re talking about the McRib. – Oh because we’re going to eat a beyond meat McRib. You can’t actually get the McRib right now because it’s out of season but Josh has done his best to recreate the McRib using beyond meat and I’m very excited about this ’cause I believe that the barbecue sauce is going to help deliver the beyond meat in my mouth in a way that I like. – We also have the Del Taco and the Carl’s Junior Beyond Burgers that they made. Let’s see how those guy. So all these are McRibs? – [Josh] Yeah. But the one that has an A on it is for Alex. – This one has an A on it. Should we ask why that one’s for Alex? – I was very confused. – I’m sure it’ll be apparent. – This is warm. – Oh I get it. Let’s see if you guys– – Oh, it’s got a stick in it. – Yeah me and Josh do a thing. When we do a vegetarian sub, we put sticks in it. – [Josh] Yeah ’cause then it has a stick in it. – Do you get it? – I don’t think I watched that. – Yeah you missed it, huh? That’s okay. – [Link] I wasn’t here that day. – That’s okay. – Just go for it Will. – Okay. – And I am inferring that it was amazing. – So funny. – Oh. – I kind of want to look at what you’ve done here, Josh. – That’s how it would look though. – It’s pretty good. – That’s exactly how McDonald’s employees slap on onions. – [Link] That’s true. – How’d you get this sauce going? – Anybody here ever work in fast food? – I worked at Panera. – See Panera. – Panera’s good. – Don’t want it? – I hate Panera. Do you hate it because you worked there or do you like it? – What’s the wi-fi password? – They don’t have anything that’s satisfying. – But the bathroom is a mess. – Like half a sandwich and a soup and you’re like– – They changed everything. – I’m just not satisfied. – This is actually good. I’m not gonna lie. – You like it? – And I was coming in like uh uh, this is gonna be nasty. – You guys don’t even have the stick. – They gave me a little stick. I got a stick. – This tastes nothing like the actual McRib. – These pickles are very realistic too. – Can I ask? The McRib is, it’s pork right? – Yeah. – [Josh] So Beyond actually has a Beyond Bratwurst now and so I cut Beyond Brat with half Beyond Meat and then used that for the patty. – That is why it has a little bit of a different taste and I was trying to find out where that was coming from ’cause it’s not the sauce. – It’s kind of a hot dog taste. – [Josh] Yeah. – It tastes like real meat. If you had fed this to me and didn’t tell me, I would’ve thought that this was real meat for sure. – Is the sauce just barbecue sauce from McDonald’s? – [Josh] Yeah. – Oh you used the straight up barbecue sauce from McDonald’s? – It’s good. – The same kind you dip nuggets in, that’s it right? – Oh that’s what they put on the McRib, the nugget sauce? – That’s what I’ve always thought. – [Josh] I’m pretty sure it is, yeah. – It’s the same exact flavor. – Wow. – It smells like it. – Great job on this, Josh. – It actually is very good. – I want a taco. – Here’s a taco. – So now I can enter McRib land any time I want knowing that you can do this? – [Josh] 15 bucks and you got it. – This is good. – You really gonna do this in front of me after I said that? – I’m getting it ready for you. And you know what, you can have this if you give me all of Panera’s secrets. – No. I dropped a sandwich once and put it back on the plate. (gasping) – You’re never gonna get rehired. – Did you look over the bar and watch him eat it? – No, I was just like, it was busy. So I dropped it and I was like there’s no time for this. – I do that at home and then eat it myself. If it’s good enough for yourself, it’s good enough for a Panera, what’s the person called that eats at Panera? – Panera head. – Panera head. – You’re an associate. You’re not like a cashier, you’re an associate. – Is it an employee owned company? – No, I didn’t get any stock there. – Why are you called an associate then? – I don’t know, you’re a bread associate. It was originally called the St. Louis Bread Company until it expanded to become Panera. I know that because of my training videos. I paid attention. – No way this is good. – It’s pretty good. – No way. – Actually it just tastes like a Del Taco taco which is not necessarily good. – It is not. – Hold on, I would not know that I was not just eating a Del Taco taco. – 100%. – Which is in stark contrast to our experience with the Taco Bell beef? – Yeah but the people at Del Taco did it though. Josh did that one. You ever work at Taco Bell? – [Josh] No. – I worked at Panera. – [Josh] Did they used to be called the St. Louis Bread Company? – That’s right. Ask me something else. This is like a me and Josh, we’re just hanging out now. – How much of a deal is the half sandwich, half soup versus just getting a– – It’s a You Pick Two, first of all. And it depends on if you’re using a signature item or one of the cafe items. – What can you pick from? – You worked the register? – Yeah, I got a Citgo gift card ’cause somebody wrote a nice review about me. – You got a Citgo gift card. – Panera is in with Citgo? – No that’s just my manager, it was just a gift. – Your manager had an inside track to Citgo? – No, he just goes to Citgo and as a reward for the good review, the company gave me a Citgo gift card. – And did you use it? – Yeah, 15 bucks. That’s several months worth of pay at Panera. – This is yeah– – Yeah that’s pretty sad, isn’t it? – But this is what Del Taco looks like. – [Stevie] I have a question for Alex as well. – Is it about Panera? – Of course. – [Stevie] Actually no but you don’t eat meat. So have you had the Del Taco tacos before? When they came out were you about it? – Well it’s wild because as we learned producing this episode there’s only one where, it’s far away. The closest one to us is in Culver City which is like 45 minutes no traffic. – Is that the Beyond? – Yeah. So it’s not as widely rolled out for the tacos as it is for these burgers. These are everywhere. – Four way dink it. – I’ve already taken a bite. So have you. – Double dink. – No that’s gonna get– – This isn’t bad. – I wouldn’t have known if you handed me this in my hand. – You wouldn’t have known if I would’ve what? – Just handed me this. I would’ve thought that this was meat. – What if Kate Hudson had taken it and eaten it and it fell out of her mouth? – I’d lick it up. Y’all don’t lick up? – Y’all don’t lick up when it falls out? – Y’all got wives. – Gotta start licking up. – That’s why I’m single. – ‘Cause you do lick up? – I don’t lick up. – That’s pretty good. – We got the wrap up sign right after you said that. – [Link] Our Amazon tees now go overseas. Mythical Amazon tees are available in the US, UK and Germany. Go to amazon.com/mythical.

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