GMMore 1974: What’s The Most Popular Candy In Each State?

(rooster crows) (lion roars) (text bangs) (lion growls) – Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Warning, if you live in a state, we might make you angry today, because we’re gonna come up with some generalizations about candy. – Right. – In your state. – But first, congratulations to Centaurama, Centauroma, Centaurama. Centaurama, a longtime mythical beast. – [Link] Oh, yeah. – You win a $30 mythical.com gift card. Thank you for repping that merch out in the wild. – So much merch that you’ve been repping over the years, it’s the least we could do, give you a little gift certificate. – Now, I am continuing my longstanding beef with Rochester, New York. – Ooh. – I really caused a stir over there, and a lot of people were legitimately upset, and so that gave me all that I needed to know, that I needed to lean in. – That’s from the hotdogs. – Yeah, so, (Link clears throat) watch yourself, Rochester. – So, each state has a most popular candy. – [Stevie] Apparently. – Apparently. Where’s this data gleaned from? – Candy.org. – [Stevie] Candystore.com. – Candydata.org. – [Stevie] Okay, so I’m gonna give you a candy, and then you are going to guess the state, and I want you to do it completely blindly at first. You can, yeah, and then, if you really can’t guess, I’ll give you some options. – Okay. – You’re giving us the candy first, we give you the state. – [Stevie] Yeah. So, the first candy is candy corn. Where is candy corn the most popular candy? – Well, I mean, why not, right? – If we agree, then. – We take a sip. – We can change the data. – We change the data. Okay, I say- – On the site. We go into the HTML. – I went with, you know, just corn, I went with Iowa. – I went with Florida. I thought we were- – [Stevie] What’s your reasoning, Link? – ‘Cause I’ve been to Miami, and down there, boy, the candy corn, they wear so little down there in Miami, they could wear candy corn as a bikini. – Yeah, you see the way his reasoning works. I just think they don’t actually like candy corn in Iowa, but they think that they should just to be loyal to the crop. – [Stevie] I like that. No, you’re both incorrect. – Oh, it’s gotta be in the Midwest, though. – Here are three choices. – No. – [Stevie] Kansas, Alabama, or Michigan. – It’s Michigan or Kansas. – Yeah, I’m going for Michigan. – I’m gonna go Kansas just because I still think corn. ♪ Mi, mi, mi, mi, mi ♪ Corn quality. – [Stevie] And I’m going to go Alabama, which is the correct answer. – Alabama? Are you telling me the most popular candy. – In Alabama. – Is candy corn? – Candy corn? – In any state is candy corn? Doesn’t ring true. – Well, I’m not telling you this, candystore.com is telling you this. – I’ve been to Alabama. – It’s not a sponsor. – Candystore.com. – And I did not see any candy corn. – [Stevie] Sour Patch Kids. – Okay, all right. – Sour Patch Kids. – So, it’s a little bit. – Oh. – Ah. (Stevie laughs) Yeah, who wants a little bit, who wants to spice things up a little bit? Is it because they already live a spicy life? Or is it because they want to? – I think it’s because they want to. – I think this is landlocked, this is a landlocked state. – Yep, that’s what I’m thinking. – That is very square. What’s the squarest landlocked state? Is that Colorado? Yeah, but Colorado has a lot of cool stuff, so I’m going back with Kansas again. – I’ve gone with North Dakota. – [Stevie] Incorrect. – But we are right that it’s a square, landlocked state. – [Stevie] You are incorrect about that as well. – It’s a coastal state? – [Stevie] Is it. – Jersey. – [Stevie] California, Florida, or New York? – They all have a coastline. – Sour Patch Kids, you said. – I think this has gotta be a Florida thing. – It’s gotta be Florida. They love. – Super sugary. – Patches. They love patches. – You eat, like, a pack of Sour Patch Kids, and then you’ll do anything. – Right. – Get yourself into some trouble. – Gateway drug to bath salts. – Florida, 100% right. – [Stevie] New York. – Sour… There’s no rationale here. – New Yorkers and Sour Patch Kids? – [Stevie] Yeah. Man, yeah. – Candystore.com. – When we went to Miami, remember, we swam in the ocean at nighttime. – Aw, man, I tell that night swimming story so often that my wife says, yeah, we know about the night swimming with Alexander Alexandrov. – [Stevie] Maybe that’s where we should- – We know about that. (Rhett laughs) – We should take our camping trip, at the beach. – Yeah, and we do it in Miami. – But the thing is, you say you tell the story, but it’s not an actual story. It’s just, we went to Miami, and we swam in the beach, we swam in the ocean. – No, I stretch it out. I say, we were going to Miami to film the Epic Rap Battle. – Nerd Vs Geek. – Nerd Vs Geek. – We were just filming the store portions. – And we had a small crew. It was Stevie, and Ben, and us, and. – Alexander. – Alexander Alexandrov, a Russian DP. Gotta let that sit, Russian DP, DP. – Man. His lenses. – Don’t go to russiandp.com, by the way. – He had to wear his lenses down his pants ’cause they were so expensive. (Rhett laughs) He had to smuggle those things. – Yeah, right, yeah, he did, he did, he smuggled them. – I think he knew that we only wanted him there for his lenses. – Yeah, right. – Do you think that’s what happened? – And we get there. – He kinda knew it. – And I don’t know whose idea it was. – He’s like, you could kill me and take my lenses. – [Ben] Remember we snuck out there? We snuck through the hotel. – There is a story. – [Stevie] Yeah, this is definitely, I don’t believe, a legal thing that we did. – Who said what? – [Ben] The guy the next day, we said something to somebody, and he was like, oh, you shouldn’t do that. – You shouldn’t go swimming at night. – [Ben] And we were like, why, sharks? And he was like, no, drugs. – Drugs, ’cause they float. – [Ben] They float in. – Drugs float in only at night. – [Stevie] Oh, crap. – [Ben] And they come in and collect them. – Yeah. – Oh. – Yeah. – [Stevie] We also snuck into the pool. – [Ben] We did. – [Stevie] We were bad. – Yeah. – [Stevie] We were being so bad. – You know what we did when we snuck into that pool? We swam in it. – Swam. – But, the night swimming. – Drugs. – The night swimming, like, in Miami, wherever we were at that point. – It was hot, the water was hot. – The water was hot, the air was hot. It was all, like, the same temperature, and there were no waves. It was like, it was magical. And there were drugs floating by. – [Stevie] The moon was shining. – Rafts of drugs. – Like, what’s that big? Is that a… No, it’s just coke. – High sea turtles. – Yeah, right. – [Stevie] Butterfinger. – Okay, this state has good taste. I know that a lot of people don’t like Butterfinger, including my best friend here. – Futterbinger. – But I think this is a state that likes to have fun, and knows about fun. – Butterfinger. – But they like butter as well. – I think it’s a state that doesn’t mind having stuff caught in their teeth for a long time. – Yeah, well, then, they like that, ’cause it gives them something to do. – Like, walking around like this. – [Stevie] I think you’re gonna regret saying that. – You ever been to a state where they’re like (grumbles) – About this state. – I’m gonna regret it? – [Stevie] Mm-hm. – It gives them something to do? – [Stevie] No, that you think that they’re really, really cool. – Oh, you don’t like this state. – [Stevie] Well. – What are you saying? – [Stevie] I don’t know, make a guess, and then I’ll say (mumbles) – I think it’s Oklahoma. – Hm. – I’ve been to Oklahoma. You been to Oklahoma? – No, I haven’t. – I’ve got some Oklahoma City stories I’ll tell you some time. – I think I’ve driven through that. I just think Stevie gave me a hint here that this is a state that you don’t like as much. – Hm, state full of community colleges, perhaps. – Have I made myself an enemy of a whole state yet? ‘Cause, I mean, that’s- – Finland. – That feels like an opportunity. I made myself a enemy of a city, and I made myself an enemy of a form of education, but that was a joke. The Rochester thing is legit. Community college, I think, is a great path. – Ohio? – A great path. – [Stevie] Why would Rhett hate Ohio? – So, it is a state- – We made it the butt of the joke in “Buddy System,” season two. – [Stevie] Mm, mm. No, you would both kind of, not hate this state, but it’s not as good as. – Oh. – Oh. Oh, really? You’re talking about South Carolina. – South Carolina. – Yeah. – The underbelly. – We should’ve known that. – So South Carolina likes Butterfinger. Well, you know what. – That makes sense. – South Carolina’s got good, they’ve got good food taste down there. They do have good food taste. – Everything they eat- – Mustard sauce is great. – Just slowly kills them. – Columbia. – You know, it’s so good, it’s so good, they’d willingly slowly die to it. – Mm. – You know? – Yeah. – Food is so good, they just die to it. – Right. – [Stevie] Reese’s Cups. – Oh, okay, well, hold on. – Reese Cups. – This is just somebody who’s just like everybody else, ’cause this is the best candy. – Right, before we answer this one, (Rhett sighs) we do want you to check out third degree quarterly or annual plan at the Mythical Society by June 30th. That’s the only way to get the “Rhett and Link Sing Lionel” vinyl. – There it is. – It’s over there. Plus, we released an exclusive “Rhett and Link Sing Lionel” T-shirt. You have to be a Mythical Society member third degree in order to get that thing. Beautiful album art on your beautiful body. – Beautiful. – Mythical.com, and visit mythicalsociety.com for more details on the record. – Who likes a Reese Cup? – Reese Cups, it could be anywhere. – I know it’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, but we say Reese Cup, okay? – Reese Cup, Reese Cup, Reese Cup. – It’s wrong. – Greasy Cup. – It’s wrong. Who’s just got good taste, and that’s it? – Fill up your greasy cup with your Reese Cups. – [Stevie] Who does have good taste? – Yeah, I think it’s just California, isn’t it? Is that it? Is that it? Is that what you’re saying? – Good taste. – You’re just thinking it’s us. – [Stevie] Well, no, that’s not what I was getting at. I was trying to do a little, who did we just hate on because we love on situation. – Oh, we should’ve gotten that one. – Ha-ha, yeah, we should have, but we didn’t. – North Carolina. North Cackalacky, come on and raise up. That was our one chance. – [Stevie] Do you think- – To be in sync. – If the air is warm, and the water is warm, and you’re camping on the beach in Miami, do you feel like that would be the perfect circumstance in which you would make out with each other? – Probably. – Um. – I mean. What’s our stance on that? I can’t remember how I act about that. – [Stevie] If there’s drugs in the water, as Chase points out. – Yeah, the drugs in the water makes me nervous. I feel like I can’t close my eyes while kissing. – [Stevie] So you’re talking, like, open eye make out. – I’ll make out with you with my eyes open (people laugh) as long I can see the… And if you bring Alexander Alexandrov along to film it. – I’m not closing my eyes either. – With his red camera. – You know, I don’t want it to turn into more. – Turn into more. – I gotta keep my eyes peeled. – Okay, I’m gonna give you- – I don’t think you can camp on the beach in Miami. I think that’s an even bigger no no. – [Stevie] Okay, all right, we’ll have to look into it. – You set up shop out there, maybe get a permit. – [Stevie] I’m gonna give you the state now, and you’re gonna guess the candy. – Oh, yes, now. – [Stevie] So, the state- – That’ll be easy. – [Stevie] Is Mississippi. – Mississippi, well, it must be candy corn that’s, like, spilling over from Alabama. – Mississippi. – If Alabama likes candy corn, then Mississippi likes… I think Mississippi is number one in teen pregnancy. What do pregnant teens like to eat? Um. Like, pickles dipped in peanut butter. This is gonna be something a little bit weird. It’s gonna be a weird flavor. – I’ve already written my answer. – What’s, like, a weird candy, that you’re like, really? I’m gonna go with Tootsie Roll. (Rhett laughs) (people laughs) – I said Milky Way because- – I’m sorry, Mississippi, if you’re not number one in teen pregnancy anymore. Congratulations if you still are. – They’re number one in astronomy. – You’ve been number one, you’ve been number one before, I know that. So, congratulations on at least being number one at one time. – Is it chocolate? – [Stevie] You’re very close, Link. – Snickers. – [Stevie] No. – Oh, it’s a Three Musketeers. – Yeah, yeah. – Oh. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – That surprises me. – It’s not a Tootsie Roll? – That surprises me because- – Tootsie Roll’s not number one in any state. Think about that. – Three Musketeers in Mississippi, huh? – What if you found that out. – [Stevie] You know, the Tootsie Roll gets a lot of hate. – Oh, but you like it. – That’s not gonna be anywhere on the map. That’s off the map. Tootsie is off the map. – Hold on, would you buy a Tootsie Roll, or would you just eat it if it was in a stack of candy? – [Stevie] I cannot tell you the last time I bought candy. I don’t know why. No, yeah, if somebody was like, you can have a Tootsie Roll, or you can have nothing, well, kinda, yeah, have a Tootsie Roll. – Okay, well, that’s quite an endorsement. – I used to have Tootsie Rolls at my nanny’s house. They would keep Tootsie Rolls around. – In a bowl. – Tootsies. – Yeah. – [Stevie] Texas. – Oh. – Texas. – Gotta be big. It’s gonna be a big bar. What’s the biggest? What’s the heftiest? – [Stevie] Oh, the Tootsie Pop is on the map. – Different. – Mat Kearney says, for Washington and New Jersey. – Two states? – I have this one, because, subconsciously, they eat it because of the letters that are in it. – Texas. Because of an X in it? – I’m not gonna help you, unless you wanna look at my answer. – Twix. – Don’t say it. Twix. – If that’s right, that’s great. – [Stevie] I like that, but no. – Ah. – Oh, man, that seemed like a good guess. – Candy apples? – It’s a big bar, right? – [Stevie] Mm-mm. – It’s a teeny bar. – Nerds. – It’s a teeny bar to make up for how big the state is. – [Stevie] Teeny bar. (Link chuckles) No, this is a- – Texas. – [Stevie] This is a fruit-forward. – Twizzlers for Texas? Skittles. – Individually wrapped. – Individually. Fruit Roll-Up is big in Texas? – Individually wrapped fruit candy. – Individually wrapped. – [Stevie] Mm-hm. – An individually wrapped fruit candy? – Laffy Taffy. – [Stevie] Close. – Starburst. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Starburst. – Starburst. – [Stevie] I’m having this weird deja vu. – Starburst in the Lone Star State. – [Stevie] That I’ve had to lead you to this before. – Lone Starburst State. – That’s what it is. – That’s what it is, that’s what it is, y’all. – What’d you say, Stevie? – [Stevie] I just had the weirdest deja vu that I have walked you through guessing Starburst before. – Yeah, you probably have. – [Stevie] I probably have. – Yeah, yeah. – [Stevie] Do you want one more? – Starburst? – One more. – [Stevie] Okay, Utah. – Oh. – Utah. – Mormon candy. – Granola. (Rhett sighs) – Huh. (Link sighs) Hm. Huh. Hm. – I think this is gonna be a little old-fashioned. – Old-fashioned, you think? – A little conservative. – A conservative candy. – What’s a conservative candy? – A candy that doesn’t take too many chances. – Right, right. – Uh. – It might be the home of the circus peanut. – The home. (Ben laughs) Circus peanut. Circus peanut, you taking a chance every time you eat one of those, man. I think this just might be- – What’s the most conservative candy? – I think it’s just a Hershey bar. – Oh. – I think it’s just a Hershey bar. Not a Hershey Kiss, of course, huh-uh. (people laugh) No, not doing that, but we might do a bar. – I think they want a little crazy, and went with the Crunch. – It’s Hershey bar. – [Stevie] It’s not chocolate. – Oh, vanilla, huh? – Yeah. (laughs) It’s a vanilla candy. Ah, there we go. So, it’s fruit? – [Stevie] Yeah. – You telling me they like Skittles? – [Stevie] No. (Link clears throat) – Skittles and Starburst, what else is there? – It’s a fruity candy in Utah. – Gummy bears. – [Stevie] And you do not chew it. – You just swallow it whole. – It’s a sucker, a lollipop. – You just swallow it whole like a pill. – Lollipop. – Individually wrapped. – Jawbreaker. – You suck on it, Werther’s Original. – [Stevie] Wait, what did you say, Link? (people laugh) – Jawbreaker? – [Stevie] No. – You suck on it. – [Stevie] Werther’s Original. – Werther’s Original is the official candy of Utah. – That should be Florida, because that’s old people. Old people in Florida. – What do they just, like- – Retirement community. – What are they sucking on in Utah? – Fence posts, as far as I know. (people laugh) (Link laughs) – What does that mean? (Link laughs) I don’t even get that. ‘Cause of all the land? – ‘Cause of all the land. – All the land. – [Stevie] It’s a hard fruit candy that you suck on, that’s individually wrapped. – Ah, hard fruit candy that’s individually sucked on. – Individually. – Not corporately sucked on. – Could two people suck on it at the same time? – [Stevie] If they were close. – Would you be making contact with the other person’s lips? – [Stevie] Yeah, so when we go on our camping trip, we can bring some of these. – ‘Cause this could be what we do on the camping trip. – Yeah. – We could be like, no, no, we’re not making out, we’re just sucking on the same piece of candy. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Those strawberry candies that have a Gusher in the middle. – [Stevie] No. What? I don’t even know what that is. – That’s what I was thinking, but I didn’t know the name. – Strawberry hard candy. – Strawberry candy that’s got a strawberry wrapper on it. – Yeah, yeah, those are pretty good. – Individually wrapped fruit candy? This has gotta be obvious. – [Stevie] I love that idea of that being the number one candy in Utah, is the strawberry-wrapped candy. (Stevie laughs) – I can’t think of a individually wrapped single suck fruit candy. – We haven’t made Utah our enemy state now, have we? – Banana. – ‘Cause that wasn’t what we were trying to do. That, I mean. – [Ben] They don’t have YouTube there. – Right. Well. – We like Utah. – Utah has got a great sense of humor. That’s why we poke fun at them. You got a great sense of humor. – They can take it. – Jared Hess, he’s from Utah. – [Stevie] Some might even, well, some of them are ranchers in Utah. – Jolly Ranchers. No, you didn’t, Utah. – Yes, fence posts, sucking on a fence post. – Yeah, I think we can both suck on a Jolly Rancher. – Jolly Rancher. – Without touching lips. – Ranch has fence posts. – I think we could do it. It’d be very close. They’d be, like, this close. People watching- – You just blew your chance to get me to make out with you, ’cause that would’ve been how you would’ve done it. – People watching from behind would be like, those dudes are making out. People watching from the sides would be, oh, there’s a Jolly Rancher between them. (people laugh) – Yeah, right. – It’s all about the angles. We’ll talk to Alexander about that. (people laugh) (Rhett laughs) – He got the wide angle lens. – You start there. – Get further apart. – And then you come around. What do you call that, man? When you do that, like on a… We wanna do it on a track, like on a dolly track. – Pan. – Well, no, because you stay on the subject, and you go this way, and when you get this way, you see the Jolly Rancher, and then there’s a- – Orbit. – A zoom. Using a zoom lens. – Zorbit. – Wha, boom, right on the Jolly Rancher. – It needs to be the green one. – It’s the green one. (upbeat electronic music) (Stevie laughs) I don’t know why. – That’s my favorite. Get the “Rhett and Link Sing Lionel” T, available only to third degree Mythical Society members. You can get it at mythical.com, and join the society at mythicalsociety.com.

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