GMMore 2326: Ranking The Best Frozen Wings

Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Sometimes you just goin’ through the grocery and you see, there’s a bag of wings. It’s like, “Oh, these are a bag of wings. Fully cooked?” Is a bag of wings just a bag of wings? All I gotta do is put ’em in the oven or the air fryer? I wonder which one I should buy? Wonder no more. But first, let’s play Ready, Pet, Go. We look at a picture of one of your pets that you submitted, and we tell you what it is named accurately. This one is from Madison. Look at that doggy. Is that a pug looking up? Is that an up-looking pug? I’m wondering if I can see the name on the tag. This is an interesting photo. He’s in sort of a submissive posture. Out of all the photos. Howard, can you see it? I mean, I couldn’t read it. It just look like numbers to me. Willy. Willy? Pugsley. Chocolate Chip. There is a little chocolate chip right there coming out of the side of his mouth. He’s been eating them chocolate chips. Thank you Madison for submitting Chocolate Chip with #gmmreadypetgo. Hey, do that with your pet. I wonder if Madison calls, shortens it. Come on in here Jordan. To like Chip or Choco or– I’m sure there’s a short name, I will say– Chocolate Chip is long to be said every single day. I wanna just mention real quick that it’s not just a random wing taste test. These are… You need wings for the big game on Sunday. Oh, the big game? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, the big game. If you wanna prepare ’em but you don’t want ’em to start raw, then we’re gonna tell you which ones are the best of the best because you’ve already just narrowed it down to these five. It’s true, yeah. We tried a ton of wings and these are the best five that you can get on the market. Oh, my gosh. But did you rank these or is that up to us now? We have ranked these but you don’t know what their ranking is. And you’re gonna tell me, ’cause I’m your boss now. I don’t know. I like your style Jordan. What about us? Well– You want me to rank– Wait, what? Yeah, rank us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s, yeah. Well, you know what– If I’m gonna be number one, rank us. Rank us within the wings. Okay. But I will say Link, one thing you need to keep in mind, is that I did win and that means you lost. And that means that anytime I say… I haven’t said it yet, I haven’t said it yet. I haven’t said it yet. What? Anytime I say hike, you have to shake your tight end for said number of seconds. It’s up to you, that’s probably enough. Hoo! Okay, we’re starting with Trader Joe’s? Trader Joe’s. Now, you guys talk a fair amount of trash about Trader Joe’s over at Sporked. We do, we generally don’t like them. I’m gonna go with the, what was that? I like to do things with style. This is a big question though, are you a drum or a flat? I’m a flat. I’m a whatever’s closer. Okay. To your hand? I actually do think a flat might be ultimately better, especially if you do this with it. If you do that thing where you disconnect it right here and then you– Yeah. Push it up like a lollipop. Oh, I don’t like that. I don’t like that either. I didn’t do it right. I don’t like seeing you do that. I’m too close to see you do that. And you just eat it like that. What are you Jordan? I’m a drum. Really? What are you, Jordan? I’m a drum. Okay, good. I wanted to ask you that. Now– These are okay, I gotta say. Wait, I wanna ask Jordan. Stevie, what are you? Why are you a drum? I think the meat is easier to get to, and there feels like there’s more of it. I also think– It’s not as fatty. It’s easier for dipping. I don’t understand the appeal of the flat. Oh yeah, here’s some blue cheese if you want. The flat just tastes better. Oh, that’s blue cheese. Do you hate blue cheese? Yeah, I’ll take a little. Oh, are we supposed to try to figure out which one is good with blue cheese? Maybe. This is better with the blue cheese because it’s pretty flavorless otherwise. Okay. I think this is gonna rank pretty low, don’t you agree? I mean, I don’t think it’s got enough– It didn’t wow me. Complexity and punch to it. I mean, I didn’t hear anybody say “Wow.” What I’m looking for in a buffalo wing is that buffalo taste, and I’m not tasting it. I am a flat. Yeah. Stevie what do you like? No Link asked but he didn’t wanna know, really. He asked but he didn’t wait for the answer. I wasn’t gonna beg you for an answer. It’s interesting because the reasons that Jordan gave– I’m not going to eat anymore. I think that, well, I’m afraid of the knob, you know? Oh. Of the drumstick. Well, you’re a lesbian. You know what I mean when I say the knob? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, these are all flat so everybody’s happy. So here we… What was that sigh about? Your knob joke. Oh, you didn’t like it? Hey, listen, anybody can have a knob. You don’t know. Hey, who knows? I don’t know. That’s right, that’s right. I’m talking about the grizzly little chunk. That’s what I’m talking about. Anyone can have a grizzly little chunk. I’m talking about Stevie. Stevie, let’s talk about your grizzly little chunk after this. Yeah, man. Feel free to sigh all you want, just don’t yawn. I’m not offended by sighs. Okay. Just, what would hurt my feelings is a yawn. I would never yawn. Right. Ever. I know that. How was Vegas? It was good. Didn’t you go to Vegas? I did, I went to Vegas to try a bunch of new products for Sporked at a specialty food show. I heard. Oh, did you go to the new Cirque Du Soleil show? Grizzly Little Chunk? I did, I did, it was disgusting. Yeah. I heard it’s not great. No. I heard it’s hard to see. Yeah. I did actually see two Cirque Du Soleil shows while I was there, can you believe that? “Zootopia?” I didn’t plan to see either one of them. Yeah, I saw Disney’s “Zootopia.” Isn’t that one? No, you’re thinking of “Zumanity,” which was the sex themed Cirque Du Soleil show. But that one’s gone now. Can I think about that one now? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Jordan, what shows did you see? I saw “O,” which is the water one, which is the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen. I did cry during it. Oh. Are you sure you just didn’t get splashed in the face? I didn’t get splashed, it was full tears. What? The woman next to me was talking, I was upset. I had a verbal confrontation with her because I was so upset that she was talking during this incredible water performance. What did you say? What was your approach? Well, I don’t mind confrontation. So I looked at her while she was talking, to be kind. I was like, “I’ll give you a little look. You’ll get it, you’ll calm down.” Yeah. And I looked at her, and then she looked at me and she said, “What?” And I said, “Oh, this is someone else who likes confrontation.” Oh, sometimes it happens. So, I said, “You will not stop talking.” And she said, “I will not stop talking”. And I said, “Yes.” And then she leaned over to her boyfriend and whispered, “She said we won’t stop talking.” And then they stopped talking. Nice. You challenged them. It was like– It seems like you were telling them not to stop talking. You won’t stop talking. You will not stop talking. I will stop talking . “She said we can’t stop talking.” It’s like reverse psychology. “Let’s show her.” Yeah, yeah. I bet you can’t stop talking. It is confusing, now that I hear it out loud, You could have done that. It is confusing. You will not stop talking. I’m sorry, maybe I just want more flavor. I don’t know what it is. Yeah, this one is not as good. I think it’s not as good as Trader Joe’s. Not as good as the Trader Joe’s, Holmes. I think that generally frozen wings lack a little bit of flavor. Yeah. That’s a problem . You have to put yourself in the frozen wing mindset. Now these are tiny. These are tiny. Which is probably a good sign. Oh, I like the smell on these. I like to smell on theses. I’ll pull one up and I’ll just smell on them. Are you a sniffer in general? Before you consume or use something, do you sniff? Yeah. I’m not usually. Really? No, no, no. I’m usually sniffing as I go in. Okay, I sniff. I’ll sniff through my mouth sometimes. Sniff through your mouth? You talking about smelling on something? I smell… The other day my girlfriend pointed out that before I put my deodorant on every morning, I open it and I smell it and then I put it on. Yeah, you gotta make sure it hadn’t been contaminated. I guess so, I never realized that. But I do think I wanna… It’s in my animal. Can you smell through your mouth though? No, what’s that? No, absolutely. Just try it. Just suck in and tell me you don’t smell something. How do you know your nose isn’t getting any of it? I think what you do is you breathe out through your nose afterward. Yeah, you get it in there. Wait . Yeah, yeah, I’m smelling through my mouth. I don’ know. Smell on it. That one’s pretty good. Where’s it from? Can we fly some packaging out there? We got all the packaging. Well, I know you can see it. These are the Foster Farms chicken wings. Which ones though? Hot and spicy. Hot and Spicy. That’s these. I actually think the flavor on the Foster Farms is not bad. TGI Fridays, it needs more and Trader Joe’s needs more but it has more than TGI Fridays, in my opinion. But I’m still waiting to be wowed. So you would move Foster Farms to the top you’re saying? To the top, yes To the top. And now that we’ve flown in the packaging, that’s not gonna be easy. You like confrontation. Let’s keep them together. I wouldn’t say I like confrontation but when I know I’m right, I don’t mind engaging in confrontation. Well, if I pay out the nose for an underwater show and somebody’s talking, that’s when I’m gonna come out of the woodwork. Those are the moments in which I am very much okay With a confrontation. Like somebody does something like cuts in line when you’re waiting at Disneyland or something like that. Yeah. Or they won’t shut up in a movie. Good god, these are– I respond quickly– It’s really rude. To that. But somebody cuts me off in traffic for some reason, it never crosses my mind that I’m gonna say anything or like flip ’em the bird or anything, I don’t– Oh, I don’t get mad when people cut me off in traffic because that’s all I do. Wow. I only cut people off in traffic. Why? Like every day coming into work, I probably cut three people off in traffic. And then on the way home, it’s probably five people. Are you using your turn signal or no? Oh yeah, I’m using my turn signal and I got my game down. It’s like, everybody’s backed up and then there’s like, when that person goes and this person’s gotta wait a second right in there, and then I give him the hand. If you give him the hand, I think that’s not– I touch the roof of the– I think that is not cutting someone off. I think if you’re… You could do anything and give me the thank you hand and I’ll be fine with it. Yeah, this is a huge– This is so much better. This is Tyson. This is Tyson here. Tyson is so much better than the rest of them. I’m sorry, it’s just the flavors better. I think. Is “O” the very sexual Cirque Du Soleil show? No, that’s what I was saying earlier. That’s “Zumanity” and it’s closed because– No, it’s “Zootopia.” Sorry that’s Zootopia. And they kept bringing audience members up on stage to try to participate and it made people really uncomfortable and it closed. Like Amsterdam, huh? Just like Amsterdam. Yep. What was the other show that you saw? “Ka.” The crows are flying in. Everything is one syllable. “O” and “Ka.” And it was good too but they were both incredible. And I found a Cirque Du Soleil book at an estate sale this weekend. I’m infatuated, I’m seeing the one when it comes to LA. I love it. I think I’m gonna take some of my men friends to see the underwater show. They don’t like to talk. Link. The Cirque Du Soleil one? Yeah. Yeah. You should. Link has an announcement to make, he has men friends now. I have men friends. I love that. Why don’t you hike your way over to– Where does this go? The next Cirque Du Soleil? Trader Joe’s, right here. I haven’t seen any Cirque Du Soleil– Y’all the Tyson, the Tyson, the Tyson. You can really hike your way over there. I really want to see the Beatles one, because the music. that’s not a Beatles one. I have the album. Well, you should hike your way over there then. I’d go with you if you, if you wanted to go. Maybe you could hitchhike your way to the place. You don’t have to answer now. Okay. You can think about it. Maybe you could hitchhike, maybe you could hitchhike. What if you hitchhiked? Can you be like a character the whole time? Can I be a character? You could be like our private jet pilot. Oh, for you and your man friends? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought you meant starting right now. And I was like, “I don’t understand.” Yeah, sure. It’s quite a hike to Vegas if you don’t fly. I drove when I went this past weekend, I drove. Have you ever tried to just hike there? No, I hate hiking. Yeah. What about hitch hiking? Yeah, hiking sucks. I don’t like walking on an incline. Flat surface, could do it forever. I like these a lot too. Okay. These have a sauce. The take out crispy. I’d hike all the way to Foster Farms and say, “Hike me some of those wings out and I’ll hike ’em right into my mouth.” And I’ll smell it with my mouth before I smell it with my nose. That’s how much I hike and love these. Smell on that. I love that. These are the only ones that come with a sauce separate from the wing. Rhett, I think these are the best ones home slice. Hike, hike, hike. There we go, there we go. I had to change to exclusively speaking in the term hike. Sorry there. I said, I don’t know if we had a hike counter. I don’t wanna make the edit, people do it. The edit people is what we’re call ’em now. Is the microphone in the way? The microphone is there. I will say I would appreciate a hike counter. Just a simple, simple, no cool graphics. Just a simple hike counter for how many times I said hike before he realized that I was saying hike for him to shake his tight end. I can’t stop looking. Those are good. Yes, I agree. I think they might be… Maybe Tyson just has a familiarity thing that’s going on but the buffaloness of the Tyson is what does it for me. Okay. It’s full of flavor. I think I gotta put these second though, behind Tyson. Wow, okay. They’re crispy though, I like that. I would vote to put these number one. These two are far and away better than the others. Sure. In my opinion. I have to agree with this. I don’t have to but I am. All right, are we ready for the big reveal? Yes. The best of the best found by Sporked are the Foster Farms hot and spicy. That’s what I said. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They’re very good. Yeah. Alright. I don’t disagree with that. Very good, very good, very good. Could have made me switch. Okay, but so here’s the thing. The ones you think I’m talking about are not the ones I’m talking about. So these were our best. And I don’t want you to get upset. You don’t like the extra crispy. We liked them, they just weren’t our best of the best. This was our number one. What? Well, taste these and see if you remember. Me taste it? Yeah. And remember? See if you can remember. Taste and remember. See if that reminds you or if these don’t taste as good. Okay, and then taste this? Yep, yep, yep. Taste and remember, that sounds like a Cirque Du Soleil. That’s beautiful. I know, have you been to taste and remember? They’re both very good. You don’t wanna backtrack. But I mean it kind of… We all make mistakes. It’s just a question of like, what we do with that information. But the thing I’m interested in is where you put Tyson because I feel like, well, maybe we have a Tyson disconnect. Okay and here’s another interesting thing that’s happened. I realize that I don’t have the order of which they’re ranked on these cards. So now I’m kind of at a loss and I need someone else offstage to tell me or give me a piece of paper. I might have the answer. I’ve been there, done that. And I’m scared. If I can get a firm nod. Yeah. Yeah, because I also have the qualifiers. Okay, yes. Do you have them on the Google Doc or on? Yeah, I have stuff. Okay. What do you want me to say? Stevie got a Google doc. The Google doc. Steven’s got your back. I feel bad. So best of the best. We talked about Foster Farms hot and spicy. Hot and spicy. We liked how meaty these were and we liked what they’re easy to prepare. This is nice obviously to pour a separate sauce on, but it is a whole nother step. I was confused about that sauce and now it was like, well, I’m kind of feel like I’m dipping in this sauce that’s on the plate. So okay, I see what you’re saying. Absolutely, and it’s nice but when it comes, it’s a frozen block. So then you have to find, you have to run the block of frozen buffalo sauce, It’s a block of sauce? Under hot water to get… So it’s a lot of steps. That’s a turn off. Tastes delicious but it is a little harder to use. These are a little more user friendly, a little more accessible. Okay, all right. Best crispy, TGI Friday’s buffalo style wings. Best crispy. Best crispy, okay. Well? Best Plain Foster Farm’s takeout crispy, classic buffalo wings. Got it. Don’t need sauce or anything. They come with their own sauce. They come with sauce. Got it. It’s a block though. It’s a block of sauce. It’s a block of sauce. Know what you’re getting into. Best looking, Trader Joe’s hot and spicy. We thought these were kind of cute. They look good, yeah. That’s nice. You think this is too orange, too red? I do think that looks like a hot cheeto, yes. I love that you gave an award for best looking. Hey, it’s part of the game. If you’re having a party too. If you want something that looks good, maybe your friends don’t have a discerning palette but they’re very visual. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don’t Know. And best with blue cheese, Tyson buffalo style hot wings. Best with blue cheese. So you had a qualifier. So really the ranking is just sort of, ah, you know? Yes. It’s inconsequential. It’s like you can go to whichever Cirque Du Soleil show that you want to. You don’t have to have a preference because sometimes it’ll get ruined by the person next to you. That’s a great way to think of it. Our rankings are like all the options for Cirque Du Soleil shows because all of them are good. Yes. But they’re different things for different people. Some people want a really crispy wing. Some people want a really saucy wing. And sometimes you see boobs. Sometimes you wanna see a sexual Cirque Du Soleil show and be brought on stage. Did they have full nipple at that “Zootopia?” So I did not see “Zootopia” because it is closed. Okay. But there were no nipples at the Cirque Du Soleil show visible that I saw. Then what was all the controversy about? There was no controversy for my show, what do you mean? For “Zumanity.” I think they brought– I heard that they brought people on stage. Yeah, and were like trying to be sexy with the audience members and then people were scared. They were like, “I don’t wanna be…” But it’s still no nipple though. I don’t know. Could we get a Google on that? Could someone Google if there was nudity in “Zumanity?” I do not want to Google that. Stevie, come on. I Googled it, they have full grizzled knobs. No nipple but lots of grizzled knobs. Perfect. I think it’s grizzling. Grizzled, grizzly is like a gross scene in a movie. Grisly with an S. Grisly, yeah. Like– Gristled. It’s like– Gristled knob. It feels like a gristle, piece of gristle. If you’re appetized by this conversation, go over to Sporked. They got a game day page to help with all the stuff you need to make your game day party. This is important. Amazing, they got these frozen wings. Best white claw flavors, best tortilla chips, best dips. Go to sporked.com, get loaded up with the right stuff from the grocery store. Man, look at that, we did it. We did it. They’re all good in in their own way. They are, man. I can tell you right now. Yeah. Let’s go to Vegas, let’s take a hike to Vegas. I’d hike to Vegas with you. It’s pretty flat, I think. Get ready for the big game with recommendations for everything you need for a game day party, including updated frozen wing rankings, best white claw flavors, best tortilla chips and more. Sporked.com.

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