Welcome to Good Mythical More. So glad you could join us. You ever shopped at Aldi? Yes. Well, we’re gonna highlight some things that you need to be buying. But first we’re gonna freeze our frame. Are we though? I made it so hard. My arms were flailing so hard to freeze frame. Gwynedd, come on in here. It’s your leisure. Whenever you’re ready. Whenever you feel like coming in. Here I come. Hey! Gwynedd’s here. Hey! Has been tasting so much stuff in service of your shopping needs. To tell you and everyone else who is willing to go over to sporked.com Why wouldn’t you be? It’s free. It’s helpful. It’s thorough. It’s energetic. It’s positive. It’s all of those things. It’s everything that you think you would, you would hope for. It’s everything and more. Now, a little bit about Aldi before we begin tasting things from there. What makes, like, if you were to describe it to someone who had never been to one, you would be like, this is how it’s different. Well, you need to bring a quarter for your cart. Yeah, that’s the thing, isn’t it? It’s a cheapo type place, right? I mean, you. They like stacked stuff. There’s no shelves, right? Yeah, so, okay, so it’s mostly proprietary brands of things. Right. AKA, like, generics of things. Okay, okay. But then they also have name brand stuff too, so it’s confusing. And you can find stuff. It’s like going to, like, your, you found out you had an uncle that was really wealthy and he died. And then there was an estate sale and they were like, he had a lot of groceries for some reason, but you’re going to have to like return this cart. Isn’t that, isn’t that kind of the vibe? Yeah. Uncle Aldi died and now we’re. Because everything is in, I’ve been in there one time in North Carolina. I haven’t been in one out here. Everything was stacked on pallets and I was like, I don’t feel comfortable. And I left. Oh, you did? You just left? I got a couple of things, but then I just left. I think that that probably happens to a lot of people. Like the first time you go, it’s like, where am I? Why am I here? Yeah. Yeah. And if you don’t have a quarter for a cart, then you have to like find a box somewhere in the store and like carry it around. I’ve done that many, many times. Who’s got quarters? Let’s start with something, I need to eat something because I have a lot of mouthwash in my stomach. You need something to soak it up. Yeah. Yeah, let’s start with these Bake Shop oatmeal cranberry cookies. Bake Shop oatmeal cookies. That sounds pretty intriguing. So. They look south. We taste tested all of the cookies that they sell at Aldi I can tell you this is gonna be good, just by smelling it. Something, some crazy number of them, this is a lot of big cranberry pieces in here. Very chewy, if you like chewy, which I do. That’s the essence of an oatmeal cookie. But, yeah, it’s got the spices. I think the chew is kind of unbeatable. This is nice. I do like. I like it better than the raisins. Okay, I’m so glad. Yeah, me too. This is the best cookie that you tasted out of all of them at Aldi? Yeah, we didn’t expect that, you know, an oatmeal cookie was gonna be the best cookie that we tasted, but it’s so good. Do you try to like, forget your expectations? You go in just like totally blind? I think that there’s some just, there’s some things you just can’t get past. Like it’s like, I don’t know, you just think like, a chocolate chip cookie is gonna be the best thing or something like that. But, yeah. Yeah, we were open to loving these and we do love them. And I think other people really like these too because I saw there were people looking for a, like, dupe recipes on the internet. Oh, they’re trying to make these. You know, the, the purest form of flattery is duping. All be duping. This is the type of cookie that your granny would have. And then, but I gotta go to Granny’s to get that cookie that she doesn’t make. She just buys at Aldi’s. So, you don’t have to go to Granny’s? – You don’t have to. – Go where Granny goes. But you only, you gotta go where Granny goes. That’s our number one so far. Okay, cool. Hot plate. Now we have Specially Selected marinara sauce. Specially Selected premium marinara sauce. This is, like, got generic written on it, in five different ways. For sure. But the thing is, we think that this tastes like exactly like Rao’s marinara sauce, but it’s much cheaper. Really? Okay. Yes. So tell me what you think. I’m going heavy on the sauce and light on the, what? I’ve already had quite a few noodles. I gargled them earlier. Gargling noodles. It’s tangy. It’s a bit pasty. Okay. Which I think can be a, is it Rao or “Row-o”? You’re saying you want it to be more liquidy, or you want it to be more? I kind of like it like this. Okay. Yeah, and it’s kind of oily too, which Rao’s is. And like, that’s like, it’s salty as well, which I personally really like. Yeah, it’s salty. – Yeah. – It’s good. But that’s like, it’s like really cheap marinara sauce. It’s worth, it’s definitely worth the shot. Do you know how much this costs? Just for a pound, a pound and a half? I want to say that’s like $4 ish. And then like a jar of Rao’s is like 7.99 – or something. – Yes, it is! Distributed and sold exclusively by Aldi. Batavia, Illinois. Have you been? To Batavia? Look under your finger there, it says shake well before serving. And refrigerate after opening. Oh yeah, we are just, wow. We’re doing both of those. Can we bring the fun meter back out? Because. There’s nothing worse than like, popping the top on something. – 4.29 – 4.29 That’s pretty good. And then realizing that you should have shook it first. Oh yeah, I know. Yeah, I’m a fan. I think that. Not as special as these cookies, but. Shake well before using should be on the lid of things that need to be shaken. That’s more money though. And Audi’s trying to save that. Yeah, that’s right. Or Aldi. I know I keep saying Audi. They could have made that the name of the pasta sauce, shake well before opening sauce. That’s a really good idea. That’s something Trader Joe’s would do. Would you mind if I, if I just shook well? Aldi doesn’t get that cute. Trader Giotto’s. Shake well before serving sauce. What do you think the owner of Aldi drives? Well, you kind of telegraphed that one. Aldi? But do you think he goes to parties and he’s like, I own Aldi, I drive an Audi. Yeah, for sure. No, no. My name is Albi. I think. I mean, it seems like he should be driving, or she, should be driving something, used. Or, at least, generic. What’s a generic car? Prius. Used Prius. A 99 Prius. I love that old Prius. Is what the owner of Aldi drives. This is good. I just smelled it. Oh, now you got to refrigerate it. Refrigerate it! Quickly! Quickly! Quickly! Quickly! Oh, God. Oh, I shook it. Alright, what’s next? This is not as good as the, as the cookies. But still good. Yes, ma’am. – So, this is. – Cheddar cheese and parmesan notes. Yes, so this is another dupe for the Unexpected Cheddar from Trader Joe’s. It’s so much like that, but it’s not because it’s from Aldi. It’s good. Similar hard cheddar cheese and notes of parmesan. Yes, a total dupe. It’s not a total dupe though. It’s not a total dupe? It has more Swiss notes. Swiss? Yeah. It’s just cheddar and parm. Think Swiss when you eat it. I like that it’s got that bitterness. Think a little Swissy. Make your thoughts a little Swissy. Think Swiss. How close do you think it is to the Trader Joe’s? I think it’s somewhat close but I agree that it’s not like a straight up dupe. I think this is creamier too. Yeah, because the Unexpected Cheddar at Trader Joe’s, is more like cheddar in that it almost falls apart a little bit. You can’t get a good clean bite. Like if you had this, if you had this cheese at your house and there was somebody who you was in your friend group that you would have suspected of a crime. Yes. And they had to put a bite pattern on like a body. You could have them bite a block of this and it would make a great bite pattern. What was the crime? Biting somebody to death. And. Like one of those out of control toddlers? Yeah, it was a toddler, yes. My friend is a toddler. And, but you couldn’t do that with Unexpected Cheddar because it crumbles. Yeah. No, that’s such a good point. If you have toddlers that are committing crimes in your home, you should absolutely have some of this around. You gotta go with creamy cheeses to get those bite patterns. – Or a book club. – Stuff like that. Yeah. Oh my gosh, yeah. Yep, you could have a toddler book club. I do like it. I do like it though. I think you do all the reading, it’s kind of. Just because I like cheese, to me, it’s better than the marinara. Oh, but it, but it’s not better than the Trader Joe’s? No, but a good dupe. You really have developed a relationship with that cheese, it seems. I have. Next we have. Greek yogurt. We keep this in our home Okay. This exact brand? No, just this food stuff. Yeah, Greek yogurt, yeah. Greek yogurt. It’s just good to have around. This is honey vanilla Okay, so yeah, this is honey vanilla flavored I also always have Greek yogurt at home and it makes me sick. when I buy Greek yogurt now and it costs like seven dollars for like a thing this size. Right? How much is this one? – I think. – 3.75. Yeah – 3.75. – Around four dollars. I know I love that. Thank you so much, but that’s such a good deal, right? And. Lots of protein. It tastes really good. That’s why you do it, right? Oh, that’s nice. Because it has protein. That, and it’s so versatile cause you can use it for dips. I myself purchased a $7 tub, was angry about it, but then I dipped stuff in it and I realized why I paid $7, but I’d love to pay half. Yeah. Listen, if you fight, if you make yourself a chili, And you realize that you don’t have sour cream. Greek yogurt is not a bad substitute for it. It’s not sour cream. It’s not as good, but it’s better than a trip to the store. Am I right? It’s a white dollop. You want to get in your Audi? So, as long as there’s a white dollop on your chili? No, it couldn’t be any white dollop. I’m saying that yogurt as a, you know, yogurt specifically. White dollop. Is that not, something they ever called you at any point in your life? Oh, that would have been a great one. That would have been a. I was trying to set you up, man. Come on, dude. I don’t know. It’s a little Yoplait-ish in a good way. So, I know, I was going to say, well, this is definitely less versatile. It feels indulgent. You’re not putting this on your, this is not going to be the white dollop you’re putting on your chili. Because. It’s not thick enough. But do they have a, they probably have plain? No? I’m sure they do. Yeah. But I just think that this honey vanilla one is so especially good. Yeah. I could treat myself with this. – It is. – You don’t need anything else. It is. Just me and a hammock and a bowl of yogurt. That’s. Should I have shaken this beforehand? Probably not. I bet it doesn’t shake up all that well. But you should refrigerate it now. Yeah. I don’t love it. Because it doesn’t, you don’t need to shake it. Okay. Well it gets that liquid at the top and you have to stir it. Or you can just pour that off. Oh. Oh, you need to retain that. What is that? Moisture. Yeah. What is that stuff? Water. What? Water content. Yogurt juice. It’s just, it separates a little bit. I don’t think, I think I just pour that off. Because I like my yogurt to be even stouter. Okay. Oh, you like a firm. I like the thickest of thick yogurts. Maybe a tofu consistency you would like. I bet you if you let yogurt stay out long enough, it would turn into. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, with my almond butter is, I don’t try to mix that stuff up either. I just, I like it real thick almond, I just, I just pour that oil off You don’t need it. It’s too hard to try to mix that. That’s so interesting. It’s too hard for me. Yeah. I like to mix. It’s too hard. I mix it. Life is so hard for me. He’s gone rogue. I don’t know how you guys feel about this one in terms of where it lies in the rankings. I love it. I freaking love it more than the cheese. Wow. More than the cheese? The cheese is special. But I don’t care for cheese like you do. So, I mean, I can, we can just move. The Rao pasta down. Put it right here. None of these are bad, just because there’s a ranking doesn’t mean that it’s not good. But when you return your cart, you get your coin back. Yeah, you do. You got to keep that. So that’s. On a string around your neck probably. It’s really an incentive to, it reduces their labor cost of having to move carts around I think is what they’re doing, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, they don’t have to have cart people. 100%, and they don’t bag your groceries for you either. But then the Cart Narc can’t go into an Aldi parking lot and make content. But they didn’t go the route of self checkout, which now everyone has gone back on. I know. That’s quite a fiasco. Don’t get me started. Have you watched the Cart Narc? The what? The Cart Narc. The guy who is in the parking lot and goes up to people who haven’t put their grocery cart back and he has, like magnetic stickers and he throws it on the people’s car. No! And they get so upset. Oh my God. I’ve never seen people get so mad. And then they chase them around, chase him around their cars. But they can’t catch up with him. Because he’s just going around the cars and he films the whole thing. You gotta watch it. So, it’s just to shame people for like, not doing the right thing. Yeah, and he like maintains his cool the whole time. And he’s, and there’s some imitators out there I think. But the original is the Cart Narc. Yeah, okay. I’ve seen something like it. I don’t know if it was officially. Oh no. Why you got to be doing that, man? Why? Why? Because they’re both breakfasts. Okay, listen. So this is Appleton Farms bacon. That is one of our favorite bacon items, of all bacon items. Oh! It’s not our number one favorite, but it’s like very high on our list for the best bacon. This was. And you just get it at Aldi? This was in the news recently, because I guess there’s a Canadian company that’s called like Appleton Meats or something like that. – Oh, yeah. – That makes meat from cells in a laboratory. Oh, that one. So everyone was being like, this Aldi bacon is made from cells in a laboratory, but it’s very much not. It’s made from pigs. Got you. And it’s probably a much sadder place than a laboratory. I want the lab grown meat. I know. I don’t think that’s even that bad. Bring it as fast as you can. It’s not. The way that they package it. Oh, yeah. It doesn’t look, it’s not very photogenic with the fat side for it on the label. Then you get to the side and you’re like, oh that’s bacon, then you get to the back and you’re like, oh yeah, look at that. Why did they do the fat side? You want, what you want is a fancy bacon that’s sliced and then offset. That’s what you want. Don’t you? I think that’s what I’m wanting. But I don’t need it, do I? No, you don’t need it. I don’t need it. That’s very solid bacon. And it’s also affordable, right? I mean, it’s all, that’s the point. It’s good, right? It’s very good. It’s super thick. I think I combined it with the cheese. No one saw. Okay. I combined it with the yogurt. Everyone saw. Yeah. What’d you think? Not a good idea. Okay. Could’ve been worse. Cheese was great. I bet you it’d be good on that too. Bacon on your spaghetti, huh? Yeah a little. Carbonara. Carbonara I’ll do that right now Okay, and we got. Okay if it ain’t broke don’t add bacon. Chicken fries. Last but not least, Kirkwood Chicken Fries, which people on the internet say are exactly like Burger King Chicken Fries. I was about I say, looks like Burger King. I’ve never had a Burger King Chicken Fry. Oh my gosh. I don’t like the concept. I’m gonna do some double stacking here. There we go. I don’t like the concept of a meat fry. I think it’s a little bit weird. But, what do we think? Fully cooked chicken fries. Breaded fry shaped chicken breast patties. They’re good though, right? With rib meat. Burger King. But the rib meat is still from a chicken. They got ribs. You ever seen a ribless chicken? Yeah, they’re really floppy. They have a tough time. This is about as squishy as a, as a ribless chicken, actually. I like this. It is squishy, but It’s just, is that just foam in there? It’s foam meat, Gwynedd. Well, what I find is Is when I invite all my toddler friends over, they love this. You know what I’m saying? Now it doesn’t really catch the bite patterns as well I’ll save the cheese for that, but they love this. I’ll put a plate of these out, next thing you know, they asked me for a whole other batch. I’m wrapping it in bacon. There you go. And now I’m, now I’m happy. But they’re like, yeah, they’re like fast food food, in that they’re spongy and not a whole lot like chicken, but. They’re spongy. You’re, you’re warned they’re chicken fries. But at least they’re probably good for you. Yeah, I’m sure they are Yeah, based on what I’m seeing right here. Oh, yeah, baby. I know. Eight of them is 240 calories. It seems okay Yeah, I mean you got to eat. For your toddler friends, are growing. The whole bag to get to, like, a daily, a daily caloric intake for me. I have had the chicken fries from Burger King and I will say this is pretty close. So, if you want to be in that space. Cool. And you know, it’s grown on me. Once you embrace the sponginess, I like it. Yes. I mean, the ranking is falling apart a little bit on this side of the table. Now, did you want to move the bacon up? Probably. Yeah, where does it land? It was very good bacon, but honestly, I find it’s hard to have bad bacon. That’s why I left it here. Okay. So, I’m fine with it being on the bottom. Those were a little bit surprising. We’re gonna move these here, we’re gonna move this here, and we’re actually putting the fries above the bacon because. Yeah, I agree with this right now. You know what, you know, if you don’t, if you don’t want it, you won’t care for it. But if you’re interested in it, you’ll like it. Wow. And so the oatmeal cookies are number one. Yeah, they are. I didn’t expect that. These are really special. What’s your number one? I think the oatmeal cookies are incredibly delicious, but I would probably go with the, I’d probably go with the marinara sauce Okay. I just eat a lot of marinara sauce and I think it’s delicious. I do have more marinara than oatmeal cookie. Next time you go to Aldi, think about Sporked. Think about us. Maybe, maybe make a wheel video or something. I don’t know. I love it when people are doing something that’s like they’re having the time of their life, yet, they’re making us a video. That makes me feel good. Yeah, Aldi is where you have the time of your life. Aldi is it. Absolutely, better than getting your wisdom teeth out. Aldi is it! We’re bringing all of our Epic Rap Battles to vinyl. Join the Mythical Society as a Third Degree, Quarterly or Annual member by June 30th to be eligible to receive this collectible, mythicalsociety.com