Can we taste the difference between different types of raw onion? >> Welcome to G Mythical Morion time. >> There’s nothing like eating raw onion. Would with you, buddy? >> Yeah, man. I’m I’m looking for opportunities to do that. >> Seven different onions we are going to eat. >> They’re all raw. We’re going to be blindfolded seeing if we can identify. >> I don’t think I can name seven types of onions. Let me see if I can. White, yellow, >> vada, >> red. >> So I think yellow would be a vida. >> Sweet. No. >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> Sweet is vada. Vada. >> White, yellow, red. That’s four. White, yellow, red, green. Yeah, in the green territory there’s some um >> there’s some different ones, but I do think green onion and scallion are different. We’ve had this debate. Is that true? >> What about leak? >> No, chives are different. >> Leak is different. Shallots are different. >> Shallow? >> Sure. I love a shallot. >> That’s the type of onion. >> Yeah, it kind of is. >> You don’t You’re not supposed to eat all these raw. And here I am. I’m >> Green onions and scallions are the same. >> You got a date tonight? >> Well, yeah, with my therapist. Oh, well, you >> What am I going to tell my therapist? You know, I don’t like >> You do an in person? >> Yeah, I do Zoom, man. >> Oh, I hate that. I ain’t never going to do Zoom with my therapist. >> Is there a couch? >> I want I Well, yeah, there’s a couch. >> I switched to Zoom. >> I don’t I don’t lay on the couch. I sit on the couch. >> But I don’t do Zoom. No. If I’m If I’m going to Who’s going to dab my tears away? >> I just like being wherever I want to be. I >> It’s like the discover card >> if I’m not in the room. >> Is that what it is? >> I can’t I can’t do therapy. >> Have you tried? Didn’t What about during the pandemic? >> Yeah, it was fine. >> I mean, I switched to that during the pandmic. >> There’s not as much of a connection like I’m not as much there. >> What is the drive time situation between >> uh >> you know? >> Uh 8 minutes. >> Oh, wow. Okay. Because I was going to say like do you do you pre-process on the drive as if it’s a mental podcast for yourself? But eight minutes >> I try not to, Stevie. >> Oh, okay. >> I’ve tal I’ve talked about that in therapy, too. >> Pre-processing. >> Yeah. Like rehearsing what I’m going to say to my therapist. >> Oh. Oh, yeah. No, no. >> Yeah. My once we went >> So, what am I going to say to my therapist? Now I’m rehearsing. >> My therapist moved away. >> I had to taste a lot of I had to taste a lot of raw onions. So if you smell something, it’s because it’s my mouth. >> You’re not still trying to impress your therapist, though, right? That’s like year one, year two stuff. >> That’s That’s the whole point, isn’t it? >> No, no, no. You got to get over that. You’re over that. You’re not trying to impress your therapist anymore. >> Okay, let’s bring in the first one. >> I don’t know. I’ll talk to my therapist about it. >> Oh, wow. We have like a This is fancy. This more, but there’s two ramicans. There’s utensils. >> Do we each have our own? >> You each have your own. This is >> great. >> Yeah, >> this is >> We each have our own therapist, too. >> Too much. Yeah, >> that’s healthy. That’s good. I knew that already, but I’m happy to be to you to confirm it again. Well, I’m only trying to get the minimum amount. Okay, I feel pretty strongly that I think I know what this is. And if I’m wrong, then my whole onion barometer is off. >> Okay, I’m going to give you three, two, one, three. >> Hold on. I’m trying to think. >> Oh, >> okay. You said a white onion is not okay. All right. Yeah. All right. >> Three, two, one. >> Sweet. >> No, it’s not sweet. >> You both are incorrect. >> Yellow then. >> It’s yellow. >> Yeah. Okay. So, I knew it was either yellow or sweet, >> but I was like, is it sweet enough to be vad or is it white? Wouldn’t be white wouldn’t have this is that a yellow is sweeter than a white and then a vida is even sweeter than a yellow. I’m just I’m just surprised that that’s described as sweet because I >> Well, I think it had I mean it was pungent because it’s an onion, but it had a very like sweet >> I love onions, but I I mean I can’t eat a raw onion on its own. That’s just too much. Now, boys, I’m being told, and it’s only if you want this only, you know. So, you you choose. >> Bite it like an apple. >> No, no. We we have a whole yellow onion that if you want to take your blindfolds off and you want to look at it as you’re talking right now, you can. We’ll you can do it. Okay. Rhett’s going Rhett is choosing that path. >> Link’s holding it now. >> Link’s holding it. >> I’m describing it for those of you who still have your blindfolds on. >> What is it? Yellow. >> It’s yellow. Yeah. But you know, it’s actually >> stews. >> I use it for cooking a lot. Like if it it is a a good like base onion. >> It’s not a salad onion. >> Exactly. >> It’s not a salad onion. And I didn’t know this until recently that you really shouldn’t use yellow onions if you’re making a Mexican dish. >> Yeah. It’s a white That’s a white >> white onions for that. >> I thought you used um purple onion for that. >> You can, but that’s usually when you’re eating them fresh. But for like putting a onion, like cooked onion into a Mexican thing >> Mhm. or like onions and cilantro on a taco. That’s typically a white onion. But people get funky with their guacamole and that’s where you see like the red onion and green. >> Red onions and guac. >> Okay, >> I believe I’m going to put my blindfold back on. >> Okay, let’s try another. Onions are so good for you though. >> Okay, >> as if I haven’t been in the dark enough today already. Let’s right put in the next onion, please, for consumption. >> Bring in the onion. >> Please, please, >> please. >> All right. Okay. >> I told you they get mad when you don’t bring in the onion. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And let next time. Let’s have that that next onion closer. >> Get take other. Thank you. >> Now you Okay. >> Hm. See these? All right. >> No, I don’t see these. >> I don’t see them at all. >> What? You cheating? >> You said see these. I said no, I don’t see them. >> I get it. >> Okay. >> Hold on. >> Hold on. >> What are you do? You You are fingering the onion. >> Stop it. >> No. No. I’m just guess, man. >> Well, now I’m confused. >> Good. I don’t want to eat this much. >> Please note in the future no fingering of the onion will be allowed because that gives you clues. >> I mean, I fed myself with my fingers. >> Don’t do that again. >> If that’s what you’re saying. Is that what you mean by that? >> Yeah. >> Now, cuz now my fingers smell like onions, which is my own fault. >> Now, what are you gonna say to your therapist? >> It’ll be a different story. >> Okay, you ready? Uh, not really. But I’m going to say something. >> Three, two, one. >> Vidal. >> Sweet. >> You’re both incorrect. >> Okay, then wait. >> This one was sweeter than the other one. >> Oh, this is a shallot. >> No, I don’t know what it is. >> Well, it’s not red. >> It’s red. >> No. No, it’s not. No, it’s not. Yes, it is. >> It’s purple. >> It is. >> It’s purple. >> It just just goes to show you I don’t. >> But it’s milder. >> I don’t know onions. I don’t know onions. I thought I did. I don’t. I thought red onions had more of a bite to them. Didn’t you? >> I think of white onions as having more of a bite to them, personally. >> Okay. Well, maybe you’re right. Now, I do love a good onion. I love onions. I love diced onions on a ham sandwich. Like every single square centimeter of that sandwich. >> Oh, you’re doing centimeters now. >> Is diced onion. I just I love them that much. But >> uh >> lettuce, ham, cheese, pepper, mayo. >> Do you know what you can do to to prepare for your therapist? Pennies in your mouth. >> I’m not doing that again. Put pennies in your mouth. >> It’ll take away the It’ll take away the stink. I told you that because Jason, you know who, told me that when when I got drunk in high school. >> Yep. >> And then I had to had he told me to suck on pennies. No, >> not drunk in high school. >> And Jason told me a cool trick. >> Sucking on pennies. Sucking on pennies and late for church with quite a guilt complex to deal with. >> Sucking on pennies. I didn’t go to church cuz I was too hung over to eat chicken for lunch. Whoa, hold on. So, hold on. You were thinking about the fact that you had to go to the chicken dinner. What about the church part? >> I skipped church and then I couldn’t eat my chicken lunch. Is the next one in? >> Mhm. >> Next one. Okay. I am 100% certain I am right about this one. And if I’m wrong, I will never put onions on anything ever again. >> Boy, this one’s >> You’ve heard it here. >> This one’s >> You’ve heard it here. I’m going to go onionless. I can’t remember what we tasted in the first round. >> I’m ready. >> Okay. >> Three, two, one. >> Yellow. >> You’re both incorrect. >> I’ve never eaten onions again. Not even now. Sweet. Videa. >> This is like This is a a special onion of the group. This is >> uh shallots. Yeah. >> Shallot. Hold on. Really? >> But what is a shallot? Really? >> This is it right here. And what does it have? A big green thing coming off of it usually. >> Yeah, like all onions. >> All onions have a big green thing and then they bubble up in the ground. >> Oh, but but typically when they sell a shallot, it’s still on there. >> No. >> No. >> Nope. We will not allow that. >> No. Can I ask your guys’ opinion on something? >> On a scale of like severity of a stunt on one to 10, where do you put taking a bite out of an onion like an apple? >> Um, on a like what’s a 10? >> Like what kind of >> jumping off the roof into a pool? >> Oh, >> like what floor? >> Third floor. >> Third floor into a pool. >> Third floor into a pool. >> You’re like, whoa, I can’t believe that person just did that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then one. What’s one? >> Whoopy cushion. >> Yeah, like a whoopy cushion. >> Yeah, a whoopy cushion. Onion’s a four. >> Maybe a five. >> Maybe a five. Okay. Wow. Sounds like quite a dare. >> Yeah, cuz it’s also a little pathetic. >> Yeah. Okay. Cuz sometimes I do it at a party if I feel like I need to like liven things up. >> Yeah. But it’s >> Okay. So that’s why you were asking like how am I being perceived? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I need to ask my wife sometimes. >> On a scale of pathetic to pathetic, sounds like I’m right there in the middle. >> Okay, going under again. Damn, we don’t know how anything about. >> Sometimes a recipe will call for a shallot and from now on I shall not put it in there. >> You you I think there’s wiggle room on the shallot uh recipe situation. >> They’re very pungent. Yeah, that wouldn’t be a raw one. Doesn’t typically cook with raw shallots. >> You cook with shallots. >> H, this one smells different. >> Okay, if I’m wrong about this, for real this time, my onion days are over. We used to eat onions out in the yard. Do you remember those? >> Like we Yeah, onion weeds kind. I I didn’t eat those. I did. >> There was all kinds of little things we ate out in the yard. Little wild strawberries, blackberries in the forest. >> We They had these purple weeds that were really sour. >> Sour. >> Chew on those. Those are >> wild onions. We to get the wild onions. You pull a wild onion out, you had a little bulb on it. >> This one, this one tastes like grass. Ding ding ding ding ding. Three, two, one. >> Green. >> What? >> Green. >> Green. No, you’re you’re both not white or >> what? Scallion. >> No, it’s it’s it’s one that you mentioned that’s not like the rest of the family. Yeah, >> leak. >> Hold on. Leak is like a green onion. >> Yeah, it’s like a big one. >> Oh, it’s like a big >> I think it has a milder taste. >> It looks like it would be like a pup, like a character on Veggie Tales. This is what Josh has tattooed on his arm, right? >> Yeah. >> Interesting. >> So what? Why? >> I don’t know why. >> No, no. I mean, like, but there’s obviously a reason he’s like leaks are the best onion. >> Yeah. I don’t know why. >> Can Can I hold >> They don’t have a scent here. Very very mild scent. I think it’s it’s a good solid flavor. >> Pretty. I don’t know. >> You get somebody’s attention with it. >> It’s got control traffic with it. >> A flag or torch-like quality. >> You know, if I open up a farmers market and I directed people in, I think having something that you were selling that day in your hand is a good call. >> That’s That’d be fun. And you could wear overalls, >> a vest. I would wear a vest. >> You could have onions right here for for um breasts. >> Onion breasts? I don’t think so. What do you want? >> I’m not putting on a show. I’m just directing traffic. >> I think it’s the kind of thing that I look totally normal until you’re like, “Oh, look. He’s got a leak in his hand.” What? Oh, he’s got a leak in his hand. No. No. A leak. >> And cantaloupes in your underwear. >> The back. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> The back. >> Yeah. I have a giant cantaloupe ass. >> Yep. >> Where are you? You’re You’re reverse queen sweeping right now, I believe. Right. >> Yeah, we’ve got We are We’ve got none of that. >> Got to get one on the board here. At least our breath is fresh. >> Swap them in. >> You told your therapist about me a little bit. Yeah, just a little bit. >> Get the new onions in. >> That’s a funny question, isn’t it? Did everybody know about me? Oh. Woo! Bursting. >> All right. >> With liquids. I’m 100% sure I’m right about this. >> I’m directing. >> Okay. >> My answer into my mind. >> Oh, the aftertaste is like really pungent. >> Well, that takes me back home. >> Y you >> takes me back home. >> Three, two, one. Okay. See, everything that you said, you said, “Oh, this is a really pungent one.” Now, if you were listening to kind of Yes. White. >> It’s white. >> And then as soon as you said it takes me back home, I was like, “Wow.” >> My mom was born in Vida, Georgia. >> Um, >> is that the home of the onion? >> Yeah. >> They grow them there. >> Well, I hope so. That’s where it’s that’s where it’s why it’s called that. H. Are onions good for the skin only because of the water content? >> No. No. They have uh stuff in them. >> I don’t think there’s a lot in them. >> They they’re Oh, you have just insulted onions everywhere. They are in the same family as garlic, my friend. And there are compounds in this that are so healthy for so many things. Anti-inflammatory. >> Yeah. antimicrobial, antioxidants, vitamins. >> One of the best things you can put in yourself. >> I’m glad I like them. I’m glad I like onions. >> An onion. >> Yeah, I know. >> In the garlic family. That makes sense. >> Not liking onions is a real hindrance to food enjoyment. Like that’s a big one. That’s a Whoa. There’s a lot of things you can’t eat. Now, being allergic to onions, that’s a different thing. Not liking them. >> Your next onion’s in. >> Good gracious. >> All right, boy. I’ll tell you that really takes me back takes me back to >> takes me back to where my mother was born. >> I think this one is just as pungent as the last round, though. >> Yeah, there’s something nostalgic about it. >> Coming out my nose. >> Something real nostalgic about it. Three, two, one. >> White. >> That’s right. I think you did the white twice. >> No, >> I tasted no difference. >> Sweet. >> Yeah, it’s the sweet vida. >> Okay. >> But they look exactly the same. >> They’re so flat and squat. You see that? >> Look at that. Look at there. >> Look at there. A vida onion never rolls away from you because you roll it and it catches itself because it’s flat. You see that? They’re bred to not roll away because of the hills of the Videa. >> Not true. >> And they’re not in the garlic family. >> What do we know about Vida, Georgia? >> Look at that. It rolled just like a wheel. >> I want to know a fact about it cuz I don’t think I’ve ever actually been there. >> Look at that. I mean, it’s it >> it’s very directional in its rolling. >> It’s best known for its sweet onions. >> Mhm. earning it the nickname sweet onion capital of the world. >> Yeah, it’s a beautiful place. I hear >> you’ve never been to your mom’s homeland. I’ve been all around it. >> This is fun. >> I grew up around a railard that served farmers in the area who grew pecans and tobacco, >> man. And we call them Yep. Pecans. They call them down there in Georgia. They don’t call them pecans. Okay. Are we >> And that’s all. >> Are we through them? >> Um, you know, >> go with that. >> Yeah, you’re through them. >> Go with that. >> Yeah, take that with you. >> Curious what’s chilling in our fridges. The Spork team is giving you an exclusive look. Check it out now on the Spor YouTube channel. >> A thing of parmesan. You can grate it. You can also just nibble on it. I was going to say that looks like it has some bite marks out of it. >> Well, this is unexpected. >> We >> cheddar cheese.