GMMore 2922: Ranking Our Favorite Frozen Meals

We’re trying the best frozen meals Sporked has tasted. Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” I wonder if anybody’s eating a frozen meal right now while watching. I really hope so. Probably, right? Yeah, yeah. Gotta be. I mean, somebody. They must be. And if you are, tell us in the comments which one you’re eating. Yes, especially if it’s one of the ones we’re gonna eat. Because- Engagement. We’re gonna eat some good ones, right? Yes. We’re not eating anything nasty. No, these are good. Because the default for a frozen meal is just gonna be okay. Sure. If it’s okay, that’s really where my expectations are. To get to good, it’s almost like surprising for me. Sure. And to get to great is not really within my realm of expectation. Well, I do wanna remind you though, they are still frozen meals. Exactly. So they’re, a lot of them are good. I would say some of these are great frozen meals. They’re still a frozen meal. So, much like I have to do with Sporked, you have to keep your expectations within what the thing is. Right. You know, this is not gonna taste like being at Nobu. But here’s the thing, even in Nobu. Some stuff is frozen. That fish has been frozen. That’s so true. You think the sushi, you think the sushi, they’re just taking the fish out the ocean and putting it on? No. No, they freeze it as soon as they put it on a boat. All right, Nobu’s a frozen meal. Okay. And they’ll have to invite us in for a fancy dinner to prove otherwise. And we will wait right now for that invitation. We will wait white now. In the comments below. We will wait. We will wait. White now. White now. Okay. It’s down there, I saw it. Okay, they left it? Yep. Good. Turkey. Now we can eat Turkey Tetrazzini from Stouffer’s. This is the thing that feels like it’s only in frozen meals. Like, have you ever been to someone’s house and they’re like, “I’ve made Turkey Tetrazzini.” Yeah, I’ve made you a tetrazzini. No, of course not. What even is that? It’s tender white meat turkey, pasta, mushrooms, celery in a creamy sauce. I love when the flavor is creamy. Can I have a fork? Oh, sorry. That’s okay. Is this a year round item? Yes. This is not seasonal. They just were like, “Turkey’s the one.” Yes. You can get your tetrazzini on any month of the year. Your birthday, Valentine’s Day. I don’t like fresh tasting turkeys. So, this is my favorite type of turkey. You want your turkey to be as much transformed as possible. Yeah. This is good. It’s just a casserole. It’s like nothing to complain about. Nothing to get too excited about, like. It’s not ugly in any way. No. You don’t wanna open up and feel like you gotta alter it to forget how it looked when you saw it. No, and I thought the celery was for freaks. When I saw this, I was like, why would I want big hunks of celery in my baked pasta? Good question. Good question. But I actually think it’s really good. It adds a little lightness, a little crunch. I think this, like all frozen meals personally, I would put a little hot sauce on top of it. Yes. But honestly, pretty tasty, pretty comforting. Yes, okay. This is number one. I might do that. This is number one? This is the best thing I’ve tasted so far. Okay. Oh. I’ll keep that over here. I love this. Oh, this is really good. Well, this is Bibigo. This is a brand that almost everything I’ve had from them is delicious. But they made this wonton soup and it’s in a spicy broth. Wow, and there’s just whole- Look in there. There’s just a whole dumpling. Big honkin’ wontons in there. The broth is delicious. I might drip. I did. That’s okay. We’re all family here. Hmm. Oh. I’m just dropping things all over the place. Yeah, that’s all right. Oh. Oh. Thank you. Is this not delish? Our minds are being blown. I mean, I wouldn’t know that was frozen. Are you freaked? I wouldn’t know that was frozen. No. I mean, the only slight giveaway is the texture of the wonton. The wrapper’s a littler softer. A little soft. But taste-wise. That’s flavor right to the dome. Yes, it is, and it’s a nice spice. It’s not overwhelming. What do you think? I agree with y’all. This is, I mean. Bibigo. Bibigo. And they sell frozen dumplings, frozen meals, incredible. Definitely exceeding my expectations. I love them. Chicken and vegetable, yep. You have to assume your sodium’s gonna be up for this type of stuff, so you just, you gotta- Yeah, this is not what this is about, right? You wanna be, yeah. You don’t wanna be doing it every night, but it’s not what it’s about. But when you are gonna go for it, it needs to taste good so you’re not sad while you’re doing it. I’ll tell you right now, no one should be doing anything every night that they’ve seen on this show. That’s true. That’s how I feel about it. Right. You know? Including watch it. Yeah. Yeah, you’re supposed to do that in the morning. Yeah right. There’s a ticker that we need to start putting at the bottom. “Do not do what we’re doing.” Yeah. Do not do what they’re doing every single night. Keep your fans safe. One? Yes, oh yeah. The one thing I will say though… What? I don’t like that black plastic, because that’s the one that’s got all the BPAs. We gotta- Is it? Yeah, we gotta get to the- I thought that was fake. I think it’s not the only one. I mean, they’re all, they all have it. But I’ve heard that microwaving the black plastic is a no-no. Feel like we’ve gotta, we need to get, we need to use the cardboard stuff. I agree with you. I will say though, that I threw out all my spatulas that had the black plastic on them. And then I saw an article where it was like, that actually wasn’t true. Oh, really? I don’t know, but I’m not a scientist. You guys know that. So someone… As soon as you tossed it out, they knew that. So then, they sent you that one so that you would buy a new one. It was big spatula. Yeah. Yeah, yes. Disgusting. I do wonder should, like, this isn’t in plastic. This smells incredible. Should you take it outta plastic and put it on a real plate? Like this tetrazzini. Yeah. Put it on a real plate. And then- I always do that. And then microwave it. I mean, yeah, that’s probably better for you. Before you microwave it? Oh, I went through a phase where I was getting like the pre-prepared meals and I had read that article about the black plastic. I was taking ’em out and putting ’em into those. I have those Anyday, like David Chang microwave things that I put a lot of stuff in. And I would just put ’em in that. I am so filled with microplastics, I would melt if I was in the sun too long. Yeah, right, we all are. So, I’m trying not to worry about it too much ultimately. This is Lily’s Toaster Grills grilled cheese garlic bread sandwich. It’s a garlic bread sandwich! You make this in the toaster. That’s crazy. So you’re saying. Yeah. Instead of getting bread and cheese and some butter and putting it in the pan, you get frozen bread, butter, and cheese and you put it in the toaster. You think you’re better than me? It’s garlic bread. I’m specifically talking to you, Myrick. It’s garlic bread, Stevie. Okay. You, well- It’s garlic bread. I know what I’m about to say is saying nothing, but I’m gonna say it anyway. I couldn’t do this. Well. It’s really good, it’s really cheesy. It’s really garlicy. It looks delicious. This is the kind of thing you eat, like, I don’t know. Growing up, like both my parents worked a lot. So, this is the kind of thing, I’d come home after school, put this in the toaster, not the toaster oven. The toaster. I can’t believe it. So are you, you weren’t at that age, you wouldn’t get the butter, the bread and the cheese and make your, that was outta your capabilities. No. I don’t know what age you’re talking about. It wasn’t outta my capabilities. Okay, okay. But you know, sometimes. I just thought I was learning something about you that I would never think, so I just, I’m- No, I’ve always loved to cook. But sometimes it’s like, you come home from school, you’re so tired, you have a million hours of homework. You can’t put two pieces of bread together. You need to just like put something in the toaster. This goes in the toaster. It’s crazy to me that everyone here isn’t screaming at the top of their lungs when I said that. This is crazy! It’s so fun. It goes in the toaster. It’s so great, and you know what? And the cheese doesn’t drip out of the bottom. I didn’t start cooking for myself until like late college. Mm hm. I wasn’t cooking for myself in high school. If it couldn’t be put in the microwave or the toaster. Oh no, I was specifically talking to Myrick for that one though. I knew about you. Yeah, this is for me big time. It’s great, but sometimes you’re on a time crunch, you know? Is it, does it have the packaging’s designed so it looks like it has, like, it’s not that bad for you? Or is it, is that just design? Or is there some kind of? Oh, it’s pretty bad for you. Well, it’s 390 calories for one grilled cheese. But it doesn’t say anything like organic grass fed? No, it just says 100% real. It’s very garlicy. This says 65% of your saturated fat for the day. Okay, then. In just one sandwich. And also 38% of your sodium. So, you’ll get almost everything you need in just one sandwich. I honestly thought there’d be more sodium in it. That one’s number one for you? There could be. What about for you? Yeah. Wow, okay. I mean that is a treat. These dumplings are really good. But I just, the technology of that is what impressed with. Sure, I think it’s the Hot Pocket of our time. Yeah. Oh my gosh. What’s next? Let’s promote the Mythical Society when this comes in. Oh sure. Yes, we have all kinds of stuff over there on the Mythical Society. All kinds of content that you can enjoy if you are a member. And every once in a while we’d like to show you some of that content so you can make an informed decision about whether or not you want to go over there and become a member. We’ve done that on this channel, Good Mythical More. A few days ago we posted “Fanfiction Theater.” We did one round. If you missed it. One round. And you think you’d wanna see it, it’s there. Sounds sexy. And then you can finish it by going over to mythicalsociety.com. I’ve read some fanfiction about you two before. All right, give us the details. Yeah, I know, we’re trying to- Well, because my friends showed me this fanfiction site and you can put in whoever you wanna look up. So, of course, we were all putting in ourselves. Yes. And there was only one with me, and the two of you. And? Oh, we were with you? Well… How’d I do? It was actually very hurtful because you two were having sex and then I, at the end, was just like also around. Like I wasn’t part of it at all. To judge it. To tell them. Really? Yeah. Who did it better. It didn’t even like, it didn’t even imply that I was watching or it kind of was just like- That’s weird because that was the perfect opportunity for a threesome story. Yeah, 100%. And how funny and sweet would that be? Yeah, right. Come on guys. But nothing. Get with the program. It was just you two doing peen stuff with each other. Yeah. And then it was like- Boring! And also, we’re near the set and oh, Jordan Myrick is in the parking lot is what it was like, and it hurt. And it hurt my feelings. You were in there for SEO only. Yeah, 100%, and it really hurt my feelings. Come on. Come on. Trying to bring in the lesbians. That’s right, yeah. But not enough. Not enough. You know? You were an extra. Yeah, we need to work harder. ‘Cause I hate to break it to you, I’m a star, okay. Especially in fanfiction with these two. That’s right. Let’s step it up. Jordan needs lines. Yeah, let’s step it up. Let’s get some good stuff going, okay? Yeah. And here’s an example of some of the lines. Nope. No, no, no. Oh. Know the lines. I thought you were gonna do it. You have to do it. Know the line. I’m not writing your fanfiction lines for you. Why? For our threesome. You’re the boss. I would probably say stuff like- That’s one. Okay, you’re the boss. I’d say things like, “This is exactly how I imagined.” What else? I don’t know. Let me think on it. Let me marinate on it. Get a running start. Okay, mm hm. Wow, what are we doing? I’m talking to myself in that one. Kung Pao Chicken from Trader Joe’s. How good? Very good. Everything from Trader Joe’s, I love. So this whole sack is just a frozen sack and there’s no, well, this is plastic. My freezer is full of this stuff. But you don’t cook it in the plastic. Not this one, I haven’t had this one in particular, but. It’s good though. Nice, little spice, lots of peanuts. So many peanuts. It’s fun though. I love peanuts. Oh good. I really like it. Can you pass it so I can evaluate the ingredients? The bag? Yeah, give us, Dr. Sodium, give us all the news on it. Dr. Sodium. So one cup of which there are four servings of. Okay. Has 29% of your sodium. So if you ate this whole thing, you could get all your sodium in this one meal. Okay. Good. What about the ingredients? Is there, like, weird stuff you can’t pronounce? No. We got chicken, eggs, soybean oil, water, cornstarch, butter, green bell pepper, red bell pepper. Nothing, nothing that I cannot pronounce. Wow. And you can put in the toaster, right? You can dump this right into the toaster. In the bag. Cha-ching. Pop, pop. Absolutely. Microwave or stir fry. I think this is delish. I’m so hungry. I just gotta have an aquarobics class. Oh. Oh. Right before this. And what is it, synchronized? I get, it’s not synchronized swimming, but I guess we are synchronized, because we’re all swimming. That’s how our fanfiction story starts. Well, if you’re swimming and you’re doing it together. You invite us to the- Come to my aquarobics class. Yeah, okay, that could be fun. Yeah. That could be fun. All right, we’re giving you guys everything. This is good. Yeah, we’re doing your jobs for you. There’s a heightened risk of infection if we’re gonna be in the, be doing it in the pool. That’s really sweet. It doesn’t happen in the water. Oh, he’s scared I’m gonna get a UTI. It happens. That’s really sweet. It keep starts- Yep, keep it closed underwater. The conversation starts in the water. The act happens in the locker room. And what about all of the old people that I take my aquarobics class with, where are they? They’re in a circle around us going. Perfect, perfect. Get a running start! I love that. What is this? Wait, where does the chicken rank? Are we just not- Oh. Towards the top. It’s not as good as this marvel of engineering. Right. But I think it’s tied. I think it’s as good as the dumplings. Fair. I’m probably more likely to have this at my house. Great, get in there. Because it’s in a bag. Oh. I don’t really consider it a frozen dinner as much as, but I know it is. Okay, I’ll put it like that. Okay. I get ya. This is Trader Joe’s Cacio e Pepe Gnocci. What? This is a thing? Yeah. Actually- Little pillows of salt and pepper. Trader Joe’s pastas are actually really good. The frozen ones. They also have a Cacio e Pepe, like spaghetti or something and it’s delicious. Man. Yum, right? Needs more pepper. Okay. And the nice thing is you can do that. I would definitely add more pepper. Yeah. But it’s good. It’s very good, it’s very- It’s really solid. And soft. The consistency of it, the texture of it. Mm. Is great. Yeah. I actually might, you know, there’s the section, the sauce section in Trader Joe’s. Sure. They probably have a good sauce that you could heat up and put on this. Because you want this with additional sauce? With some cheese sauce on top of it. Cheese sauce? Oh. Oh yeah. What’s a cheese sauce? Some bechamel. I don’t know, but I bet you they got it. Zoe Bechamel. That’s my drag name. Okay. I like it a lot. Puttin’ sauce all over it. I don’t love it. It’s a bit bland. It’s better than the Tetrazzini. Okay. I’m a big fan of the Tet. Well, you can take it home with you. There you go. I think this is good. For a classic just pull it out of the sheath and microwave it, the Tetrazzini- Calling it the sheath is very funny. It’s still gonna be, it’s gotta be a part of the conversation. Oh, it’s part, it’s thoroughly part of the conversation. Oh, now we’re talking, now we, Dolly Parton. Our girl’s here. Country fried steak from Dolly Parton’s what? Dolly Parton’s… Brain. Dolly Parton’s Country Fried Steak. Yeah. That logo is one of the best logos. Look at the color. I have ever seen. Beautiful, right? And we like her other products. She has cake mixes, she has maple syrup. She got all kinds of stuff. Delish. The presentation, you know, this is the scary that I was preparing for. This is scary to you? We’ve never had Dolly on the show. Hurry up. But… Okay, wait. That was me being sweet. Yeah, we’re being sweet about it because we want it to happen as soon as possible. Yeah. She’s also older. Relax, everyone. Yep. She’s not- I would love for her to be here and we could eat all of her meals with her. Have you tried to get her? You can’t get her or what? I don’t think, she’s so selective. Have you tried? We, no. Carney. We’re a little- We have. We have tried. We haven’t tried for GMM. We have, I can’t remember. We had some particular ideas that we really wanted Dolly for, but it’s hard to come out to LA. She’s so wonderful. What if, would you guys go to her? I think we might have- If she said, “I’ll do a thing with you. Will you come to me?” I think we proposed that as part of our original pitch, yeah. I think we have to have like a Nashville week or something like that. Okay, I’ll go. I’m going for the middle of this steak. Interesting choice. Because I, there was so much breading. Now I don’t have any bread. I think the green beans are impeccably cooked for a frozen meal. I’m eating more Kung Pao Chicken right now. I understand that. Even though that was great. I think the mashed potatoes are nice. It’s flavorful without being too salty. Think the cook on the green beans is wonderful. That’s my take. I don’t love the green beans. Why? Because they’re, this is a southern dish and they need to be almost mush. You want less cooked? Yeah, I want ’em, no, I want ’em overcooked. Or more cooked, yeah. I understand what you’re saying. But I think if they, I think when you have them at home and they’re like that, it’s fine. If you got them from a frozen meal and they were like that, I think it would be offputting. Agreed. Yeah, you’re right. Personally. I’m gonna try another bite of this because I’m just trying to figure it out. I like it. I think it’s very solid. It’s hard to make this particular meal hold up very well in a frozen dinner situation. I think this is easily one of the best fried frozen meals. Right. It’s like you take it outta the thing, microwave it. This texture stuck around. All of the tastes are good, but it’s no turkey tetrazzini. I can’t believe that- It’s no tet, it’s no tet. He loves the tet. You’re a tetrazzini fan. All right, well. To that degree. We’ll put her down here because these are all good. Because it’s not compromised in any way. This is- That’s true. This is all the frozen version is decent, but this. It is what it is. This is as good as it would be. Wow. All right. And what do we have? This is- A stromboli? This is so unbelievable. Look at the top of this thing, it has a mustache that pops out and you can remove it. What? Yeah, put it on, eat it. Look at that stromboli. It is stunning. Ooh, the plate’s hot. Meatball stromboli Screaming Sicilian. Yeah, smart. Don’t cut it in three. So then, you pop. Can I have that knife from over there? Yes. This thing? Oh, I had one. This is so much fun. This thing is so good. This really tastes like something you’d get at a pizza place. It’s delish, it’s filled with stuff, and you get to do that. It pinches inside of my nose. Yeah, how does it feel? That’s what I live with. I mean, it’s not going anywhere. Yeah. Look at that. I used to have the stromboli that Greg’s mom, our friend, his mom would make him a stromboli and then he would share it with me. She would send a frozen stromboli from Wilmington, North Carolina to Raleigh, North Carolina. All the way to Raleigh? Yep. Two and a half, two hours away? Why? What was it? That was just her thing? Yeah. What was in it? What was the deal? Was it so good? It was meatballs, pepperoni, cheese. It was incredible. We would warm it up in his toaster oven in his room. That’s exactly what this is. Yeah. It feels like they stole Greg’s mom’s thing. Yeah, this is a good. This is almost as good as Greg’s mom’s. Good gracious. Huge. Isn’t this delish? I’d want to give special care. for it not to be soggy on the bottom. Okay. But this is from a microwave. The taste- You got the middle piece. An air fryer I think would just, yep. Of course. Preheat air fryer. The side pieces are not wet. Good god. So good. Wanna taste a less wet one. I’m good back there. The side pieces around here are not wet. So true. Keep in mind that we wanna do everything in the microwave, ’cause we’re doing it all on an even playing field. Except for the toaster thing which specifically goes in the toaster, sorry. I mean I just, I keep almost eating everything, like the full. That was really good. This has been my lunch. Yeah. I think I agree with that. I’ll also say the packaging design for the stromboli strikes that perfect, like, classic deli meets modern. Like you trust it but you’re like, “Ah, it’s kind of cool.” Yeah. And then you get a costume. Yeah. It feels like an older Italian man and his cool son. Yes. Made this company together. So, you have like the modernity and the tradition, if we’re really gonna analyze it from an art standpoint. I think we gotta bring that stromboli up towards the top. Number one. Number one? Number one. Wow. I mean, is it better than this incredible invention that’s changing food as we know it? So for you, tetrazzini is number one? Yep. And for you, what is the grilled cheese is number one? Grilled cheese is number one. Wow, and I think for me, the wonton soup’s number one. Well, everybody wins. Everybody wins. Especially you at home. Take a special look at Mythical Society exclusives on “Good Mythical More” now. Link bites back a gasp as Rhett slides the other hand along his waist. He’s surprised how well they fit together and how at ease he feels in Rhett’s arms.

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