Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: 0JhUL3rdc_0
Episode Post Date: April 30, 2026
Episode Number: 3034
Transcript
Can we tell if food is fake or real? Welcome to Good Mythical More. You, you will not believe how much food is not real on the internet, man. Well, if you don't believe it, you're about to believe it 'cause you're gonna see it. And if you're the kind of person that needs to see something to believe it, and then you see it and you still don't believe it, then I don't know what to tell you. If you see it and believe it, that's also a problem. We did it, uh, in 2022. Remember that year? Nope. And so we're gonna do it again. No ai, right? Chase? No ai. Sorry, I got excited. It almost spilled my coffee. I heard something Russell back there. Yeah. This is is not an AI exercise. This is some people who can make food look real. Chief Bank get Yeah. These are the things for like props for, for entertainment purposes and also like. Etsy sellers, if you want, like to display fake food in your home. Yeah, that, that kind of stuff. And then also just real food. Okay. Or if you want people that you invite over to a dinner party to think that they're about to have a great meal. Oh, and then fake. Like a fire or something like that. Then they'll have to leave and they're like, we almost had a great meal at Link's house. But then his house burned down. His house burned down. That's quite an investment to make people impressed in my cooking. Yeah. Well, listen, sometimes you gotta make sacrifices. Well, I have, I think I have fire insurance. I hope I do. I'm, it's hard to get, it's hard to get in LA on the edge of a wildfire zone. You know that. It's hard. There's only a few, uh, companies that'll give it to you. Oh boy. Fire insurance. Earthquake insurance. You would not believe what you gotta pay for mudslide insurance. Got it All. Let's see the first one. Fake. Those are fake. Yeah. You can't fool me. Something about he here. The edge of the pancake, the edge of the pancakes, it's like the pancakes were cut by like a cookie cutter or something. It's not, it is the, it's almost that the pancakes themselves were not stacked onto top of one each other. Whatever the word is, it's a cylinder that then they put a line in. Hmm. Could you make. Pancakes by pouring them in a, I mean, people make eggs. It'd be that are perfectly shake. It'd just be a cake at that point. A tall cake. No, I'm saying if you made it shallow, could, could you make a pancake in a big cookie cutter? Yes, you could. And then you would st. You would do one, you would do the next and they would be stacked that uniformly. So it, it is possible, but also you can look at the maple syrup and you can tell that that's fake too. Yeah, because it's too thick. It's got a little, the way that it's sort of like coming across the plate there. The berries look completely realistic though. Yeah. I mean, this would work for the dinner party. Where, where those, how do you make berries like that in a mold age? Wax, I bet you what they do is they take an actual berry and then they mold it and then they. Kill the berry and pour in something. But those are impressive. So we're saying fake 100%. It's real. Just kidding. Yeah, it is absolutely fake. Um, but this is from a, just like a prop house, so. Um, not bad, I guess if it's like, you know, not in, maybe it's out of focus, not the center of attention. Yeah. I mean, if, if, if you weren't like tasked with knowing whether it was real or fake and you just wanted to put this on the table in a scene totally passes and then you just pick it up and throw it in a box until the next time you need it. Yes. Yeah. But it is. 49.95 from this prop house, so Oh, really? You can get it for $50. Yeah. It's expensive for something that does read fake immediately to you guys. Yeah. All right. Try again to fool us real. Ooh, that is real. If that's fake. I am gonna be so surprised. I mean, look at the, the tines around the ends of the, to me it's all in the skin. We've got so many imperfections, so dynamic. Like, I don't think that you would draw that little dark spot right there on the right side of the mm-hmm. That's too dark breast. It's too dark. An artist would be like, nah, pull back, pull back. And that Rosemary, that's real. I mean, that's real. You can't make fake rosemary. You just can't do it. Can't do it. I've seen it tried. Can't do it. That's why's I've been around the world. That's what makes rosemary, rosemary. It's unfakeable that apple is a little too perfect though. Apples can be perfect. Yeah. Genetics engineered monoculture. So we are saying real as can be. Yeah, you're right. This one's real. All right. Let mean, look, chase is disappointed. Yeah. Why aren't you happy for us, chase? Because I like it when you lose. Yeah. Alright. No, I was really excited to meet you earlier. That was, that was a highlight of my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I all Go ahead and show us. You seem genuinely excited. Show us this next fake one. Okay. We're gonna have, I mean, it's in a diner. It's a real diner. Probably it's fake. And the way I know that is the, is the cherries. But other than that, it's really good. So when you put 'em, it's the cherries Marino cherry on top of a sundae. It sinks, it's got a red stem knot. Oh. Oh. Whoa. That's what you're saying. Yeah. But wouldn't it, it it can't be perched the weight of a cherry. Can't, can it be supported by cream? If you, if your, if your cream is thick enough. I just never order a cherry. 'cause I don't, I don't believe in them. There's a lot, there's a lot to love about this. It could, it could be a raw cherry, it's fake because cream is the easiest thing to fake. You could be shaving cream me and you could fake cream if we wanted to. You know what I mean? It's all about the look on your face. Right. In Japan. They, when you're walking down the street, they have the fake foods in the windows and it's very co it's, it's everywhere. And then you can go to certain parts of. Tokyo at least, and you can buy these. And I really regret not buying. Oh, you know, when I go to Japan, I'm buying some fake foods. I think of like what we should. I should've bought a lot of it, squishy. I'm gonna buy some squishy and we could have, we could've filled the creative house with all this fake food. Oh God. I gotta go, man. So the stuff that I, I'm gonna take a whole extra suitcase. It's, it's very impressive. And. It's tantalizing. You're walking by. It's one thing to see, like a picture. It's another thing to see it and for it to be perfect and but to know that it's plastic, but also to know that you want it and it works. Like I wanna shake right now. You can buy all of this stuff Yeah. Over there, but then you have to pack it and bring it back. That's the, that's the challenge. That's a part of it. But yeah, I do regret not getting something. What did you buy besides vinyl? Nothing. Wow. I don't think I bought, I bought clothes. Oh, okay. I bought a couple of undershirts. You bought some things that could only be bought in Japan. I bought some jeans. I, um, you know, I made my own jeans. I put the rivets on my own jeans up. I put it to you that way. Uh, I don't know if there's another way to put it, if that's what you did. Yeah. There is no other way to put that. It was, that's the only way you can put that. It was a riveting experience. I could put it that way. Yeah. Yeah. We love that. Fake. This is fake. Yeah. And also I realize that we lied to you because this image, if you look closely, the background of it is also fake is ai. Mm-hmm. I, I was about to say that. Something like counter. Table the counter and like the checkerboard floor, you really makes it. Oh yeah. The way the counter lines up or doesn't this, like the seller, the other images on the page are not, they don't have like any AI background to it, but this one just happens to have that, and we caught it as you guys were looking at it, but they are sell, this is a Etsy seller. They are selling the actual milkshakes, which you, there are other images of, there's like, um. Yeah, so they, they, people's reviews with the actual milkshake, they took a picture of it like in their kitchen, and then they're like, make the background a diner. Exactly. Yeah. But it's a, they are, uh, real fake, uh, handmade fake milkshakes out of polycarbonate plastic. I might get one of those just to have in a bathroom. Each one goes for 42 bucks. You do not want. To do that? No. I think if you constantly surround yourself with beautiful food that can't be eaten. Hmm. You increase your willpower. Huh. That's an interesting theory. 'cause in the short term it certainly makes you want ice cream. I have this thing that I do and Jesse's tells me that I'm sick and it's, uh, shepherd. You know, he's a teenager, so he'll bring home something really. Decadent, really sweet leftovers type stuff? No. Just like he and his friends go to some bakery downtown and they, y'all get like something sweet that's, you know, what a cupcake or whatever. And then there's like a couple of them left. And what I do is I, let me guess. She says that you are sick. Sick. So you, um, I pick it up, put your thing in it. No, I don't put my thing in it. I pick it up and I smell it and I inhale very deeply and I'm like, that would be so good to eat. And then I set it back down and I put the top back on. You sniff somebody else's food. That's sick. Well, it's not somebody else's food. It's there for me to eat. It's like, I have leftovers, mom, dad, y'all want to eat some of this? What I'm saying is that it's a communal suite that I want to eat, but instead of just looking at it and being like, no, I look at it, I stare it down, I take the top off. I take it out. I pick it up. I inhale. Its essence makes me want to eat it so bad. Okay. This is basically culinary edging. At this point, you're sick. And then I put it down and I close it back up, and I push it away and Jesse says, you're sick. That's, and I'm like, but you know what? That's weird. I just built a muscle. I just took a part of my brain, the resistance part of my brain, and I activated those neurons so that it's easy to say no to it when it's just over there on the other side of the street. That's weird because I've gotten so close enough. I've smelled it and I've said, no, I stand by this. I think it's scientific. It is sick, but in the way that she's saying it's sick is that you're not getting enough out of this. You're torturing yourself, but it's also sick that like, now I'm not gonna, I I, I'm not gonna pick up something and eat it at your house now, because you wouldn't pick, you don't pick anything up and eat it anyway. It would be sniffed. By you. I've never seen food. I'm not comfortable get placed on a ta on a surface around you and have you and made and seen you make eye contact with, uh, you're deflecting. I just am not comfortable eating something that you've sniffed, but the air is all going one way. So if I pick a cupcake up and I, and I touch the bottom, you're like a high schooler in your girlfriend's underwear drawer. And it's just, it's weird dude. And I bring it to my nose and I. And I don't ever breathe back. I don't believe you don't breathe back. I've never deposited anything on it. Everything went my way. I can't believe that there's no evidence that I've been with those underwear. I mean, with that cupcake, when Youn, it's like a vacuum cleaner. Every time you suck, something comes out somewhere else. Not in media real. Um. It would be easy to make this fake, but that isn't faked because the cheese, the reason it's not faked is twofold. My friend. Oh no, it's more than that. The first part is the sauce. On the plate. On the plate. You cannot do that. Part number two, it's not pretty enough, is the little piece of noodle to the far right that's still on the plate. It's not part of it, not, not pretty enough. And then the structural integrity of those noodles just hanging right there. If this was fake, it would all be tighter. Yeah. And I could sniff this because you would sell it. You can't sell something like that unless you're selling the whole plate and then it cost you money. I could pick this up and sniff it and not put any of myself on it. Real? Yeah. This is real. We were 100. We were 100%. Get ass, man. Next one. Fake. Not even close. Well, 'cause you're looking at the lighting and is that a television remote back there? Why is there a TV remote behind it? I don't know why there's a TV remote behind it. The fake part is the, the sauce. Sauce. The buns are obviously pretty fakey, but you can do that with a real bun. But it was, this was not a time that that was done. This could be real. Why is there a remote back there? Somebody tell me. Yeah. It's all about the sauce on the right side of the foreground burger. Yeah. You can't do that. There's so much of it. It wouldn't be just suspended right there. It would have that thick, it would've fallen. I mean, you could have taken like 400 photos and burst. Nope, there's no burst on this, my friend. That's a, those are two fake burgers. Maybe the one in the foreground is fake and then one in the background's real. Also, the burger would've to be so big to fit a real pickle on it like that. You're right, chase. Well, that's why the remote is there. Burger, to let you know that the pickle is actually small. The pickles are gurkin. I am I. This is really impressive though. There's another dead giveaway to why this is fake. It is in the, and it is in the background burger, and it is unequivocal that it is fake. Look at it. Look at the bottom bun. It's, it's not smooshed. You can see the line for the mold that the plastic was poured into. Oh, wow. That doesn't happen on real bread. No, you, you. Yes, it could because you don't, bread is not molded. Bread can be moldy, but it is not molded. It isn't baked well, it, it, it, but it's baked in a bread pan that has seams. It's fake. I think it's way too perfect to be real and that's really what it comes down to for me. Fake. So this is, uh, the classic brioche cheeseburger. And it is real. No, it's not from, uh, it's from St. Pierre Bakery. And, and I mean, it looks like it's gone through a lot of like food styling and professional photography for like a real, a real bakery. Yeah. Um, we did like reverse image, search it and see that like a lot of other places were like showing this off and, and crediting St. Pierre. Um, so either a lot of us got duped or this is real, and it was, you know, professionally photographed, professionally styled. But do we agree that that can't be a television remote? What, so what is it? I mean, so this is, um, if you go to the, their website, it's like their recipe for a. A burger using their brioche burger buns, which they also wanna make look as pretty and, and perfect as possible. Hmm. Um, so I think that maybe what they're going for is like, oh, it's at home. They're giving you like these kind of, it's pretty, but you can do this in the comfort of your home. Have a cheeseburger in front of the tv. Okay, well they got you Rhett, and then you got me and I will say, great burger buns. I mean, great. I use this exact bun on my chicken sandwiches. I don't use it on my, my smash burgers. Mm-hmm. Use the Martin's potato buns, but a brioche on the chicken sandwich is real, real good. It's a great bun. Next then I guess there's a line in it. This, I mean, everything about this says. Real, like the composition, it says real to me. But, but why would you show just the rice on top of, of the tuna on top or salmon or whatever that is on top of the rice without showing the rice? If you were trying to make it seem like, Hey, look how good our fake stuff is, unless your rice is bad. 'cause you can see in, in the shadow that it's on top of the rice. Mm-hmm. It's just one shot of many that they took. Probably, I think with sushi, you're trying to make it look as plastic and perfect as possible. So I say this is real. I'm gonna say this is fake because there's no way to tell really the shine. Feels like it shine on a dry surface, not shine on a wet surface. It's fake. And, uh, there's another image where you can see the rice and it looks real fake. Okay. The, the sushi looks good, the rice does not. So you were hiding, in my opinion, that's what got you sorry to the cellar. Um, but it's a plastic resin. I mean, very impressive. It works for the dinner party until somebody tries to sneak a piece. Hid me. Hitted me, hitted, me, chase. See the next one. I mean, how can a bread bowl, you can't do that. You can't make that fake. It's impossible. No, no human could do that. You'd have to be a God to do that. I have actually seen fake bread bowls before. Oh, in Japan? No, in Santa Cruz. Remember that place right there on the corner? They would sell, they were really pushing the chowder, bread bowls. They had fake ones. Okay. I know it can be dead. Well, this is a good case, but new, new, new calculus here. It's no longer there. Uh, I mean, we are catching that soup pour out of there in an action shot, which we thought that that meant it was a dead giveaway for being fake. But then the burger people got us Nothing is telling me fake. Everything seems so real. This is real. We're going with the real, this is cake. I'm just kidding. No, this is real. All right. And is that it? You got another? Let's do one more. Okay. It's just this is, why can I see the bottom Photoshop? Where's everything else? Why is it like this? Is it a Frisbee? This is fake. Yeah. This is one of the things that's, that is mass produced as fake pies. Yeah. And you're just supposed to set this on top of a pie dish. Yeah. Call it a day. There is a, another shot of this, uh, real or fake pie, where you can see the, the dish, the pie tin. Does it help? Uh, it helps me know one way or the other, but I'm not gonna show you fake. It's fake. Fake. It's fake. Yeah. Can't get up. We've done so good, but not perfect. Can't pull this unless you're Saint Pierre. Take a look behind the scenes of Good Mythical Morning on Behind the Mythicality. Exclusively on the Mythical Society. Join to watch now. Well, what I learned is that, I ain't got that dog in me. 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