Channel: Good Mythical More
YouTube Video ID: e_7hUCXRCHk
Episode Number: 3102
Transcript
Which foods smell bad but taste good? Welcome to Good Mythical More. Every food has a taste and every food has a smell. Some foods smell good, taste good. Yep. Some food tastes good, smells bad. Mm-hmm. Oh- Some food tastes bad, smells good. And some food tastes bad and smells bad. I don't know if I said that right. I don't either. But you knew what I was getting at. We are gonna go through some … You wanna start? Let's start with garlic. Roasted garlic. Don't reveal the other ones though 'cause that- Oh, god, gosh. Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh … it's gonna, it's gonna give it away. Okay. Roasted garlic. Well, we all know it t- smells good. It's like one of the most wonderful things to smell when you're cooking. As soon as you throw the garlic in- Mm … people start coming downstairs. "What's up? Wha- what's for dinner?" Yeah. And it tastes good, too. Yeah. It ta- I mean- But then on your breath it smells bad. But that's not, that's a different graph. That's a- Out of your skin … that's a 3D graph with a Z axis of how it makes you s- your breath smell. We'll do that next time. Mm. So are we saying we definitely have- We're gonna create a cube next time? … smells good, tastes good? Roasted garlic? Yeah, cube. But some people think it tastes bad and some people think it smells bad. But what do you think? Those people aren't here. I mean, does it, does anybody think garlic s- smells bad? Am I crazy? Well, but they're not us. How… We, we have to have our opinions here. I, uh, if you don't want me to ask anybody their opinion, I won't. I don't, uh- Okay. Do you … Are, are we changing the rules? I'm just, no, I'm just- This is a collective opinion? I'm just curious. D- is this all of people's opinions or our opinions? No, it's… I'm curious. It's called conversation. Okay. Well, but you said, "But some people think it smells bad." Yeah, I'm just inter- Tastes bad. I, you know, I'm- So I was getting worried that I didn't know what we were up against here. You are getting worried. Yeah. Don't get so worried. Well, you know what people do? People take a picture of this and then they say, "This is the way the, the world is because Rhett and Link said so." You know? Especially your mom. It tastes good and it smells good, but if it tastes too good- Because your mom worships you, like you said. Yeah, if there's too much of it… And she's gonna go and tell all her friends that roasted garlic- I think it's- smells good and tastes good. I think it smells really good, but I don't, I think too much of it doesn't taste good, and here's what I'm gonna say. Agree with that. So that's why we have to bring it down. Oh, yeah. It's not, it's a compliment. Like, if you have- It's not, it's not something to be employed by itself garlic fries from a dadgum, uh, amusement park. They go so hard on that, it's just ridiculous. Don't have that in the context of a date. You gotta both eat the stuff, so it… I mean, it does taste good, but too much of it will taste not good. I agree with that. So I'm putting it right there. That's, that's a good placement. All right, next. Hard-boiled eggs. Smell bad. Yeah, known for smelling horrible. Smelling bad. But we both like 'em. We both think they taste good. But they don't taste great. I have to add stuff to 'em to make 'em taste good. But it's better than not eating. Yeah, I think it's just above. It's re- this is as hard as you… This is as far into this corner as you can get. What do you put on a hard-boiled egg? I mean, typically, I would just do salt and pepper. A lot of pepper. But I w- also do salt and pepper and hot sauce. I'll do, um, chi- uh, chili cream. What's that stuff called? Chili crisp. Chili, chili crisp. Mm-hmm. I will chili crisp up a hard-boiled egg. That's a good thing to do. It's really a vessel. Take out that, um, yellow stuff. The yolk. Mix in mayonnaise and some other stuff, put it back in there. You're making it into a deviled egg? That gets really good. Yeah. That's much better. That's not, that's not what's up for grabs here, 'cause that would be… Smells a little bit better and tastes very good. Okay, now, oh, this is good. LA street cart hot dog. The smell, we're, there is, we, we are definitely in the, they s- Don't say we. They smell as good as they possibly can. Say I. You say I. I- You don't think these smell good? I can't, I don't like it. What? Why? I do not like it. It's gross to me. We g- we got a l- we got a lotta, lotta reactions from that. I know, guys. Hold on, but what don't you like about the smell? S- there's… When I'm leaving a concert, it, it just doesn't smell great to me. I don't know. I have to say, I have to immediately, like, steel myself in order to not get one. Like, it's like, "No, no, no, no, no, no." I think it's because- "You need to just go home, boy." I, I think I- "You don't need to get one of these or two." I don't think they taste good. Well, that's a different argument. S- We're just starting with smell … therefore, the smell is associated with something that I don't think tastes good. I think that's why. But it's also something about the oil on the thing and the way it- You're grossed out by it … they're burning the oil. I, I think that's what I'm smelling. There's something that's like… There's a smell in there that's like kitchen gone wrong. Okay. Well, we're gonna have to compromise here. So if I was placing this up here, I would say- If you're capable of it … I would say, uh- I mean, it's not- Do you think it tastes good? Yeah. But it's not like, "Oh my gosh, this is the best food I've ever had." It smells better than it tastes. Like, you're like, "Holy crap, I gotta get one of those." Then you get one, you're like, "I didn't need that." So I would say that, I would say on the taste spectrum, it's in the, it's in the middle of tasting good. On the smell spectrum, for me, it's as, because of when it happens and how my body reacts, it's as high as you can get, but roasted garlic's in the way. But relative to garlic. I mean, I think it ta- I think it smells better than garlic. Especially after you've been watching, uh, you know, Tori Amos just go at it so hard. I mean, I think, I, that's not, that's not the artist I'd put on the top of my go at it hard- Okay. Sarah McLachlan. After you've been watching Sarah McLachlan go at it so hard. And you're like, "Wow, she's still got it. It's incredible." Rhett and I are in agreement. I think it's, smells better than the roasted garlic. Okay. See, tiebreaker. Ha ha. So we're going down here. Tiebreaker. But what do you think about how hard Sarah McLachlan goes? Hard. Yeah. It is so hard. Listen as the wind blows. Like, it's just… Okay. Golly. Kimchi. What a woman. Kimchi. And listen, not related, okay? And so it's okay for me to feel this way. Are you in the arms of the angel right now? Yeah. Yeah, I'm about to adopt a puppy. A w- a real tore up puppy. Um. They are sad. Yeah. They're sad looking puppies. Yeah. I don't know what kind of life this puppy's gonna have, but I gotta give it to it Because of Sarah McLachlan. I've, I shared that I've gotten to a place where if I'm really hungry, I can eat kimchi before I've, I eat the rest of my Korean cuisine. So I'm gonna inch it up just into tastes good. But it's cabbage, so we know we're in smells bad territory. I mean, like- Smells bad … you open it up and you're like… and then you start tasting it and you're like, "Ooh." But don't you think it smells even worse than that? Yeah. It doesn't smell as bad as hard-boiled eggs. It's not as bad as hard-boiled eggs. I think- But they're cousins that it is, I mean, I've really… We have, I've got two types of kimchi in my fridge right now, and I had the one type last night. I got two types. I got the one I got at Ralphs, and then my boys are like, "Dad, we can't eat the kimchi from Ralphs. You gotta get the one from the Korean supermarket." And so we got that one, too. And then last night- Is it remarkably better? It is better, let me tell you that right now. It is better. So I won't be getting the one from Ralphs anymore. Hmm. It's crunchy yet soggy. As a texture guy, there's so much to wrap my head around. Um, again, I have to be starving, but the pickled nature of it. Mm. Because it's still crunchy even though it's soggy, I, I'm on the train. And it is- I'm, I'm moving towards it … so good for you. So good for you. If you could have kimchi, kee- Chemtrails … kefir, and chemtrails every single day. Or- Sauerkraut, kimchi, kimchi, emphasis on the K is what I'm trying to do here. Kefir, kefir as some people say. You're supposed to be… Kombucha. If it starts with a K, you gotta eat it. That's the rule. For gut health. Yeah. Fun fact, a new study did just come out about kimchi, about how it can help remove microplastics from your body. Whoa. Yeah, a 2026 study, yeah, this year. Buyer so- bioresource technology was the- Okay, well, I gotta start eating credit cards again. 'Cause I had stopped. So it kinda, what's the mechanism? It kind of- It's a lactic acid bacterium from kimchi. It breaks it down. That promotes the, like, yeah, breaking it down and e- eliminating it from your body. Well, how, how do I incorporate- But it, the, it's just studies on mice right now, I think. Okay. Anyway, fun- How do I incorporate kimchi into my diet without, when I'm not going to the… Like, what do you eat it with if you're not gonna eat it- Nothing. Late night snack. It is a guilt-free late night snack. It is the ultimate, "I'm a little bit hungry and I don't wanna get into those Cheetos." Kalyn says breakfast sandwich, you should try it. Or breakfast sandwich. So eggs- Sausage, egg, kimchi. I could get with that. Huh. For me, it is the, like, I'm about to go to bed and I need something, I need to chew on something. So it's instead of grabbing a pickle. Yeah, 'cause it's, pickles are pretty guilt-free, but they're also just salty. Do they- Like, there's no benefit from a pickle. There's no, uh, gut health, there's no bacteria. I mean, maybe in some pickles. Some, some healthy. But in your typical, like, if you just get like a mount olive pickle, you're basically just eating, put a cucumber in your tummy. Mm-hmm. And some vinegar. Huh. Movie- Okay. Well, I'm gonna think about that. Movie theater popcorn. I mean, boy oh boy, this smells good. And boy oh boy, it tastes good. But it, it's kinda tasteless. It tastes worse than it smells, but it tastes good, but it doesn't ta- There's plenty of things that taste better. Let's just say it, the only reason it tastes is 'cause of what you're putting on it. So I'm saying in and of itself, some things have to Again, it's not that it tastes bad, but it tastes less. Well, anything below this line tastes bad. Yeah. I feel like this is just a little too big for that. Smells great. Tastes But I mean, it's- Let's do this. It's got a … But it has a, just a noticeable incredible smell. It's how, it's how people, it's how people even get into the movie theater sometimes. But to, at some point we can't just say everything smells the best thing. We have to start ranking the smells of these things. If we have to force ourselves to be relative to one another. Well, then I think that … I like it more than the street. I mean, of these three, if you're, you know … We're kind of in one of these situations here. Well. But now you've got it tasting neutral. You've just said that movie theater popcorn tastes neutral. Well, that's just because of the size of the things. And that feels like a crazy take. Maybe make it, make it smell better than the hot dogs. No, make it smell better than the garlic. Yeah, 'cause some people don't like garlic. Maybe we're just talking about us. Is there anybody who doesn't like the smell of popcorn in here? Nick, what happened to him? Everyone, everyone likes. Everyone likes Oh, he worked concessions. Oh. Oh. Yeah, PTSD. Trauma. PTSD. Freshly baked bread smells horrible, tastes horrible. It smells good. It doesn't smell as good as this stuff because it, it doesn't have as much of a smell. But freshly baked bread- Oh, it's… I don't know. I, I just, I know the way that my brain works is there is a spectrum, and there's a whole lot of things that end up on the end of the spectrum. And then, at the end of the spectrum, there's a big hole, and I stuff a lot of things into the hole. It becomes three-dimensional because this whole parsing, "Well, this is a little bit better than this," like, I just wanna stack them all on top of each other. That's how f- freshly baked bread- It's not even physically possible you can get me with that. Realtors will… There's a thing that you can get- I think bread tastes better than popcorn … that's a oil that you put into the oven of a house that you're trying to sell, and it makes it smell like somebody just baked bread because people have been known to purchase a house- That's true more readily if it smells like freshly baked bread. But Disney pipes in popcorn smell. Which is also great. And if I ever have a theme park- This is theme park. This is home park … I'm gonna pipe in hot dog smell. I, I'm feeling good about this orientation, though. Okay. Black coffee. If you go back to my childhood, I thought it sm- I, I feel like coffee is the quintessential candidate for smells incredible. And as much as I love coffee, but black coffee does not live up to the smell. In fact, I think it tastes bad. Yeah, it tastes bad. That's why I add stuff to it. But I think it smells like heaven. And I don't think it smells like heaven. I, I would put it right here. Like- What do you think it smells like? Um. Valhalla? It smells just… It smells pleasant, but it's not like, "Oh my God, I have to have that." I gotta, I gotta get it in me. I have to have that. You c- you got, you gotta start thinking in a little bit more of a spectrum. But I remember as a child, I was just like, "Mom, what is this crazy crack that you are making in the kitchen?" And then she was like, "Well, I'll let you try it." And I was like, "Well, that's not the same stuff." I think it tastes pretty bad, actually. It's just a bitter- Bitter. It's so bitter … it tastes that bad, and it smells decent. Okay. Lavender smells good. It smells okay. Uh, smells good, but tastes bad. As a food. As a food But you've been putting lots of lavender into your drinks. You're not doing that anymore? 'Cause I stopped. I, I think that that's an exception. W- it basically doesn't taste great because it's only, the only time I've ever had it is in, is like a s- like a additive to, additive to coffee. This is tough because it's a flower. So, like, yeah, flowers smell good. Yeah, smell good. But as you think about flower in your food, it's a different animal. So I would go f- I would go lower on the tastes bad. I think you gotta get even with the black coffee. Maybe it smells a little bit worse? You think it smells a little bit better? No, it smell, smells better than coffee, definitely. Okay, well. People, people take the scent of that and add it to things, like pillows. Anybody ever been to the Lavender Festival? Mm-mm. You, like, drive out there in northern, not northern, but central California, and you come past those. Have you done it? No, I've always gone by when they're not currently harvesting. Doesn't, doesn't really sound fun to me. I love purple. Street vendor roasted nuts I li- it's a good, it's a good smell and it's a good taste, but I would not spend a lot of time … To me it, it, it's like, it's like this. Roast turkey. Uh, tastes bad, smells bad. Move it where you wanna move it. That's where I would put it. You actually think it smells bad? Yeah. 'Cause I don't like tur- I li- I, I'm anti-turkey that much. I'm a ham man. Okay. Well, I think it tastes fine and smells good, so that would be pushing it to a compromise right here. Okay. Deli meat. Uh- Smells bad … no- nobody's wants to smell that. Smells bad. Taste, yeah, it doesn't taste great either. I think it tastes pretty good. You don't think it tastes good, so let's put it on the line Freshly cut grass smells good, tastes awful. I mean… It doesn't make you hungry. It's not that kind of smell. Ooh. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Kind of fix that like that right there. Do we have a candidate for the upper right-hand corner? I think- I think that's it. What- There may be nothing that aligns with smell and taste as well as bacon. Yeah. I definitely think it should be in the- Kind of moves- … in the corner. Kind of moves all of that out, and then it's Really forcing us to make some decisions here Liquid smoke Some hard decisions Tastes, tastes horrible Awful, awful S- tastes bad. Smells- I think it's got a good smell Doesn't smell as good as grass I'd rather eat it. Matcha smell? Smells like fish. Tastes like fish. It tastes like fish if you get the, if you get the bad matcha. Doesn't it smell better than it tastes? I don't think that matcha has much of a smell. I don't think so either. I don't think so. It smells like grass to me. Yeah, it smells like grass. So it's neutral grass. It's neutral taste, smell. Yeah, put it right there in the middle. Matcha is the only thing that is exactly neutral. Mm-hmm. It could go either way. Raw onion, um, I mean- Smells, smells, smells- I think it smells good … well, it has a little bit, it can be a little overwhelming. Yeah, it could smell bad, but taste good. But it tastes good. Maybe it's right here. Maybe it's neutral smell, good taste. And finally- Yeah … sauerkraut, one of the K's that you should be eating for better gut health It's cabbage so it has a little bit of a stink to it. Yeah, so we're on stinky side and then it, I think it's, I think it's, um, just- It's, it's not as- … it's, it's the deli meat … it's not as good as kimchi. It's the deli meat of- Now that I know that kimchi exists- … cabbage … I never get sauerkraut. All right. There it is, the definitive list. Mom, take a picture of that. Nothing smelled horrible and tasted horrible. Look at that. Missed opportunity, guys. How about wet wipes? Just to have something for Link's mom. Take the picture, Sue. Fart cakes. 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