Today we’re cooking your struggle meals. So a while ago we asked you for your best struggle meals, and then we cooked them and we ranked them and we ate them, but then y’all told us so many other awesome struggle meals that you had, that we are back in action. So today all three of us are going to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner from our subscribers’ struggle meals, and that is all we get to eat for today. If I see either of you peeling an orange, I’m gonna spray you with a little spray bottle. What? I’m not a cat. Can I drink other things, or do I just have to not drink anything? You get one Diet Red Bull and that’s it. No. To bring you even deeper into the experience we have the official Mythical Kitchen… Is this on right? Yeah, I think so. Okay, hold on. It doesn’t move, so we’re good. We are going to… It’s gonna be like a ’90s music video. Do we got the fisheye lens on this? You gotta tilt your head up. It feels like it’s looking right at my crotch. You gotta tilt your head up. Oh God, why is it angry? Ah! Let’s get cooking. Good struggle morning, everybody. We are back making your favorite meals, but I’m making breakfast this time. The first one we’re starting with is from @livingtonu. I’m so bad at reading people’s mentions. Corned beef hash in a can, scrambled eggs and grits, and then the grits are cooked separately. Everything else in a pot, and put in a bowl, and we’re gonna just add on to after we make it. Okay, so we’re gonna start over here. I’m gonna make some grits. I got this hash right here. It looks good. And then I’m gonna grab some eggs. Oh, it’s so nice and clean in here. That’s ’cause I cleaned it. I’m gonna grab some hot sauce for myself later. Sriraja Panich. Okay, yeah. This is a new, also, GoPro situation, and it’s not as heavy as my hat, so you can actually see my eyes, but I don’t think you can see my hairline, so it might look a little crazy. So we’re gonna make some grits first. So I didn’t really grow up with grits, and culturally that just does make no sense. Okay, so I need a cup. I’m gonna add some water to this pot. Oh, I spilled all my grits. No self-respecting Southerner uses instant grits. Is that true? It’s from “My Cousin Vinny.” I’m not from the South. I don’t know these things. You gotta see… Come on, “My Cousin Vinny.” I’ve never seen “My Cousin Vinny.” You gotta watch it. It was on the damn show. I’ve never seen “The Godfather,” I’ve never seen a lot of like OG really good films. I’ve seen “My Cousin Vinny,” but I don’t remember the grits line. I’ma put some oil in there, and then I’ma start cooking this hash. Oh gosh, this has to be cat food, right? Cat people, can cats eat this stuff? Oh yeah. Cats can eat almost anything. Anything? My cat ate a ball of foil yesterday. Foil? Yeah. You’re not a good pet owner. Nope. I have some boiling water happening now, so I’m gonna slowly add my gritties. This might be good, okay? I gotta let the room know that Josh just held up his phone to my ear to play the “My Cousin Vinny” grits line. And when I tell you it just was in my ear and gave me a heart attack. I just jumped. Yeah, it’s Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci, just in my ear. “My Cousin Vinny.” It’s a great scene. Vi, what’s your favorite Joe Pesci film? Who’s that? What? I don’t know who that is. Say, “Home Alone.” Oh, the guy who plays one of the bandits? Yeah. Yeah. He’s the short one. Okay. “Home Alone” is my favorite movie. Gimme a different actor that’s in “My Cousin Vinny.” Oh, Marisa Tomei. What’s your favorite Marisa Tomei movie? I don’t know who that is. You gotta show me a picture. Tom Holland Spider-Man’s mom. Tom Holland Spider-Man’s mom. Aunt, the aunt, right? The really pretty one? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, “Spider-Man.” It’s a crazy movie to love. I’m really good at movies and actors, and I didn’t know who she was. Vi, who’s your favorite actor? Maybe we can talk about your favorite. My favorite actor? Okay, my top three is Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, and then who’s my third one? I need a woman in there. I realize they’re all men. Dang, that’s hard. It’s hard to think of a woman actor? No, that’s hard to think of my favorite one. Don’t judge me. Viola Davis. Viola Davis is a good actress. I’m gonna crack my eggs now. I put a lot of eggs and hash in here, but this is how much eggs and meat and potato situation I would actually make in the morning. I’m gonna plate this now. They didn’t specify whether it’s supposed to go on top or not, but I’m gonna just put a little cute pile on the side. This is the corned beef hash with eggs and grits. Okay, let’s see. An Eggo waffle McGriddle. I’m not gonna read the whole thing, but these were called McStruggles, and you get a box of Eggos for $3. I did not know they cost that little, which is great for me, but it’s the French toast ones. Okay, so let me just grab that as I read. These look really good. I’ve never tried ’em, actually. Okay, and then I’m gonna get some Farmer John’s sausages, and then of course eggs and American cheese, and then I’ma assemble them with two sausages, a fried egg, and melted cheese on top. This one is gonna be gas. Hold on. I have maple, and then I have some American cheese. I make breakfast every morning. Tony likes to make eggs and mayo and put ’em in the microwave, and I think that’s just straight disgusting, but… Dude, that’s crazy. Wait, what? It’s an egg in a minute. It’s worth it. I don’t have a toaster. What should I put this in? You pop that in the oven. I was just… Me and you are on the same page. Yeah. Okay, we’re gonna put those in the oven. Right on the rack. Right on the rack, ’cause that’s safe. Farmer John maple sausage. Oh, it’s so cute. It’s like, voila. It says to put two. I’m gonna put three. Ha ha. And I’m gonna leave ’em together to make my own little patty. That’s just smart, right? I could eat sandwiches all the time, but the way my gut health is set up, gluten has not been sitting with me lately. KG knows. I always have to poop right before we film. I want to drop this egg. Just a whole bunch of funness happening. Ugh. Dammit, it didn’t stay. Oh yes. I love cheese. Cheese? I thought you were giving me the whole thing. No. So while that’s doing its thing, I’m gonna attempt to do the next one. So the next one is bread, butter, and sugar with tea, which seems like super chill and easy. This one is actually super familiar. My babysitter was one of my cousins from Mexico, and she used to live with us for a long time, but she used to make me this when I was a kid and I was like super hungry, or if I was like scared at night and I couldn’t sleep because I watched “It” the night of when I’m like eight. Why would I do that? Favorite scary movie. “Clue.” “Clue.” Yeah, “Clue” is good. Cool. Is that cool? Got some murmurs from the audience. Our sausage full patty didn’t stay, but it’s okay. We’ll still make it work. This is a good time to melt cheese on it. Stay. I’m gonna take my toast out. Plop that on top of my sammich with my cheese. This is our McStruggle. We’re gonna make our next one. It says, “Me and my sister would sit by the iron furnace. We had a slice of bread loaf in round pieces, cook them on top of the furnace, and then add butter and sugar.” All right. We got a Victorian child from 1860? Yeah, where did you… That was a cottage house. My pilgrim meal. Okay. All right, I have to make a round out of this. A pint? Let’s do a pint. It says “A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich.” Listen to the podcast. Free advertisement. Hey, thanks, man. I’ll sponsor this time. I’ll give you 12 bucks. You still owe me like 40. No, you paid for it on Juneteenth. Good job. It’s true. I’ve done it every year. Josh sends me money every White Boy Wednesday. I like that. No, I broke it. Okay. Hey, save the crust. I’m gonna eat those. Catch. Good job. All right, I don’t have a furnace, so I’m gonna just make this in a pan. The furnace is broken again? I should have just put it back in the oven to get it warm real quick. I’m gonna make some tea. It says “Love your heart.” Okay. It’s kind of an awesome compliment. Just going up to someone. “Yo, bro, I love your heart.” Love your heart, bro. I love your heart. How do you do thing? Is that it? Did I do it? Oh, this one. I’m gonna grab a teacup. I’m gonna grab the one that Rhett hates, and it’s this one. It’s ’cause he has really big hands, so he hates that he has to hold this weak-ass knob right here. It’s a terrible cup. That is the worst cup I’ve ever seen. It’s an Ikea cup. Okay, we’ll take this out. Oh, crap. It’s a crouton. Ah, crude. It’s a crapton. It’s okay. Soft butter. We just got this thing, and I just put Josh on today. New invention just dropped. New invention just dropped. Yeah, I’ma just get one of these. That’s a lot. Just put it across. And I have a bowl of sugar here, and I’m just gonna sprinkle some on. You can’t really see it, ’cause they’re all the same color. These are so cute. I would’ve loved these when I was eight watching “It”. Our last one. “My struggle meal is a handful of shredded cheese and coffee.” Woo! And it’s a picture of, what’s his name? Michael Cera. I’m not strong. We’re gonna do the last two. Oh, he was in “Juno.” Oh, he is in Juno. Wow, what a classic. All right, I’m gonna get another cup for my coffee. Folgers. Argh. I’ll get a nicer cup for this one. This one. All right, we have our two cups ready. I don’t think I’m gonna measure this. I’m gonna go with my heart and the ancestors’ energy as they say in the South. You doing stuff in there, buddy? Eeny, meeny… Oh, I already spilled in there. All right, you gonna make a nice tea? Wow. Sexy. I’m a tea person. Okay, so going back to this one, we have toasted bread rounds with butter and sugar and a cup of tea. We have a cup of instant coffee and a handful of cheese. My brother bears, welcome to breakfast. Thank you. Is that a reference to the movie “Brother Bear”? No, it’s what I think you guys are when you eat. You’re bears. Aw. Aw. Thank you. This is exciting. These all look delightful. Should we say grace? Sure. Grace. All right. Wow. Where are we starting? Wherever you want to. I’ve been eyeing this McStruggle for so long. It looks so good. McStruggle looks fire. This looks so good, dude. All right. Everyone claw at it. I’ve never had these French toast sticks. Hold it. This tastes just like McDonald’s. This is better than an actual McGriddle. Yeah. Yeah. And this is definitely cheaper. McGriddles have gotten expensive as hell, and those are small. This is amazing. They’ve got something special here. This deserves a 10. Mix some mayonnaise and sriracha and put it on that, that’s a 10. I’m giving it a 9.3. That’s awesome. No, no, this is a 10. 10, 10. That’s a damn 10. It’s funny, ’cause I don’t even like McGriddles. I don’t either. I don’t like ’em, and this is awesome. But I like French toast sticks. Yep. I think it’s a 10. Where are we going next? Cheese coffee or what? We’ll go here. We’ll go here. Okay, canned corned beef hash is one of my favorite pre-made products in the entire world. I’ve never had a fresh corned beef hash that tastes better than the can when you get it nice and crispy. Mixing it with the eggs is not like my style particularly. Put a little bit of them grits on there. I like the fried egg on top of the crispy corned beef hash. Can I tell you what my favorite part about it is? What? You taste the metal from the can, and I’m serious. It like gives it an extra beefiness. Can I hot sauce this whole plate? This needs hot sauce. Yes. I think that’s the only thing it’s missing. Not bad. No, that’s good. I think the eggs… Eggs and meat combo anything, it just makes sense for me. Yeah, I think with the hot sauce it’s… Too hot. Wasn’t doing too much for me. I don’t mind it. I think the hot sauce sets it off. Yeah. Yeah. It helps it a lot. I don’t think I’m into this one as much as you guys are. No? I don’t know if the corned beef is doing it for me here. What do you give it outta 10? I mean, I feel like it’s coming in at like a solid 6 for me. I don’t know, 5, 6. 7. It’s pretty average. I’m giving it an 8.1. Did y’all grow up doing like the cinnamon sugar on toast and then like baking it? Yes. Oh yeah. This is that, minus the cinnamon. Check this out. Man, that’s what I was gonna do. No, try it. It’s like you’re taking sweet bread, sweet Wonder Bread, and then you’re just making it more sweet and buttery, and it’s just awesome. That’s not good together. I give this… This is like a 7.1. This is a 7.1. Yeah. Solid 7. Reminds me of my childhood. It feels good. I like tea. I can work with it. That’s like a 7.5. Handful of chocolate chips from Julia’s… She has a little baking box. Yeah. Oh. I steal her chocolate chips. Does she know you’re stealing her chocolate chips? No, she doesn’t watch the content, so. Okay, well, that’s great then. Okay, last but not least, cheese and coffee. The guy recommended that you grab it with your hands. The hands actually warm the cheese slightly before it gets to your mouth. It’s important. It’s like the omakase, the sushi chef placing it. Oh, I see what you’re saying. You know what I mean? So hand first and then put it in your mouth, and then coffee so it melts. I’ve been squeezing the singular piece, this singular shred, and then it’s now a warm ball. Handful of cheese, baby. I kind of want to do it the same thing. I’m gonna make a ball. I’m gonna wrap this up. I’m gonna wash this down with coffee. You’re just drinking out of the communal coffee cup. That’s what the straw’s for. Sorry. That’s my bad. Yeah, your options are drink out of the communal coffee cup with your mouth or drink hot liquid through a straw. Aren’t you supposed to drink coffee through a straw so they don’t make your teeth yellow? That’s a thing. I saw that from a couple on “Wife Swap.” They were realtors. No, dude, I think I saw that same thing on “Milf Manor.” That’s crazy. What are these shows? That’s not a good combination of food. That’s a zero. I’m giving this a solid 2.8. 2.8. Solid 2.2. You got calories, you got caffeine in you. That’s awesome. That’s zero. That’s crazy. Get a granola bar. They go on sale. The Nature Valley. I need a sausage to level that out. I’m not yucking anyone’s yum here. I understand why you would do this. It’s just for me, this is not it. See y’all in a second for lunch. What did I just throw? Was that cheese? I think. Ooh. Oh my god. I didn’t like that sound. Hey, welcome to lunch. Struggle meals, baby. Let’s do it. Okay, we got a great one. This is @cstober2. This is called trailer park cheese steak. “Shred roast beef deli meat in a pot. Throw in frozen peppers and onions. Stir in sliced provolone. Douse with Worcestershire. Scoop into toasted hotdog buns.” All right, lemme get some roast beef and some frozen peppers and onions. I love that this is a one-pot meal, and effectively what we’re making here is slop. You’re taking a slop, and then you’re slopping that into a hotdog bun. Where the roast beef at? It’s in that pack. It’s underneath the ground beef. Huh? Oh, I found it. All right, roast beef, we got provolone. Hey, I see some foreshadowing in there. I see a loaf of braunschweiger, and I’m really excited about braunschweiger. Josh, favorite Daniel Day-Lewis movie. Aw, “I drink your milkshake.” “Abandoned my boy. Abandoned my boy.” “I abandoned my boy.” Does that give you any clues, Trevor? Sorry, team. Shouldn’t have set him for that one. Speaking of struggle, damn stove ain’t workin’. I’m pressing power and it’s literally just saying “L”. It’s just calling me a loser. Okay, pan size. We’re gonna crack this. Okay, shred your roast beef deli meat. Okay, typically I might like slice this up, chiffonade it, cut it; however, struggle meal, that’s not it. What we’re gonna do, this is the old twist and rip method. Now, you’re gonna hear a lot of the juices in there. Shh. Yep. That’s a shred roast beef by hand, baby. Trevor, you saw me wash my hands in the bathroom, ’cause what did I say to you when you walked into the bathroom? “Washing your hands isn’t real.” Something like that. No, no. I said, “Well, shoot, now I gotta wash my hands.” Oh, yeah, yeah. Because somebody else walked into the bathroom. Stab that open with a butter knife. Frozen peppers and onions. These are fun. These are great to keep around. Frozen vegetables, same nutrient profile as fresh vegetables, basically. This is gonna be great no matter what you spin it. Let’s see what else I can work on. I’ll get some hotdog buns later. We got @DwayneShaw1. “Instant mashed potato sandwiches.” Hell yes. Now we’re talking. Now we’re talking struggle. “Buttered bread, single slice, folded like a taco. It’s cheap, it’s filling, and pretty good for carb lovers. Side note, if you’re having a cookout, try serving potato salad in a hotdog bun.” Instant mashed potatoes are, if you like reframe it in your mind, it’s like kind of fancy and cool. Like if a chef, if a three-star Michelin chef was like, “I’ve taken the potato, and I’ve actually like dehydrated it and freeze dried it. That way when you reintroduce dairy to it, it becomes completely lump-free and smooth.” Like that’s pretty cool, right? But then instant mashed potatoes, people are like, “No, this is struggle.” Uh uh. This is molecular gastronomy in action. Let’s do it. You know what the real struggle is? I can’t see crap, man. Here we go. You know what I mean? You go into the bathroom and you’re like, “Where’s the goddamned toothpaste?” and it’s in the place where the toothpaste always is. It’s always there. It doesn’t move it. It’s never in the fridge. I’ve walked to the fridge to see if I put it in the fridge. You should ask where the goddamned hand soap is. Where’s the goddamned… Buttery home-style mashed potatoes. Two cups of boiling water. That’s probably two cups. The best knife is a sharp knife. Dump that in there. We get that stirring. That feels like too much water. That’s way too much water. What happened? That’s so much water. Don’t look at me. Oh, I’m wearing a GoPro. Dammit. Dammit. How much of the potatoes did you dump out? Be honest. No, none. Do not review the GoPro footage, I beg of you. Provolone cheese. It’s already open. All right, so we’re gonna add the cheese directly to the roast beef and the peppers and onions in here, and then if we mix this around, there should be like enough beef juice in there for the cheese to almost melt into like a sauce. I gotta strain out some of the liquid. I’m having liquid issues today. Shouldn’t have poured out the water in the potatoes. I didn’t trust myself. Don’t mind me. GoPro sucks. I can’t lie about anything. Just give these mashed potastoes a taste. I call ’em mashed potastoes. That needs to cook for longer. What else are we making? Meatball curry soup. This is from, listen, this is just a good name. This is from @FuelMeOnce. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, won’t get fooled again. Tell you what. Remember who said that? J. Cole. I believe it was George W. Bush, but close. J. Cole is the George W. Bush of the rap world. “Struggle meal: can of beef vegetable soup, coconut milk, curry powder, frozen meatballs.” This is awesome. It’s kind of gonna read a little bit like if you were to just get like a frozen curry meal from a country that you’ve never heard of. Like you go to Albania, and they’re like, “Maybe this is curry.” It’s got Albanian meatballs in it. Talk to me about Albanian meatballs. Albanian meatballs. So I think a lot of the Balkan meatball traditions comes from cevapcici. They’re not meatballs particularly, but they’re kinda like grilled meat logs. You know what I mean? Yeah. I had a neighbor named Nesh, and Nesh was from Serbia. Not Albania, but, you know, Serbia, somewhat culturally similar, and his mother-in-law made me cevapcici once, and he shows up, and then we would talk a lot about Serbian basketball. They didn’t say if it should be condensed vegetable beef soup. I think I might uncondense it just a little bit. I remember I had to teach Nicole that condensed soup was a thing, ’cause she didn’t know that you had to uncondense it. You know, these are like those… What are those little toys that you had to soak in water and then they expanded? You know? Little dinosaur things. Little dinosaur things. They all act like I’m loco, man. I don’t think I am. I don’t think I’m insane in the membrane. Coconut milk. Found it. Hi. What the heck? What? You guys never do that because you can’t find the can opener? It’s in the top drawer. What? Whenever I can’t find my can opener, I just ruin a knife. Don’t look at my butt. Here’s the thing. If you ever find two things… Hey, what’s up? If you ever find two things, one that says curry powder, and then one that says curry powder with the name of a Caribbean island nation on it, use the one with the Caribbean island nation on it. Let’s throw this up, get some frozen meatballs in there. Curious what our salt levels are gonna be. Okay, I got some meatballs in the freezer. God dangit. What the hell is this? They’re fishies. Got a bunch of frozen fish encased in here in carbonite like Hans damn Solo? They’re from my aquarium even. Do you have an aquarium just full of dead fish? It’s ’cause you watched the movie “It” too young. Shit, shit. I’m gonna eat that meatball on the ground. All right, cool. We’re gonna let those meatballs hang out with the curry powder. Let’s build our sandwiches. Towel fell. Can I get probably two? Microwave the hotdog buns. Wait. Y’all know how I feel about this technique. This is a valid cooking technique. You’re going to take… This is how I, like, heat buns at home for sandwiches. You ring out a paper towel. You gotta get good, sturdy paper towels. You gotta wrap buns in the paper towel and make sure it’s sealed, and then you’re gonna microwave this for 13 seconds. That way it steams the buns. They’ll get more pliable and more delicious. Should have gone to culinary school. Mashed potatoes looking good. We’re gonna fill up some white bread. Yeah, mashed potatoes going on the bread, and then this should just be able to fold over like such. Take some of this here meat. Yeah, buddy. This looks excellent, man. I would be so stoked to eat this on any day of the week. God dang bowl. Your back okay? Huh? How’s your back? What? Uncle Josh can’t hear you. Family size bowl of soup, tortilla chips. That’s like 15 meatballs. Yeah. Bring back more large-format soups. Now we’re gonna take tortilla chips. In conclusion, what I have for you for lunch today, chefs, trailer park roast beef cheese steak, mashed potato sandwiches, and curry frozen meatball soup with tortilla chips. Kitcheneers, welcome to lunch. Lunch! I’ve made it for you. Shall we dig into our, quote, “trailer park cheese steaks”? Should I try and cut it with a butter knife, or should I just rip it? One person just rip it. One person gets one. Yeah. And then we share the other one. Okay. Oh, I see. You didn’t have to turn it. You didn’t have to… You do have to turn it. It’s like wringing a chicken’s neck. You touched as much possible cheese steak as you could when you did that. There wasn’t even an attempt to just… I’m gonna just ignore what just happened. Vi, I just barely touched this one. All right, I love the way it’s all steamed into the bread. Good, good, good. Oh crap. Dude, the juice from the roast beef is soaking into the hotdog bun, and you know how much I love juice soaking into a hotdog bun. Yeah. You like wet things. This tastes a lot more like a cheese steak than I thought it would. Yeah, I’m really surprised. Yo, I’ve had cheese steaks that are so much worse than this, Same. This is actually very moist meat. Wow. Dude, I think it’s like the steam from the frozen peppers. Probably. This is great, dude. I’m giving this a 9.2. 9.99. Yeah? Yeah. Solid 9.2. I think American cheese, and that’s even better. Wow. Where are we going? Mashed potato sandwich? Yeah, bro. Sure. Gimme one of them tubes. They did say to fold it like a taco. Again, you have some nice moisture soaking into the bread. It’s like the mashed potatoes are seeping through. There’s a lot of ways that you could plus this up. A little bit of garlic, some salt, pepper, cheese, but this isn’t that. This is just potato and bread. Where does the potato end and the bread begin, one could ask. Oh crap. Hold on. Are we on the same page? All right. In a shocking turn of events, it tastes like mashed potatoes. It tastes like sweet mashed potatoes, though. You eat it with your hand. Yeah, the sugar from the bread makes it taste like a sweet potato. It is. I’m so confused. Well, yeah, speaking from like the White Boy Wednesday delegate here, you’ve had just like delightful tortillas and beans. Yes. This is just the white boy equivalent of that. This is just white bread and mashed potatoes. Leave a comment if you think Josh is the White Boy Wednesday freaking… Oh, I’m sorry, Trevor. You have the floor. No, I’m just saying, that was a crazy thing for you to just claim. Mixed Girl Monday. Woo hoo! I don’t even know. What day is it? I don’t think I can give this anything higher than a 6.5. A solid 5. Now we have the curry meatball soup. 7. Two different cans mixed together. You’re giving it a seven? Yeah. So this is the curry powder, the coconut milk, Campbell’s soup, frozen meatballs. This is awesome. A little rainy day. Oh my God. The mashed potatoes are still in my esophagus, to be clear. They have gummed it up, much like my dog who yesterday ate a Beauty Blender, and I had to… What? I had to give him hydrogen peroxide to make him throw up. Someone’s gonna have to do that to me, because the mashed potatoes and bread have congealed in my throat, and I’m gonna die. This is excellent. Pouring your soup on the table. I think this is a delicious treat. I don’t like it that much. What? I don’t know what it is. Well, what if you dipped your mashed potato sandwich in there? Something is not settling right in my gut health. That could have been any of the things that we’ve eaten thus far. Valid thing to say. I’ma French dip the cheese steak in there. I don’t know. There’s something weird about this that’s not hittin’ for me. I give this a solid 8.3. I think this is really inventive. I think this is awesome. 4. What? I know. I was gonna give it a 7.7. I mean, it’s gonna take a while for me to be hungry for dinner. I need some more space. I need to go number one and a half and then I’ll be back. Yeah. Which is the half. You know. That’s when you go to pee and you think you might poop, but then you just kind of let out a few really big farts. They’re gonna add the bell sound effect in in post. It’s the dinner bell. It’s dinner time. The one that I’m gonna start with here is called noodle gravy from @squeaken1. “Elbows and beef gravy. Elbow noodles with cooked ground beef and a jar of beef gravy all mixed together.” Simple enough. Hell yes. Simple enough. Let me find a pot. Viggo Mortensen. Viggo? Well, there’s… Non “Lord of the Rings,” favorite non “Lord of the Rings” Viggo Mortensen movie. He’s just asked me so fast I can’t even get in a freaking groove, man. Gimme a sec. Viggo Mortensen. No, I understand who Viggo Mortensen is. That’s not fair to ask me a Viggo Mortensen favorite movie and then say you can’t say “Lord of the Rings.” I don’t think it’s fair to pigeonhole Viggo Mortensen as only a “Lord of the Rings” actor. I almost just washed my hands into the pot that I’m about to boil water in. Do you wanna know mine? Sure. “Captain Fantastic.” What’s yours? So I’m just getting this water going here. Okay, boiling water, because we’re making pasta, of course, and you must… On, on, on. Salt. Whoa, we got new salt? This isn’t Kosher Diamond, is it? It feels different, man. That’s Diamond Crystal Kosher. That’s crazy. I don’t know why it feels so fine to me right now. Yeah. Well, thank you. Yeah, so I’m… You can tell because they have a proprietary process that almost kind of like hollows out the salt crystals so it falls lightly and evenly out of your hands. That’s all getting cut. Okay, so. I’m so sorry. Ha. Okay, the next one I’m gonna get started on is shakshuka. “Spaghetti sauce in frying pan. Two to three eggs on top of sauce. Cheese if have. Cover with lid. Egg runny. Dump slop in bowl. Scoop with bread/toast.” Sounds awesome. Spaghetti sauce. I have to find all my own crap. There’s like three things. Why am I complaining? Egg. I can remember this. Cheese. If have. Cheese if have, and have we do. Spaghetti sauce in a pan. I wonder if this is a dish served in a pan. Okay, Prego. Delicious, going in. Dude, this is literally, this is the most simple thing, and I can’t comprehend it. I’m literally reading, “Two to three eggs on top of sauce,” and I’m like, “I don’t know how to do that.” Okay, I’m gonna set that to a nice seven. Yeah, I’m just gonna put it in and I’m gonna cover it. That feels like the right thing to do. It’s just going in, and it’s gonna sit there forever. What’s your favorite Tiddlywinks Cumberbutton movie that also is not part of a J. R. R. Tolkien extended universe? Oh yeah, “The Hobbit.” He is Smaug. Dude, do we own lids? Oh, no. We threw ’em all away. You did throw ’em all away? Put a sheet pan on top. Lies. That’s good. Who kept a contraband lid? I’m gonna cook ground beef, then, for these noodles and beef. These are like actual, like, struggle meals. My struggle meals, and I don’t know if “struggle” is the right word, and maybe it’s more just like I didn’t want to be alive meals. That’s a struggle. Yeah, well, but it’s like I wasn’t doing anything to ’em. Like the frozen… I would just take a bag of frozen meatballs and put ’em in a bowl, microwave them, and just eat like 12 meatballs. Beef in pan. Breaking up my beef. This is so weird having this on my head. Maybe it’s the GoPro that’s freaking me out. My dog, we have this little thing that we put on his head, and it’s supposed to help like dogs I think like keep calm. It’s literally just this little like almost sock that goes over his head, and then just his face sticks out, and it’s cute, ’cause it’s got these little like horns, but it’s like whenever you put it on him, he just paralyzes and he won’t move, and he just like stops moving, and it’s really funny. I don’t know why, what about his head being just kind of squeezed in a little sock, but that’s what I feel like right now. Noodles, gravy. Oh, I’m supposed to put the gravy just right in here, I think. Yeah. Josh, like ballpark. How many of the videos that we’ve done on this channel, how many dishes are just brown beef goo? I’d say between like 75 and 90. Do you remember when we were like three years into the channel, and you and I made a salad together, and we realized it was the first salad that we had made on “Mythical Kitchen”? Trevor, this is a really special moment in “Mythical Kitchen” history. Yes. This might be the first time we have ever made a salad. Come on, let’s do a pile on. Here we go. Mythical Kitchen, making salad. We got fresh vegetables in the house. That’s outstanding. Yeah. Fresh vegetables in the house. I’m gonna get started on the bánh mì from @p1mason. “Pan fry a pork minute steak.” Excuse me. I’m grabbing all this stuff I know I need. Yep. “Grate a carrot.” I’m going butter knife. Actually shocked that’s working. Yeah, that’s awesome. Great work. Thank you. Hey, grate work. Unfortunately, it’s not great for like… Grate. Good one. “Sprinkle with salt and lemon.” Okay, in the spirit again. Salt. That’s beautiful. “Chunks of cucumber.” I have that. What am I doing? I’m inflicting the struggles upon myself right now, which I think there’s a lesson there. I don’t know why I’m just making this bad. Butter knife. Hey, remind me not to use this butter knife to grate any more carrots. A pork steak. Hmm. How am I gonna do that with a pepper, we reckon? Josh didn’t even see. They didn’t even see. It was so funny. I’m so sorry. Me either. Learning about Hispanic characters. None of my friends care about me. I’m just kidding. All my friends over in video village care about me. We’re best. He didn’t even look up from his phone. What a bozo. I’m doing something really important. Yeah, I’m sure you are, dude. When I get overstimulated at home sometimes, and I start freaking out about what I’m gonna just do and I have too many things to do, I just start saying to myself in a quiet voice going, “I’m normal, I’m normal,” and I don’t think that’s normal. I’m bringing my beefs goo, and I’m going to transfer noodles in one slotted spoon scoop at a time. Ooh yeah. Oh yeah. Dude, look at how tiny these elbows are, man. Me, me, me, me… Me when, me when… When I’m holding a baby and I’m looking at its arms. Anyone? Anyone? It’s good, right? Okay, so I’ve actually never had this product. This little film here, I assume that I need to take this off. You reckon you don’t want to eat that? Now check this one out. Now, in the interest of using as few utensils as possible, I’m gonna take the back of the wooden spoon and use that to schmear the mayo into the bun, because that’s resourceful cooking, and not stupid. I’m not stupid. I’m normal, I’m normal. Now, liverwurst. I’m just gonna… Oh yeah, that’s the stuff right there. This is, you reckon? So we use that as like a way to not touch the hot sort of… I love that at no point in this episode did we say like we can’t use the proper tools for it, but all of us sort of fell in line. It’s like, it’s more fun this way, you know? Like, I wanna struggle. I’m struggling right now. This is definitely only enough for one sandwich. Stretch it. Stretch your meat. Yeah, stretch your meat. Okay. Just gonna line those in here. Feeling like I’m at the Subway right now. Half a bunch of cilantro. Yeah, I grabbed that. Half a… I think like some. I think just put some. That’s a lot. That’s half a bunch, man. I’m not gonna do half a bunch. That’s silly. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bowl, bowl. Dude, what is with this bowl drawer? Oh, I can see it. Okay, look at the bowl drawer. What is with this? You think they’re seeing it? I don’t even want to… That’s such a scary drawer. Those bowls are like, it’s crazy in there. Okay, bowl. Okay, beef goo, beef goo. Boom. Today, chefs, for you, elbows in beef gravy, bánh mì, shakshuka. It’s been lovely to be here, and I’m just thankful that I’ve been able to share in this experience with my friends, and thank you. Viggo Mortensen. Welcome to dinner. Today for us… Hold on. Let me get everyone’s plates, because we don’t have plates, so. Oh, I love bread plate. Little bread plate for you. I got the heel? You got the butt. Now it’s a real struggle meal. It’s the butt. So, I don’t know where we’re gonna start. This is a shakshuka. I think the yolks are supposed to be runny, but I fear that it was in the pan for so long that it is fully solid. Yeah. Yes, so… I love a breakfast for dinner, so I’m going in. You got the whole egg, bro. There’s three eggs, right? Yeah, true. It’s an egg for each of us. That’s the point. Don’t act like I’m crazy. This is elite. This is elite ball knowledge. Knowing that you can just take a can of spaghetti sauce, some eggs and cheese, and you’re like 62% on your way to a proper shakshuka, which is just enough. For a struggle meal, 62%, that’s way higher indexing than average. Did you guys ever make pizza bread like this? Like you just put a piece of… You just put like spaghetti sauce and cheese, and that’s it, pepperonis? Oh yeah, man. Man, I think this is excellent. I knew exactly what that was gonna taste like when I bit into it, and it was still so good. I hate how much I like this one. I think this is awesome. I fear that this is outstanding. You can dip into it. Wait, Vi, break out the chips. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. I want to dip some chips in there. Let me put my bread back in. For the table. Chips literally for the table. What is our problem? People need to realize, though, that like… The table is a plate. We’re like, “Struggle meals. We don’t have any plates, we don’t have any utensils. We don’t have any manners. We’re all stupid.” I need to address this. We’re not playing this up for the camera. Every other time, we are like playing down our garbage nature for the camera. Yeah. Really. 100% Have you been noticing what I’ve been eating lunch off of? My plate is just a square of foil. Oh, yes. Yeah. I did notice that yesterday. I was doing square of foil plate. I did notice that yesterday. Then eat over the trash can, but the foil kind of catches it and it runs into the trash can like a river. I give this a 10. Oh, I was gonna say a 9. 9.2. 9.2? 9.2. I was around a 9 as well. I’m just gonna give it a straight 9. All right, well, this might be able to beat it. Gravy beef. Gravy beef. Gravy beef noodle. Somehow more budget Hamburger Helper. Yeah. I’m curious if you were to map out the price of this versus Hamburger Helper. It is Hamburger Helper. That’s good. It’s so beefy, dude. Put a little dollop of sour cream on there, you’re like at beef stroganoff. Cheese. More cheese and some green onions, some hot sauce. Might go a little crazy with this right now. You put a little cream on… Put some spaghetti sauce on there. Okay, now you’re doing too much. You put a little cream in there, something’s gonna be stroganoff. That was my noodle. I love that I naturally don’t hear him sometimes. That is the most groans I’ve got in a long time. Well, um. 8. 8. Giving it a 7.2. I think there’s other things you could do to that to make it great. Now we gotta finish with our braunschweiger. This, immediately, I don’t know if I regret picking this, but I do think it’s tough to call this a struggle meal. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We gotta get the hoisin sauce. We gotta get the hoisin sauce. I forgot. Somebody throw the hoisin. I’m gonna need someone to like put out in Slack to clear a pathway to the bathroom. Like, if anybody’s in my way, they’re getting just bowled over. Hurdle him, hurdle him. Call him Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone the way he’s about to hurdle him over there. No one likes me. Okay, well… It’s not bad, but it’s not 100. The the very Germanly-spiced braunschweiger with the hoisin is really hitting me hard. A lot of salt levels. A lot of salt levels going on. A lot of salt, a lot of sweet, but in a way that you do not want. I think this is very inventive, and if you love it, that’s awesome. I give this like a 5.4 for the ingenuity. I’ll say like a 3.8 for me. I was gonna go 4.2, so that feels like, yeah. That’s a good GPA right there. Judge, do we have the official winner? McStruggle. McStruggle! A McStruggle. I love that McStruggle. So good. What’s our official loser? The official loser is the bánh mì. Oh. Tough. Cheese and coffee. It’s the cheese and coffee. Oh, cheese and coffee. Yeah, that was intense. Yeah, this for sure effort alone beats handful of cheese. Yeah, 100%. You know, I had a great time today. I had a good time too. You learn anything about yourselves throughout this? That I like eating off tables. Yeah. I was like… That’s important. Yeah. I think before we started this today I was like probably 50/50 on whether or not I was gonna take a nap, and I think I’m about at 100% right now. That’s huge. I’m gonna need to go home and sleep this off. Good Mythical Evening is blasting off on October 23rd at 10:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific, so get your tickets now at goodmythicalevening.com.