There we go, and then… Okay. What? Bro. Okay, where? Oh shoot, dude. No, that wasn’t me. Certainly that was not me. Just as Victorian England was a hotbed for mustachioed serial killers, the internet has become a hotbed for a different kind of crime. A food crime. The world wide web has played host to some downright abominable food creations, but today we’re taking on another terrifying TikTok trend. Sunny D. Shrimp boil. It’s a whole Cajun shrimp boil boiled in Sunny D. This comes from Chef Jayvoo on TikTok. We saw it going viral on Twitter. He boils a bunch of shrimps and potatoes and corns in straight up sunny D, so Nicole dig in. Let’s try it. Can you do one for me? Oh my God, really? Fine. This is- No, I’ll do it. I’ll do it. I’ll do it. No, I don’t need you. No, I don’t- No I’ll need you. do the shrimp for you. No, it’s okay. I don’t need you. Oh my God. I haven’t had a peel and eat shrimp in a long time. You gotta suck the head. It’s not coming off. It’s much worse than an actual Cajun seafood bowl. Yeah, no. It’s like- it has all of the flavor notes, except they’re bad. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. You took one thing and it made it significantly worse. With that said, I don’t know, it’s actually, now that it’s sitting there, it’s not bad. I am challenging you to a food crime face off. Who can make the best Sunny D shrimp boil inspired dish? You ready for this? Let’s go, baby. Ah, corn’s the best part. Hey, before we get started on this here, food crime, I have some extra special news to tell you. Rhett, Link and the entire Mythical crew, including all of us in the Mythical Kitchen, have been cooking up- ha! a very special event. It’s called Mythicon. It’s the most in-person event we’ve ever done. The most live event we’ve ever done. The biggest event we’ve ever done. It’s in Austin, Texas. There’s gonna be live podcast. There’s gonna be meet and greets. There’s gonna be special guests. We got Akon? It’s all going down in Austin, Texas, October 28th and 29th. You can get tickets right now at mythicontickets.com. That’s M-Y-T-H-I-C-O-N-T-I-C-K-E-T-S dot C-O-M. Why did I spell it? Go get your tickets. Come see me, the rest of the crew, It’s gonna be awesome. So the Sunny D shrimp boil, I was a little bit conflicted. ‘Cause at first I was like, this could be possibly good. Right? I love the flavor of- Oh, let me break out some fresh Sunny D-light right here. The flavor of sunny D… it’s like if a robot made orange juice. Can’t do it. Oh, oh, I got Sunny D in my shoe. Why is it- Why are these bottles so- Sunny D, figure it out. Josh cannot handle childproof things. I have to open up his Advil all the time for him. I’m thinking the sweetness and the tanginess of this really can work with seafood, in the application that chef Jayvoo did, I don’t think it is. That’s why I’m making some bang bang shrimp. Josh is making bang bang shrimp? I’m gonna lose. I’m gonna lose. So what we’re doing, we’re starting some fried rice. ‘Cause I want a nice base for this bang bang shrimp. We’re going to sweeten up that fried rice with Sunny D. I do love a fair amount of sweetness in my fried rice. We’re not going typical Chinese egg fried rice right here. Kind of taking some inspiration from, say like a nasi goreng, right? Nase goreng has a fair amount of sweet soy in it. We’re gonna get the oil in there. We’re gonna get the Air Max starting. And then right when those start, you don’t want ’em to burn, you’re gonna add your vegetables. Sort of cool down the pan. I know what you’re saying, “Josh. You’re not using a wok. Uncle Roger’s gonna be pissed.” Yeah, man, he is. Nigel, dude. I’m sorry. I don’t know. We have a glass cooktop stove, the Burbank fire marshal. What you think- if I could get a turbo, if I get a turbo burner for a wok dude, that would be super rad. I would really love that. So we got the aromatics in there. Oh God, the corn’s popping. He doesn’t know how to cook. Then while that rice is going, I’m gonna add a little bit of sesame oil. I’m gonna lose this one too. I’m not very confident right now. Beautiful, beautiful. And of course we’re hitting it with a little bit of Sunny D ’cause I wanna marry those flavors. Don’t mind. It’s just pop- It’s just popping corn, man. We’re just making popcorn in here. I’m just kidding. I’m gonna kick his ass. There you go. Okay. Now Uncle Roger, you gotta get the MSG. You just buy MSG at the store, like Smart and Final. They’ll just sell it. They used to sell it under names like Accent, and be like, “flavor enhancer”. But now I think we’re finally at a point society where people understand that the idea that MSG is bad for you is just a racist myth. So I think we’re just like cool buying MSG again, which is rad. Get some MSG for your kitchen. It tastes like chicken stock without chicken. It just tastes like umami stock. It’s a delicious flavor. A little bit of soy. Love that for us. A little bit of rice vinegar to kinda marry the tang of the Sunny D and then- Ooh. Well that’s happening. You see a lot of the liquid is really evaporated. I’m gonna take my egg. I’m gonna add that in a sheet right there. And then I don’t like to mix the egg in fully with the fried rice, ’cause I love when you go to like a Chinese American spot and you get the big egg curds. You can kind of just pick out the scrambled eggy bits. Mm, eggs and Sunny D. Part of a balanced breakfast. There we go. Eggs almost fully cooked. And now we’re gonna get that in with the rice. I bet when Naajia tastes this, she’s not even going to know that there’s Sunny D in it. There we go. I bet you money. This is a shrimp bottomer fried rice, and that’s fine. Food serves different purposes. Shrimp bottomer sounds better when you say it in a British accent. See if we can taste the Sunny D. I already know you can’t taste the Sunny D. Oh God. You know what? The way that this is going so far, my confidence has just absolutely risen by like 55 points. We are gucci. Boom. Sunny D fried rice. Now we gotta get working our bang bang shrimp. Bang bang shrimp. You might ask, “Josh, what is bang bang shrimp?” I don’t know. And kind of neither does anyone else. So I’ve known it as a Chinese American takeout dish. Turns out the actual origin is the Bonefish Grill, which is an American chain restaurant in Florida. But also bang bang chicken is a legit Szechuan dish that involves like pounding chicken out after you’ve grilled it. And so some people are like, kind of getting them confused, but like, this really is just the Bonefish Grill origin that somehow made it onto Chinese American restaurants, which is very cool. Also, my favorite thing about Chinese buffets in America at least is that they all have like mac and cheese and pizza in them. And it’s always great. ‘Cause then you can like, load up the orange chicken on the pizza. It’s a fun time. Josh has taking me to a few Chinese buffets. It’s quite the experience. First of all, we’re gonna take some shrimps and I’m just gonna dredge them and fry them. We’re not gonna season them too heavily, or at all, ’cause I don’t really have any place to season them and also shrimp have a natural salinity and sweetness to them. So we’re just gonna start frying these off. What a liar. Get them dredged and flour. I know Nicole’s sitting over there, she’s like, “Oh wow, Josh. Deep frying a protein and covering it in a sweet sticky sauce.” All I do is bully you. And all you do is bully me. I love this relationship. I’m not trying to reinvent the wheel here, okay? Like, listen. I play the hits. You go to a Stones concert and they don’t play Satisfaction, you’re gonna be pissed off. Right? Yeah, that is a quote from the movie Chef. Good movie. Jon Favreau, come on the show. Dustin Hoffman, come on the show. Scar Jo. The top nine billed people- John Leguizamo, come on the show. What’s the other guy? He plays the drunk sous chef. Bobby Cannavale. Bobby Cannavale. Come on the show. Sophia Vergara. Come on the show. Oh my God. That’s what Sophia Vergara sounds like to me. Someone texted me. I can feel my phone buzz. Who do you think it was? It was me, saying your dish sucks. All right. These are almost dredged. You see I’ve gone wet hand, dry hand perfectly here. And all right. Now let’s fry up these shrimp. And after we fry these shrimp, I’m gonna get sauce. Okay. Jangle, jangle. One, two. How do you do? Oh. There we go. All right, I’m gonna run and wash my hands. Give me a- just- . Bang! Sorry. Making bang bang shrimp. So we’re gonna take- This is just a whole lot of reduced Sunny Delight. That just turns out- Is there like corn starch in Sunny D? Why does it gloop like that? I don’t know, but I do love it. I’m a drink over juice man. You give me a choice between orange juice and orange drink, I’m going drink every single time. You like drink more than juice? I like juice more than drink. And that’s why we get along. And then mayonnaise. Mayonnaise is the key to anything that’s creamy and delicious. And you think, “Surely there can’t be mayonnaise in this hot dish.” There’s mayonnaise in that hot dish. There’s gonna be a lot of Mayo in mine. Let me just say, that’s gonna be a mayonnaise party in your mouth. Beautiful. And then we’re just gonna take all of our shrimps and we’re just gonna dunk them in there. We’re gonna give it a nice toss. Yeah. Yeah. I’m so upset. I can’t believe he fried things again. We’re just tossing hot fried shrimp in hot fried mayonnaise. Wow. Real good tossing there, boss. It’s a lot of mayonnaise per shrimp. No, you just gotta- Eww. Is he shaking the shrimp? They’re just- now we’re just gonna plate our beautiful mayonnaise shrimp. Oh my God. That’s way too- Oh my God. He’s dripping mayonnaise on the plate. There it is, hold on. Fried rice is still frying. I love mayonnaise. But that is vile. The pure sheer lacquering of mayo on that. There we go. And then, okay. What? Bro. Okay. Where? Oh shoot dude. No, that wasn’t me. Certainly that was not me. He Jackson Pollocked the cabinets with shrimp! Yeah. That’s kinda- What did I do the ramekin for? This is dumb. No one likes this. No one even likes this at restaurants. Josh is getting nervous. I’m kinda loving it. Maybe he’s scared. Ah. Did he just yell at the ramekin? What a stupid idiot. Do it again. I gotta do it again I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. This is- Here’s the thing, all right? You put little sesame beans on it, little sesame beans make the sesame trees. That is a reference to a very obscure Ted Talk. If anyone knows what the hell I’m talking about, let me know. My hands are too wet to properly garnish. So we’re just gonna put some chives on there. You might think, “Josh, wouldn’t scallions be more appropriate?” I don’t know, man. Can we just turn the camera off for this part? I don’t like when you watch. That’s such a lie. You love when people watch you do things. Such a lie. We’re almost there. Listen. There’s just a… it’s just a… it’s just a… It’s what you find in the shower drain. Oh. Oh. All right. That took a weird turn. So hey, here’s bang bang shrimp with Sunny Delight fried rice and Sunny Delight. Sunny Delight. And then the delightful- Oh good, shrimp’s cooked. Your move, Nicole. You impressed with that? Hey everybody. As you can see, I am still incapacitated, which is why I have my best friend and sous chef Trevor here to help me cook. Yeah. And beat Josh. He won’t save you Nicole. You’re going O for 4. We’re gonna beat him together. His ego has gotten so gigantic. It’s just like- Yeah. It’s honestly getting hard to deal with. It’s too much to deal with. We need to knock him down a few notches. That’s right. My ego is reasonably gigantic. So we’re gonna knock him down by making a very, very classy food, which is a shrimp salad roll. I know what you’re thinking, “Salad?” Ugh. Yeah, I mean, why not? Oh, shrimp salad roll. It’s done. I already got this in the bag. I really love salad. Did you drink from that? Are you gonna pour it in there? I waterfalled it. Oh, you waterfalled it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay good. I just wanted to taste it ’cause it’s been a long time since I’ve actually- tasted. Yeah, that’s true. Sunny D. Hey Nicole, do you know what the D stands for in Sunny D? Deez nuts? You stole the punch line! I was gonna do that to you! You got him. I was going to do that- to you. You stole the punch line. Nicole, I’m trying to be funny. I’m trying to make jokes. And you just steal a punch line, and it just makes it hard to work. Instead of yes ending, Nicole just said no. Slapped him in the face. So what we’re doing right now is we are making an ice bath made out of Sunny D ice cubes as well as Sunny D, to take our poached shrimp and throw them in there, so the Sunny D flavor really gets up in there. Go ahead and throw the shrimp in there with the bay leaf, my guy. With the bay leaf? Yeah, yeah. Crazy. Oh my goodness. I’m crazy like that. Oh, the bay leaf. That’s really gonna seal the victory, Nicole. The bay leaf. Where do we get these shrimps from? Uh, grocery store. This is a bit gigantic. You know how like there’s an Apple store? Large shrimps. Got it from the shrimp store. I’m going to throw just a little bit of Cajun seasoning and- Do I have a stirring device? Yeah, this. I guess I’ll use these. No, it’s okay. Okay. So we just gotta let these poach up a little, get bit- get nice and pink. So, do you think I’m gonna win? Nicole? I believe- I don’t just think, I know. I have to win. I know you’re gonna win. You have to win. If I don’t win, I’mma call somebody. Nicole, I’ll do anything in my power to help you win. I’m gonna make some phone calls. I’ll freaking bribe- Probably to Annalise I’ll bribe the judge. as I cry. Did you just threaten me with Annalise? So I’m just chopping up some celery ribs. How they looking? Nice and pink? They’re getting there. Good. I’m helping. You are very helpful. I’m good at cooking. You are good at cooking. When’s the last time you had Sunny D, like, by choice? Don’t know. Don’t know? It was- I think I might have been ten. Ten? Might have been ten. You’re pretty confident about that. I don’t remember anything that happened, like ever. Trevor. Very stupid. Oh, those look great. I’d give it another 35 seconds Okay. Does that sound good? 35 seconds? Yeah. Lily’s my consultant. I have like many chefs working for me today. I’m very, very lucky. I have Lily on the sidelines, I have Trevor right next to me, and I have Josh hating on me in the corner making spells and evil voodoo over there. Yes. I’m using Pennsylvania Dutch spells on you from my ancestors in the old country. I will curse you with homemade jams and jellies. Yeah. I bet Josh is making more Adam Sandler references over there- Yeah. in his silly little booth. [Nicole and Josh in unison] Popeye’s chicken is the shiznat. I bet he’s probably saying that right now. What is that a quote from? Little Nicky. Have you never seen Little Nicky? Shame on you. I’m sorry. Shame on you. We gotta take you to the movie theater. Yeah, take me to the movie theater to watch a movie that’s probably really old. That movie hasn’t been in movie theaters probably for like ten years. Nicole, I’m gonna Sunny D bath these bad boys. Okay. Do it. Do it, do it. Wow. There’s a lot of ice cubes in here. That’s classic French cookery right there. I like Billy Madison. Okay. He’s like in school and he’s a little bit dumb, and then he becomes smart, and then there’s a hot teacher and everything. I’m kind of into that. Yeah? Yeah. You’re into hot teachers? Always. Yeah, okay. Always been into hot teachers. This is getting too sexual. Taylor, you hearing all this out of context? Yes. Fish ’em out. Fish ’em out. The problem is I’ve mixed ’em all up with the ice cubes. Oh, it’s okay. I’ll take a few ice cubes up. Oh, you know what? Just put ’em over here. Yeah, they’re going to dry off. And I’ll pick them up. So while you’re doing that, I’m just gonna go ahead and mix up my sauce. That’s a great chop on those veggies. Really? Yeah, that’s great work. I’ve been really focused on these shrimps and I haven’t really been paying attention to what you’ve been doing. I see. That’s okay. I barely pay attention to what I’m doing. So I got a little bit of mustard. This is Creole mustard, incredibly delicious flavor. That’s gonna work really well with our Cajun seasoning. A little bit of salt because that Cajun seasoning is so heavily salted already. I think Nicole is running from the Sunny D again. Nicole, you’re scared. What’s a good prank? A good prank- Tell me. is if we took this Sunny D juice and then we put it back in a bottle and tried to give it to someone. Yeah. Who do you want to do that to? Who do you hate in the office? Well, I would say we should do it to Josh, but he’s literally watching- I would just drink that shrimpy D. Let’s put shrimp sunny D juice back in the bottle. I can still- I can hear you when you when you whisper. I have headphones on. No, he turned his brain off. No, no. I know Josh. We got orange zest and lemon zest. And lemon zest? Yeah. That’s two different types of zest. Yeah. Big fan of it. And then just a little dash of Sunny D concentrate, which we made in house. You didn’t get that from the shelves at the Ralphs? You guys ever watch Flubber? It’s so thick. Just throw some butter in there, get it nice and beautiful and warm, and get it nice and melty. Warm. Yes. Nice and warm and melty. Nice and warm and melty. I’m gonna chop these scrimps up. Beautiful cook on these by the way, wow. Yeah, thank you. You did an incredible job. I’m pretty good at cooking. Butter’s melting. Yeah? Good. Awesome. You wanna throw the rest of that Sunny D reduction in there? I sure do. Take it away, champ. Oh, I’ll do it. Yeah? Yeah. Do it. Do with it. Okay now- Take all this off. We are just going to toss all of our shrimps in there. Toss them in. The shrimp too? Toss the shrimp in, yeah. Oh my goodness. It’s gonna be like a warm shrimp salad. It’s gonna be really good, yeah. A warm shrimp salad? Yeah. It’s gonna get nice and coated in that Sunny D butter reduction. Okay. Yeah. You want me to do a little toss? Yeah, do a little toss. Oh yeah? You know, Josh thought he could win this. Oh my God What are you doing? You are an uncultured swine. You stone handed buffoon. I was saying, Josh thought he was gonna win with warm mayonnaise. Uh-uh. ‘Cause you got warm mayonnaise right here. This is a battle of warm mayonnaise versus warm mayonnaise. So we’re just gonna clean this up a little bit. There’s a little bit of a mess. So we’re gonna assemble our sandwich. Come back. We’ll be here. I’m doing a Charlie Chaplin thing. What kind of thing is that? I don’t know. Just like really exaggerated body movement. As you can see, we’ve cleaned up nicely, and we’re toasting our buns in a little bit of a Sunny D butter reduction. That’s weird. So let’s see how toasty they look. How toasty is that? Oh. You can’t even tell. It’s just, orange. There’s a little bit of toast. It’s just orange. [Nicole and Trevor in unison] Orange, orange on there. Are you happy with that? I look- it looks like- Well don’t touch ’em! Yeah, just put ’em- Sorry. Cooking on a cooking show without being able to touch things is the most sacreligious thing I’ve ever done in my life. But we’re gonna take this nicely warmed shrimp. We’re gonna toss it into our beautiful sauce. It’s delicious. It was delicious. Yes it was. Allow me to take that. Thank you, sir. So this warm shrimp salad. Yes, chef. Sorry. That’s the first time you’ve ever called me that. Yes, chef. That’s so nice. I’ve never- I’ve never been called that before. You’re welcome chef. Oh my God. This is really big for me. It’s huge. Would you like a spoon, chef? I would like, you know, can you gimme an ice cream scoop? What are you doing with an ice cream scoop? You brought ice cream scooping to a shrimp fight? A little bit of chive on there, just for a little bite of fresh allium greenness. Where’d the ice cream scoop go- Find the ice cream scoop! Yes chef. What the- Yes, chef. What is that? Oh, they’re right here. I found them. There you go. I don’t like yelling at anybody, especially Trevor. Yes, chef. That’s mean. So I’m just gonna take a few ice cream scoops of this beautiful- oh, I should probably put the lettuce on the bottom. Oh. Oh no. Oh, she’s shooketh. Nicole is shaking. She’s scared. So I’m just gonna put a little bit of lettuce as a little bit of- A little bit of butter lettuce? Yes. Just a little bit of a cup. For you at home wondering. Gosh, I can’t do anything, right. Yes you can, Nicole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m gonna win. Cook with confidence. This- I know it’s so silly. Josh took the easy way out. Yeah. He went with a fried shrimp dish ’cause he knew that he isn’t as good of a cook as you. Yeah. It’s true. Honestly. I lean on deep frying things and covering them in spicy sugary sauces. And there you have it. This is my beautiful- this is our beautiful shrimp salad. I didn’t do much. Okay. Sunny D food boil. Let’s see. It’s actually not been that long since I’ve had Sunny D. Aww. She’s a fan. She can’t open it. I couldn’t open it. She’s stronger than I am. Okay. Now we know what taste we’re looking for. Eat the food. Mine reeks of Sunny D. So does mine. I feel like there’s never a cute way to peel these things. Okay. I felt like this was gonna be more egregious, but it’s not. Okay. It’s pretty mild. These things look beautiful, first of all. Aww. We’ve impressed our new friend. It smells really good. Yeah, it does. Yeah, it does. Probably tastes really good too. Just kidding. It tastes like butt sauce. You taste like butt sauce. I’m sad because it’s amazing. And I know I’ll never have it again after this. Yes, yes. Did you- Yes. We’re going four for four. I’m gonna vomit. The fried rice might kill me. She’s into it. That’s good. Eat more shrimp. I’m trying- I’m trying to be more positive, but I’m just kind of sad- Eat more shrimp. Eat more shrimp. About this whole situation. What do I get from winning all these, though? When I’m cooking with garbage. So much! So much. I don’t know. It’s really good. Fried rice has a nice crunchy kind of element to it. It’s citrusy. And if you told me that this was made with Sunny D, I wouldn’t expect that. Could go one of two ways. A Sunny D Cajun shrimp salad roll. I mean, I don’t know if it’s a roll, I guess more of a sandwich, whatever. Yeah. Some of it fell out. That’s fine. Okay, this one’s very sweet. Ah! I lost, I lost. In a different way that that one was sweet. Where did your extra sweetness come from? I don’t know. Probably all the sunny D. This one’s very like light and refreshing, and very playful. It’s playful. As am I. And I’m bang bang. I feel like I would eat this and then kind of still be hungry afterwards. But this seems like a mission, solo mission, I may not come back, but it’s fine. Mmm-hmm. What does that mean? You don’t wanna come back. You don’t come back where you’re going Naajia. I’m gonna try this again. You have the Sporked tasters. They’re very diligent in tasting. You can tell they’re professionals. Check out Sporked.com. No, no. They definitely know what they’re doing. Hmm. Hmm, hmm, hmm. She “hmm’ed” my sandwich. She hmmed it. They ain’t no hmm’ing that shrimps. No, she enjoyed your shrimp so much. Personally, I feel like I have to give it to this one. Okay- Yeah. Yeah! I’m going to go cry. Ow, I hit my head on the boom. It’s a sweep. Four for four, undefeated. Undefeated. We got the sweep. We got the sweep. I thought you were gonna do it with me. Oh, I’m sorry. We can try again. Okay. Yeah, wait. Let me barge in again. Hold on. We gotta barge. Oh my God. I gotta barge. I gotta barge. All right. Oh, we missed it. We just missed you. I was a freaking just bowling you over. That was my bad. I freaked out the last minute. That was mine. I win. I’ve beaten Nicole. Four times in a row now. Yeah, it’s okay. Can you tell me what you did here? What, what happened here? Equal parts mayonaise, Sunny D reduction, and sriracha. Okay. Pretty simple. Nicole’s all like, oh, I want to poach the shrimp in the thing, I’m putting it in a sandwich. And now she’s so ashamed she’s hiding. Nicole. This bread is beautiful. I didn’t make it. Oh. I’m gonna do a shoey. I’m gonna do a shoey of Sunny D. What are you doing? A shoey? Oh my God. Oh my God. He doesn’t wash his feet. This happened too soon. This is not this man’s first shoey. Victory! Could I say, I thought someone was gonna stop me before I did it. ‘Cause now I’ve ruined my favorite pair of Vans and I think I’m gonna throw up. Naajia, thank you so much for- Thanks for coming on Naajia. And judging. You’re an impartial judge. Thank y’all so much for coming but oh no, but in this kitchen, we got new episodes for you every week. We got new episodes for our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich every Wednesday, your podcast, but it’s on Instagram. He’s gonna throw up on me. Mythical Kitchen hashtag dreams to come. Blagh! We’ll see you next time. Hey, you! Cook up your own feast while wearing the Mythical Kitchen apron, available now at Mythical.com.