- How will Indian food fare when stripped down bare?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- And welcome to the final week of GMM season 22.
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I'm fretting.
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we're gonna be wrapping up the year
with two weeks of best of episodes with yours
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That's you and me, man.
You know what, speaking of best of,
Indian cuisine is one of my best of things to eat.
- It's one of the best of alls.
- It is, isn't it?
But is it the best of at every price point?
It's time for Naked Foods, Naked Indian Food Edition, Naked.
- We're gonna try Indian dishes
from four different price points,
the freezer section of a grocery store,
casual restaurant, sit-down restaurants,
and fancy, fine dining restaurants.
- A lot of, like, the casual ones are, like,
vegetarian, I've noticed.
Let's see how that plays out.
In each round, we're gonna pick our favorite dish.
Stevie's gonna tell us where each one is from
and how much it costs.
By the end, we'll know how fancy
or not fancy our taste in Indian cuisine really is.
- Well, let's do it.
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These are vegetable samosas.
- I love these Indian egg rolls, man.
- [Rhett] Man, I almost don't even want to eat these
'cause I wanna save room
for all the ones that are gonna be good.
- [Link] This looks, it looks like crap.
But maybe it'll taste good.
- I mean, it's not bad.
- Nope.
Not great. - Little spicy.
- Good gosh, look how big that is.
- [Rhett] So crispy.
Gonna get a little bit of this sauce.
- That mint sauce?
Oh my goodness.
- Now, first of all,
you don't have to pay a lot of money for great Indian food.
Like, that's not usually the hallmark of a great
Indian restaurant is, like,
oh, it's really expensive.
You know what I'm saying?
- I usually get takeout,
and there's one place that's more expensive,
and we get that now because it is better.
So I guess I'm disagreeing.
- Well, I'll say-
- Ooh, that's good.
- The best Indian food I've ever had in my life,
which is my favorite restaurant in the world, is Dashum.
- Oh my goodness, in London.
- In London.
- [Link] Look how bright yellow that is-
- [Rhett] So that is consistent with that.
- ...compared to this one over here,
which is a darker yellow.
I remember when we first started visiting Los Angeles,
people would be like, if we're meeting somebody for dinner,
be like, what you want?
And we'd be like, Indian food.
Because back in that time we couldn't find
good Indian food in North Carolina,
and we'd always get it here.
- That's pretty good. - Yeah, it is.
I didn't know what I was gonna think
'cause it's so yeller. Woo!
- Flavor profile wise,
texture-wise, this is great.
Flavor profile wise.
- This one's surprisingly the best, yeah.
- Oh yeah, I feel like it might be better.
- Nicole, is this green stuff,
that's, like, a mint chutney?
- [Nicole] Correct. Very good.
- Did I make you proud?
- Very good, Link.
You got something right.
- That's a good one, too, though, wowsers.
- [Rhett] I don't like it as much.
- I'm really torn here because the inside
of this one is the best to me,
but the outside of this one is the best for me.
- [Stevie] Okay, you're gonna nicely-
- I'm conflicted, but-
- [Stevie] Nicely pick up your things
and pick your favorite one in three, two, one.
(Link grunts)
- I think this one's actually the best.
- Me too, man, 'cause it-
- I know it's not the fanciest,
but I think it might be the best.
- It just tasted really good on the inside.
- [Stevie] Okay, you picked, like,
the middle of the road stack.
This is our sit-down restaurant, India's Clay Pit,
and they were $5.99.
- Clay pit or clay pot?
- [Stevie] Pit.
- It's a clay pit.
- Oh, there's a whole pit.
(crew laughs)
- Okay. - Clay pit.
- Is it that place on Ventura?
I've been calling it clay pot forever.
- [Nicole] It's pit.
- [Stevie] It's pit.
- It's pit? - I trust you guys.
- It's pit.
- [Stevie] Very good, Nicole.
- It is good.
That's a great place.
- [Stevie] The other ones, starting on Rhett's side,
are frozen Deep Indian Kitchen from Gelson's
for $1.83 for two.
- They're not horrible.
- [Stevie] Then next and the texture
on the outside you liked so much,
that's our fancy option from Bombay Palace for $9.95.
- Bombay Palace.
- [Stevie] And finally at the end, our casual,
Bollywood Cafe for $4.95.
- Those were still good.
None of 'em were bad, even the frozen ones.
- None of 'em were bad.
Best of.
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- This is chicken curry,
but it's not- - Chicken tikka masala.
- Right. - Because we've already
done that on an episode of Naked Foods
that was a chicken episode.
- That's right, Rhett.
- We were just told that.
- Yep, everything we know is stuff that we were just told.
- Were just told.
(crew laughs)
- I'm a butter chicken man myself.
- Butter chicken's the best, man.
- [Link] Can't go wrong with a good butter chicken.
That's not bad though.
- [Rhett] That's solid.
I'm not complaining about it.
- I didn't hear you complaining.
I appreciate it when you don't complain.
- Really?
'Cause I don't complain much.
- [Link] I appreciate that.
This one, better.
- [Rhett] It's a little spicier, which I do like.
- [Link] But this one's browner.
Look how brown it is.
- [Rhett] It's so brown.
- I appreciate it when you can agree with me
about the brownness of things.
- Hmm, that has a flavor in it that makes it more flavorful,
but less what I like,
and I don't know what it is.
There's some spice that Nicole
could tell us about, I'm sure.
- [Nicole] Right now?
(crew laughs)
That would ruin the whole point of the game.
- Yeah, yeah. - It's naked
- Right, it's naked. - I can't tell you.
- Let's keep it naked.
- You mean nekkid.
- [Nicole] Nekkid.
- Good job.
- [Nicole] You too.
- I like it.
The chicken itself was very, it's more,
there's dark meat in there.
- This is obviously-
- Dog food. - Frozen.
- [Link] This is not great.
- Flavor-wise, it's not bad. - But you know what?
- It really isn't bad.
- Not at all.
All right, I'm ready to vote, but I'm gonna keep eating.
- [Stevie] Okay, pick your favorites.
- I'm not ready to vote.
- [Stevie] In three, two, one.
- Yes.
So you didn't like it but I did.
That's what makes us different, Rhett.
- [Stevie] So Rhett, you actually chose the same restaurant
as the previous round that you chose,
our sit-down from India's Clay Pit.
- I guess I should go there.
- The pit, not the pot, man.
- [Stevie] For $15.99.
- No, and it's not the pot, it's the oven.
I remembered that.
It's clay oven.
I was just told that.
- You were just told that?
- Everything I know I was just told.
- And then you just told me and now I know it.
- Yeah, right, 'cause I just told you.
- Right.
- [Stevie] And Link, you have chosen our fancy option,
Spice Affair for $29.95.
- Spice Affair, oh.
- I'm fancy.
- [Stevie] But I just have some bad news.
I mean, as we know, Moochelle's not here.
She's not back today.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] She has been in contact with me.
I didn't wanna say anything.
I didn't wanna, 'cause I wanted to respect her privacy,
but unfortunately she did see the previous episode
of this sub-series.
- Oh, no.
- [Stevie] And she's not pleased that we had
Chase impersonate her.
- Neither were we.
- [Stevie] She thought the dancing was bad.
- No one was pleased.
- [Stevie] So she's refusing to return
and instead she's sent her friend, of course,
is how this storyline goes, in her place.
Please welcome, and Link,
you may dance with Hancock.
(polka music)
- Hancock?
(crew laughs)
- Come on, Moochelle.
Man, I feel like such a sucker.
(Hancock clucks)
(polka music)
(crew laughs)
Oh, God.
Okay, it's not freaking moshing.
- I mean- - Hancock.
- Hancock, sucker! (clucks)
(crew laughs)
- He said "Hancock, sucker" right there at the end.
- [Stevie] Um, okay, that went well.
- What an interesting character.
- [Stevie] The other dishes are-
- I think I don't even like this anymore.
- [Stevie] Second in from the left is our casual
Bollywood Cafe for $13.95.
And then, yes, the last one's frozen,
Sukhi's from Target for $7.29.
- Not bad. - Sukhi's.
Yeah, I mean, hey, if you're home alone, go for it.
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- This is saag paneer.
- Oh, I've been calling it sag paneer.
- Sag pay-neer?
- 'Cause there's two As in saag.
- Well, what part's saag and what part's paneer?
Nicole? - Oh, me?
- Yeah.
- [Nicole] So paneer is cheese
and then saag is, like,
the green sauce made with spinach, cumin,
a lot of really delicious spices and herbs.
- [Link] I love it.
- [Nicole] Onion, garlic, stuff like that.
- It's the best spinach thing I've ever eaten.
- It's a, I mean, it's my number one go-to vegetable side
at a restaurant. - Gotta have it.
- Which is probably why it's- - Gotta have it.
- You know, it must be popular.
- And that one's good.
- [Rhett] It's good.
- [Link] That one was kinda leafy.
Like, I could tell it was very spinachy.
- You're in there with a spoon, I see.
- Yep.
This one's more cheesy and creamy.
This one gets a little bit too spinach and artichoke dip,
like it's been a little bit too,
like some of the punch has been taken out out of it.
- I agree.
- In a way that I don't like.
- Now, this one has got the chunks of the cheese in it,
which I love.
What'd you look at over there?
- Well, because the first one has some chunks,
but not as many.
- Mm, you like to look back at it.
- [Rhett] But flavor-wise-
- Look back at it.
(crew laughs)
- Yeah, just like Lot's wife.
- That's, oh, you making this biblical?
- I was making it more like a club thing.
- Yeah, no, no, I'm making it biblical.
- That one's good.
- I wanna turn into a pillar of salt.
- This one has fewer, larger cheese chunks.
- Spicy.
- I don't like the taste of that one.
It's not what I love.
It's a little too, there's a lot of stems in it.
- "It's not what I love."
That's a very nice way to put it.
- It's very spinachy in a...
See, this one looks the least appetizing,
but something about it-
- [Rhett] You're missing the chunks every time over here.
- [Link] I know, where are the chunks?
- [Rhett] Right, there's one right there.
Get, right, no, right there.
- Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Mm.
- I feel pretty definitive about this.
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
(Link yells)
- That one is the best one, dude.
Thank you for pointing out the chunks.
- That's why I wanted,
I thought you would agree.
- Even without the chunks.
- The flavor of this one-
- Wow. - Is the best.
- This one's pretty good, too, though.
- [Stevie] You've both chosen our fancy place,
Spice Affair, for $24.95.
- Oh, I usually-
- [Stevie] So I guess we'll see how this goes.
(polka music)
- Hancock. Yay.
Be careful, man.
He is, he's violent.
- You're part of this.
- I know.
(crew laughs)
- I feel like I need to be defensive.
I feel like I need to look back at it.
- Look back at it.
Look back at it.
(polka music)
- How does this guy know Moochelle?
Or how does Moochelle know this guy?
And, like, why did she call him?
(Hancock clucks)
(crew laughs) - What was that?
- It was a buck.
(Hancock clucks)
Yeah, he gets close
- Man. - To reveal his-
(crew laughs)
- Scary.
You know how, like, when a goose comes up to you
at the pond or- - Yeah.
- Like, a park?
- Every time I go to the pond, yeah.
- [Stevie] Geese are scary.
- They get kinda scary.
- [Stevie] Swans are scary.
Anyway, next to the fancy dish we have our sit-down,
India's Clay Pit, for $14.99.
- [Link] Should've chosen it.
- [Stevie] Then our frozen,
Deep Indian Kitchen, Gelson's, for $6.49.
- That's frozen?
- [Stevie] Yeah, you liked that one.
- That's good, home.
- I mean, it is good.
- [Stevie] And then finally, our-
(Hancock clucks) Oh my God!
(crew laughs)
- Yeah, I tell ya,
I tell you, you never know where Hancock's gonna show up.
(crew laughs)
Hancock, sucker.
- [Stevie] That's our casual place,
Salomi Indian and Bangladeshi restaurant for $10.95.
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- I really like it.
- I almost called it a sweater
'cause it's, like, such a high end sweatshirt.
- It, but yeah, it looks fabulous.
- Like, get this thing at mythical.com.
- Get it. - It's says Mythical on it.
This is embroidered.
It is.
- It's kinda, I like this fit.
I like it, I like it.
- Yeah, wow.
- Look at that and this.
- I'm just very impressed with your sleeves and everything.
- And it feels, it's got this fuzziness to it
that I just love. - Yeah, very fuzzy.
- Yeah, look at that.
Look at the back.
Whoa, look at that.
Look, you can do a piece sign sideways on the back.
You can do finger scissors on the back.
- There it is.
There it is.
I'd give you the shirt off my back if you needed it.
- [Stevie] This is lamb vindaloo.
- This is lamb vindaloo.
Vindaloo has, like, gotta be one of the best words.
- It is, and it's also-
- Vindaloo!
- If I'm ordering for a crowd, first of all,
I feel like you guys did a great job in what you selected.
Obviously I would've done chicken tikka, but we did it,
we didn't do it for a reason.
But lamb vindaloo, it's second in line when you're
talking about meat dishes at a Indian place.
- Is that right?
- It's a little spicy.
- What about butter chicken?
- Butter chicken is great.
It usually is more on Himalayan Indian restaurants.
Like, it's not on every Indian menu.
- That's good.
This looks totally different.
- [Rhett] This is brown.
This is brown.
- [Link] We're back in that, like, dog bowl territory.
- Do you like the brown of this one?
'Cause you typically like brown.
This is a decent brown.
- Oh, that's really tender.
Really tender.
- Ooh, that's, it's beef stewy.
It's more-
- [Rhett] It does have a beefy sort of spin to it.
It's not what I expect from-
- Could that be be frozen?
'Cause that's really good for frozen.
- Maybe it was frozen so hard that it got tender.
- Wow. That's good.
It's got a good taste to it.
You know, here we are tasting things.
- Now, that's more classic flavor.
- [Link] If that tells you anything.
- What I think I'm learning so far is that
almost all Indian food is good.
- I feel that. - Like, it-
- Because I think that's the cheapest one
and I like it.
- Even the stuff that's frozen is good.
- I'll be glad to go back to it.
- Yeah.
- I think it's something about the spices
and, like, just the way that they arrive at flavors
end up somehow, like, holding up better
through processing or something?
- Yeah, it's so complex.
- Oh wow.
- That's great.
Oh my goodness.
- That's really special.
- All of these are so good,
but that is just, that's another level.
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
- You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm going with this one just because
I just wanna recognize that-
- Recognize. - That they done something.
- The meat on this one, though, is just next level.
It's exquisite.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Stevie] Okay, Link, so you were right.
That is our frozen option.
It's actually-
- And I just wanted to recognize that by giving,
I wanted to flag it.
- [Stevie] It's Trader Joe's,
and Trader Joe's is known for their frozen Indian food.
- They are known for it.
- So it's good. - Great job, Joe.
- [Stevie] $4.99.
And then, Rhett, you chose our fancy place.
- Don't do it, man.
- Bombay Palace, $27.95.
(polka music)
- Maybe he needs a solo.
Maybe he could just kinda do something.
- No, get out there, man.
Get out there and live your life.
(polka music)
So aggressive.
Like- - Ugh.
(crew laughs)
- And he gets up so early every morning, I bet.
- Yeah, just-
- Waking up the neighborhood
(crew laughs)
- He's got a belt buckle, tassels.
- He's got Just so much personality and so much confidence.
He's so cocky.
- Okay, music's been over, dude.
(Hancock clucks)
- Buck? - Buck buck?
- Buck buck.
(crew laughs)
It's like he's trying to start something.
- Chickens are not known for their intelligence.
- He's clearly stupid.
Okay. He is a dummy.
- [Stevie] I just watched him come around.
- Just making sure Hancock's not coming back here.
- [Stevie] Just watching him.
- He doesn't know you're talking about him.
That's how dumb he is.
- Right, yeah.
- [Stevie] Okay, the first one on Rhett's side
is our casual, Salomi, for $13.95.
- Good for them.
- [Stevie] And then the one in the middle is our sit-down,
India's Clay Pit for $16.99.
- It is good.
- The Clay Pot, Pit. - Pit.
- [Stevie] And the lowest possible price
of every item combined was $20.60.
The highest was $92.80.
Rhett, your perfect meal Total was $74.88,
and Link, yours was $65.88.
- Hey, that's pretty close.
- Have I... Yeah, that is close.
Have I ever been more expensive than him?
I don't think so.
- I think, have you ever been more fancy?
- [Stevie] I think maybe.
- I think just say it that way.
Have you ever been more fancy than me?
- I don't need to.
I'm down to earth.
I'm a man of the people.
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