- Today we taste 70 year old fig pudding.
- Let's talk about that.
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- The Mythical Crew keeps finding more
and more vintaged, vintaged?
- Yeah, they've been vintaged.
- That's what time does to things it vintages them.
Unopened cans of food on eBay.
So we keep asking, are these elderly and unopened canned
foods still enjoyable and worthy of modern shelves?
- Let's find out, it's time for Show Us Your Cans!
Vintage Canned Foods Taste Test.
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- Show us your cans.
Here's a canister.
So cans are now including canisters.
- I have an issue with this.
Not just that it's a canister, but that it's from 1990.
1990 is not vintage, y'all.
- It's made to look vintage.
- You know what I was doing in 1990, what we were doing in 1990?
- We were being 12 and 13.
- 12 and 13, man.
- It was such a wonderful time. - Seems like
yesterday enjoying canisters or Cracker Jacks.
- [Link] Yeah, I don't remember, eating Cracker Jacks.
- [Rhett] And also Cracker Jacks.
- No one did because they're 30 years old.
- Well, here's the thing about these.
They're from the 90's,
but they're made to look like they're even older.
They were vintage when they came out.
- They're vintaged. Maybe that's what.
Are you okay, man?
- Oh, please, open it.
- I want you to know that I feel your pain.
- No, you don't.
Oh, look, they're still in bags.
- Uh, did the,
it's vacuum sealed.
Really need to loosen it up.
- Don't. - No.
I want to.
- That one's
actually not, that one's puffy, which is not a good sign.
And this one is shrunk wrapped. What is this?
- Well, we don't need no scissors.
- [Link] But since they're here.
I mean, yeah, it's an entire slab.
- It's just a Nutty Buddy now.
It's a big Rice Krispie treat.
- It's got the Boggs.
- You know what, I mean?
Sort of smells like I would smell from time to time.
- Maybe
that's Wade Boggs right there. Was Wade Boggs ever a catcher?
- Look, two little nuts.
Two little nuts still sticking to this.
What was this thing?
- Guess what's inside? Toy surprise.
What is this?
takes me back to being 12 and 13.
Field general badge fun.
- Oh, I've got the genius badge.
- To wear, open badge slightly and place over pocket edge.
- Well. - You have a pocket?
You do have a pocket.
The button.
- No, I want the genius badge.
- There you go. I'm going to give you both of them.
You're going to be the field general genius.
- Not much of a genius.
- If you would follow instructions.
Okay, we got to taste this stuff.
No, we don't.
That's why there's two of us.
- We might as well, it gets a lot older than this.
- Just in case one of us dies.
- Why is yours so much darker than mine?
- Because I'm 13 and you're 12.
So mine's darkening up earlier.
I'm going to eat yours.
- Is that part of it?
- Yours didn't get darker?
- Darker?
- I'm just tasting.
- I have to take you seriously
cause I'm a little concerned that yours got darker.
If it got darker, just tell me.
- No, it didn't.
- Okay.
- It's not that bad.
- It's a little Boggsy.
- Mine's Boggsier than yours.
- No one cares,
Cracker Jack, you went away.
Stay away.
Cracker Jack.
- [Both] Cannot.
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- You know, Cracker Jacks are still around, Link.
- I wish I didn't. - That's a different episode.
- I wish you weren't telling me that.
- Where we figure out if something should be
brought back.
- Cracker Jacks don't exist. Cracker Jacks don't exist.
- Okay, you know what does exist?
This 70 year old can of fig pudding.
- Now, I love pudding, but I have to be honest.
- I don't know if pudding is the same thing.
- I have never known what figgy pudding is.
- Bring us some figgy pudding. - Well, you're about to find out.
- I don't know. I'd probably like it.
- If this is going to be representative
of what it would be
and what is being referred to in that song.
I can already tell you right now
that the liquid has left this thing.
Also, look at the shape.
I feel like
- I love that.
- Based on what I know
about engineering and geometry
and things, I feel like I have to open this side
in order to get this thing out.
Because if I open this side.
I'll just be a dumbo trying to get a thing out
through something that can't fit.
- That's smart, Rhett.
- You did, you really did.
- Well, I am a genius field general.
- But I think that.
- According to Cracker Jack.
- [Link] I thought
you were going to say, does it make it less stackable
because it can't hold as much.
What's bottom down pressure called?
Not tensile strength.
- KG,
bring me another can opener like I'm having
a rough time or something.
- This is not going to be good,
guys, get ready.
Oh, my Lord.
- You want to just, right on the desk.
We have a plate.
You can put it on.
- Yeah, but it's a dark plate.
- Make it light.
All right. See, I think you were.
You're right about this.
No need to tap.
- Oh, wow. It's like potting soil.
- It really. - Hold on.
That's not a Boggs.
That's not a Boggs, Link.
I mean,
it's something new.
- I mean, it looks like coffee grounds.
You've tricked me.
- You've tricked me.
- You have.
Why are you tricking me?
- I don't find this unpleasant.
I don't know why you're reacting that way.
- There is a little bit of Fig Newton,
which I recently discovered contains figs.
- It still has a figginess to it.
- Yeah. Do it, man. Give it a lick, Daddy.
There you go, we got to know if it's still good.
- I'm getting ready.
- Did the can keep it safe?
- I'm getting ready.
- You want me to?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to put my tongue out.
You force my head down.
Now it's not me resisting.
It's my tongue resisting.
Okay, just whatever you got to do to get me down.
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- Whatever I have to do?
He's shaking so much.
Why are you shaking so much?
I've tricked him.
- It instantly burned.
- [Link] Burn?
- [Rhett] It burned.
- [Woman] What does it look like if you.
- Cut it?
Well, I wish I had a nice knife,
but all I have is scissors.
Oh, come on.
- This is a passive aggressive way
to ask for a knife. Wasn't it?
- Hold on.
Is that me or, give me that knife.
I don't know if
I don't know how to use scissors.
- It's an aggressive way to ask for a knife.
- Oh, my.
My mouth tastes weird.
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Like.
- Does it burn?
- It's like something entered
my body somewhere else, and I began to taste
something in my mouth. You know what I'm saying?
- Like a digestive juice came up?
- Yeah. I don't know, man. It's real bad.
I'm going to push through, though.
- [Link] But I think we've learned that it's,
it didn't keep in the can.
But now when you lick
the inside
it might taste better.
- We don't know what figgy
pudding's supposed to taste like.
It just looks like more of the same.
- I mean,
it looks like when you plant died
and you just dumped out the pot.
- [Stevie] What is that like ring situation?
Do you see that?
- There is,
there is some
moisture that is in there.
- [Stevie] Put your tongue on it.
- Yeah, put your tongue on it.
- [Stevie] Rhett's tongue is soiled.
So we need a fresh tongue.
- Yeah, yeah.
I want you to feel what I'm feeling.
- It seems so good. - Which is like,
as if you've been poisoned.
- [Link] I don't.
- Maybe you shouldn't
- I'm just going to get close.
- Just light contact.
- And, you know, at a certain point
it'll jump from the figgy pudding to my tongue.
- It probably already has. That's the thing.
It probably already has.
- Oh, I touched it.
- [Rhett] Yeah, you did.
Did it sting?
It sting a bit?
- It stung a little. It did,
there's a.
- [Rhett] Yeah it stung a little bit.
You want to do it again now. You can't.
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- It does sting.
- It does sting. - It stings.
It stings.
- [Rhett] The figgy pudding stings, y'all.
It's not great.
So again, bring it back, no.
- The can didn't keep it.
And it might have something to do with the fact
that there's a complete rusted hole right here.
- Oh, gosh, we just ate a can that's been exposed to the air.
- I'm scared. - No, I think I did that.
- Okay, good.
Fig pudding, cannot.
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- Okay, Rhett.
Are you in for a little canned bean action?
Well, this is actually chili,
but it is with beans.
- With beans. Wolf Chili.
Wolf.
- Yes, wolf meat.
- From the 70's.
So, one way to think about this, Link,
because we're from the 70's
is this is what we would be like if we were chili.
- Yep, and I'd like to think we still taste good.
- Yep.
- $0.79 at the time.
Of course, we paid $90 for it.
- We got to eat it.
Got to eat it to make it worth it.
- Let me try my hand a little.
- Any predictions?
How much moisture
do you think that's going to have, that Wolf chili?
- [Link] We've got some puffy
happening, which tells me that it's probably dry.
- Because this is,
I just want to give you a fair warning
because this is a meat product.
Meat does not age
well, this is no figgy pudding, my friend.
So prepare to dry heave.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I've popped it.
Oh, it farted.
- You smell anything? - Did you?
I didn't.
It shot that way though, so maybe you'll get it.
- Oh, yeah.
It smells like somebody farted, Link.
A great time to fart is when you're opening a can
of 70 year old chili.
- Right, right. - Right, right.
Some of these have like a
like a grabber, but neither one of these do.
Gosh, well.
I haven't.
- Oh, dude, you flicked.
- Did that go in my? - Yeah.
Is he burning?
- [Link] I can't.
- [Rhett] Okay. There you go.
Oh gosh.
That's the fat has, the fat has settled.
- [Link] Oh, there's one bean on it.
- Hold on, hold on.
- I hear a siren.
I think the police have been.
- They know we opened it.
They know we opened it.
It was booby trapped. Can you dump it?
- I wonder if
in a full moon.
- [Rhett] Oh, yeah, you know about vacuums.
- It turns into.
- You know about vacuums.
- Teen Wolf chili. Get it?
Okay. Blow on that.
Put your mouth right on that hole
and just blow.
Don't suck though, because it might kill you.
Good boy.
There you.
Yes, Rhett. I'm so proud.
Yes, you did it.
You blew the Wolf chili.
- Then it came right out.
- It looks kind of frosty on the end.
Hass this been frozen?
- Oh, it's so, oh, it's jiggly.
It's still got a jiggle to it.
I think I could just take a whole spoonful.
Look at that, Link.
Oh, gosh, now I'm smelling it.
Now I'm smelling it.
- I mean, it looks like dog food.
- [Rhett] I feel like you could tongue that
I wouldn't though.
- Smells like dog food.
- Get a real good whiff.
Get a real good whiff, and you will dry heave.
- It smells like dog food.
- I want to see you dry heave.
Just put it right up to your, here,
I got a big spoonful.
Just breathe in deep through your nose.
I mean, you can't, look, I'm
going to sniff it without dry heaving.
Like a wolf would.
- I don't think it's,
I don't think it's the worse, I think it's dog foody.
- I'm going to do it without dry heaving.
It comes on.
You resist it.
Just resist it.
No, no, no. Oh.
Resist it. Resist it, okay,
breathe out. That's good.
- We shouldn't be taking it.
I mean, just because we're
not eating it, smelling it is like the cousin
of taste.
- If we sniff
this now, 30 years from now, we can't be poisoned.
- But the thing is, when we sniff it,
it goes up in the, the sinuses, go all the way up to our brain.
- It breaks the blood brain barrier?
- I'm a little, I'm scaring myself with what I'm saying.
- We have to go on Wikipedia and find that out.
- I don't know.
Did we do everything we needed to do in order to move on?
Yes, Chili.
- [Both] Cannot.
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- [Both] Why did the chicken cross the road?
- [Rhett] We wanted this to be
an experience for the chicken.
Like, the first time this chicken has crossed the road.
I want to be there for that.
- [Link] Chickens, we welcome you into our space.
- That's the freshest egg I've ever seen.
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- [Both] Let's "bawk" about that.
- Yeah.
- That's pretty dumb, isn't it? - Pretty cheesy.
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- What's that?
- It is Dawn
Fresh Mushroom Steak Sauce.
- Fresh?
- From the 60's.
- Okay.
60 year old steak sauce.
- Oh, hey, listen.
We've got liquid. We've got sauciness in this thing.
Hey, it's ready, it's ready to serve.
- I kind of like.
- It'd be nice if we had a steak just to pour it over.
- Yeah, they were kind enough to do that.
- Oh, convenient.
- I'll eat a little bit before.
- [Rhett] You got me a little bit worried.
- I know.
- You got me a little bit worried, Link,
because you're talking about the blood brain barrier.
And smelling things.
- I'm a little worried.
- [Rhett] Well, this is distributed by.
- But you don't get those badges by being a wuss.
The Green Giant Company, which is in Le Sueur
Minnesota, which I guess is where the peas are.
- I guess that's where the peas are.
- Is that where the peas are?
- I like the aesthetic of this.
- Yeah. So small.
Okay, let's see if we get a little bit of a release.
Oh, yeah.
- [Link] And bubbles.
Oh it's spurting,
spurting, spurting.
- [Rhett] I don't think that's good.
I think that's a bad sign.
I think that's a botch sign. Like a Botulism sign.
- Yeah,
you botched this one. Okay.
You're the one with the.
- With the what?
- [Link] With the badges.
Listen, I'm just a field, genius.
field general, and my instructions are not to eat
this.
- Yeah. There's a lot of liquid there.
- [Rhett] It's no longer fresh.
- [Link] There's a lot of liquid there.
Great.
- Pour it on the steak.
Maybe, maybe,
maybe things will change when you pour it on the steak.
- $50.
- Maybe in context, it'll make sense.
- Is what we paid for this.
- [Rhett] Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's.
Yeah, now we're talking.
Now we get to the thick stuff.
Now it's starting to look appetizing.
Oh, really now. Yes.
- If it was something else,
I mean.
- [Rhett] It's kind of separating.
- Like an apple, cinnamon pudding, apple, cinnamon sauce.
It looks like refried beans now.
- Give it a good whiff.
- Roger that, Captain General.
- It smells a lot like the can.
That's what I'm smelling right now.
- Yes. - Yes.
- Yes, yes, Lord. Bless us this food.
- Let it not kill us.
- Let it not purge through the brain blood barrier.
It's very metallic.
- It's so metallic.
That's what the inside of my mouth
was tasting like with that fig pudding.
- Okay.
You know, we are exercising our autonomous right
to not touch our tongues to this.
- [Rhett] We don't have to do it.
We don't have to do it. We shouldn't do it.
- It's beautiful in packaging, but not in release.
The Dawn Fresh Mushroom Steak Sauce from the 1960s
- [Both] Cannot.
- Okay.
Well, we learned a lot today.
Mostly that things are
not really holding up in cans very well.
- Yeah.
People just want to buy this stuff
to put it on a shelf, not knowing how close they are
to their blood brain barriers.
- But it's a great investment.
Think about the return on that mushroom steak sauce.
I mean, you pay, what,
$0.30 for it back in the day and you get a $50 return.
So, a great investment is canned foods.
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