- Is anything truly ever free?
- Let's talk about that
((Intro Music))
- Good Mythical Morning
- If you're not already a big freebie head.
Well, you might be, freebie head, you like that?
- Oh, yeah, I've got a big one now.
- I consider myself one of the freebie heads.
- Oh, good. Congratulations.
- If you are not a freebie head, you might be surprised
to discover that there's a whole corner of the internet
that dabbles in the hunting for free food, including multiple services
that give out full size grocery store samples.
Check out this offer from a service called Aisle, not a sponsor.
Oh, an ad for BobaBam What's BobaBam?
Well, it says free at least six times at the top.
- All you got to do
is enter your phone number and submit and then a couple of steps more.
And bam, you have this. BobaBam.
- Again, not a sponsor.
- It looks a little different - As much as you're "bam-ing" it
It seems like it might be a sponsor.
- I'm excited.
- All right.
- So it looks a little bit like what was advertised.
I think they like recently changed their branding.
But any way, you do, it did work.
- It said you have to enter in a phone number.
Whose phone number was entered.
Am I going to be getting some BobaBam calls?
- [Chase] No.
- No?
- Apparently it was Chase's phone number.
- I don't like that delayed answer, Chase
- Okay.
So if you want to know what the catch is with all of this, so do we.
Which is why today we're going to get to the bottom of it.
You might be saving money, but as everything you go
through in order to cash in on these sweet deals actually worth it?
- That is the $0 question.
It's time for
What's The Real Cost of Free Food?
Time? Effort? Copious Amounts of Blood?
Let's Find Out
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- [Stevie] Okay, guys.
In each round, you'll be presented with two different foods.
One that was bought with good old fashioned money and one
that was acquired through a service that gives out freebies.
- Okay.
Oh, that didn't sound right.
I'll tell you
what we had to do to acquire whatever food we got for free.
Then you'll need to taste both and decide which one you think it was.
And after we reveal which food we got for free,
we'll also ask you to declare whether or not it's worth the trouble.
The winner will receive free pats on the back on demand from the loser.
in Good Mythical More.
- As opposed to how we usually have to pay
each other for that.
- Right. Yeah, yeah.
It does require me giving you my phone number, though.
- [Stevie] Okay. You can begin tasting your first match up.
So one of these foods was acquired from a service called Aisle
which you mentioned in the intro.
On Aisle. You sign up with a phone number,
then go purchase the food you've signed up for from participating store.
After purchasing the food, you take a photo of your receipt
and then send it to a corresponding number.
Your receipt is then processed
and the entire cost of what you spent on the product will be Venmo or PayPaled.
Back to you within 24 hours.
- From the Nigerian prince.
- Okay.
Before you taste it and comment on it, it's enhanced.
It is enhanced cookie dough, Link.
It's enhanced with vitamin D
and reishi, which I think is a mushroom. Reishi?
Well, how you say that?
Brittany's laughing at me.
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- Reishi
- [Brittany] I'm laughing at Link's head movements.
- Oh, yeah. He's just being a freebie head.
- I'm feeling the freebie.
- Can you taste mushrooms?
- No.
Enhanced cookie dough?
I am,
I'm here for it.
That tastes pretty good, does it have eggs?
It's really only good, if it could kill you.
- It probably doesn't if you can eat it like this.
That's the type of cookie dough
I like the ones that say it's good because it can kill you.
- Do you like pasta that's completely unseasoned?
And has nothing on it at all?
- And made from chickpeas?
After eating cookie dough?
Yeah.
I wanted to start with this one,
but you were opening that, and
- Okay, so I have some reasons
why I'm going to pick one of them, but I don't want to say those out loud.
- You don't have to
- I'll just think them, real hard.
give away, cookie dough for me to want to try it.
I'm always up to try new cookie dough.
I think I have to be freebie headed
- To try something that's made from chickpeas?
- Yes.
- Okay, well, place your hand over what you think was the free one.
- [Stevie] 3, 2, 1.
- Oh, you, oh.
- Yep, see? I was hoping to
lure you off.
- No, I think because it's got mushrooms in it.
It's enhanced.
It sounds like something you had to sell hard.
- Let me eat some more of it while she tells me I was right.
- [Stevie] The free food was
the enhanced cookie dough.
- No!
- [Stevie] From "dough". That's how you pronounce that.
That name on there.
It's vegan and gluten free and better for you.
And listed at $16 a jar.
- Good gosh.
- [Stevie] Well, we got this one free.
- Quite a deal.
- Well, we paid 16, then we sent a picture.
- I don't think it's worth it, because I don't think it tastes
as good as regular cookie dough, but it is enhanced.
What do you think?
You seem to really like it.
- Does it have eggs?
- It doesn't.
- I don't like it. Can't kill me. Don't like it.
- It's just got oat flour and stuff.
Okay. So we don't think that it's worth it.
- No.
- Neither one of us do.
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- [Stevie] One of these foods was acquired
through a service called Social Nature.
Social Nature works by first having customers take a survey
to see if they qualify to try a particular food.
After meeting qualification standards, a physical manufacturers coupon
will be mailed to the customer within 4 to 6 weeks.
You then take that coupon to the store
and use it to buy your product free of charge.
- How many questions on the survey?
- [Stevie] A decent amount.
- How do I qualify?
- How personal is the survey?
- Do you like beef sticks?
What is the question?
Are you willing to wait a month and a half for a beef stick?
- Hold on, this ain't a beef stick.
This is a
- A deer stick. It's a deer stick.
They call it venison to make it sound more appetizing.
- Salt and pepper venison stick, grass fed and finished venison.
- How do you know what a deer has been eating?
How you keeping up with a deer diet?
Is it a farm?
- They put the deer on a grass patch and it's hungry for that.
And then how do you finish a venison?
- I don't know how you make sure a deer only eat grass.
I'm suspect.
- What is a finished venison?
Like you kill it?
- Yeah.
- Says it right there.
- I don't like to think about it like that.
- Killed deer.
- The last thing this deer had before we killed it was grass.
- I've had this brand before.
- Look, they have a little
a little joke.
Is it hot in here or is that you just crushing your day?
((Laughing))
- Yeah, that's a joke.
- What does yours say?
It's like Laffy Taffy.
It's probably something different.
Is yours as good as mine?
- It's not impossible.
The word itself is "I'm possible".
- Oh, it's a sentence.
- It's just a, it's like a happy thought.
- So we know what this company is willing to do.
- We killed a deer for this.
They've got to balance that out somehow.
- Equally enticing.
Barley, milk.
- Golden Wing.
It's got a lot of vitamin D.
It's dairy free.
- See this?
What am I? Written on there
- What am I?
- See, this is again, they're trying to sell something that.
- I don't need to shake this.
It's already right here. Yeah, if.
If the packaging
doesn't know what it is,
I think you have to give it away.
- Honey, what'd you do at work today?
I ate some deer and drank some barley milk.
- It tastes a lot like oat milk.
- Are you impressed?
I always follow up my deer with barley.
It actually takes a lot like oat milk.
Like, I would think that's what it was.
- I would have thought that's what it was.
You are oat milk.
That's what you are.
How am I making this decision?
- Your beef sticks on the desk.
- It really comes down to which company
- That's embarrassing.
- allocated marketing funds to this 4 to 6 weeks survey gimmick.
We're going to need to wipe.
Who would,
Who would do that?
- I've got a clue.
- [Stevie] Hand over the freebie in 3, 2, 1.
- I'm going with this one. Why did you go with that one?
- Because of these Laffy Taffy jokes.
- That's a dumb.
- It just shows that the marketing department is really
Is trying all kinds of things.
And they're like, we'll do inspirational things.
I got one about possible, impossible.
And also let's do the thing where people get it for free.
- Six weeks later.
- I'm going with this one.
- Why?
- Because I've never heard of this.
This brand I've heard of.
But I've never seen the deer.
Maybe people are afraid to try the deer.
You got to give it away.
Are you more afraid to eat deer or barley?
- I don't know.
-I'm going to change my answer.
- No, you can't do that.
That's not how it works.
- Well, I just,
well my hands over there now.
- Hold on, can he do that?
- [Stevie] No.
- Oh, look, my hand moved.
That's how easy it is.
- [Stevie] Keep your answers to
that part of the show.
- But no,
nothing has impacted
my ability to change
- I gave you my reason after I did it
and then believed me.
I'll probably be wrong.
You might be right.
- [Stevie] Well, you know what, Link?
Okay, fine. For this one,
because you didn't know.
We haven't done that many episodes of this show.
And I want to get, if you want to
change your answer, I just want to let you know, moving forward.
You cannot.
So you want to change your answer?
- Yes, back to this
because I see what you're trying to do.
- I appreciate you trying to get him to do the wrong thing.
- I see what you're trying to do.
- [Stevie] The free food
is the Golden Wing barley milk.
- Told you. First.
- [Stevie] It's 50% less sugar and two times more calcium
as compared to 2% dairy milk and sells for $6.49 a carton.
Is it worth it?
Is it worth? It's the question.
- Let me work it.
- [Stevie] Sure.
- I don't know.
It just tastes like another milk alternative
that I'm probably not going to enjoy on a regular basis.
- I agree. Only that one's worth it.
No, not over here.
- We're not taking your barley milk.
Golden wing
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- Hold on a second,
there's something here under the table.
- What could it be?
- It's a Mythical Cookbook.
- It's The Mythical Cookbook.
- Yes. Listen, this is
the thing you've been asking for for years.
Yes, Josh and the Mythical Kitchen team worked together to create the Mythical Cookbook.
It is a collection of all your favorite recipes
that have been featured on the show and a lot of original,
completely original dishes developed by the Mythical Kitcheneers.
You can preorder it right now so you can get it.
You can be one of the first people to get it
when it comes out in 2024, March 2024 is that when we're?
- [Stevie] That's right.
- Preorder it now and then
you'll be surprised when it shows up because you'll be the first
and you will have forgotten that you already paid for it.
Maybe you bought two since then.
- Yeah.
- Buy one, two, or three.
- With both of your phone numbers.
- Yeah.
And then you sent us a picture and then we'll reimburse you.
- Mythical.com/cookbook.
That's where you go to order it, okay?
- Look at this, oops, sorry.
- [Stevie] All right, we're going back to Aisle.
So as a reminder, you know,
you give them your phone number, you take the photo of the receipt.
- No survey, though.
- [Stevie] No survey. No survey.
- But then they're texting you because you know they are.
You're getting texts.
Is it worth it? Nugs.
- Now, these are plant based, so you could feed them
directly to a chicken, which is
- Disturbing to put on the box.
- The thing is, is that you could feed a chicken nugget to a chicken.
It would also eat it.
I mean, not that I've ever done that.
I'm just saying they'd probably eat it.
They're not thinking. They're not thinking a lot.
- No, they're not. They're just ticking it up.
- Hold on, that's pretty good, man.
- Until you taste it. Like, taste it.
The breading is good.
Pepper is good.
- The meat is pretty good, too. How could you?
This isn't, there's nothing offputting about it.
Which is phenomenal that they pulled this off.
- No, you're right, it isn't.
It isn't bad at all.
-No, if it had some sauce.
- I'm trying to figure out what the packaging tells me.
The back is so rudimentary.
- Yeah, it looks like a high school class
had to design a box.
- And when they put this down, I legitimately thought it was a frosty
thawed out chicken breast.
I don't know why, but it's actually a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
- You got chicken on the brain.
- It's a Smucker. What's the Smucker version?
- It's a Smucker?
- It's a fancy fried version of a
- Uncrustables.
- Uncrustable.
And you put it in the toaster oven.
- It's not even sealed, though.
It's like a grandma
wanted to save a couple of bucks and not let you get it an Uncrustable,
and she didn't have the thing
to tamp it down with and she just folded over some bread.
- But, and the shape is a certain, what is the shape?
It's like a beanie?
I don't know why this is the shape.
- Beanie shape is what I was thinking.
- But why is this the shape?
- That's the shape grandma made it.
It taste pretty good.
Oh, I like grabbing a package and
it's soft inside like that.
- That is good.
- You can store this up to six months in your freezer. So you can wait
two months for it and then you can wait another six months.
You could almost get a year out of this, chubby.
I'm just calling you your nickname.
That's not the name.
That's not the name of the brand.
- I know my cheeks are.
- No, that's not what I was talking about.
- It's a cloud.
It says it right there.
It's a cloud.
- Oh, what is it?
- A cloud.
I literally read that and then I heard myself say it
and it was the answer to a question.
- It looks a lot more cloud like on the packaging.
- It's a cloud.
- All right. These nugs are good.
- I love this.
- I don't care who you are.
- Rhett's impressed with that.
- [Stevie] Which one did we get for free?
3, 2, 1.
- Yep.
I think the packaging, they're really throwing it in at marketing and design and.
And working hard,
trying hard to convince you that this isn't already on the market.
- [Stevie] You are both
correct.
They're meant to feed the kid in you without any added sugar
sold in packs of eight for $13.29
- It's totally worth it because now I'm like, wanting these.
- [Stevie] But isn't it just a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
- Yeah, yeah.
((Laughing))
But it's a cloud.
((Music))
- [Stevie] This is another one from Aisle.
And it was exclusive to Gelson's.
And the the fries in the celery are just, you know, free to use for the product.
- Okay. There's already new pepper on the fries.
- You want more?
- Yeah, I like that it's called new pepper.
Not that we needed to
((Laughing))
get a newer pepper.
- I wasn't trying to be cute.
- Good gosh. Look at that one.
That's a lot of new pepper.
- Well, I want to know what we're tasting. - That's like caked.
- I mean, how new is it?
Oh, yeah.
Tasting that.
Put it on there like Bojangles seasoning.
- I love pepper.
And I ate one of those that has, like,
the full dump and no complaints.
- It's really good.
- What is it?
Besides just pepper to make it new?
- The first ingredient is ground, black pepper corns.
But then it's got turmeric.
- That's old pepper.
- Turmeric.
And then nutrients from broccoli, spinach, kale, pumpkin,
sweet potatoes, sunflower seeds, cranberries, cranberries?
Cholera.
Oh, chlorella.
((Laughing))
Yeah.
So you might.
You might want to slow down.
- I just contracted cholera
from my freaking new pepper.
Good packaging.
- That's very tasty.
As a pepper lover, I think I would be tempted.
- I'm tempted to take this home.
Hey, you know what? all I got to do is get texts
from New Pepper.
- 10% of your daily vitamins.
If you just snort the whole thing.
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- Majestic sprouted hummus.
It's a six time winner of America's Best Food Award.
Do you need to give it away if it's won something six times?
- Gelson's.
You ever go in a Gelson's, Stevie? It's pretty fancy.
- Why didn't you ask me?
- Because you don't go in grocery stores. - Nope, never been.
Thanks for asking.
- You go in, Stevie?
- [Stevie] Yeah, I just didn't have much more to add after that.
There's not a lot to talk about about Gelson's.
I'm not excited by Gelson's.
Like, the rotisserie chickens are just a little bit
too pale for me, if you know what I'm saying?
- Too pale? - Too pale.
- [Stevie] I like a good, you know what's a good looking rotisserie chicken?
Costco, you know? They are just churning out good chickens.
- Choking on new pepper over here, give me a second.
- Yeah, it's got omega threes in it. That's whyit takes a little fishy.
Maybe it's the new pepper.
- It tastes good to me.
- I still don't know what
criteria I'm supposed to apply to know what to vote for.
I think it's the one that I wouldn't try unless it was free.
- [Stevie] 3, 2, 1 - New pepper.
- Yeah. What's wrong with old pepper?
You're going to have to win me over.
Is it free? Well, okay, then.
See, that's what happens.
Right, yeah, that was it. - [Stevie] You're both
Correct.
- See? We're finally figuring this out.
- We hacked the system.
- [Stevie] How much you think that new pepper container goes for?
- $7.53?
- No, no, no, friend.
This is new pepper.
((Laughing))
$12.99
- [Stevie] $18
So. is it worth it?
Is it worth it?
Boy, that was like a 70 cent spill I did earlier.
- Put that thing down, flip it and reverse it.
Now I did a cute thing.
I can't let you have all the cute things.
- Come on, now.
- [Stevie] Well, the tie is
- Look how yellow it is. That's turmeric.
- [Stevie] So that means you both get free pats on the back from each other
on demand, which should be fun in Good Mythical More.
- Yeah, and you know what? We figured it out by the end.
We both deserved pats on the back.
- Yeah we do.
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