What's the best peanut butter candy?
Let's talk about.
Good Mythical Morning.
Somebody's excited.
Yes.
The time has come for us to address an ongoing controversy surrounding this show.
Many people believe that anytime we do something like a Taste Test or a Gut Check
or any kind of ranking at all we're inevitably going to crown the peanut
butter option as the winner.
So if you're one of those people all I got to say is you may be right.
Yeah it is true.
We're good old peanut butter boys.
Yeah we are.
So it seemed to us that the most exciting Taste Test imaginable would be
one that leveled the playing field
and I'm talking about three days
of nothing but peanut butter foods.
March Madness style.
Six sultry sweets will square off in this super size soiree sending one superior
specimen into the stratosphere of salivation.
Just like Sydney Sweeney scarfing down scallops at the Simi Valley Sycamore
Square shopping center.
This seismic saga will
leave Spielberg shaking in his sneakers.
Good afternoon good evening and good nut!
It's the 2024 Peanut Butter Madness Tournament Candy Division.
Okay.
Wow.
You all right?
Give me a second.
You're good?
You know what's going to make you feel better?
Your throat?
Peanut butter.
So we put together a list of the best selling most popular peanut butter
candies available on the market and then we asked you the Mythical Beasts which
ones you like the best.
Those results determined our brackets on the board which is being controlled by
the recently divorced
Miss Peanut.
Miss Peanut?
Well it's still Mrs.
Peanut.
I kept
the name
even though I was a peanut before.
I've been a peanut the whole time.
But you know you keep the last name of the thing you are like I assume your
last name is human man.
It is.
Of course.
We keep it simple.
Are you still in mourning for your divorce?
Mourning?
No no I'm not.
Yeah
I married him.
Well I'm much younger.
He's very old.
The cane.
It was a lot of caregiving you know?
He's not dead is he?
He was.
It's kind of unclear.
He was dead.
I guess it didn't work.
Did you get half is all I
really want to know.
I had somebody but
they didn't do it good.
Did you get half though?
Oh I got much more than half.
Oh great.
All right.
As you can see I'm here and he's not.
That's right.
Okay.
So the winning peanut butter candy will be named the Most Elite PB Treat You Could
Eat.
Without further ado here are the top six peanut butter candies.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.
Butterfinger.
Ben and
Jerry's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Mix.
Peanut
Butter M&M's.
Reese's Pieces.
And Reese's Big Cup Stuffed with Pretzels.
Let's get to it.
We're starting with our fourth seed Butterfinger versus the fifth seed Ben
and Jerry's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Mix.
Okay.
Start over here.
Oh look nicely cross sectioned for us already.
That is a deep orange.
Link
I've heard you voice your negative opinions about Butterfinger before.
Let me just say before you bite into it.
Well I tried and I couldn't.
In 2019 it was reformulated an improved recipe the better Butterfinger.
And they said that they are using larger peanuts in the bar's core that are roasted
at the manufacturing plant.
The new bar also has a higher percentage of cocoa and milk in the chocolatey
coating
and cut ingredients such as the preservative TBHQ
and hydrogenated oils.
The source is the
Butterfinger website.
I didn't mean to get choked up in the middle.
I just kind of took some wafer down.
It's not a wafer man.
It's hard peanut butter.
But it's candy like in its consistency and that's what's always throwing me.
I will say.
You like the flavor?
It's robust
peanutty more than I gave it credit for.
So maybe there was an improvement.
I think there was an improvement.
But even as a beater funger.
I always knew you were a beater funger.
As a beater funger lover.
I got
to say.
Speaking for all beater fungers.
I feel like the exercise that we are doing today is
we're trying to find the best
candy contextualized experience of peanut butter.
If you want peanut butter but you don't want just peanut butter where are you
going to turn in the candy world?
This has a peanut butter flavor but texture wise it's so hard.
Yeah.
Points against
in my mind.
I just don't love how it gets stuck in my teeth.
But you love this kind of thing.
I've never had this specifically.
Now Ben and Jerry's I did not realize.
They
say that they're the ones that invented cookie dough going into ice cream.
What's the source for that?
The Ben and Jerry's website?
Yeah.
Where they also say that it was created after a fan anonymously suggested it at
their scoop shop.
So thank you to that anonymous fan and so they certainly have the right and they
did starting in 2018 to start making these edible cookie dough bites which are
supposed to stay frozen too.
Now is it just
cookie dough and then there's peanut butter cups separate?
Well let's find out.
So if I eat just the cookie dough.
No it's peanut butter cookie dough.
I'm about to say that's got some peanut butter flavor in it.
And that
is good.
Peanut Butter Cookie Dough.
And then those little cups they burst with softness.
I'm loving this.
I like it a lot.
And there's a real peanut butter flavor or actual real peanut butter presence in
the cups.
And if these were just cookie dough.
Yeah that wouldn't have cut it.
But the fact that they are.
I think I'm on team cookie dough here.
Yeah I'm loving that.
And that's said
as a beater funger.
We have
an upset in the rankings already
Mrs.
Peanut.
We're moving Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough Mix Peanut Butter version
forward.
Oh well that's too bad.
I mean I've been told by my lawyer not to do too much smack talking but I'll
tell you this my new lover.
This explains
what we do.
This explains what we do.
I think I made it
like you know?
Pretty subtle.
Are you into peanuts or people with monocles?
Well he's not a person first of all.
Oh okay.
He's a peanut with a monocle.
And I don't even.
I don't care about that.
He doesn't even need that.
Did you know that?
It's just glass.
He's Zooey Deschaneling that monocle.
Wow.
He's a poser.
Yes.
He's a peanut poser.
Okay.
Throw it up there.
Well I don't.
Not there.
Yep.
No no not there.
She's not a human.
They asked me before this if I knew how to do this and I said yes but I lied.
I lied.
Thank you Miss Peanut and that means that the Butterfinger is going into the
peanut butter gutter
into the peanut butter
abyss.
Wow it's nasty down there.
Now we have our third seed Reese's Pieces going head to head with our last
seed Reese's Big Cup Stuffed with Pretzels.
We know we like those.
Because that
won our Reese's Gut Check tournament.
Okay.
Reese's Pieces.
Actually they were declining in popularity in the then of course.
E.
T.
When they were featured in E.
T.
the sales went up 300%.
Do you know though that Spielberg wanted and asked for them to be M&M's;
and not Reese's Pieces?
And M&M's;
M said we do not want to be associated with an alien concept.
Losers.
It makes me like Reese's Pieces a lot more than M&
M's.
I love getting these in the movie theater.
That might be a discussion for later in this tournament.
These are good dude.
If you like a little bit of candy
coating
over your peanuts.
And the texture is not exactly not exactly soft
but there's something about breaking through the candy shell and getting into
that peanut butter experience.
It's a fun mouth discovery.
But this
is something real special here.
I know.
This totally blindsided us.
These were invented
and released during the pandemic when everybody according to Reese's was
feeling salty.
So they started putting salty stuff in their Reese's like
potato chips and these pretzel bits.
Now in the Gut Check zone when you eat a lot of Reese's it's nice to have
something mix it up.
Yeah.
And it's funny eating these now in this context because you start realizing how
chocolate forward they are.
Yeah there's a lot of chocolate but you don't need a lot of peanut butter for it
to dominate.
There's not an overwhelming amount of pretzels which is nice.
They use restraint.
It's really for the texture which I really appreciate.
It gets you a little more saltiness.
I stand by it being better than a normal one.
I think again we'll move on.
I don't know about that but I do think
as much as I like Reese's Pieces
and E.
T.
and Spielberg
I think that
the Big Cup takes the cake on this one.
Don't you agree?
I certainly agree because I don't love these and it's nice to know that
something can be added to Reese's that
can be exciting.
A little salty.
Well there you have it.
Then move forward.
The Big Cups.
Moving on Mrs.
Peanut.
Thank you so much.
I know where it is now.
Oh I'm having so much fun.
You know before the divorce I was a shell of a woman.
And of course that means that
the alien associated pieces
going down.
Lucas is not happy down there.
I probably shouldn't have done that.
Now we got our first seed Reese's Peanut Butter Cups up against the winner of the
first round Ben and Jerry's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Mix.
Classic
for a reason.
I like to break it apart just to kind of give a nice little look in there.
It's a great ratio.
They've tried thinner they've tried thicker.
With pretzels.
It's the best.
It's wonderful.
Somehow it didn't beat the pretzels when we were doing the Taste Test but again I
think it was what you said.
We were looking for something a little bit different in the context.
When they're great they're great.
But I will say when they're bad they're bad.
When they're bad?
What do you mean?
When the peanut butter turns to dust inside.
Oh you've been Boggsing on some?
It happens more than I'd care to admit.
How long do you have to wait for that to happen?
You've been storing them up like a squirrel?
No I don't store them up.
It's just sometimes you never know if you get them off the wrong shelf.
Okay.
Like at the dollar store?
I really like the ratio that they've set up here.
Visually I'm seeing it as
it's a two to one.
But you also get a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup kind of in this.
Yeah you do.
And that's very good.
It's so good.
I don't know how
we could ever
choose
this
over that.
I kind of want to.
I know.
I kind of want to as well.
Well if we both want to then we should just do it.
You can probably hear that the crew has their own tournament going on.
Oh really?
Yeah and the standings will be dictated by what you choose so.
There's a lot on the line.
Sorry that's also irrelevant.
Okay.
Is it wrong
that I think that
this little peanut butter cup tastes better than this one?
It's bursting with softness.
It's frozen yet not hard.
They've done something magical.
I'm sorry guys.
Ben and Jerry's is moving on.
We're crazy!
Peanut butter boys did it.
Breaking rules defying expectations.
What do you think peanut butter woman?
I'm in shock.
Yeah.
Yeah you probably should be.
I hate to say it but that means
the classic Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
is
rolling
to the abyss.
Sorry.
Not really.
Irrelevant.
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All right now we have our semifinal
and we've got our peanut butter M&M's;
entering the chat
versus
the Big Cup.
These were released on January 1 1991.
What do you think you were doing on January 1 1991?
That would have been 8th grade for us just in case you're wondering.
Practicing kissing my girlfriend by kissing
the wall of my shower.
She was very flat.
She was damp.
She was hot and awesome
and everybody wanted to date her.
She was white flat and wet.
Just like your shower.
Made of.
How you like these M&
M's?
She's a great person and she still exists.
Yeah.
I think she went to freaking Harvard man.
Yeah let's not talk about her.
She's the smartest person ever from our town.
Right.
Which is why we broke up.
Incompatibility
These are so tasty.
I love the size of these and I love
the softness.
It's bursting with softness on the inside.
I hate them.
Because it breaks through and then you get a really authentic peanut butter
experience.
There's no association with aliens.
I love them.
I just don't.
My favorite M&M.
I just don't like them.
This is surprising.
New to the market.
Taking the world by storm thanks to us.
Something happened to this one.
It melted a little bit.
So I am firmly in Big Cup camp.
You've been practicing kissing on this?
Come to my side man.
Come to my side.
I teach you how to kiss a shower.
Oh God.
I just feel like you get an unadulterated peanut butter experience on the inside of
this thing.
I mean it's just so nice and
soft.
I was going to say that's irrelevant but I think that's exactly what we're doing
today.
Link I'm not.
Tiebreaker.
I'm not coming off of this.
How are we tiebreaking?
Okay so today's tiebreaker test
is a little bit of an agility
skill situation.
Because what we've got is this container of M&M's;
right here
and I'm going to give you oh
we got a double container of M&
M's.
I'm going to give you 10 seconds.
You are each going to grab all of the red M&M's;
from your pile and put them in that little bowl
and whoever grabs the most
gets to move their candy forward.
But
are you penalized if there's anything else in there?
Yeah I'm going to penalize you so hard.
Maybe a negative for every one that's not red and a positive one for every one.
Sure.
On your marks.
Get set.
Go.
Time.
Stop stop.
Put your little hands down.
1 2 3- 4 5 6 7.
I have an orange one for negative one.
And then I have 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11.
So ten.
Yes!
That's what I get for never touching M&
M's
Okay.
M&M's;
is very scientific but they are moving on.
Look at that.
Who predicted this final?
Nobody.
That means Link your Big Cup
is rolling on down to the abyss.
We've reached the unexpected finals.
The five seed Ben and Jerry's Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Mix Up against the
number two seed PB M&M.
Now
you know I don't like these.
Yeah you already made that clear.
And I'm loving these.
It's so soft.
Feels so wrong.
It has a lot.
There's no eggs.
Of peanut butter flavor.
A lot of peanut butter flavor.
And it has a Reese's Cup in it.
Non-branded.
So you know where we're going with this right?
Well let's make it interesting.
I think
it being here is interesting.
I still like those.
But it's no contest.
These are almost
perfect.
You know what they'd be great in?
Ice cream.
Yep.
Which we will do
day after tomorrow but tomorrow we're doing peanut butter snacks.
So not candies but snacks.
Okay.
That means that
M&M's;
sorry I love you but you are going down the chute.
Even the glass thing goes down.
And that means
the dark horse candidate.
Who would have thought?
Ben and Jerry's Cookie Dough Mix is the Most Elite PB Treat You Can Eat.
What?
Nobody's cheering.
Nobody in here predicted this.
They're so good.
The reason that you don't like them is you don't know about them.
You don't even know yet.
But you will won't you?
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So
this is what I got going on for you.
Why is it centered like that?
Yeah why is it sideways?
Why is it sideways?
Well maybe that's all you need.