Sure, you've had Thin Mints,
but what about Thin Garlics?
Let's talk about that.
Good mythical morning.
Okay, a lotta strong flavors exist,
but if you think about it,
garlic and mint, probably two of the strongest,
they've been battling it out for so long,
I'm surprised Disney and Sony aren't cage fighting
over their trademarks.
Ooh, okay.
Well, let's get the jump on them.
I hereby patent, and I don't know
if that's exactly how it works.
That is how it works.
I'm gonna patent the Garlic Gremlin
versus the Mint Man.
Ooh.
It's a breath battle to the death.
We declared a patent right here.
Ha.
I don't think that's how it works.
But today, that battle is gonna be happening
in our mouths, but here's the twist,
everything is twisted,
because these two superflavors
are taking over each other's foods.
It's time for Garlic Food Minty
Versus Mint Food Garlicky,
Which Will Taste Great
and Which Will Make Us All Sicky?
Sicky, sicky, sicky.
I hereby patent garlicky.
A few weeks ago, we posted a series
of garlicified minty foods
versus mintified garlicky food match-ups.
Garlicky.
And, garlicky?
Mm-hm.
And you voted on which you thought we would like the most.
Yeah, that's how it works.
Make sure you follow us on Instagram
if you wanna participate in these type of polls.
Now, the Mythical Kitcheneers have made these foods,
and we're gonna try them out,
and then see if you were right.
Yeah, now, last time, y'all won.
You sneaky little mythical maniacs.
But can you keep the streak alive?
Okay, just like last time,
you get a point for each round
the majority of you guesses correctly.
If you get three or more points,
we're gonna give you a whole bunch of unexpected reasons
to smile in "Good Mythical More,"
but if you don't get three right,
we're gonna pose with a dirty mop on Instagram,
and you'll all have to comment under it,
"That's a mop, we're a flop."
Okay.
You'll feel horrible about yourself.
Let's gar-lick these foods,
and see if any are mint to be.
Oh.
Just can't imagine a world without Girl Scout Cookies
or garlic knots, and I hope we never have to,
but when we swap them,
which dish do we wish never existed?
We've got Thin Garlics, Girl Scout Cookies,
and mint knots.
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty straightforward.
With the mint knots.
Where do you wanna start?
You wanna go dessert second?
But there's garlic in there.
Is it dessert?
But it's still chocolate.
I'm scared of everything with garlic in it.
Let's do that second.
Nicole, do you have a favorite between these two/
Just yes or no.
I can't do that.
Yeah.
I just wanna know
if you have a favorite. That's not fair.
I do.
Now, you've infused mint into this,
you've still got the saltiness and the knottiness.
Lots of knottiness.
Ooh, it's so knotty.
But the mint is.
It's not that far off.
It's subtle.
You didn't go so hard
that you were trying to smush our experience
in a certain direction, right?
Correct, I'm trying to make this
as enjoyable as I can for you guys.
Okay, all right. Okay.
That's good to know, as I reach for the Thin Garlics.
'Cause that's still buttery and salty.
Yeah, you still get the butter.
And so the mint, it kinda works in that zone.
Okay.
How hard'd you go with these?
Oh, gosh, I can just smell the garlic.
Well, hold on now.
Smell it.
Smell of that.
I've got one.
Well, smell of it.
I'm tasting it, which is making me smell it,
and it's not nearly as bad
as I thought it was gonna be.
This works.
This is definitely better.
That's harsh,
so this is what we're voting for.
It's way better than I thought it was gonna be.
If I were you, would I have voted
for what I just voted for?
59%.
I don't know.
Of the mythical beasts thought
you would like mint knots better.
Okay. Yeah.
All right, yeah.
Neither of them are as good as the original form, though.
Okay, this battle shines a light
on the unsung heroes of a meal,
the drink and the side dish.
We've taken a refreshing beverage,
packed it full of what makes your breath not so refreshing.
This is garlic lemonade.
Ooh.
And then, everybody's favorite starchy starlet,
mint mashed potatoes.
Is that right?
Probably should follow up with the drink, right?
Sure.
I'm not gonna get a mint leaf.
Well, there looks to be, like, mint leaf shards.
It's a chiffonade.
A ship-onade. It's a chiffonade.
I was gonna say that
before you said it. A chiffonade?
Yes.
What is that?
It's when you roll up the leaves really tightly,
and then you take a knife,
and you slice it super, super thin
so they look like ribbons.
Yeah, a chiffonade.
That's weird, but not bad at all.
It's not bad.
It doesn't overpower it.
Mint is not quite as overpowering.
It's always a little bit refreshing.
Compared to garlic.
It's always a little bit refreshing.
Okay, this, on the other hand.
You can't think about what's gonna happen
to your breath later on.
If you just think about the taste,
lemon and garlic together is something that-
That's weird.
Is in all kinds of dishes.
Like, putting garlic and lemon together is, like,
there's whole cuisines that are, like,
based on that. You talking about,
like, noodles?
Lemon chicken.
Oh.
Look, the cho-ffinade lady is nodding at me over there.
She knows what's up. It's chiffonade.
It's chiffonade?
Chiffonade, yeah.
Chiffonade. Ship-onade?
You're nodding, that's what matters.
The thing that I'm discovering
is that lemon is quite a strong flavor in and of itself,
so you're getting-
It balances with the garlic. You're getting
this garlic first, and then you get the lemon
from then on out, which surprises me.
To me, you've done something to mashed potatoes
to make them worse, and I wish
that they didn't have mint in them.
You created a new drink with this.
I agree.
This is really surprising me
because, at first, it's like, ooh,
then it's like lemon, then you're ready for it,
and you're enjoying it, and you call it something?
Like, you call it.
Lemon chicken water.
We'll work on that.
I was gonna go with ch-
Cho-ffinade.
Cho-ffinade hot top off my take.
Chiffonade water.
Did you predict this?
69%
of the mythical beasts thought
you would like the spearmint mashed potatoes better.
I got it, I was right, and you're wrong.
See, that's why we have to actually taste them.
Yeah, I mean, it didn't sound like it was gonna be good.
You know, it's like,
if you could only taste Instagram.
Nicole, correct me if I'm wrong,
but on the podcast that you do with Josh
that's called "A Hot Dog is a Sandwich."
"A Hot Dog is a Sandwich." Sometimes,
you solicit user food opinions
that you then debate, right?
We sure do,
they're called Opinions are Like Casseroles.
Ah, and is that how people would maybe, like,
make their opinion known?
Like, #opinionsarelikecasseroles on Twitter?
Exactly like that.
Exactly like that? Yeah, that's crazy.
Are you telling me
people can use #opinionsarelikecasseroles,
and then they could be the subject
of conversation in your podcast "A Hot Dog is a Sandwich?"
Yeah, #opinioncasserole.
Oh. Yeah.
That's not what we thought it was.
Thought it was opinions are like casseroles.
Oh, well, I'm sorry,
but that's incorrect.
You don't know the hashtags for your own show.
Yeah, I do.
Stevie, what's the right hashtag?
Stevie doesn't know either.
Don't bring me into this.
The correct hashtag is on the screen right now.
We don't know our hashtags for our show either.
Go to youtube.com/mythicalkitchen,
and you can check out all the things
that are happening over there on the Mythical Kitchen.
All right, unlike the try hard Cheesecake Factory,
some food chains do not need a novel of a menu
because they dominate with the one thing
that they're known for.
Like, for Starbucks, it's coffee,
and for Buffalo Wild Wings, it's divorced dads.
Yep, right.
This is the Starbucks iced garlic white chocolate mocha,
and this is the peppermint Parmesan Buffalo Wild Wings.
Oh, it's pretty.
Oh, yeah, it's like it's Christmastime.
Oh, this could be a holiday favorite, maybe,
for later in the year. You wanna start here,
and then go there?
That's what we did last time.
We had a good garlic drink experience last round.
You going for the flat?
And so am I, we're flat boys.
Flat boys,
and now, I gotta really make it happen.
Dink, dink.
Dink it, and sink it.
Hm, the Parmesan
and the peppermint are mixing in some way.
I thought that the peppermint kinda hit,
and then went away.
Parma-mint, Parma-mint.
But it is subtle, you know.
Mint is much more subtle
than I ever thought it was.
You learn something every day.
I mean, these are like crushed peppermints, too, right?
Yeah, peppermint.
So it really has a sweetness to it
that, again, you can have a sweetness
in lots of different wing flavors,
and that works, and then,
to juxtapose it with the Parm.
But if you had a bunch
of wings on a table. Is a new thing.
And you had other flavors that are available
at Buffalo Wild Wings,
would you go back to this one over and over again?
I might order it out of, just to experience something.
I'd order it if it was on the picture
as I was walking in, because I'm a sucker for that.
If I didn't know what it was,
and I just picked it up and ate it, I would like it,
but I don't think I would order it.
So, I do like it.
Whoa.
You ever been at a place like a Starbucks,
and you got a drink,
and then you look at the person who gave it to you,
and you say, did I do something to make them mad,
and they put something in my drink?
That's what this makes me think about.
Like, something's in this drink,
and I wouldn't be able to tell you what it was,
'cause I would never think, oh, it's garlic.
It's more like phlegm, is that what you're saying?
He spit in it.
Like, you make him mad, so he goes to the back,
he tells the barista, and the barista's just like
and it just drips along in it?
That happens.
Hey, listen, studies show that one
out of every three drinks at a restaurant
has been spit in it.
Has been spit in it.
First of all, that's not true,
second of all, it's not grammatically correct.
So don't even listen to him.
Has spit in it, has a little spit in it,
just from people talking.
It's actually not that bad,
it's just a little bit off,
and I don't know how to reconcile it.
It hasn't created a new experience.
This has got, like, not a bad taste,
it's kinda subtle, and it's got a holiday theme.
Yep, that's one way to do it.
76% of the mythical beasts thought
that you would like
the peppermint Parmesan Buffalo Wild Wings better.
All right, you're back on your game, keep it up.
Nothing says heading to grandma's for the holidays
like peppermint bark and biscuits,
but what happens when grandma's taste buds
ain't like they used to be,
and she swip-swapping flavors faster
than she can down a bottle of wine?
You know grandma.
Grandma.
For the final matchup,
we've got garlic bark Clif Bars,
and cheddar peppermint biscuits.
Now, this comes from the fact
that a peppermint bark Clif Bar is a thing, okay?
So that's how we got the peppermint over to the biscuits.
Okay, and there is no garlic protein bar
that I've ever seen until now.
How could a protein bar of any flavor,
much less a garlic-flavored protein bar,
beat biscuits of any other flavor?
You have to get this one right
in order to not have to embarrass yourself
in the caption under a mop,
and I have to believe that you're gonna pull this off,
but, hey, we've been surprised before.
We gotta give it a chance.
Give garlic a chance.
Garlicky Clif Bar.
You know, you're out there on the trail,
or you're climbing the side of a rock face,
and sometimes, you want something a little heartier,
you want something a little more pungent.
Something savory.
Yeah, you want something-
It's not bad.
You're out there all alone on a rope or something,
you can breathe anything you want,
you can have the stink breath, no one cares.
And, if you get separated from your group,
they can follow your breath to find you.
Help.
Help. I can't hear him,
but I can smell him.
It's, um,
not great. Not great.
Let's just, let's be real honest here.
This is very purdy, though.
So, there's mint on top.
Is there mint inside?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's been cho-ffi-naded.
Woo.
Whoa, that smells good.
Cho-ffi-no you didn't.
It almost has a rosemary quality to it.
Mm.
A little bit.
Yeah, that's right. You know what I'm saying?
Uh-huh, 'cause I was about to say,
you do not screw with this original dish.
It's definitely not better
than it would've been without the mint.
We haven't made a better dish.
But Christmastime rolls around.
Yeah, I put some peppermint in there.
Y'all enjoy it.
You know, it just kinda lets you know
that it's not different enough that you hate it.
You'll keep eating it,
and then you'll be glad
when it goes away come February.
You ever have your mom, like,
just change a recipe all of a sudden?
Ha.
Like, she's making something exactly the same way?
My mom is my mom.
Once we do things, we keep doing those things.
I know y'all's mama has been like,
you went home, and she changed the recipe on something.
Everybody's like.
I know that there's people in this room right now
whose mothers.
Can I get an amen
if your mama has done that? Have changed the recipe.
I didn't say a hand, a said a amen.
Amen.
Michaela gave you an amen.
I can't give you an amen on that one, I'm sorry.
But I can give you a 58% of the mythical beasts thought
that you would like the cheddar peppermint biscuits better.
Yeah, okay, congratulations.
You've done it, you've won all of the reasons to smile.
Well, and you basically predicted every single round
that we would like the mint more than the garlic,
and we only threw you a curveball in one round.
Mm-hm.
But I gotta say,
you were right most of the time,
because garlic is a force to be reckoned with,
but mint, as we have learned today,
it's subtle, it's subtle.
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