- Today we ask the age old question.
- Will it Chips and Salsa?
- Let's talk about that.
(mythical music)
- Good Mythical summer.
- I like to imagine a world where before every meal,
whether it's a plate of spaghetti and meatballs,
lamb vindaloo, Meemaw's mystery meatloaf, I don't care,
I like to imagine it beginning with
an endless basket of chips and salsa
delivered straight to my mouth hole.
Bonus points for airplane noises.
(imitates airplane)
- I think you should do your own
dipping and chipping, personally, but-
- Okay.
- I do agree there should be chips and salsa themed
for every occasion,
not just relegated in Mexican restaurants
and Super Bowl parties.
It should belong anywhere and everywhere all at once.
It's time for-
- [Rhett And Link] Will it Chips and Salsa?
- Now, we've done Will it Chip before?
- That was great.
- But chips and salsa, whole different ball game.
- Even better.
- Both elements are equally as important to the experience.
- Yeah, the stefinition that we've given.
- The Stefinition?
- To the Mythical Kitchen, to qualify as-
- That's when Stephanie gives a definition.
- Stephanie, chips and salsa, a dish must check two boxes.
It must contain a crispy masa based chip,
and the salsa must be dippable, scoopable,
complimentary in flavor to the chip,
and preferably served at room temperature.
- That's a lot of things.
Now, nothing brings me greater joy
than a server approaching my table
with a basket full of something free before I eat.
Chips, bread, breadsticks, I don't care, I'm gonna take it.
But what does Panda Express offer before the meal?
A basket full of nothing.
- Yeah.
- Ha, let's change that.
Up first we have orange chippin' and salsa.
- All right, Trevor, you're running the show today.
What'd you do?
- [Trevor] So what we did is we started with
a masa base for the chip
and then added orange sauce and ground chicken,
and then that salsa is a Kung Pao-co de gallo.
So that's made with Kung Pao sauce,
onion, peppers, and peanuts.
- What?
So did you say there's meat infused into the chip?
- He did. - [Trevor] Ground chicken.
- [Link] What?
- [Rhett] Ground chicken.
- At what point do we think we're gonna get this
at Panda Express?
'Cause you're waiting in a line.
- You go to your table,
and you wait and then they never bring it to you
because you have to go up there to the line.
- Yeah, I think you go up to the line
and it's the first thing.
You're eating these while you're deciding
what you wanna order.
- I think that violates health codes.
You can't eat, well, it's free samples.
- Free samples.
- Maybe these are only free.
- So, oh, I see that there's full peanuts.
I got a puffy one.
Sorry, Rhett.
I'm trying to-
- Full peanuts.
- [Link] There's full peanuts on this.
- [Trevor] Yeah, you wanna go full nuts on it.
- [Rhett] Whoa and oh,
there's a hot little pepper in there too.
- Is it hot?
Is it hot?
- You get one of these little peppers it'll be hot.
- Is it real hot?
(chips crunch)
- It tastes very Kung Pao-ish.
I like a good peanut.
- I feel like it's taking too long for me to chew.
If I was in line right now,
people would be yelling at me up.
I'm enjoying the samples.
Shut up.
- I like the salsa.
It's almost like-
- [Rhett] Ground chicken, did you get?
- [Link] It's almost like a relish.
- [Stevie] Seems like you're having to think
pretty hard right now.
- It's difficult.
- [Stevie] That's what I'm reading from your faces.
- [Link] Well, 'cause I'm trying to figure out
the chip itself is wrong.
- Did somebody lie to you?
You's lying to us about this being stuff inside his chip?
- [Trevor] It's not stuffed.
It's just mixed into the dough.
- Oh.
- Yeah, but it's just got a pocket.
- I thought there was gonna be ground chicken inside there.
- No, that'd be a dumpling man.
- What am I gonna say something about that.
- I wanted to like it, but-
- [Rhett] Have you done this though?
Have you got the stuff inside of it?
- It's relish-y, peanut-y.
It's just not coming together.
- [Stevie] Is adding the chicken to the dough...
you're saying it's actually chewy.
It makes the chip part chewy?
- Not getting as much of a crisp.
- Yeah, yeah.
That's really hurting these.
I'm out.
- I feel like I'm getting too much of a Kung Pao flavor
and then I wouldn't actually get the Kung Pao chicken,
which is what I wanna get.
- Oh, yep.
So it makes you not want to eat
anything else at Panda Express,
if that tells you anything.
Panda Express, will it chips and salsa?
- [Rhett And Link] No.
- Speaking on behalf of people who love root beer floats,
which I don't, I'm just speaking on their behalf,
whoever came up with root beer float
deserves some kind of medal
and probably needs to check their glucose levels.
- But you don't even like 'em.
- Yeah, I'm speaking on behalf of those people.
- That's seems inappropriate.
- And I wanted to create something
that would satisfy the people who love root beer float
and then might bring me into the fold.
Presenting-
- That's me.
- Chips and salsa-parilla.
- Oh, okay, I get it.
- [Link] Sarsaparilla salsa.
- [Trevor] Okay, so those are our root beer chips.
You can tell because of the brown flavor, texture.
- They are very root beer colored, or flavored.
- [Trevor] Yes, they are.
And then that is salsa ice cream
made with a ribbon of ancho and Chipotle salsa.
- Oh, spicy ice cream.
- [Link] So is it a vanilla base?
- [Trevor] Yeah.
- I'm just trying the chip first,
(chips crunch)
which I really like.
It's very sweet.
- Super crispy.
Get some of the ice cream.
- Do you think the chip tastes root beer-y enough to you?
'Cause I really like it.
Maybe that's because...
- Well, you know what?
It's a subtle root beer flavor
because this is a way to get people into the mix.
This is a way to recruit root beer haters.
- What's ancho?
- [Trevor] The type of pepper.
- Is it?
- [Trevor] Yeah.
- What are you laughing at?
- [Trevor] Nothing, I just wasn't expecting that question.
- What's ancho?
The ice cream is exquisite.
- What made it so good?
- Ancho?
(Trevor chuckles)
- [Stevie] Is it spicy?
Is it spicy and sweet?
- It's spicy and sweet.
- [Stevie] Ooh, girl.
- Oh, gosh, I've just created a problem.
- The chip is so sweet,
and then you get that salsa-fied...
I mean, I don't think we brought root beer as a float
out of a dessert.
You might think that it's not a dessert,
and then you can still get a dessert
when you get a root beer float.
But this puts it squarely in dessert territory.
This is a chips and salsa dessert dish.
- You don't think a root beer float is a dessert?
You think it's an app?
- Kind of.
- Or a side?
- I think you could get away
with saying this is not my bonafide dessert.
It's just a root beer float.
This it is a beverage.
- You mean like a milkshake isn't necessarily a dessert,
'cause it could be three o'clock
and the only thing you eat is a milkshake.
And then it's just like,
it's just a little three o'clock meal.
- Yep.
- Right, I do that all the time,
three o'clock meal.
- This is squarely a dessert chip and salsa.
- Yeah, thanks for clarifying.
- And I love it.
- You made Link like root beer.
Congratulations.
Root beer float, will it chips and salsa?
- [Rhett And Link] Yes.
- We would like to take this opportunity to finally address
the question we've gotten every single day
for the past decade.
What would happen if Cinco de Mayo
and National Mashed Potatoes Day had a baby?
Okay, we're sick of you asking.
So today we're finally giving you an answer.
God.
Introducing-
- It's okay.
- Cinco de gravy.
- Mashed potatoes and gravy and chips and salsa,
how did you do it?
- [Trevor] So what we did is we made gravy chips
with sage gravy and a little kick of MSG and then-
- Oh, so you didn't make the salsa outta gravy.
You made that chip outta gravy.
- [Trevor] We made the chip outta gravy
and the salsa is homemade mashed potatoes with salsa macha.
- Oh, salsa macha?
- Salsa macha.
What's macha?
- [Trevor] Salsa macha is a type of salsa
where you take dried chilis
and you chop them up finely in oil.
It's very spicy and very delicious.
- But what's ancho?
- [Trevor] I don't know what to tell you, man.
- What's ancho mind?
Gravy chip passes the test.
It's salty.
It's crispy.
- A little bit of spice.
- [Link] It's peppery.
- Little bit of spice.
Mm, it's pretty nice.
- I mean, I like how a good mashed tater
serves as a great dip.
(time machine whirs)
(time machine clicks)
I remember that.
- It's weird around here.
MSG, I like that too.
You just sprinkled MSG right on top of it?
- [Trevor] Not on top.
It's mixed into the dough.
We sprinkled gravy powder on top.
- Mm, this is weird, man.
This is weird.
- If you didn't know that was mashed potatoes,
you'd feel differently about it, wouldn't you?
- I'm trying to figure out how to interpret it.
- If I thought it was like cheese or something,
it comes across as a cheese dip.
- It's obviously potatoes.
- I like it as potatoes.
It's just the room temperature mashed potatoes
is a little bit weird. - I do like it.
No, I like it like that.
I like it like that.
You know how I like it?
Room temperature taters.
(crew chuckling)
- Don't talk to me like that.
(Trevor laughs)
I don't know how you like it.
- Room temperature.
- I don't wanna know how you like it.
- It meaning taters.
- You said, "You know how I like it."
- Room temperature taters.
- Who's the you in that scenario?
Me?
- Yeah, you know how-
- You can look at them and say, "You know how I like it."
Don't look at me and say that.
- You know how I like it.
- That's okay.
I don't care about what you do with them.
- Room temperature taters.
- [Stevie] Actually I'd like to say I also don't enjoy
when you look...
- Okay, yeah. - [Stevie] Thank you.
- Stephanie doesn't like that.
Okay, so-
- Room temperature taters,
Can I just say that part of it?
- You know who likes room temperature taters?
Me.
- Mashed potatoes and gravy.
Will it chips and salsa?
- [Rhett And Link] Yes.
- For a while now we've all been trying to find the good
in some bizarre situations.
I'm just talking about life how it is.
So we developed a game,
a tabletop game with our partners at Spin Master
so we can all laugh in the face of disaster.
- [Rhett] It is called We're Still Good.
- [Link] We're Still Good.
- And the goal is to put a positive spin
on a ridiculously bad situation.
Get some friends together,
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- No, I was gonna open it, but I'm not.
Boy, the box just looks great
and the stuff inside makes it totally worth playing.
Okay, let's move on to this guy.
All right, there's plenty of times when I'll walk
through a beautiful flower garden.
- Yeah, I've noticed that about you.
- And you just stop and smell the flowers.
But I've never stopped and eaten the flowers.
- I have.
- Really?
Is that because they were made into chips and salsa?
- No, it's just because some flowers you can eat.
It's roses.
- Yeah, there's a lot of edible flowers
which got us thinking let's chip and salsify 'em.
Presenting hippie chippies and salsa right here.
Trevor, what did you do?
- [Trevor] Yeah, so what we did is we made chips
out of edible flowers and rosewater,
and then that's a nice salsa verde
with bee pollen and honeycomb.
- Oh, I'm just gonna try the chip first.
'Cause edible flowers is kind of like,
it a gimmick, right?
It's like edible gold.
- No.
- It's just a little accoutrement.
- No, gold's got no flavor, bro.
Gold has no flavor.
Gold is definitely just for looks.
Flowers, that's coming from somebody
who doesn't like the floral flavors.
- I mean, this chip definitely tastes like a rose.
- I kinda like this.
- I need to dip it in something
so that I might get to like it.
- I'm thinking if I pass-
- You will.
- We all will pass,
but if I pass before you
and people love to send flowers to the family,
I get it, whatever.
- You're coming out against that?
- I don't need flowers,
well, I mean maybe my wife will want flowers,
but send some floral flavored things.
In fact, send these.
Get Trevor on the line.
See if he's still good,
'cause this is gonna be a while from now.
- Hey Trevor, you there?
- Trevor will have moved on. - Yep, Rhett's dead.
He'll be an Olympic athlete.
Don't you wanna be an Olympic athlete?
- We need to bring you back from the Olympics.
- [Trevor] Yeah, no, I'll come back from the Olympics.
- To make some chips and salsa.
- You look like a winter Olympian.
- Out of flowers.
- [Trevor] Like what sport?
Like the luge?
(Rhett laughs)
I think I've got the body for the luge.
- The one where it's just one person on the thing,
is that luge?
- [Trevor] I think luge has multiple people.
- No, that's bobsled.
- [Trevor] Oh, that bobsled.
Maybe luge is.
- You really wanna know what Trevor looks like?
- I was gonna say snowboarder.
Really just like snowboard cleaner.
(Rhett laughs)
But no, Olympic snowboard polishers is a really,
like, that's not just anybody.
In fact, those people have more skills
than the people doing the snowboarding.
I just don't want you to get hurt, Trevor.
- [Trevor] Okay, yeah, no, I get it.
- [Link] I can't pinpoint any reason that I would like this.
- Okay, well you don't have to like it.
Just send it to my family if I die.
That's really what I was trying to get at.
- Do you like it so much that
you alone can send this forward?
- Don't you like the salsa?
- It's very sweet, honey and pollen.
- I actually think this works
for somebody who likes floral flavors
and wants them sent to their family if they pass.
- Well, okay.
I'm sorry.
- So I'm a solid yes.
So I'm throwing it back on you.
- No, because of your untimely death,
I'm gonna throw it back on you.
- Okay, flower garden, will it chips and salsa?
- [Rhett And Link] Yes.
- What's got eight legs, crawls up the water spout,
and always keeps 100 eyes on you at all times.
No, not Tom Cruise on top of a cheerleading pyramid.
- Oh, what is that?
- Yeah.
- Is that what anyone was thinking?
- Yeah, that's what all you were thinking, yes.
Though that is equally unnerving.
No, we're talking about spiders.
Presenting chips and crawl-sa
- Crawl-sa.
Nasty, man.
- What kind of spiders, man?
- [Trevor] Zebra Tarantulas.
- Oh, my gosh.
- [Trevor] It was pretty simple.
So what we did is we took spiders
and then we made 'em into chips,
and then we took a salsa and then we put spiders in it.
Roasted spider salsa.
- God, Trevor. - [Trevor] Enjoy.
- [Link] This is just a freaking spider chip?
And then look at the body of that thing.
Like, oh my gosh, it's huge.
- Unfortunately, my death was not timely enough.
- Oh, my gosh.
- 'Cause I have made it to this round
and now I must eat spider?
- I'm angry.
- Zebra Tarantulas?
- [Trevor] Yeah, it's good.
- What's a Zebra Tarantula?
- [Rhett] Is it crossed with a zebra?
(Link groans)
- [Link] Get one of those big old things
and I'll get one too.
- [Rhett] I mean, I'd rather have the thing
that you're getting.
I mean, this has got like...
- Ooh, and there's also a tomato in it?
- [Trevor] Yeah.
- [Link] I also got a tomato, and like, oh...
- I've got a whole, I've got the two big parts of a spider.
That part and that part,
the front and the middle,
the back and the middle.
- Oh, gosh.
Oh, gosh, Trevor.
I know exactly who Trevor looks like.
I was trying to tell you
I'll tell you in Good Mythical More.
It's gonna blow your mind.
- Oh, really?
- [Link] Yep, mm-hmm
- You got a little flower on your, yeah.
You're about to eat spiders, it doesn't matter.
- I'm scared.
I'm scared.
I'm scared, Trevor.
Dink it.
- And sink it.
(chip crunch)
(Link hollers)
(Rhett applauds)
- Oh, it taste nasty.
(Link claps)
(Rhett clears throat)
- Just don't think about the fact that it's a spider.
- I'm thinking about, you know what helps is that
it's supposed to be crunchy because of the chip.
So that actually helps.
That helps me
process the crunch in a way that doesn't
make me think of spiders.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, I'm eating spiders.
- It's awful.
I mean it's this part and this part.
Hey, good timing.
We did it, man.
- Oh, gosh.
Wasn't that bad.
- It was awful.
- Well, I mean the only redeeming factor,
if you're gonna eat insects,
chips and salsa is the way to do it,
because of the crunchiness.
- The salsa nature of the whatever else is in the salsa
besides spiders,
which honestly it looks like mostly spiders.
- Oh, gosh.
But I'm just telling you,
it is the superior way to eat spiders.
So that's something.
- Spider salsa.
- If you're in the mood for spiders,
will it chips and salsa?
- [Rhett And Link] Yes?
- Okay.
- If you're not in the mood for spiders,
then it is still the best way to do it.
- Hey, this might be-
- I stand by that, yes.
- The only will it in the history of will its
that got a no in round one and a yes in the end.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't have a spreadsheet, but I'm just guessing.
- I hope someone does.
- If you've got a spreadsheet,
let us know if we just did something
that we've never done before.
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- Yes, he thanks you.
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- [Both] and we're sisters from New Jersey.
- And we're about to try some illegal chips.
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