- We're gonna test the trong, trong, trong, trong, trong.
- Let's talk about that.
(groovy theme music)
Good mythical summer.
- One of the things that separates us from the animals
is our ability to create complex tools,
utensils if you will, for ourselves.
- I will - Including eating utensils.
But you know what?
It's 2017, Link. - It is.
- And just simple eating utensils are no longer good enough
for us humans, we had to get weird,
and that's what we 'bout to do.
It's time for Weird Products You Must Have:
Eating Utensil Edition.
- So today we are gonna be testing four alternative
eating utensils, starting with this one.
Welcome to the three-pronged tongs that remove
the finger from finger food.
It's trongs.
Here they are, we have some.
Now you can buy a pack of six pair from trongs.com
for $19.95. - That's a deal.
- They look like stapler removers.
- But you feel like a crab, I feel like a crab boy.
- Well I think the best way to understand all the things
you can use these for is letting
the trong boys themselves pitch it.
- Hi I'm Dan, - And I'm Eric,
- [Together] And these are trongs.
- The utensil that stands like a tripod,
- So they're easy to pick up, - and put back down.
- Trongs are great for eating messy, so-called finger foods.
- Like buffalo wings, - and barbecue ribs.
- Trongs are awesome for eating sushi.
- Trongs are like chopsticks on steroids.
- Chopsticks on steroids.
- How, we've been missin', how come we don't do that man?
- They're so comfortable with being pitch men?
- But we've been together for so many years,
doing things and selling things, we never,
- We need to get more in sync here.
So called finger foods are no longer that.
- Hey, they sold me, I'm totally into this,
I didn't need the trong boys to tell me
I'm gonna like these.
- I need to test it out with some chicken wings
in order to really know.
- I'm a little self-conscious about using them.
- See now you went for the baby leg,
and I think that - This is not a baby leg,
it's a chicken leg, Link.
- I think that's, no it's not, it's a wing.
- Oh yeah, I mean, you said a baby leg,
I'm just saying it's from a chicken, not a baby,
that was what I was trying to clarify.
I know that it's not a leg.
I haven't thought this is like a smaller leg
from a chicken all these years.
- And I didn't think it was a baby's leg.
It's the baby leg of the chicken wing,
which is easier to eat than the two-boned version.
Or section.
- My fingers are completely tronged right now,
nothing wrong with that.
I mean you kind of feel like a chump,
if you like took these to a restaurant.
You have to overcome that.
- Or even if you were eating at your house,
like my kids would not abide by this,
and I wouldn't expect them to.
Dad, you are not cool, touch your wings,
what are you afraid of?
Seriously, what are we afraid of here?
Getting a little sauce on our fingers?
- I gotta say I lost control of my wing,
it was suspended from my mouth for a second.
I got two pieces of baby chicken leg
right there on the desk.
But I love the fact, can I put that right back there?
- Yeah, just put that there.
- I love the fact that I'm completely mess free.
That's an important factor.
- It is, I just don't think it's quite good enough.
- I also have another idea.
- Alright, you still trying to sell me on it, go for it.
- My Aunt Merla loves to bring her jello
to the family reunions, but you know what
she also likes to do, 'cause she's legally blind,
she likes to, and she's losing her hair,
a lot of times she ends up with a few hairs in her jello.
- A few, that whole dark spot in the middle is,
- Well, it's gotten worse over time, but I'm thinking,
- You don't wanna touch that hair.
- I don't wanna touch the hair,
but I want to enjoy the jello, if I could come in here
and just grasp it, just get hold of it
(Link retches)
- Ahhha, that's gross.
- And just completely pull any evidence of Aunt Merla
right out of there, just drop that
into the communal trashcan.
- And then you're still gonna
take that to the family reunion.
- And then you can just,
well, yeah, you just eat, I guess you could,
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- I don't taste any Merla in there at all.
Next up, it's the spoon you can eat
when you're done spooning anything spoonable,
it's D'edible Spoon.
- D apostrophe edible spoon.
- Yeah, D'edible Spoon. - D'edible spoon.
And here it is, it makes you dead?
- No, it doesn't, but there are a number of people
selling edible spoons online, but the ones that we have
are from an Etsy shop called Pancasa.
You can get a set of 25 for $16.99,
that's less than a dollar per spoon.
- And it's really light, it smells kind of like a cracker,
these are garlic and herb.
- Garlic and herb, they have three flavors,
they have original, which I don't know what that is,
and then they've got Italian herbs,
and they got garlic and herbs,
'cause those garlic herbs ain't Italian, we all know that.
- So let's taste the spoonability on,
I don't wanna really do this, but on that jello here.
- [Rhett] First bite, let's just get some jello
without actually consuming the spoon.
- 'Cause garlic and herb jello is not a great idea.
- And now let's go in for a bite,
that's good jello, Aunt Merla did it again.
- I didn't get much garlic and herb in that,
which I didn't want to.
Dink it, - Now let's go for,
- Fake dink it. - Let's go for a full bite.
- [Link] And real sink it.
- That's good.
I just ate the whole spoon.
- It's like a flat crouton-shaped spoon.
- Doesn't it taste good, though?
- It seems wrong, but it tastes pretty right.
- Yeah, I mean if that wasn't jello,
it was more like cream cheese or something a little savory,
that would be really good.
They say that you can use for like hors d'oeuvres,
serving and that kind of that thing,
but I like to think that if I'm having
a little spooning session with my wife,
- What do you mean? - now we can bring,
- You're both playing with spoons?
Alright, that's cool.
- But no, we can now bring spoons into our spooning session,
edible spoons, so it's like a romantic dinner.
You don't eat horizontal sometimes?
- No Rhett.
In an interest to come up with other things to do
besides that, - Okay, whatever.
- I wanna try out spoon-ereal.
I've broken up some edible spoons,
and made 'em into cereal,
adding some milk here,
and then I'm gonna use an edible spoon.
- Like the way I handed you the D'edible Spoon.
- Not better that way.
- I think it's the flavor, you gotta go savory,
which is what I've done.
- Oh my goodness. - And I brought some
for you Link, this is grilled spoon cheese.
So just take a bite of it, just like it's a grilled cheese,
but it's really a spoon, so I can encourage you to
- And you could eat - act like
you're eatin' something.
- You could eat like chicken noodle soup with this.
- Or more cheese.
- 'Cause I like to dip my grilled cheese into my soups.
- I've heard about that.
- Oh my goodness, this is a good idea.
- Oh, now that's real good.
- Yeah, bring your soup, have a party.
- Bring your soup.
- Do it horizontal, I don't care.
Next up, quickly quadruple your sporking ability
with quirky finger sporkes
Here we have them on our fingers.
- So quirky. - So sporkalicious.
Now you can buy a set of four of these for $4.95.
We got these from mcphee.com.
And basically, I think this is just a novelty item for kids.
- You think?
- I don't know that this could make things better,
but there is this hip new trend at restaurants
to have deconstructed versions of things,
it's like a deconstructed sandwich,
got one of those the other day.
- And then you just make the sandwich.
- It's like, really,
it's like open faced, - What am I
paying you people for? - I don't know
what was going on.
It wasn't cheaper, it was cooler, though.
So what if we went to an Italian restaurant,
and ordered a deconstructed Caesar salad,
and a deconstructed
- Deconstructed spaghetti and meatballs.
- I'm gonna use the fork part to get me a little greenery,
- [Rhett] Alright, I got one noodle.
- I'm gonna scoop a,
I'm gonna try not to use my other hand, it's like a rodeo.
- I'm gonna try not to flip the bird on y'all,
but I feel like it might happen unintentionally.
- So I got some cheese here.
And then, oh my goodness,
- These meatballs. - This is like a workout.
- And then lots of - Come on baby.
Come on - So I've got everything,
and you're having, - I'll just stab,
- [Link] Having a little more trouble, yeah,
use the fork part of it, that's part of it, man.
- [Rhett] And then I got some cheese.
- There you go, you're kinda light on the sauce.
- I lost my sauce.
- Go with a little more sauce there.
- And then maybe some more noodles.
- There you go,
and mine are turned kind of sideways, so that I can,
- I'm gonna just put all this in my mouth.
- I dropped my crouton.
- Alright here I go.
- See mine stacks up really nicely.
You look like you're not having any problem.
- I got the meatball. - I'm trying so hard
to align this that my hand's shaking like a leaf.
Put that together.
- Oh, that was good,
but how you gonna get that crouton loose?
That crouton's, man, that crouton's stranded.
You are shaking, are you nervous?
- The tension in the fingers is quite
a four-finger workout that I did not anticipate.
- Let's go down to a hipster restaurant and break these out.
- I don't think so, I think my fingers
are utterly exhausted.
- Well I still need you to use them for something
if you could get all the dressing off.
Link, I've been feeling a little tight.
- You think this could be a perfect backscratcher?
- Please.
♫ I'm so stiff, so stressed.
- Really?
♫ Need someone to rub my chest.
♫ Oh yeah, that's the spot.
♫ I like the way you work my booty knot.
- No. - And now,
it's a fork, no, it's a spoon, no,
it's a knife, it's actually all in one, it's the Splayd.
You can buy six of them from Splayd on Amazon for $44.99.
So not cheap, - 44?
- Not cheap. - I mean it really
just looks like an elongated spork,
and the word fork is not in the name.
- Well, but this thing has been around since the '40s Link.
This was invented by - Spfayd?
- William McArthur, and he has reportedly said that
these have built a reputation over the years
as a luxury utensil, which are always in demand
for gift giving and entertainment.
- I guess with a spork, you can't actually use the side
to cut things, - Because it's curved.
- Like you could with a normal fork.
- But they definitely didn't include,
- But then with a fork you can't get
into au jus, like we gonna do.
- Yeah, they did not include fork in the name.
Yeah, so we're gonna try it on a steak here.
So the first thing I'm gonna do is just,
I'm gonna cut my butter like I usually do with a knife.
That's, I can do this with a fork as well, that's just,
- But you couldn't do it with a spoon.
- Ignore that for a second.
- Except maybe kinda. - And we'll rub it on there.
And then we're gonna grab some au jus,
'cause it is a spoon, and most of the au jus
goes right back into the bowl.
They miss something.
There's still, maybe if you lean it back.
- [Link] Not a lot of capacity.
- Lean it back a little bit. - Lean back.
- You gotta lean your,
- Yeah, there's not a lot of liquid capacity in a Splayd.
- But maybe it has the ability to cut.
- Well not this.
It'll cut butter, man, but that's about it.
And I think, I mean,
(Rhett grunts)
Yeah, give it all you got.
- It's not gonna cut.
- The Splayd, - I really gave it all I had.
- Splayd does not claim to be able to cut a t-bone,
but now we know for sure that they were right
in not claiming that.
- Can it pierce a t-bone? - Oh yeah.
- So that's nice.
- It is nice, but,
- It's usually not how I enjoy steak, though.
- It's not very polite.
- You wouldn't wanna do that at a party.
- It does it like a weapon, though.
So I think if you add in the fact
that you could throw this thing like a throwing knife.
- If you got into an argument during a party.
- Then we're into something, or onto something,
or both, if you get into something, we're onto something.
- You better get onto it.
- 'Cause you can use this like a weapon.
We've got a target over here.
- [Rhett] That's convenient, I didn't see that
over there until right now.
- And I'm going for 50, obviously.
- Well you almost hit it.
Watch out a little bit here.
Well, that works.
- [Link] That does work, doesn't it?
- I got 30, though. - Yeah you did,
see if you can do better than that.
- I also have some very sharpened ones Link.
- 'Cause we actually didn't think that you'd be able
to stick these, but you stuck the real thing.
This sharpened version, - Will actually kill someone.
- Yeah, Chase, you wanna get in here,
stand right next to this, I'm gonna try again.
- Oh, you knocked mine out, that wasn't nice.
- You lose your points.
Well you got the unsharpened one to work.
Oooh nice. - There we go.
- You got another one? - No that was it.
- I got another one, too.
- Wow, man,
don't tick me off at a party if I got a Splayd.
I just learned something about myself, I'm a deadly weapon.
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- I'm Carlos. - I'm Soraya.
- We're in Niagara Falls,
- [Group] And it's time to spin The Wheel of Mythicality.
- You can take our Boiled for Safety mug,
and use it as a spoon, and call it a spug,
but you gotta get one at RhettandLink.com/store.
- And click through To Good Mythical More,
where we are gonna have a Splayd-throwing battle
with one another, man, I gotta see if I can up my game.
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