Today we get sweet on sweets.
Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning!
It is day four of our Munch Madness bracket.
That's right. We're back at it for another round of our snackalacka tournament.
Today we're taking a break from all that salt
to taste some sweet treats.
It's time for...
Okay, just to recap how this works.
We've got four snack categories,
meaty and cheesy, salty, sweet, and chips.
You guys voted on your top eight from each category,
which we seeded into our Munch Madness bracket.
It's big!
And now we're gonna be pitting the snacks head to head
to crown the ultimate sweet snack.
Now, this is how we ultimately decided
what belongs in the sweet category.
Not just any desert can be a sweet snack.
Pies-- not a snack.
Ice cream-- not a snack.
- Those are desserts. - Yeah.
We also categorized candy bars as desserts. Okay?
We realize that that is a little controversial,
but you ain't never put a bowl of full-sized Milky Ways out
to watch the game with your friends.
- Right. - You don't snack on a candy bar.
You eat a candy bar.
Plus, there are so many, that it would've overrun the category.
So, no candy bars.
Don't hate us!
We'll give lots of love to candy bars in due time.
Don't comment, "Well, what about fun-size candy bars?"
- Because that completely unravels our argument. - It ain't Halloween.
Okay? Don't comment about that.
No, that's just a Halloween thing.
Okay, we do however have plenty of candy,
candy that can be enjoyed in pieces, and cookies.
Cookies, yes, they are a snack.
And I'll prove it. When was the last time you had just one cookie?
I rest my case.
Okay, here's our top eight sweet snacks.
We've got Oreos, Chips Ahoy!,
Sour Patch Kids, M&M's, peanut M&M's, Skittles,
Reese's pieces, and Gummy Bears.
Whoo-oo.
All right, first up, we have battle of the cookies.
Our top seed, overall seed
amongst all snacks based on your votes,
Oreos with 4,709 votes
versus our eighth seed, Chips Ahoy! with 1,718 votes.
Let's go with the Chips Ahoy! first.
Now, my favorite sweet is raw cookie dough.
Okay, but this is cooked.
And not only is it cooked. It's crunchy.
'Cause my jam back in the day--
Do you remember these Soft Batch--
- Soft Batch. - ...chocolate chip cookies?
They put something in there
that probably gave you cancer
- and also made it... - Soft.
- ...soft forever. - Which is totally worth it.
- Um... - In my opinion.
So I don't find myself loving these,
but the taste is pretty good once you get into it.
It's not better than an Oreo, though.
Really? I'm not a lover of the Oreo,
but it is milk's favorite cookie,
so milk is voting for Oreo.
I do think that Oreos are best enjoyed
in the presence of milk, like...
But when you put this and this in milk,
this comes out like that nice sogginess.
That makes it soft, which is the way that I love it.
Yeah, I think Oreos, clear winner here.
- Yeah. - No competition.
Oreos moves on.
Alex, move 'em on.
Sour Patch Kids got 2,834 votes.
M&M's 2,608 votes.
We're talking the four and five seed here.
So this is a tight one.
I love a Sour Patch Kid, man.
Sometimes when I go to the movies,
I'll get popcorn.
But then other times, I'll get these.
This is like one of my movie-theater go-to candies.
I don't love gummy stuff or sour stuff,
but I love it when they're together.
This is my favorite gummy snack by far.
- Really? - Yeah.
And I know you don't even like M&M's,
which has always been weird to me.
It's not that I don't like anything about them.
It's just that I always choose something else instead of them.
There's always a better option for me personally.
They are good, though. I just like everything.
I think I like keeping my candy and my chocolates totally separate.
Like I wanna go full-bore candy, which this is.
You're telling me that you consider the candy coating
to have too much candy presence?
No, it's just the combination of candy and chocolate,
to me, is something that I never desire.
- There is no candy there. - The whole outside is candy.
It's not candy. It's just a coating on candy.
It's not candy coating.
So you're voting for M&M's?
'Cause I think I'm voting for Sour Patch--
I'm voting for Sour Patch Kids as well.
- Yeah, Sour Patch Kids. - Okay.
All right, next up we have our three seed with 2,900 votes-- peanut M&M's,
and our six seed with 2,366 votes-- Skittles.
Let's go for the underdog first. You want to?
So a little bit of Skittle.
Now, contrary to the myth
that different colored M&M's taste different,
which they don't,
Skittles do taste different.
There's a red one.
They're different flavors, definitely.
There's an orange one.
- It's a rainbow. - Very chewy.
They're not bad, but--
I actually think it's very good.
- It's just-- - It's tart, but not sour.
Ironically, even though I'm tasting the rainbow,
it has one note, like, super strong fruit.
And it just almost starts to choke you a little bit.
- I love it. - You love it?
I love that taste.
Now, you know I got a weakness for peanut butter.
Well, these are peanut.
Made from peanut butter.
Peanut butter makes peanuts.
Peanut butter M&M's. You remember those?
Mm-mm. Those are better than peanut M&M's,
but you guys didn't vote for them, so...
Now, the data shows that these are
the superior M&M in terms of votes.
Which I agree, that these are better than regular M&M's,
Me, too. Me, too 'cause it's got--
it's got that extra thing.
It, like, takes a little bit of the chocolate edge off,
and they're bigger, so you just feel like
you're getting more for your money.
And the consistency is more exciting.
And there's a game you can play where you can
isolate the peanut inside your mouth.
It's gonna be hard for me to put anything over
the brilliant combination
of anything peanutty plus chocolatey,
even if there is some candy coating on it,
which I don't love.
I've already had, like, 12 of them.
I'm still voting for this because--
Yeah, I agree.
It's a great three-way combination.
Peanut M&M's move on.
Whoo! Throw it over there.
- A little high. - Could you just re-center that a little bit?
Get it right there on the-- thank you. Thank you, Alex.
Appreciate all your input. You guys are doing great.
You're really seeing the field today.
Reese's Pieces, the number-two seed with 3,296 votes
up against Haribo Gummi Bears, 2,335 votes.
Now, you're a gummi bear lover.
- I am. - These take a while to eat.
We've established that my favorite texture in the world is gummi.
I like to get just completely naked and get into that bowl.
I think about that kind of thing a lot.
I'd like to look away when that's happening.
But I will say, I absolutely love Reese's Pieces.
- You do? - It's shaped just like an M&M,
but it's not trying nearly as hard
because it doesn't have an "m" on it.
And it only has three different colors,
but the colors are so complementary.
Oh, it's so much better than an M&M 'cause it's so peanutty.
And it's peanut butter. It's not just a peanut.
This one right here, it requires too much chewing on my part.
I feel like if I swallow it pre-emptively,
it's gonna gum up the works.
Psychologically, I have a problem with this.
Psychologically, you have a problem with gummi bears?
- Yeah. - That's a personal problem.
It is a personal problem. I have to be honest.
It's impacting my judging decision at this point.
I would like to be naked inside of them,
so that's definitely not a psychological problem.
No, in no way.
- I am really, really torn. - I'm voting here.
So this is on you, brother.
I feel like I'm almost--
This is almost a betrayal
of my own brand
because I love gummi bears so much,
but now that I've put both of these in my mouth,
I feel like if I had to say which one's the better snack,
I'd say Reese's Pieces.
I think you're right.
Reese's Pieces moves on. I'm sorry, Haribo.
Feel better knowing that it reflects the vote.
What did you just try to do?
He tried to get fancy. He tried to get fancy.
You megged yourself.
Yeah.
All right, our one-seed Oreo versus our four-seed Sour Patch Kids.
Uh-huh.
It just wakes you up.
You get hit with that sourness.
It's like, "Wow, I'm alive."
Any candy that reminds you that you're alive
is a good candy.
I think just the act of eating reminds you that you're alive.
Man, but that's a classic taste.
I mean, I wouldn't take these to the movies,
but that's not what we're testing here.
I love these
because they're--
it creates an experience.
It just creates, like--
It's like walking into a party,
and there's, like, it's just a little lounge music.
And all of a sudden, they drop a banger.
Drop a banger?
You know how they drop a banger,
and all of a sudden everybody's like...
you know, like, twerking and stuff.
- I don't go to those parties. - You know, that's why--
And I also know that you don't either.
That's what happens in my mouth.
Look. I'm about to drop a banger in my mouth.
- There are no parties... - Bam!
where they start with lounge music and then they drop bangers.
It just wakes you up!
But look at how ornate these are?
- I mean... - Ornate?
Yeah, it's like a-- each one is like a snowflake,
except they're all exactly the same.
Nothing like a snowflake.
But they kind of have this incredible pattern.
It says "Oreo" on both sides.
It's like a cathedral ceiling.
No matter how you look at it, you know that it's an Oreo.
All right, here's the thing.
This-- It's begging for milk.
It's like, "I'm really great with milk."
But what if there is no milk?
You don't need milk for this. You don't need nothing for this.
It's made better with milk, but it's also good without milk.
- I'm standing my ground with Oreo. - I'm in the Sour Patch zone.
- Okay, sounds like we need a tie breaker. - We need a tie breaker.
It's my childhood best friend and Link's worst nightmare,
the all-star of sweets and the champion of creeps,
Cotton Candy Randy!
Link ( laughing ): Oh, no! Yes. No.
Here he comes.
- Happy Cotton Candy Day, Daddies. - Yep.
Do you want a sweet nothing before we start?
Yep, yeah, I do, I do. I always do.
( exhales )
There's room for two in the sack where I sleep.
Good. That's good to know.
I know the parts of your house where the shadows are the darkest.
Randy, why don't you just taste--
Wanna feed me some snacks, Daddies?
Oh, yeah, he wants to be fed.
- Uh... - Oh, yeah, feed me, Daddies.
What do you mean, feed you?
That's an Oreo.
This is the first time I've ever eaten this before.
Give me one of those. Watch your fingers.
A little sour?
I like this one
'cause it tastes the most like human bones.
Now, this one has kids in it.
Yeah, I don't like that.
That's a surprise. So this is your choice.
- You like this one better. - Yeah.
I'm more of a chocolate guy anyway.
Yeah, I can tell. Yeah.
- All right. - All right.
- You have a cotton candy beard. - Bye, Daddies.
We-- He has spoken.
- It's-- Oreos moves on. - Oreos moves on.
- ( canned jeering ) - Link: Bam.
It's two seed versus the three seed.
Let's go in over here.
That initial pop is satisfying.
- Solid, man. - The same pop you might get
from a well-designed hotdog or sausage,
but in candy form.
Right, that's exactly what I'm thinking about
when I'm eating M&M's is sausages and hotdogs.
You know, I really think you gotta take into account
what begins to happen over the course of eating a bag of these.
Now, my experience with Reese's Pieces
is that they're super incredible.
- I never regret the decision. - Uh-huh.
But three quarters of the way through the bag,
I'm like, "I just keep getting peanut butter."
- Yeah. - Whereas this experience
of having that peanut and chocolate
over and over again?
And it comes in three waves.
You get the candy coating.
Then, when you bite into it,
you get the peanut second, actually.
And then you get an aftertaste
of that signature M&M's chocolate.
It's more complex.
Again, with repeated snackability,
I am going towards the M&M.
What about E.T., though?
Because he's watching.
Well, he's a grotesque puppet.
- That's how I feel. - All right. I agree.
Peanut M&M's is moving on!
- Yeah, consistency. - ( canned jeering )
- Rhett: What? - Link: Variety.
Our overall number-one seed has unsurprisingly advanced
to this round.
But the number three is now here
in a position to assert itself
in the final four.
Wow.
Now, here's the one thing I'll say about Oreos.
I don't ever really just enjoy a normal Oreo.
A lot of people have their different ways of pulling them apart,
you know, taking two and making one double-stuff,
which then Oreo listened
and then started making double-stuff off the shelf,
- so you wouldn't get rid of half a wafer. - Look at that.
And there's lots of customization
where you can express yourself,
- but here's-- - Not a lot, though.
Here's the thing that gives me pause.
Because I think neither one of us loved the Oreo that much.
I love it in milk. I love it in milk.
Here's the thing. All the cookies and cream stuff,
is just crushed up Oreos inside of something.
It's amazing how magical this becomes as an ingredient.
That sounds like an argument for it, though.
But that doesn't make it a great snack.
That makes it a great ingredient.
Well, another way to say the same thing--
Say the same thing in another way.
If I'd have sat down with this whole thing of cookies,
three or four cookies in,
I'm tired, I want milk.
My body is screaming for milk.
Because it needs milk to be a complete experience.
And I think we have to evaluate this
as a cookie, as a snack, on its own.
Because milk's not a snack.
- Milk's milk. - We've also gushed
about the different layers of an experience
you have when eating just one,
which allows you then to eat many more,
which is the ultimate goal.
We're gonna disappoint a lot of people.
It's not about disappointing people.
This is the overall number-one seed.
If we send these along, we're gonna get letters.
We're gonna get letters, not comments, but letters.
But we're gonna do it anyway, aren't we?
Go to the contact page of our website, mythical.com.
Because we're moving peanut M&M's along? Is that what I'm hearing?
I believe in it.
All right, I do, too.
It's going to the final four!
Peanut M&M's!
What do you think, Alex? Is this a surprise?
I respect all your decisions.
You-- You don't like Oreos either.
No, I don't like Oreos.
Okay, there we have it.
The final four has been set.
Tomorrow, we will determine our overall best snack in the world.
And I just wanna take a second to thank Cotton Candy Randy
for taking moments out of his busy schedule
to come in here and help us out.
I'll thank you later in your sleeping sack.
Thank you, Randy.
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