- Today Red Lobster and Joe's Crab Shack
go claw-to-claw!
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
- Good mythical morning!
- Red Lobster and Joe's Crab Shack.
Both offer crustaceans to hungry,
and often landlocked seafood fans.
But today, we determine where you should turn
when you wanna get crackin'.
- Now, we are convinced that these
two have been locked in a salty
battle for supremacy since time immemorial but,
there's just no evidence of that on Twitter,
so we decided to churn the Twitter waters.
- That's right.
- [Link] We tweeted "Hey Red Lobster!
Joe's Crab Shack told us that your
Shrimp Fest is a real suck fest.
Thoughts?
- And then, we tweeted, "Hey Joe's Crab Shack,
Red Lobster told us that your bucket of crabs
taste like a bucket of crap!
What say you?"
- And then...
No one replied.
- No, no, nothing. Got nothing.
- I guess you could say our nets
came back empty.
- But who cares!
We're still pitting these two
iconic seafood restaurants together
to determine which one will rise to the top!
It's time for Food Feuds.
Red Lobster versus Joe's Crab Shack.
- All right! We're going to taste some
classic dishes from each restaurant
and rate them on a scale of 1-10,
and the restaurant with the most points
will be crowned the best sit-down,
seafood restaurant on the high seas
- So says us,
- And will win a chance to sponsor a G-M-M episode.
- Let's dish this fish.
- All right, let's jump in with some signature apps.
- Hi, I'm Red Lobster Rachel.
My dad is Mr. Red Lobster,
he owns Red Lobster,
but I crashed his car into a Pinkberry
so now I work in Red Lobster for six months
to build character.
- (laughing) Pinkberry
- [Link] (laughing) Okay
- (Red Lobster Rachel) Yeah, those are
Cheddar Bay Biscuits, they're free
so they're (beep)
- (laughing)
- Hey, sup
- What's up?
- I'm Joe's Crab Shack Joel,
and these are my Great Balls of Fire.
So, we got scratch-made seafood and crab balls in there,
and there's also jalapeno cream cheese,
and there's panko bread crumbs,
and there's also some ranch!
And they are so dang,
I had some and like,
they're kind of spicy,
like my throat hurts
a little bit, it's hard - [Link] Dank?
- It's hard to breathe.
- I thought it was a hush puppy, Joel.
(choking)
- All right.
- Cheddar Bay Biscuits.
- Cheddar Bay Biscuits, it's the signature item,
it's what everybody knows Red Lobster for.
They do come free but you can get
a half dozen for $2.79.
But we had to come up with some signature app
that we could put up against 'em.
This is gonna be no contest right?
I've never had the Great Balls of Fire.
(mumbling)
- Oh, God!
- They're salty, they're cheesy,
they're fluffy.
- It's so good!
- [Link] Okay, but these things,
never had them, maybe,
- Now they got seafood in them, right?
- [Link] They're awesome.
That's really good!
- It's like a crab cake
but in a ball. - In a ball.
Yep, it's a crab ball.
Crabs have balls too man.
- And they're bigger than you ever thought they would be.
- Okay, I'm gonna rate these
Cheddar Bay Biscuits over here
a ten! - A ten!
You've gotta give em a ten.
- I mean, I've gotta give em a ten.
- They can't be any better.
What if you dipped them in ranch?
- But these right here,
are not bad at all.
They're actually really good.
As long as you like spiciness,
Seven.
- Eight.
I'm very very pleasantly surprised with those
- Yeah!
- I find nothing wrong with those.
- Still the standard,
but it's still anybody's game I think.
(competitive music)
- Just a reminder,
every Saturday on the Rhett & Link channel
we're releasing a vlog.
Get to know the more personal side
of our friendship!
- Oh wow.
Okay get your pincers ready,
two crabs haven't gone head to head
like this since Nicki Minaji and Cardi B!
- Ooo.
- Hey what's up guys?
- Hey, what's up Joel?
- Our bucket of crab!
So we've got crab,
we got your corn,
we've got some potatoes and its really good.
I had another bite and it kinda
hurts my mouth a little bit ya know?
(choking)
I don't know why it's spicy,
I guess crab's spicy?
That's...I dunno.
- I think Joel might be allergic to seafood.
- Something's up.
- I feel like he might be allergic to seafood.
- His face is really red.
- I also am, but in a sexy way.
It just affects my lips.
- Oh.
(laughing)
- These are our snow crab legs and
some white rice and harvest vegetables.
You can choose whatever side you want,
but I picked for you because let's speed this up.
I have to do a Facetime with my pet pony.
- You've got a pet pony?
- Well hey, of course,
she's rich, she's the heiress...
- Where do you wanna dig in first?
- ...to Red Lobster.
I'm gonna do just straight up crab here.
C-C-Crab! - Yeah.
- Always go for the second leg
- Oh you go for the second one?
- Well I go for all the legs but,
the second leg,
the middle section is probably
the easiest to get a good...
- [Link] Yeah, you pull that out,
that's the trick,
and you do this thing here.
Maybe I don't need to use that - Just release, just release.
Just release.
I don't wanna look over at you.
- (laughing)
- When you say those type of things,
that's uh...
- Yeah, I talk to my crabs man
- Oh yeah, look at that,
just release!
- Okay I'm gonna double that up
and dip it in butter.
- Take a little bit of butter.
Oh! I dipped it in the wrong
restaurant's butter.
Looks exactly the same.
(chewing)
- I love crab legs!
- That's super solid crab
- Nothing to complain about.
You want that second leg there?
I'll take the primary.
There's a lot in that too but
I'll save that for later.
(cracking)
- [Rhett] Oh here we go!
Whoa, that went well!
- [Link] Oh yeah!
- [Rhett] That one came out really really nice.
- That's nice!
- I mean like, it just completely released.
- Now my piece,
my piece was just a different piece but still.
- [Rhett] Oh man.
That crab is way better,
not just because it released,
but it's super moist!
- It's got a better taste to it.
- It's actually got a better color to it too.
I don't know if you can see that on camera but,
it's redder.
So this is a better crab...
- I don't have enough crab in my life.
It's good stuff.
- The sides are
- I don't care about these sides.
- I'm not even gonna eat the sides.
They're incidental,
this is about the crab, man.
This is just a freaking potato!
(crash)
- Did you just break something or?
- Yeah I think I hit a ukulele.
- [Link] All right so what are you rating...
- That was one my grandfather gave me
right before he died.
Actually it's just one that Cassie found somewhere.
Okay I'm giving this crab,
and I don't even remember which one this is.
I've already forgot.
- Don't even matter.
- I'm giving this crab a nine,
because I've eaten a lot of snow crab
and that is as good as I've had.
- I agree, I give this a nine as well.
- I'm giving it a six actually.
It was good but...
- It wasn't that different to me...
Seven for those crabs.
- Okay, there we go.
- Ain't nothing better than getting
a great deal on some tail!
Give me some lobsters!
(clattering)
- Uh, hi? Hi?
- [Red Lobster Rachel] One sec, uh-huh.
Okay.
- Lobster, right?
- It's lobster.
It's what we do.
- She's not doing a very good job selling.
- Not very dedicated.
- (slurring) She's not very good at her job, dude.
- Hey man.
- So like this is our twin lobster tails.
We got rice,
we got lobster.
- [Rhett] Joel are you okay?
- I'm fine yeah,
everything is fine.
- [Link] Can you see us?
- Uh, sorta?
I mean I'm doing good Rhett,
I'm doing good.
Can you guys like
call the police or something?
(groan)
- It's a good thing I have an EpiPen.
- That's a dry erase marker.
- (pained groaning)
- I'm gonna let them do their thing,
cause we've gotta do ours.
Now the Red Lobster lobster
- Is big.
- plate is just one lobster.
- This is like baby lobsters.
You like killed lobsters before
they got the chance to grow up and
- I'm all good!
- Okay he's gonna be fine.
- You're welcome!
- Is that how it actually works?
I hope not.
Well let's start over here.
- Well first of all, there is lemon here,
so I think we should take advantage of that.
- I don't wanna eat those seeds though.
- Well then don't.
- It's just so small,
look at that!
- [Rhett] Don't touch them!
- [Link] Three little ones.
- [Rhett] This lobster might be allergic
to that lobster.
- Okay so...
- I'm just gonna just come in here and oh!
That's a little tough.
- [Link] Yeah.
- But it might just be, it's been out for a while.
- Are you more of a lobster man or
a crab leg man?
- I think if I had to choose I think
I would choose crab.
- Me too
- Because it's hard to get a good lobster.
A lot of times lobster can be...
- A little more tough in general.
- That's not bad though.
- Very meaty, a hearty steak-type sensation.
I didn't have much to say about
the lobster's sprinklings.
You know, that rub on it?
- [Rhett] I'm just gonna eat this like this.
- [Link] This is easier to eat.
- These baby lobsters are good!
So far this actual seafood at Joe's Crab Shack is better.
- Again the sides are not really a factor.
- The sides at a seafood restaurant are there
just so you don't feel too guilty
about just eating seafood and nothing else.
But I think we really gotta be judging
the shellfish here.
- Right, and I think we're leaning towards these
smaller lobsters which,
correct me if I'm wrong,
lobsters taste better when they're smaller.
- I've got this middle section here though.
Just dip that in butter,
that little morsal right there.
This just got better,
there's not as huge of a difference as I thought.
- Well here's one difference.
This costs 32 dollars,
this costs $21.50.
So it's a lot more economical over here at Joe's.
- So you can get three little lobsters
for the price of half a big one.
- I think ultimately the lobster tastes
better at Red Lobster,
but the dining experience is easier,
it's a lot cheaper
and it still is very tasty.
- Okay.
- So let's rate the Red Lobster
- I've had a lot better lobster,
so I'm just sort of rating this
on a scale of lobster that I've had.
I'm actually gonna just say five.
I'm sorry Red Lobster.
But again this is good,
but it's not great.
- I'm gonna give this a six.
- I'm gonna give this a five.
- We did the old mix-match.
- So both of these places serve key lime pie.
I think it goes back to sailors and scurvy or something.
- Hey!
- You're back!
- Yeah dude, back from the dead.
- You're looking a little bit better.
Still pretty bad, but better.
- I don't know if you need to work at Joe's.
- Yeah I know it's weird
- [Link] Or be around shellfish.
- I go surfing all the time but
I just never ate one before.
(laughing)
- Anyways that's key lime pie,
it's got whipped cream,
it's got lime,
it's got like a key.
- Yum, it's a big square.
- It doesn't look like a key lime pie.
- Are you feeling okay?
- Yeah, yeah, I'm feeling chill.
- Okay cool.
- Are you single?
- Oh sweetie no.
Oh my God you are so wet.
- Yeah.
- Well okay Rachel's not into Joel.
- Okay this is our Key Lime Pie.
- [Link] That one's shaped like pie.
- [Red Lobster Rachel] Yeah!
- So descriptive Rachel.
- Thanks! (laughter)
- She's in it for the long haul.
- This is like a sheet,
a large sheet of pie.
- [Link] I'm not opposed.
- I'm intrigued!
Do you wanna go with this more traditional?
Get a little bit of this and combine
for the crust cause that's where
- That's what I was gonna do.
- ...the real money is.
- Eat a little bit of this,
go back for the crust.
- But interestingly,
when they bring it to you in a square,
you don't get the crust,
and the crust is kinda what makes a key lime pie
in a lot of ways.
- Yeah especially if you don't like
the key and the lime part.
- I'm a key lime pie fan so.
- I'm gonna drag...
And then the crust on the bottom is thinner
than that crust.
- Distinctly different taste.
- It's a lot more key over here,
a lot more lime over there.
- As someone who is a
key lime pie aficionado,
this key lime pie is definitively better
than that pie.
Because it actually tastes like key lime pie
and it has the crust.
- But who has ever made a decision
about going to Red Lobster or somewhere else
like Joe's, based on their key lime pie?
But this is a factor once you get there!
- That's why I'm not gonna like,
I'm not gonna actually score these
with the discrepancy that I actually think
they represent.
- We should handicap them by putting a ceiling at five.
- I think a five.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Five is the maximum score these can get
because it's just for dessert.
- We're weighting this lower
and it's the right choice.
- And I'm giving it a five because this is
good as it can get if it only goes up to a five.
- I don't love key lime pie that much,
- Really, you don't say? - so the fact that this is
less like key lime pie kinda makes me like it.
So, I'm gonna give this
- Weird.
- a four.
- What'd you give this?
- I haven't given it anything yet.
- I'm gonna give this...
- I'm gonna give it a three though.
- I'm gonna give it a four.
- A four! - I'm giving them both a four.
- And I gave it a five.
- You know it's like, if I isolate them
I'm not going to be complaining.
- Okay there you have it.
- [Stevie] That means
- What does that mean?
- [Stevie] with a score of 53
the winning restaurant is:
Red Lobster!
- [Rhett] Red Lobster!
- [Link] And what did Joe's Crab Shack get?
- [Stevie] 51
- It all comes down to
Cheddar Bay Biscuits baby,
that's what it is,
it comes down to the biscuits.
- Bring the biscuit back out.
- How do you guys feel about that?
- I won one!
- I'm in pain.
- All right guys, we did it!
(laughing)
- I put on makeup five times
to do this thing and I finally win one!
(laughing)
- All right, okay, all right, all right.
- I didn't realize that was happening.
- I think Rachel just came out of character.
- You know what you win?
A Cheddar Bay Biscuit!
- Thanks, thanks so much!
- The makeup is hurting my face.
- Oh it's just makeup.
- You're allergic to the makeup now?
- I think so.
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