- Today we ask the age-old question.
Again. - Will it taco?
- Let's taco 'bout that.
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- Yes, now according to Malcolm Gladwell,
it takes 1500 goat testicles to master a skill
and today, we become masters
because it's our 1500th episode!
- 1500th episode! (crew cheering)
Woo!
And what he's saying,
fun fact is that we do eat a goat testicle
before every single episode. - Yeah still chewing it--
- Just to prep. - Out of my teeth right now.
Okay 1500 episodes, that's a milestone
while we're talking about it.
We could not have done this without you,
the Mythical Beasts and our amazing Mythical Team.
We thank you so much, specifically you, intern Derek.
You work your butt off and you do it with a smile.
I'm assuming you do that because I only met you briefly.
- Okay in honor of number one five zero zero,
we are traveling back in time 10 seasons ago
to the beginning of what was then a new chapter
in GMM story to the very first Will It, Will It Taco.
- And since that episode,
we've gone from a tiny little operation
to a full-fledged crew and we now have our very own
Mythical Chef Josh. - Mm-hmm,
and we thought with all these expanding capabilities,
we should revisit our very first Will It
and bring you a whole new set
of totally twisted taco transmutations.
It's time for--
- [Rhett and Link] Will It Taco?
Reheated.
- For the original Will It Taco,
we just basically tossed a bunch of stuff into taco shells
and called it a day but this time around,
Mythical Chef Josh is stretching his culinary legs
and crafting tacos from tortilla to salsa.
- And we're gonna be doing all-new tacos,
so none of the ones that we did the first time around,
with one notable exception, we're gonna see
if Josh can take a taco that definitely did not will,
and make it will this time.
- Yeah, still pretty much totally afraid.
But let's get started in a happy place
with Girl Scout Cookies, can we make that into a taco?
We're calling this the tacolong.
And the tortilla is made out of Thin Mint,
and then inside there's flash-fried Do-si-dos
or Dosidos as I will call them.
- Yeah today they're Dosidos.
- Also Trefoils AKA Treefois, AKA Trefois.
And Tagalongs are in this,
all topped with a spicy Samoas salsa.
- So this is all Girl Scout Cookies, there's no--
- Anything else anywhere.
- Nothing real savory in there except a little bit
of the spicy salsa.
- Dink it.
I don't even think there was a dink it and sink it
when we did the first-- - Oh definitely not.
- Will It Taco, and sink it.
- Oh, oh, oh.
It's a little hard to navigate.
It completely busted apart but I'm not gonna
hold that against you Josh,
I'll hold that against the Girl Scouts.
- I'm holding mine together pretty well.
- It's very tasty though. - It's a bit dry.
- Nothing a sip of water won't help.
- Mm-hmm, mm.
- Oh, Josh just passed you a little more taco sauce.
Just put it right in your mouth.
- Oh sorry, got a little on your beard, your mustache.
Save a little for later, mm.
As you might expect-- - This is a little spicy.
- This is really good.
Yeah the spice and the chocolate is interesting,
but it's just a little more pizzazz,
nothing to complain about.
- [Rhett] Girl Scout Cookies, will it taco?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes.
- Now fusion tacos are very in right now
but that's typically just marinated meat
from somewhere around the world tossed into a tortilla
and we're gonna take taco fusion to new heights with pho
in a taco, we call it the phoco.
- It's pho.
- Yeah but I can't say (bleep).
- Oh, no you can't.
All right.
Okay here it is.
It looks fabulous.
- [Rhett] Now here's what we got going on here.
- Colorful. - We got a tortilla made
from crispy rice noodles,
we got braised brisket meatballs inside,
it's all garnished with bean sprouts, mint, ba-sil,
jalapenos, lime, and hoisin, and then we got some pho broth
on the side for dippin'.
You wanna dip, dink and sink or you wanna dip,
dink, dip and sink? - I wanna dink.
Dink, dip, sink. (clears throat)
Still got Girl Scout Cookie.
- Dink, dip, sink?
Dink, dip, sink?
- Dink dim sum. - Dink dim hmm.
- Nope. - Don't get confused.
- [Link] That's another taco.
Okay.
And sink, whoa.
Mm!
- You could make body armor out of that shell.
(laughs)
You need to sell that in a Halliburton, Josh.
- I would say the crunch in the shell
though required a little more movement to get it loose,
it's got a satisfying crunch.
- [Josh] Let it soak like an Oreo in the broth,
you know, let it soften.
- Get some soak time. - Oh that's a good idea.
But it tastes amazing
and it's a-- - It's becomes pho
in your mouth. - Experience.
- And pho has got a lot of noodles.
I mean sometimes I'm like man, there's so many noodles.
- Mm-hmm. - And so that same
kinda frustration that I approach pho with
I'm approaching your taco with so I think we're
par for the course.
- Pho is something that Lando absolutely loves.
He always asks to go get some.
So I will say that this is an authentic pho experience
in a taco form,
it's pretty magical. - Would you say that
Lando thinks that it's (bleep) great?
(crew laughing)
- You gotta stop.
- [Rhett] Pho.
Will it taco? - Yes!
- Next up, we wanted to make a taco out of side dishes
and some of the most famous side dishes in America are
Olive Garden's unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks.
We call this
♪ That's a taco ♪
- Mm.
You might get a little side gig at Olive Garden.
You could do that table-side.
♪ Yes I can ♪
All right so, this thing has an olive--
- Oh come on, it's from the Olive Garden!
If you're gonna eat something from the Olive Garden,
you've gotta keep the olive on.
That's part of the experience, man.
- I'm ignoring him. - You can take the tomato off
but you have to keep the olive on.
- The tortilla is made from smashed breadsticks
and Parmesan, it's filled with strained solids
from all the soups.
- Mm, nothing get my motor running like strained solids.
(Link giggles)
- Topped with chopped salad and a salsa made
from reduced soup liquid.
- Oh except reduced soup liquid. (chuckles)
Which are my two favorite things.
Dink her. - Dink it.
And sink it.
- [Rhett] Mm, wow.
The shell-- - Is very good.
Parmesany. - Easier to penetrate.
- Again, you have to stop.
Woo, this is salty, man.
- Just like the Olive Garden.
- Woo, yeah, I wake up at 3 a.m. drinking
from a water bottle at my bedside which I always keep there.
- I always wear a camelback to Olive Garden.
- I should wear a camelback to sleep
as much as like to drink water at 3 a.m.
- I gotta be honest with you though,
something about it is not completely coming together for me.
I feel like I'm just getting a lot of strained solids.
- Yeah, strange solids too.
- Like I think it might be less trouble to just go
to the Olive Garden. - Yeah.
Olive Garden, will it taco?
- [Rhett and Link] No.
- Nothing goes better with a plate of tacos
and some really nice tequila and you know that good tequila
got that worm at the bottom.
- Put a worm in the bottom.
- So today we're making the taco out of the tequila worm.
It's the larvae asada taco.
Not the larva because there's definitely more than one.
- Oh my gosh. - Okay we've got a tortilla
made from crispy meal worms.
We've got tequila-marinated wax worms
and then we've got some fresh horn worms with that.
It's all topped with a splash of tequila for good measure.
Link, what happened?
- I don't have any worms, ope.
- [Josh] They're in the tortilla too.
- Yeah I can tell that.
Oh my goodness.
- It smells like tequila.
- Remember that Brooks and Dunn concert in high school
where in the parking lot, the guy dared me
to eat the worm out of the bottom of the bottle.
- Yeah I turned away.
- [Link] That was the beginning of this madness
the more I think about it. - I couldn't watch you.
- I ate that worm just 'cause a stranger told me
to do it 'cause he had a cowboy hat on.
- Well that's kinda what this has become, strangers--
- If you wouldn't wear so many cowboy hats,
we wouldn't be doing this.
- Strangers are telling you to eat worms
and so we keep doing it.
- Exactly. - I don't think we're
gonna be able to dink this without losing some worms
but oh.
- Might I suggest. - You might.
Oh wow.
- Usually don't even like sriracha that much but.
- Dink it. - And.
- Oh gosh.
Boy that is not pleasant.
Very worm-forward.
Which was my nickname in high school.
(crew laughing)
- Tell me some more jokes so I can get through this.
- It doesn't get better.
(groans)
It's exactly what it was when I put it in my mouth.
♪ Got the worm scootin' boogie ♪
Sing me some Brooks and Dunn, we'll get it down.
I just got a big bite.
Why?
- You can get some down if you do this.
(exhales sharply)
Congratulations, Link.
- That was two big swallers.
I dedicate the first swallow to Brooks.
Second swallow to Dunn.
- It's gonna take me awhile to finish this.
But in the meantime I don't think we need
to deliberate any more.
Tequila worm, will it taco?
- [Rhett and Link] No!
- And finally, we're revisiting the awful Will It item
that started it all, the pork blood taco.
(gagging) (crew laughs)
It didn't take long at all to realize how different I look.
(Rhett laughs)
- Oh man - It's like,
is that the same guy?
- It was always your decision. - Nothing need to be said.
- It was always your head.
- It went in the mouth and went right into the can.
- But now Josh has done his best
to reclaim the pork blood taco.
- Now we're calling this taco, God, it's made of blood!
I Mexi-can't eat it!
(Rhett chuckles) But we're gonna try.
Is your assertion that we are going to will this?
- [Josh] I think you're going to will that.
- You think? - I think you will like it.
Well I don't know what's in your heart and minds.
I know that whatever you don't eat,
I'm gonna eat on the side. - Blood?
- [Josh] I love that taco.
I stand by my dish.
- All right, what he has done is pork blood corn tortillas.
- [Rhett] Check.
- [Link] Filled with stewed blood curd.
- Check. - Topped with blood salsa.
- Check. - And blood pickled onions.
- Check!
- At least the onions themselves aren't made of blood.
- [Rhett] Look how juicy this thing is.
- I wouldn't call it juice.
I'd probably-- - Oh!
- Just call it blood.
It does look greasy though, maybe that'll help.
- It's definitely better than just a long slab
of pork blood in a hard shell taco.
- It looks better. - I'll give you that.
Dink it, might wanna keep your plate under it.
- Who knew back then we'd be here now?
- Oh I knew, Link. - You didn't.
- I always knew.
Dink it.
And stink it.
(gags)
Nothing bad has happened yet.
(gags)
- I'm having more difficult than you just 'cause
the thought that...
- I know it's just like curdled blood from pork.
Oh gosh.
- Does that help?
- That crazy unbelievably irony taste is completely gone.
(gags) What is wrong?
It's just the thought?
- Ah, got it down.
But you know what-- - Not only did I get it down--
- It doesn't actually taste bad.
I'm just having a mental problem.
- I'm taking another bite.
- What? - Yes.
Do it, Rhett, do it.
- Josh. - Well you know what,
I'll take another bite. - Josh, it's good.
You made pork blood taste good.
- [Josh] This is literally the proudest moment
of my life, I can't express that enough.
- Kinda crazy.
I'm not crying 'cause I'm proud.
- I'm a little scared of you right now.
- I'm crying 'cause I was gagging
but it's really miraculous.
- Is this some sort of sorcery?
I don't know how you did it, but it tastes good.
I want to finish it, but I feel like it would be wise
to stop, you know, just two bites.
That's all I'm gonna do right now.
I don't know what happened to you.
- Well I just don't wanna look at it
or think about it but tasting it wasn't bad at all.
Way to go, Josh!
Your job here continues!
- I cannot believe it.
I cannot believe it, but pork blood--
- Will it taco-- - Now?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes!
- It did! - That is a great way
to ring in 1500 episodes, I kinda feel like
it feels wrong to like something like that.
I feel like I'm supposed to vomit something up
in order to call it a day but.
- Well again, thank you so much for enabling 1500
of these and hopefully many more.
So tell us in the comments what classic Will It
you'd like to see us reheat next.
- And thank you for liking, commenting and subscribing
for all this time. - Yes!
You know what time it is.
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- From Santa Barbara, California.
- And we're at Lilly's Tacos.
- And we got eyeball taco, cow eyeball tacos.
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- Woo, he's excited about them
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