- Do Tyson Nuggets actually rule the roost?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
- Nothing makes a parent feel more secure
than having a freezer full of frozen chicken nuggets.
Now, when my kids were younger,
we would even keep the oven preheated constantly
to have a batch ready just to keep 'em quiet.
"Daddy, he stole stole my..."
Put a chicken nugget in her mouth.
- "Daddy, he bit my..."
Put a chicken nugget in his mouth.
It's like a stopper for your tub,
but for your kids' mouth
- That's right, but as the kids have gotten older,
they're like "Daddy, this chicken nugget is nasty."
It doesn't work to put it back in there.
- Right.
- They just demand quality.
And so do I, because Christie will
pop a nugget in my mouth every now and again too.
- Keep that between you and Christie,
don't bring that out into our open.
Today, we're gonna find the frozen
chicken nugget brand that you should demand.
It's time for Which Frozen Brand
Makes The Best Chicken Nuggies?
And Which One Tastes Like an Old Pair of Huggies?
- We're gonna be tasting six
of the most popular frozen chicken nugget brands.
And we're gonna use our sense of taste
to rank them on the board behind us.
- From worst to best we have, Cock-A-Doodle-Poo,
Clucks to Be You, Breast And Sigh,
Hen Stefani, you know, because Gwen Stefani is just okay.
I don't know if I believe that.
I like Gwen Stefani, I'm a big fan.
Her and Blake Shelton make a great couple.
And number two, #Winging,
and number one, Roost, There It Is!
- Roost there it is.
- Let's start munching.
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- First, we got it what I usually think of
when frozen chicken nuggets are mentioned,
the Tyson Chicken Nugget,
which you'll be glad to know is 100% natural ingredients.
- This thing is $6.68 for a 32 ounce package.
And Tyson, they own the meat game in United States.
Listen, they produce approximately
20% of the beef, pork and chicken in the US,
through both Tyson and other acquired brands.
- Dang Tyson, that's a lot.
- Are you doing sauce or no sauce?
- No sauce at first.
And it's kind of mushy, you know?
The taste- - It's spongy.
- Spongy, the taste is decent.
And just to give you a little chicken nugget fun fact,
chicken nuggets were created by Robert C. Baker.
You know him, he's a food scientist
from Cornell back in the 1950s.
They were originally called chicken crispies.
- That's a bad idea.
I would eat a whole plate of these, now-
Because you're starving or because you're Rhett?
- [Rhett] Yeah, because-
- [Link] Or 'cause you haven't eaten any of em?
- I'll eat a lot of plates of anything.
But it's a solid nugget.
- I mean, is it Hen Stefani?
- I think it's more breast and sigh.
- [Link] All right.
- I don't wanna disrespect Gwen.
I feel bad about the whole system that we got here.
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- Okay, now we've got Banquet 100% Natural Chicken Nuggets.
- Everybody's getting on the natural bandwagon.
These are the cheapest,
or maybe I should just say the least expensive nugget
that we're gonna be tasting today.
- They're crispier.
- It's almost like they have a shell of breading.
- They're peppery.
These are not that far off of a Tyson Nugget.
This is my first inclination.
- I like black pepper on things.
But it's very strongly black peppery.
And the meat seems denser.
- You like dense meat?
- Well, I don't like spongy meat.
But I like the taste of the Tyson
better than this, a little bit.
- I think the taste of the Tyson is better.
But this is less spongy.
I don't know, I think they're close contenders.
But I think-
- I think the taste of the Tyson's gonna edge it out,
even though you got the sponginess.
- I agree.
Again, just so we're all on the same page,
I would eat a whole plate of 'em.
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Okay, we're dealing with some nuggets
that are just normal price here.
But have you ever tried a $231 Chicken McNugget?
Well, Mythical chef Josh and Nicole,
they actually are doing crazy stuff
like that over on the Mythical Kitchen channel.
And they also have a podcast called A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich,
where they debate food feuds,
and that kind of thing, you know?
So go check it out over on the Mythical Kitchen channel.
- #Opinionsarelikecasseroles.
Go subscribe, check out the channel.
Okay, next up we've got Applegate Naturals Chicken Nuggets,
which are the most expensive ones
we're gonna be tasting today, $9.79 for a 16 ounce package.
- They're they're a little more expensive because-
- Each one is smaller.
- Because the chickens are humanely raised,
right up until the point where they just kill 'em. (laughs)
(crew laughs)
- I bet they're humanely slaughtered as well.
But you know what?
Let's not talk about that.
These are little.
- We do a lot of Applegate stuff at my house.
But we don't do the nuggets.
I didn't know they had 'em.
- These are the most dense we've tasted.
- I don't particularly like 'em.
- You know what it is?
I think that it tastes the most
like chicken of anything we've had.
And it's kinda like, what's that effect?
When like a robot gets too close to being human?
- Uncanny Valley.
- We're in the Uncanny Valley of a chicken nugget,
that it's becoming too much like chicken.
And it doesn't taste as good.
- You don't want your nuggets to be too much like a chicken.
- It's dry, I admit-
- [Rhett] They're too small.
- [Link] I miss the sponginess.
- I'm sorry, Applegate.
- And this is the first out of the three
that I've been compelled to dip to cover up the taste.
- Yeah, listen, we're gonna put you out the back gate,
Applegate, Cock-A-Doodle-Poo for right now.
- I appreciate the humanity
of how you're approaching things, but...
- Oh, the humanity. (laughs)
- Not working.
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- Okay, they call these
Earth's Best Chicken Nuggets, For Kids.
So it's not the Earth's best chicken nuggets,
and then you can give 'em to your kids?
Or is it just the Earth's best chicken nuggets for kids?
- Well, when I first looked at it,
I just thought it said kids chicken nuggets.
And I was like, Oh, they're made of kids.
- Kids nuggets.
- Finally, putting kids to good use.
- Now, look at this, these things are-
- [Link] Them nugget.
- The color of Dooky. - Wow.
- They're very rounded.
- It looks like a fried okra or something.
- Yeah.
- You know how you like hard fry an okra?
Ooh.
- They taste pretty good, though.
Do they not?
I feel like I've lost my nugget-dar
- Well, go back to the Tyson.
Because okay, there's a spice on it.
I like the consistency, I like the meatiness.
Well, I wanna show 'em the inside.
Everything on the inside is good,
but something about that breading,
is it tastes like a weird hush puppy from like a...
- Cornmeal, it's got cornmeal I betcha that's what it is.
- [Link] That's what it is.
- Corn starch, yellow corn flour, yeah.
I'm not holding that against 'em.
- Well, it's just...
- It's not great.
- I honestly don't think it's as good as the Tyson,
but I think it's better than the Banquet.
- Well, I wanna taste the Banquet again.
- Taste the Banquet. - I'll get you one.
- Uh-oh, I've got cross-contamination now.
- Banquet's really black peppery,
but more expected than the cornmeal.
- Man, nuggets confuse me, in ways that I didn't anticipate.
I like these a little bit better
than the Banquet, but neither one of 'em-
- And I like the Banquet a little bit better.
So they're basically tied.
- I'm fine with that.
- We're just gonna do that.
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- These next nuggets flew in all the way
from Perdue Farms in Maryland.
And they are the biggest ones on the block.
I mean, again, if you compare this to the Tyson...
- Yeah, I got a little bit of a smaller one.
But yeah, the biggest of the big are bigger.
- It is the size of a McNugget from McDonald's.
- Uh-oh.
- You want another fun fact?
Usain Bolt ate a hundred chicken nuggets a day
during the Beijing Olympics because he wasn't used
to Chinese food, and he still got three gold medals.
- So the moral of the story is,
you wanna run fast, eat a lot of nuggs.
- A hundred nuggets a day?
- It can be done.
This is back to what you expect.
- This is everything I would expect.
- It's a little bit mushy, but in a good way.
- They're thinner, and they are peppered.
There's a little bit of pepper in it.
- Is this the best nugget so far?
It's definitely a contender, (laughs) get it?
- To Tyson.
- I mean, I just feel like...
We've got another round to go.
I just don't wanna...
I mean, I could eat a hundred nuggets.
I mean, me and Usain could hang out
and eat a hundred nuggets, but-
- You know, let's throw 'em in at number one.
And then let's hash it out
if there's not one to dethrone both of them.
- Right, exactly.
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And last, but certainly not least,
we have the incomparable Yummy Dyno Buddies Chicken Nuggets.
- Yes, and these have a lot of mass.
Here's a T-Rex.
- This just goes to show you that if you get into a chicken
in the right way, you can get anything
you want out of it, including dinosaurs.
And ironically, chickens are descendants of dinosaurs.
- The same guy who invented the chicken nugget,
Robert C. Baker, also invented processed chicken,
which allowed for the special shaping of dinosaur nuggets.
I tell you, where would we be without C. Baker?
- [Rhett] Really crispy, huh?
- Crispy, very thin.
I think they got the same amount of meat,
but it's like pounded out or something.
- [Rhett] You can kinda taste the grease,
which I kinda like.
- There's some role-play opportunity here, you know?
(imitates dinosaur growling)
- I eat too fast for that.
And I'm just going with taste, not fun.
- This is tough, man, because-
- I think they may be a little too bland.
Is that Tyson?
- I agree, that's Tyson.
And then bring down the Perdue, 'cause-
- I think it comes down to Perdue and Tyson.
- Yep, these are really good.
- That's a safe...
- That's definitely a safe number three.
Well, I mean, let me taste the Banquet again.
- Taste the Banquet.
We take this very seriously.
- But it doesn't taste as good,
but it shaped like a dinosaur.
- So you're giving it points for that?
- Okay, all right. - Heck yes.
- Okay, so this right here, this is Perdue, right?
- Yeah, the big one, big and soft.
- [Rhett] Which I like.
- More orange, crunchier.
They don't hide the flavor with pepper.
- I prefer pepper.
- They're so close.
I just feel like the breading over here has a nice taste
and it's a little more substantial.
- All right, so you seem to feel very strongly about it.
I think it's really, really close, but-
- Switch 'em up, man.
- I'm willing to go ahead with this.
- Tyson is just gonna barely edge it out.
Thanks for deferring to me,
because I feel pretty strongly that I'm correct.
But you can't go wrong with Perdue.
- Because this is completely objective.
- Yes.
- All right, there you go.
Tyson chicken nuggets, the best frozen nugget
that you can get, who would have thought that would happen?
- I'm about to do a hundred mile dash.
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- I think it's meters.
You know what time it is.
- Why, hello there.
I'm Ryan from Pensacola, Florida,
sitting here eating chicken, watching the boys eat chicken.
It's the good life, I tell ya.
And it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality.
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- That's the good life, man.
- I love how the nuggets on the computer.
- On the keyboard.
You can't navigate anywhere.
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