- Can store-bought food compete with its restaurant version?
- Let's talk about that.
(cheerful music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- What is your favorite food to get at a restaurant?
- Take-out. I like to eat at home.
- Okay, well I think you tried to trick me with that answer,
but you played right into my hands,
because today we are trying food from restaurants
that you can eat in your home at all times
because they sell a version at the grocery store.
Haha! You can't fool me!
- And you played right into my hand,
because I've been dying to know
if the grocery store versions
are just as good as the restaurant versions.
- Okay, we're both playing into each other's hands,
I don't know what that means.
It's time for
"These Foods From Restaurants Actually Came From the Store?
That's an Amazing Phenomenon I've Never Seen Before!
JK, We've Played This Game a Few Times Now."
(upbeat music)
All right, you know how this goes,
we've got two versions of a food,
one straight from the restaurant,
one is the grocery store version of the same dish.
- In this case, it is meatloaf from Boston Market.
The winner at the end gets a compliment from the chef,
and hey, we have a chef.
He's Mythical. He's over there.
- Hey, Josh.
- [Josh] Hey, how y'all doing?
- You working that compliment up for me?
- [Josh] Oh, I sure am, Rhett.
- Or me?
- [Josh] I kind of assumed Rhett...
No, yeah, I was working it up for both of you.
(crew chuckles)
- All right, now Boston Market.
I always get the chicken.
- You ever had the meatloaf?
- I don't think I've ever had the meatloaf, so,
I'm kinda just...
This loaf is a lot taller than the other loaf.
Well one of 'em cost 11.50, if you go to the store,
and then if you, well, I say the store, the restaurant.
And if you go to Ralph's it costs 4.50.
- You call the restaurant the store?
- I said it wrong. You caught me.
- Well you know, fun fact,
meatloaf was introduced in 1968,
and went on to have a illustrious music, stage,
and film career in the years that followed.
- What?
So now, you're gonna keep eating that?
Because, what are you, just gonna keep eating it?
- [Rhett] I like meatloaf.
- Well there's one over here, too,
you need to compare the two.
This one's a lot easier to cut into.
It's a lot thinner, like,
it's half as tall as the other one.
Somebody gave up on imitating the other one.
- That's tasty.
I think I might like this one.
- [Link] Did you make it in an oven?
It's not a microwave thing, is it?
- No, that's microwave.
I mean...
- [Link] Or is it like confection-
- One of them is microwave.
- Convection oven.
- [Rhett] I like both of 'em, though.
- But this one is so much softer.
Why is the meat softer?
- And the flavor is a little saltier.
- Mm-hm.
- So we're gonna say which one is from Boston Market itself.
Not from the grocery store.
- [Stevie] The restaurant, yes,
you're gonna place your cards.
- We're gonna use our business card, I mean our
credit cards.
Our business credit cards.
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
- It's gotta be this one, dude.
- If it's not this one, then who are we?
- The saltiness and just the TV dinnerness of it,
it's not the same thing.
It's not as good. - It's not bad.
- But it ain't bad.
- [Stevie] The restaurant meatloaf is on
Rhett's side.
But this is only round one.
- And, I think that justifies the price difference
of what's 11 minus four, it's a lot!
- Seven.
(upbeat music)
- As you can see, we can't.
- 'Cause apparently there's a visual difference.
Not that there wasn't for the meatloaf.
- Auntie Anne's pretzel nuggets?
Is this in the middle of a mall? Right?
- Yeah, this is like, we did Auntie Anne's
versus Wetzel's. - Now why are you reaching,
are you already reaching over here?
- I can do what I want, man.
- Have you already eaten that one?
- Maybe.
- I wanna eat the same one you're eating
at the same time.
- You can do your own thing, man.
- I don't wanna do my own thing.
- We can both exist in this pretzel universe, together.
- [Link] Mm!
- Good god.
- I don't even have to see to know that
the one over here in front of me,
the nugget is, I mean I found a big nugget.
- Why are the nuggets so big over here?
Huh.
- [Link] One of 'em's softer.
- One of 'em's softer, and one of 'em tastes better.
- I'm trying to figure out if crunchier means more mallish,
'cause crunchier wouldn't mean more microwavish.
- Okay.
I've got my guess.
Where's...?
- [Stevie] Okay, yeah, this part's
gonna be difficult as well.
Try and get your cards near the one.
- This is tough, dude. - So you're guessing the one
from the mall in three, two, one.
(crew laughs)
- Did you throw it at me? I'm not gonna help you.
- No, no, I was trying to make it land in there.
- So it seems like we agree. - [Stevie] Okay, you can take
your blindfolds off now.
- Seems like we agree again.
- [Stevie] Yeah, the pretzel nuggets from the mall are on
Link's side.
- Now, lemme just tell you about these ones.
- I had a hard time.
- These are softer.
The ones from over here are softer,
they're so uniform.
- I think that might be a function of the microwaving.
- And they don't, these taste better.
Did I hit you with my card? I'm sorry.
- I accept your apology.
(upbeat music)
All right, Taco Bell tacos,
you can either get 'em from Taco Bell,
or Taco Bell, as we always call it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Or you can get a Taco Bell dinner kit,
which comes with six soft tortillas,
six crunchy taco shells,
taco seasoning, and mild sauce.
That's it.
- So you'd have to basically make the meat...
- [Link] And add the lettuce and the cheese yourself.
- But, I mean, Josh, you've made these look identical.
Other than the fact that the crunchy shell on Link's side
is way bigger than the crunchy shell on my side,
so whatever they did, they didn't get their size right.
- [Josh] I was shocked by the shell size as well.
It's interesting all around. - Oh,
you're starting over there.
Okay, well,
you can do what you want, just like I said.
- Yep, I'm doing what I want.
- We can both exist in this universe.
- That's a decent taco.
Would I think that would've come from Taco Bell?
Is this more of a test of Josh's ability
to make a taco that seems like it's from Taco Bell,
using the Taco Bell kit?
I think that's more of what's happening.
Which one should I, oh, I should bite this one, now.
- I mean you can do what you want,
but if you wanna do the same thing I'm doing.
- [Josh] To be clear, I put no real effort into it,
and tried to channel the average home cook.
- [Link] Okay, that's fair.
- [Josh] Real half-hearted attempt.
- [Link] That's the spirit.
- I wouldn't know that I wasn't eating a Taco Bell taco yet.
- So...
But I can look at this taco and look at the bottom of it.
- Hm?
(crew laughs)
You can look at this taco and look at the bottom of it?
- And I can see things that are telling me stuff.
That I guess I don't wanna say.
- [Rhett] You can see things that are telling you stuff?
- [Link] Mm-hm.
All right.
- [Rhett] Hm.
- This is easy.
Which one came from the restaurant, Rhett?
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
- Sorry, Josh, it was so easy.
- [Josh] Again, half-hearted.
- You farted?
- Which one of these did you eat?
- These.
- Why did you start at the one that was closest to me
that's on your side?
- Honestly, I thought I was gonna eat all four of these,
and you were gonna eat all four of those.
- Yeah, you're a strange man.
- I would bet my life on being correct about this.
- [Stevie] Whoo.
You're correct.
Yeah, you're at three for three at this point.
What gave it away? What was on the bottom of the taco?
- The shape of the taco,
it was kinda squared away.
Actually, the part that I bit, so I removed the evidence.
- That's not, I didn't see that,
so the thing I went off of
is the fact that when you get a soft taco at Taco Bell,
which I am known to do,
the way that the top folds over on itself is like that.
But it's weird that they give you the smaller ones at home.
- I don't think this is worth it.
I mean, you pay 3.24 for the entire kit.
It's not really apples to apples
to $1.69 for a taco at the restaurant, but...
- I think you just go to the restaurant on this one.
- Why do you wanna have a,
like recreate fast food at home?
It's like I can't think of anything else,
any other thing I'd wanna buy like that.
Like I'm not making a Big Mac at home.
- Right.
Fun fact, tacos originated in Mexico.
- Oh, thank you.
(crew laughs)
(upbeat music)
As you can see, so can we.
Apparently, these Panera chicken noodle soups
are similar enough that we don't need to be blindfolded.
- And you don't need to be blindfolded to enjoy
our new puzzle!
How's that for a segue?
- Are you telling me that Cartographer Chase
left behind a map of the world of Mythicality?
- 500 pieces, man.
- 500 pieces?
It's kinda like "Where's Waldo?" but so much better.
'Cause it's us. - It's got all kinds of
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more little things that are hidden and awesome.
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- Or build it every single day. Mythical.com.
We have our own puzzle.
- This one has a film.
It has a short film about it.
Have you seen the film about this soup?
- [Link] Yeah, I have.
- So this has swirly pasta. - Swirly noodles.
Chicken pieces.
Carrot instances. - I quite like that.
- You quite like it? - [Rhett] I quite like it.
- Go over here. I'll let you go first.
Now, okay.
So, it is the same stuff, but,
is it a different...?
- It's got...
Oh my goodness, look what I did.
Now I'm just stuck.
- It's a swirly noodle, which is the same,
there's chicken pieces.
- More celery flavor.
- So if you go to the restaurant,
you're paying 6.50 for a cup.
If you go to Pavilions, which is one of many grocery stores
that you can get into in LA,
you're gonna pay more money.
You're gonna pay seven dollars.
- But how much you gonna get?
So you like without a film, versus with a film?
- Mm-hm.
- All right.
Which one's from Panera?
- Do you know which one you like better?
- Yeah.
- And is it this one?
- I'm not gonna tell you.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] This may be the first time
that you've had Panera on the show
and not gone "Ew!" after you've eaten it.
- I'm trying not to hate on Panera as much.
- [Stevie] Oh. I didn't know, is that a resolution?
Okay.
- Yeah. "Give Panera a chance," that's my new motto.
- They have a pulled chicken sandwich that I like.
- [Stevie] Oh, good.
Card in the restaurant version, three, two, one.
- It's gotta be this one.
Oh, no, what are you doing?
You like that one better.
- Yep, I do.
- Oh, wow. - Oh, wow.
- Okay.
It's weird. - [Stevie] The
restaurant Panera chicken noodle soup is on
Link's side.
- Okay, so mine's cheaper, and my opinion tastes better.
- Look at these big pieces of chicken.
There's no chicken over there.
- Oh, that's what you thought you had,
but look at that, there's a big piece of chicken.
- Oh.
- Ha.
- This is more hearty.
(upbeat music)
All right, last but not least, Baskin Robbins
rocky road ice cream.
- Okay. - Now this is interesting,
because when you go to Baskin Robbins,
it's a bin of ice cream
that they're bringing from some place,
they're not like making it in the back.
- They're not, so it's like, don't they...?
- Making it different size batches, though.
- Don't they ship it from the same place,
to either the grocery store or the...?
- [Rhett] Well, let's see if it tastes the same.
That's the big question here.
- I'm really tasting real hard, you know?
- I like rocky road.
- Fun fact,
rocky road ice cream
contains neither rocks nor road.
- Oh.
Neither?
- Neither one.
- Well that's quite a disappointment.
- So I'm gonna go over here,
follow suit.
Hm.
- Is there a difference?
- Did you use your teeth? Did you just chew it?
- Yeah.
- With your teeth?
- Yeah.
- Can't do that, man.
I just have to keep ramming it
against the roof of my mouth until it melts.
- What do you do about the nuts in there?
- Then, once the ice cream's all gone,
I chew the nuts,
which I'm doing right now. - I want the nuts
and the ice cream all at the same time.
- I know, I can't do that.
This is why I don't order anything with hard inclusions.
(Stevie laughs)
- Really? - Mm-hm.
Because I can't chew ice cream.
- What happens when you do it?
- It hurts my teeth.
- The back teeth, too?
I can't do it with the front teeth.
- They're sensitive.
They're sensitive.
These taste exactly the same to me.
I think we've proven that like,
yeah, it's just-
- I like one of them a little bit more.
- Baskin and Robbin are over there just making-
- I like one of them a teeny bit more.
- A teeny bit more?
You just, you're aspirationally choosing.
- I like one a little bit more.
- [Stevie] Three,
two,
one.
- I'ma choose the other one, just to spite you.
'Cause they're exactly the same, dude.
- This one tastes like it comes from a bigger bowl.
Like a bigger pot.
- [Stevie] The rocky road from the restaurant is on
Rhett's side.
- Yes. - Well dad-gum.
I guess I like the grocery store version better.
Or I got in my own head.
Link, that means you won- - Or they're exactly the same.
- You won the last two rounds,
that means you win a compliment from the chef.
- Chef Josh, which, I wouldn't have to have won
to get a compliment from you, though.
- You look like a guy I could trust to watch my laptop
at a coffee shop.
- Thank you.
- Anytime.
(Stevie laughs)
- You should take that as a compliment.
- It isn't?
It is!
- Yeah, it is, you look so trustworthy.
Yeah.
- Now I don't know how to take it.
(crew chuckles)
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