- Should we say sayonara to salsa?
- Let's talk about that.
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Now, chips and salsa
is a bonafide snack that everybody can get behind.
Even me, I mean, I hate tomatoes,
and somehow, I like salsa.
- I don't know how!
- I'll go so far as to say, most salsas, I love!
But is there something other than salsa
that we should be dipping our chips into?
- Guacamole.
- Okay, sure.
- Queso?
- Yes.
- Bean dip.
- Hadn't thought of that.
- Seven layer dip.
- Would you stop with the taunting?
- That's what I said.
- Yeah.
- You almost forgot what I said.
- Yeah, I was like "What did he say?
The taunting?"
But today is about discovery.
Beyond the obvious choices,
what is the next, next, next next best thing after salsa
that a chip can carry into your mouth?
Well we're gonna find out, it's time for
Next Best Thing,
Chips and Salsa Edition.
- We're going to dip our tortilla chips
into a series of substances
to see if there's a superior salsa substitute out there.
- Ooh.
- But first, let's take a good ol' scoop of classic salsa,
to see where that bar is set.
- Now, I don't like pico de gallo.
- [Rhett] Okay. - I ain't going that far.
- There's not much sauce in that,
it's basically just tomatoes
and some other stuff.
- [Link] Yeah, that's the problem.
- But this is good, man.
You ever just sit around eating salsa?
- No.
- Me neither.
I'm thinking I should be.
- I'm not gonna double dip, I'm just gonna eat this, but,
I prefer room temp-
- I didn't double dip, I turned my chip.
- Oh, you rotated?
- I did this, and then I rotated.
That's not a double dip.
- Are you a cold, or room temp salsa man?
Or hot?
- I think room temp. Room temp.
- This is a little cold to my liking,
it'll be better by the end of this episode.
It's gonna be tough to beat.
But we will find the next next next next next.
- We will.
(grand music)
Okay, we're starting with a weird one.
Maraschino cherries,
which I guess you could mistake for salsa
in a very dimly-lit restaurant.
- Yeah, like squint your eyes, maybe?
- Now you don't like cherries.
I used to take these as a kid
and go into the fridge with a spoon
and just eat 'em straight.
- [Link] I like raw cherries.
- You don't like highly processed cherries
that have somehow been dyed
even redder than they actually are?
- It is the opposite of how I feel about tomatoes.
I only like the raw version.
Actually, I don't know.
I don't know if I've ever had this, actually.
- You've never had one of these cherries?
They're on top of every sundae in the world.
- I must've had it once and decided I hated it,
'cause I hate it still.
It's like cough syrup, man.
- [Rhett] Yeah, I'm getting two this time.
- I mean, you might as well just put cough syrup
on a salty chip.
And the salt from the chip does nothing
for the medicinal sweetness of the cherries.
There's nothing...
Nothing magical's happening here.
I mean, no matter what you say,
because it's first, it is gonna go up here.
- So I could say anything I want?
- You can say anything you want.
- That's the best thing I've ever tasted.
No, I like maraschino cherries, but,
I like them in a already sweet thing.
It's not mixing well with the corn flavor
and the saltiness.
I don't know, but you're right,
it's gotta be up there,
but I don't think it's gonna be up there long.
- Nope.
(grand music)
We're pairing something babies can't eat, tortilla chips,
with something they can eat, baby food.
- You ever tried to give a baby a tortilla chip?
You don't know that.
I mean they can probably gum it down.
- That doesn't seem safe.
For a baby that can only eat,
in this case, butternut squash.
- Yum!
- I don't think you wanna give 'em a tortilla chip, but...
- But this is for like butternut squash soup.
- Times have changed since we had little toddlers.
- I think you just feed 'em chips now, all you want.
Don't take baby advice from us.
- Can modern babies...?
Morgan, your babies eat tortilla chips?
- Your baby's so modern.
- Well you need to modernize your children.
Give 'em some tortilla chips.
So what's the rationale here?
It's like, I don't know if this becomes for babies.
- Just try it, and see what you think, man,
because I just did, and I'm waiting.
- Just fruit on a chip.
- Yeah, fruit.
- Oh my god.
- Babies got it so bad.
- Ugh.
- I guess it's good to start with low standards, though.
- Babies are like dogs, in this one sense,
that you feed 'em whatever you want to,
and they really can't tell you what they think about it.
- Right, but sometimes, you as a parent of a person
are talking to someone who's a parent of an animal,
and they're trying to relate,
and you're kinda like "Uh-uh, no no no no."
- Yeah, that's not really fair.
- "It is not the same.
Your dog is not my child."
- Don't talk to any parent about
their children.
What I said to Morgan about modernizing their children,
the reason why that was a joke, is because,
you never do that.
Matter of fact,
don't even acknowledge that your friends have kids.
It's just safer that way.
- Right, yeah.
Definitely don't look at their children.
Never make eye contact with their children.
This is horrible.
I think the cherries are better.
(guffaws)
I think the cherries are better, man.
- At least there's some sort of strange juxtaposition,
this is just naughty.
So, well, you know what?
The first discovery
is that cherries aren't the worst thing on tortilla chips,
so there we go. - You learn something new
every day.
(grand music)
Okay, now we're moving into something
that seems like it might make sense, right?
I'm a huge fan of tahini,
this is like a sesame seed-based sauce.
- Sesame butter.
- I will put it on a salad.
I love it on a salad.
- Really?
- Oh, yeah.
- I haven't found a place for tahini in my personal life.
- Chips.
- [Link] Maybe this is it.
I've never dipped a chip in...
Oh, gosh.
- Are you saying you don't like it?
Or you haven't found a place for it?
- [Link] I don't dislike it.
- Like "I got this new rocking chair,
haven't found a place for it.
I really like it, but we're putting it on the porch."
You know? Is that what you're dealing with right now?
- I feel like I need to build a porch.
- "I want the front of our house
to look like a Cracker Barrel."
- As a peanut butter lover,
tahini is just different enough to not be...
It's close enough to compare it,
but then never choose it.
Is how I felt about it, and I'm dripping.
- Man.
- [Link] On a salad, huh? - It's strong.
And it really coats your mouth,
'cause it's got so much of that sesame oil on it.
This is clearly our front-runner.
I don't think there's any argument there.
- It does complement the corn chip.
- Oh, I gotta get another chip
to rescue this chip.
- 'Cause you got like, this corniness,
it gets real thick and savory with the tahini.
- I think that less is more,
unlike what I'm doing right now.
'Cause a little bit goes a long way.
- It blends together.
It's not a complement, it's more of a blending.
I like it better than the cherries.
- It's definitely dethroning the cherries.
Oh, yeah. - Mm-hm.
Oh, look, we got a tahini top.
- Hey. Look at that. We did it.
(grand music)
- Now that the sweet cherries have been dethroned,
let's see if we can put
another sweet thing up on the podium,
in place of my...
I said tahini top, did you understand my joke?
- Tahini top.
Like a bikini top?
- Yeah, yeah, you got it, it just wasn't funny, huh?
- Well, I mean, when you have to think that much,
the humor sorta just seeps right out of it.
- When you have to ask, I mean,
there was a title and everything.
A title, then it comes back,
and here I am, asking you if you got my joke.
Not a good sign.
- Right.
This is something that you would be doing
in the kitchen late at night
and hope no one would walk in and find you doing.
- [Link] Right.
- This is pregnant stuff right here.
- Ooh, this is good.
This is good!
- I thought I would like it more than I do.
I don't dislike it, but...
- I just love brownie batter, man.
- You know what I think I might like better
is just straight icing.
- No, dude.
This is great, this is freaking great.
- If you feel that strongly about it,
I'm definitely willing to take tahini down.
- Crap, bring the tahini back.
- I'm gonna put the tahini on my bottom.
Tahini bottom.
- I'm feeling like if we just like,
do a little bit of that.
- Yeah, this is why...
- I realized I had tahini.
- Never trust him when he has an idea
about... - [Link] Look at that.
- I'm not even gonna try it, like...
I'm treating this like all the maraschino cherries
that he bypassed on every sundae
throughout his entire life.
- Well do you like this better than the tahini?
- Yeah, but I don't wanna eat 'em together.
- Dude, it's freaking great.
- I don't believe you.
- It's like chocolate and peanut butter!
- It doesn't taste like peanut butter.
It tastes like sesame.
I mean, I'm willing to put the brownie butter up there,
'cause I think it is
at least as good as this.
If you feel that strongly about it.
But I don't think we can do this, man.
I mean you can do this on your own time,
and you can film yourself, and send it around.
In your kitchen.
- But we do agree.
- Yeah, I think brownie batter is the best thing so far.
But I'm not gonna put it with some tahini with it.
- Your loss.
(grand music)
- Okay, so you can put crackers in soup,
but can you put soup on chips?
- That's logical.
- Does that feel like a logical progression?
- Well, lemme try a different route.
The thing that I love about this format
is that when you're out of something that you need,
to get something that you want,
this presents other options
for things that you can grab.
- I mean, everybody's got cream of mushroom soup
lying around.
- [Link] You got a little, yeah,
it's gonna be in the back of that pantry, but you got it.
- I feel like you gotta get an actual mushroom.
- This is like a power to the people format, you know?
It's like "I can do that, I can try that,
I've got that."
You know?
Dink it.
Imaginary dink.
- I was just trying to... - I thought you were just,
were you dinking? - I was trying to get you
to eat at the same time as me,
because what's happened in every round so far,
is you just keep talking and not eating.
Because you don't, you know.
You eat to live, you don't live to eat.
It's okay. Everybody's different.
- It's salty.
The salty chips really complement the creamy...
I like this.
Think of this as a meal, not as a snack.
- That's a little sad.
- You're just going, yeah, okay,
I wasn't trying to make you sad.
I mean, I could see a full plate of this
going down the hatch.
- Okay.
Go.
- No.
I mean, as a meal.
- What would it take,
for you to, right now,
and we can fast forward through it,
for you to consume that entire bowl?
'Cause I mean you said you could see it.
If you think this could be a meal,
then I would like to see it in action.
- Fine, I lied.
I'm not gonna do it. - Okay, I called him out!
- It's very globular.
- I think it's better than brownie batter.
Even though I'm not super enthused about it, but I mean,
there were some...
Nothing has really completely hit for me today.
- Sweet on chips is not working as well
as savory on chips.
I agree. Make a meal out of it.
- But not a whole meal.
(grand music)
- I've eaten chips with a wiener,
and I've eaten relish on a wiener.
But I've never had relish on a chip.
- You ever put chips on your wiener?
Like right on a hot dog?
- No.
- Little added crunch.
- Little added crunch?
- I think that this might be...
- Do I want the curly?
- This might be what I've been looking for this whole time.
Something that makes total sense in my mouth.
- There's this tanginess, there is a sweetness that
heretofore has not clicked for us.
And you know what?
Let's dink it.
Oh, gosh.
And sink it. - Dink it and sink it.
Okay.
- Mm.
- There's a salsa-like quality to it.
- [Link] Yep.
- [Rhett] But it veers off in a new direction.
- Mm-hm.
- A super tangy direction.
- [Link] Super pickley, super tangy,
it absolutely works with the saltiness of the chip.
- Uh-huh.
- I like the crunch with the tang
better than just having like a little snap of a wiener.
- It's what the tang has always needed,
is a little crunch.
Not wiener.
- 'Cause I've always felt that relish,
you know, where I'm from,
we don't put relish on hot dogs,
you put chili and you put slaw on a hot dog.
- I snuck some relish on there from time to time.
- Yeah, but it is nice to mix things up,
but I think this is where it belongs.
- This is legit good.
This is the first thing that I'm like,
"I might try this again."
So far, nothing has hit this hard.
Relish.
- Nice!
- Not just on your wiener.
- Nope.
(grand music)
- Okay, the one thing we haven't really tried
is something spicy.
But now we're here at something spicy,
but a totally different flavor profile.
- Not the type of spicy I was looking for.
What do you put wasabi mayo on typically?
I don't have this in my pantry, bruh.
- I think that it's just people who like the wasabi flavor
would put this on a sandwich
that would otherwise have mayonnaise on it,
would be my take.
- So not you either?
Stevie?
- Stevie, you like wasabi mayo?
- [Stevie] Yes.
- I like it more than I thought I would,
but I don't like it that much. - Me too.
Here's the thing.
It requires a dip,
well, not a scoop.
Like what you would typically call a dip,
I'm saying like, a technical dip.
- Like what you do with the relish.
- Down and in, back and out the same path.
You don't wanna scoop
and get too much of this. - It's a viscous liquid,
almost.
Whereas, the relish is a true dip,
you're taking advantage
of the structural nature of the chip.
- No, Rhett, that's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying, yes, you could dip this,
but it's so pungent, you don't want that much.
You want, you can only take a little bit.
- Yeah, yeah, we're saying the same thing in different ways.
What I'm saying is that, I think,
if something's gonna constitute a chip,
then it needs to be able to use the structure of the chip,
like, if I do this...
- We're not utilizing the chip completely.
- If I do the same thing with that, I get nothing.
I get nothing.
You have to actually use it as a shovel.
- Yeah.
- That's part of the experience
is getting that shovel in your mouth.
- Right.
You wanna completely utilize...
- Man, that's good!
- The chip for what it's dipped for.
- All right, well, that was our last one.
- This ain't bad.
If you got this in your pantry,
and it seems like you won't.
- If it's readily available,
try it. - You should try it,
but it ain't gonna win.
Haaa!
- So here it is, the next next next next best thing
that you can have with your chips.
It's relish, y'all!
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