- Today we're tasting scoops of international soups.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Good mythical morning.
- There's a reason why soup is considered comfort food.
It's as warm as your mother's loving embrace,
it's as filling as time spent with good friends,
and you don't need to worry about having teeth to eat it.
- Oh.
But how much can you tell about a place
based on what's in its soup?
Today we're gonna be slurping soups to see
if we can guess which international ladle ladled them.
It's time for where in the world
do these international soups come from?
All right, you know how this works,
when we're tasting some soups right here
that come from places all over there,
around the globe.
And then we're gonna guess where the soups came from
by throwing a dart at our trustee map over here,
where Chase the cartographer is exasperated.
- Okay, the person with the
lowest score at the end, - Would I hurt you?
wins a very valuable briefcase full of gold.
What?
Can we do that?
Season 17, what?
- Yeah.
- Okay, since I won last time we played this.
- We rich.
- Link gets the special advantage dart
which is a lota matzo dart, that's three matzo balls,
to be thrown at the board with just one hand.
Let's get to slurping.
What in the world do we have here?
- It's purple soup.
- [Rhett] Is that apples?
- [Link] There's like sliced fruit, it's...
- It kinda tastes like something that
we would do in like a episode where we made
something into soup that wasn't supposed to be soup,
like ice cream turned into soup.
- Right, but somebody somewhere on this map
actually does this.
- Okay, where do they make a sweet soup
that's kinda like melted yogurt?
You ever been to New Caledonia?
Or is it New Caledonia?
- Cale-donia.
- Caledonia.
- [Link] That's way over there,
I think you should go for it.
- I know nothing about New Caledonia.
There's sort of a cluster of answers
in the middle of the board,
I could just play it safe and kinda aim for
like Morocco and hope for the best.
- Okay.
- Which is what I'm gonna do.
- All right.
Going for the center of the board because he's a coward.
Coward!
Now, you may not have picked up on this
but Rhett, that's goats milk in there,
which is very popular in Ghana.
So I am aiming for Ghana.
- Well it's pretty close to where I was.
- Oh yeah, look at me!
It's a new year, it's a new me.
What is this Stevie?
Besides goats milk.
- [Stevie] You just tried fruit soup,
a hot creamy soup made with apples, sour cherries,
vanilla, cream, cloves and lemon zest.
No goats milk.
- No goats milk.
- [Stevie] It can also be enjoyed chilled.
Fruit soup is from Hungary.
- Ooh you lucky dog!
- Aim for the middle, hope for the best.
- Get hungry in Hungary y'all.
- All right Rhett, you had five, and Link, you had 12.
- Hey it's not a bad start for either, either boy.
- We got a thick soup, some sort of gravy consistency.
There's like--
- [Rhett] Is that a potato or a cauliflower?
- [Link] Lots of lumps, and then this big thing.
- What are these lumps?
Okay, I know what meat that is,
you'll probably know as soon as you bite it.
- Well mine was bread.
- Oh, no, it's coated.
It's coated in bread.
- There it is, there's some meat.
Mm.
This is a hearty dish.
- But not from Hardy's.
- Hold on, that meat is very gamey.
- I'm not gonna say what I know about that meat.
- That's a tough meat for me to eat.
- You know what, I'm just gonna say what it is.
- [Link] Goat!
- It's lamb.
It might be goat because lamb and goat do taste similar,
but I have more experience with lamb.
And I know that there are more sheep
than people in New Zealand. - Mongolia?
- Oh.
New Zealand?
- Which is not too far from New Caledonia.
- Go for it.
Now don't go off the board.
- I'm not going for New Caledonia.
- Might hit Kiko.
- But when I think Mongolia I think like,
like if you get like a Mongolian soup
it usually is more clear and less creamy,
but that's, you know, I don't know if this
has been translated to American food,
so I probably don't have an accurate representation.
- At some point you gotta stop talking and start darting.
- I'm going Morocco, again.
- [Link] Man!
- [Rhett] Wow.
- You did not hit Morocco.
- My aim is on today.
- You got really close.
Now is that goat?
'Cause I'm going back to Ghana if it is.
(laughing)
- Going back to Ghana.
- You know what, I feel like this is mountain goat soup.
- Like Peru or Mongolia?
- Mongolia.
- [Rhett] I think that's a good guess, man,
I was there with ya.
It's all about New Caledonia.
- In order to even things up, well you know what,
I'm not a coward, I'm going straight for Mongolia.
Hoppety boppety boppety boppety, boom.
Oh, a little low.
What's up Stevie?
- [Stevie] This soup is called Banshtai Tsai,
a soup with a salty milk tea broth
and dumplings that are traditionally filled with mutton,
so you were correct.
It's from Mongolia.
- Oh, you were right! - Yeah!
- But I just couldn't nail it.
- You made up a lot of ground.
- All right, Rhett, you had 33 and Link, you had nine.
- Pulling ahead.
- I believe this is the spoon, Link.
- Oh we don't get spoons with this,
we just get a big thing of bread?
That bread is mushy and inviting.
- [Stevie] There is no spoon.
- There is no spoon?
- So this is fish.
Is that fish?
Oh this smells good, it's a peanut sauce.
It was very fishy tasting.
So it's like the soup has fish in it and around it.
I mean there's enough peanut butter
that it makes me not--
- Try the fish, man.
- Oh try the actual fish?
- Yeah that's tough.
- Peanut sauce.
- I do like that bread though.
Fish and peanut.
It's not something I'm used to.
- Well, no okay.
- Now peanut sauce, I mean I definitely think of Thailand,
which is not an option.
I don't know, I don't feel...
You know what, I'm just gonna go for Thailand
even though it's not an option.
- I like that strategy.
- I've been there, ate a lot of peanut sauce.
There we go.
- [Rhett] Aim for the country that's not available.
- Yeah, well I hit China but whatever,
and I'm not gonna get in your way, so.
- Well yeah 'cause I'm so far behind
I've gotta make a big move because you've got
the advantage at the end.
So, um,
I don't know anything about peanut sauce
and where it comes from, other than Thailand,
which you already threw a dart at, and so I'm not--
- I've staked my claim.
- I don't wanna throw a dart at the same place you did,
but I'm going solely off the fact that there was
no spoon offered but yet a bread utensil.
And I know that this is the kinda thing
that happens in Africa,
'cause I've been to an African restaurant one time
and they don't give you anything,
they just put everything on top of a giant pancake.
- A piece of bread.
- And then you eat it with the bread.
So eating with bread, - Oh you're thinking Ghana.
is either Ghana or Morocco, but I'm gonna go for Ghana.
- Ooh, gosh.
You know what, I think that's good reasoning man.
And it's right there on the coast
where all the fishes swim up
and they get into peanut butter.
- Right, yeah.
- [Stevie] Okay, you just ate groundnut soup,
or peanut soup, with tilapia and fufu.
Groundnut soup is made from a peanut butter like paste
which is added to a base of tomatoes and water,
and the fufu is made from boiled cassava.
Groundnut soup is a favorite in Ghana.
- Ghana!
- Hey man, I gotta give it to you.
- I didn't throw a great throw though,
I should have gotten closer.
- Yeah, Link you had 31 and Rhett, you had eight.
- Ooh okay, think I closed the gap.
- [Link] We've got some sort of green floaty stuff,
in a milk?
- It doesn't smell good.
It's like spinachy.
- It's not bad.
- Maybe asparagusy.
- Now, you have slightly pulled ahead,
which means you've gotta dart first.
I don't dislike this.
I feel like there's a little health in it,
there's a little slurpiness in it,
and it's not bad.
- Okay I gotta really think game strategy here,
because, going into the final round
you're gonna have the matzo ball
and the splatter is gonna give you basically,
probably almost guaranteed a right answer.
- Mm-hmm.
- So I can't play it safe, I have to be bold!
And if I'm wrong I'm wrong.
- Do you think that they put New Caledonia,
Falkland Islands over there, just to screw with us?
- I see where you're going with this.
I think they put one on there because it is
the correct answer for one of 'em,
and they were like, hm, let's do something else
like another island nation on the other side of the world.
- You think they got time to think this hard?
- Oh no they're trying to trick us constantly.
- It's their mission in life to make us look like fools.
- I would think if it was from one of the islands
it would be like a fishy dish.
Oh man.
Oh gosh.
I have to make a choice.
Something about the creaminess is making me think Norway.
I don't feel good about it though.
I don't feel good about this guess at all,
but I'm just going on instinct for Norway.
- Speaking of going on instinct,
I just feel like Falkland Islands is on there
just to Falkland Island with us.
- 'Cause they wanted to hear us say Falkland Islands?
- Yes, but New Caledonia is where this came from.
- Okay, if you miss the board,
you automatically get 50 centimeters
and you're basically handing me the game.
So don't miss.
- I aint gonna miss this one.
- Don't go wide right.
- I'm not missing the board.
- Don't go wide right.
- Stop making me nervous.
- Yeah don't make him nervous.
- Just concentrate.
- Oh, a little high.
Stevie!
- [Stevie] This is called lettuce soup,
it's made of lettuce leaves, flour, onion and chicken stock.
Lettuce soup is enjoyed by the people
of a small group of islands,
specifically the Falkland Islands.
- No!
Falkland way.
- Oh man.
- No!
- I got so lucky.
- All right Rhett, you had 49, and Link, you had 75.
(laughing)
- Well I have a chance.
I have a chance!
- We got a watery soup with some sort of
beans floating in it.
- That is not a bean, brother.
Get a load of that bean.
Why don't you put that bean in your mouth and crunch?
- [Link] It's a little trilobite.
We got a trilobite soup.
- [Rhett] It's something in the larval stage.
- Oh my gosh.
- All right, enjoy.
It's not bad.
- It's spicy.
Crunchy.
- It is spicy.
I've had worse soups.
You ever been to Soup Plantation?
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I didn't love the thought of that.
- Okay, again, it all comes down to strategy.
- 32 centimeters difference.
- What we've learned is that 32 centimeters
seems like a big lead until it is erased by
three matzo balls that are splattered onto the board.
So I can't just do the safe play
and just guess in the middle.
I know that in South America they do eat bugs in things,
from time to time.
I can see this happening maybe in Morocco,
but I'm leaning more towards Peru, but again,
the wild card is New Caledonia,
and if New Caledonia's the correct answer and I go for Peru,
I'm basically handing you the game.
- Yeah, maybe in that little island
they don't have a lot of big creatures roaming around,
they just got little crawlies.
- Why do they have New Caledonia on this map?
Is it to throw us off or is it because
it is the correct answer?
These are the questions that will keep me up tonight.
Well actually I'll know the answer in a second.
This decision will keep me up tonight if I am wrong.
Okay, I'm gonna hedge my bets since there's
two reasonable guesses on the left side of the board,
so I'm just gonna go kind of in the Atlantic Ocean
between Peru and Morocco.
- All right.
Ooh.
Okay, you've aimed at what you intended,
and I have soaked these on multiple sides.
Well that looks like it could really stain.
I don't know, I actually think this is
also the Falkland Islands.
I think they've doubled up.
- You think they went double Falkland.
- Falkland twice.
- Did you guys go double Falkland?
- You know what they say, once you Falkland Island.
- You gotta Falkland again.
- Okay, I get to use one hand
to get all three of these going.
- What are you gonna do, what's your strategy?
- I'm gonna go for your dart in order to insulate my guess.
- And then maybe splatter towards Caledonia.
- Why you want me to do that?
- Well because the only way to beat me at this point
is for me to not be right and it to be
on the right side of the board.
Why am I giving you tips?
- No, what if it's Peru?
- If it's Peru you can't win, 'cause I'm definitely not
30 whatever centimeters away from Peru.
- Right, here we go.
Chase, can you hold this bowl?
- Oh sure.
- Three, two.
I think one of 'em went in my trashcan.
- I think my dart went in your trashcan.
- [Chase] Yeah, the dart fell.
- Okay, so I've gone all around your darts
and your dart fell out.
- I do remember where my dart was,
if that's any consolation, it's right there.
- Okay Stevie.
We know these are larvae of some sort.
- [Stevie] You just ate silkworm soup made from silkworms.
It's a delicacy in South Korea.
- Silkworm larvae.
- Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
- All right.
Link, you had 27, Rhett, you had 46.
- That's less than 30 whatever,
which means I retain the title!
Woo!
- You did it.
- Thank you silkworm.
- Just barely.
We didn't know these were silkworms.
That would have helped a lot.
- Oh, you know what I won, I won a briefcase full of gold.
- Gold bullion.
- Oh.
- It's beef bullion.
- I love beef bullion.
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