- Today we become seasoned foodies.
- Let's talk about that.
(groovy theme music)
Good mythical morning.
- We've had a lot of spicy stuff on this show,
stuff that humans should not consume,
we do it for your entertainment, but spicy
doesn't always mean hot.
Sometimes, spice is just the spice of life,
just adds flavor, but where does that flavor come from?
I don't know, lets find out.
- Yes, we'll be tasting a wide variety of spices and herbs
from around the world, and seeing if we can pinpoint the two
using the points on darts.
Let's do it.
Where in the world do these international spices from from?
- Okay, so we're going to taste a spice,
and then we are going to guess where that spice comes from
by throwing a dart at,
- Woah, oh my goodness.
- [Chase] Why did you do that?
- I'm sorry.
- What in the world is wrong with you?
- You gotta give me a heads up man.
- I'm sorry, I didn't know you were moving over there.
- You could have totally gone through his freaking arm.
- I'm a cartographer, I'm not a dartboard.
- Chase has to use those hands to measure things with, man.
- Chase, I'm sorry.
Chase, I'm sorry man, I'm sorry.
- It's not gonna make up for it.
He's almost hurt me so many times,
and injured me so many times that I'm not surprised,
but Chase you okay?
- I think so.
- I'm surprised you didn't say more than you said.
- I'm trying to be nice for the fans.
- Anyway, Chase is still okay.
- Did you catch that, did you miss that?
- We got it.
So as I was trying to say, we're going to guess
what country it comes from by throwing a dart
at the board, and of course, the closer you get,
the better it is, so the further
you get away, the worse it is.
Chase our ill-fitting, shirt-wearing cartographer,
who is totally healthy right now,
will measure it and points are bad.
Centimeters equals points, points are bad,
are you ready, have you recovered?
- Yeah, I'm very shook up by that,
but thank you for being concerned for me, I will be okay.
The loser has to eat a 25-spice milkshake
in the conclusion of this, let's get io it.
(playful chanting)
- Okay, so we're gonna have all our spices
brought in on a spice rack-et.
- There it is.
- See that, okay, we've got the spices
loaded into these tennis balls.
- This one looks like - Sugar, flour?
- Dirt.
Oh, it feels like flour.
Oh I've tasted this before.
- It's floral.
- Tastes kind of like gingerbread.
- Yeah, mmm, where in the world would this be?
There's only one way to try to find out.
- Alright, you won last time we did this,
that means you get to dart first.
Well, I already darted, but that was a premature dart.
- Man, well I'm from the USA and I haven't
really tasted that, I can't imagine the dish
that that would be in, like what kind of sauce
would that be in?
Because, here's what I'll say, it's not spicy.
- Yeah, it's not really strong.
- It doesn't have a bite to it, so I don't think
it's gonna come from like India, or Brazil, Namibia,
that area, this seems like something
some cold white people would enjoy.
So that is Iceland or Norway.
Best guess that I've got, so I'm gonna aim right between em,
or way up there.
- Went kind of high.
Chase, I can't help but notice that you're
way back here now, you wanna get in a little bit.
- I'm fine over here.
- Alright, so you're gonna stay there,
and I'm gonna throw this.
I'm only gonna throw one.
And I'm gonna throw it, I mean it tastes like gingerbread,
I mean I've had that.
- You've had that in the US?
- Yeah.
- [Rhett] Okay, are you had it in the Ivory Coast.
- [Link] The Cote D'Ivoire.
- [Stevie] Okay guys, this is called mahleb,
and it's cultivated from the seeds of a particular
sour cherry tree, used widely as an ingredient
in the desserts from Iran.
- Iran. - Iran.
- Iran.
- I think you're, hmmm, we're about even,
I might be a little closer because of my bad aim, Chase.
- Rhett you had 30, Link 27.
- Neck and neck. - Out of the gate.
(playful chanting)
- Alright, another spice, on the rack,
Okay, this one's seedy.
- This one's dark.
- [Rhett] I'd go soft on this one.
- Looks like snuff.
Kind of peppery, smells peppery.
- It tastes like something, was like scraped off
the bottom of a shoe.
Oh, and it, woah.
- Tastes like pepper, secondarily pepper.
- Well, it's getting
woo! - Woo!
- What is that, what is that happening?
- What is that happening?
That's taste happening.
- Okay, and there's a little spice there.
- [Link] It's very peppery.
- I feel very confident about where this is from.
- At first it was very potpourii-y.
- I feel very confident about this one.
- [Link] There's a spice here.
- [Rhett] Doesn't mean anything, though.
- I just feel like I'd rub this on some meat, and then
- Like this? - Grill it.
- That's a big piece of meat. - Yeah.
- What kind of meat is that you're rubbing?
- A Brazilian meat.
- Oh, Brazilian meat.
- Woah, you almost actually hit the country,
that would've been a first.
- Well I was aiming for it.
- Can you move back a little bit?
- Sure brother.
- I'm going for the Cote d'Ivoire,
which is French for the Ivory Coast.
- [Link] Oh, a little high.
- I'm high and to the right today consistently.
- Stevie, what's the verdict
- [Stevie] Okay guys, this is Tasmanian pepper.
It's a rare peppercorn often used in traditional food
like emu burgers and kangaroo steaks.
- I knew it would be good on meat.
- [Stevie] From Australia.
- Australia. - Ooh, man.
- I was on the right track, but those Brazilians,
they, the chushcarara.
- Churrascaria. - Churrascaria.
Chase.
- Rhett has 56, Link has 62.
- Ooh, I got back some points.
- Taking the lead Rhett.
- Took a small lead.
(playful chanting)
- Okay, you're gonna get that big nut.
- Well it's a crushed nut,
let's both go with the crushed side.
- Well that's on, that's your ball man.
- It's the crushed version of this.
- Your ball, your nut.
- So I'm gonna,
- No, no, you don't have to.
You don't, eh, okay.
Do what you want to.
- Ooh, what in the world, like mothballs.
- Yep, tastes like something,
this is a preservative, this is a preservative.
- How do you even consume that?
That's a, you like that?
- I hate it, but I want to know what it is.
- It's got a vanilla aftertaste to it,
that's the weird thing, is that like, it's mothballs
with a vanilla center.
- Where would they like this?
- [Link] Grab your dart brother,
you're gonna have to weigh in first.
- It's just such an unusual taste,
where would they need to preserve something, India.
High and to the right consistently.
- You think they need to preserve more things in India
than anywhere else?
- [Rhett] Yeah, they don't preserve anything anywhere else.
- They, you know, - In my book.
- Up there in Norway and Iceland, around those
Arctic regions, they bury stuff and then it ferments, and,
- Yeah, that's true Link. - Then you sprinkle
that nastiness on it.
And then somehow it all balances out.
But I don't know.
- Just throw it in the middle then.
- I'm going for the middle.
- [Rhett] Oh, I hope it's Italy.
- [Link] Yeah, I don't think it's Italy.
- [Stevie] You were on the right track with vanilla,
because these are tonka beans, and they're used
as a substitute for vanilla.
They're also considered to be magical and they're used
in love magic and money spells.
- Money spells and love magic? - I thought I was feeling
something after eating that.
- [Stevie] In Brazil.
- Brazil, lots of money magic.
- That's good news for you Link, bad news for me.
- Link you had 29, and Rhett 54.
- Oooh, that hurts. - Yeah.
(playful chanting)
- Alright, okay, I see what they're doing now.
They're showing you the whole on your side,
and then the spice on my side.
- So I can eat off of this side this time?
- You can eat off of my ball. - Your royal highness.
Alright, so, woo.
- [Rhett] You did a pinch, huh?
- I did a pinch, I pinched it.
- This tastes like an Italian seasoning,
and my first thing, is like,
- It tastes like tea to me, it's got a tea taste,
a spicy tea, it doesn't really taste like
an oregano type spice.
You get that at first, hmm, this is,
- I mean, I don't know, you go first, we'll see what you do.
- Chase is trying to flee the scene
cause I grabbed a dart, and he tripped over the thing.
So I'm not going with you for Italy here.
I'm actually gonna take a big honking risk.
- A big honking risk?
- I'm thinking Japan. - You can think that.
What, hey, your throws are great today by the way.
- Yeah thank you. - I don't know how,
your guessing is okay, but your throws are great.
- What do you think, you're thinking Italy?
- I think, ah, this is such a big risk,
because I'm thinking about going for USA,
because I feel like,
- USA, USA! - Cause I love my country.
- USA, USA, USA, USA!
- My country's got spice.
They're not gonna just bring out like pepper for USA,
I feel like this is a,
- Oh, you think this tricky tricky?
- This is like a bay leaf-ish thing.
I'm gonna go for the USA.
I almost hit Florida, dang it.
- [Stevie] I think you're gonna hate yourself
for this one, because these are myrtle leaves,
and the whole leaf is used to infuse
marinades and sauces in Italy.
- Your original, I swayed you.
We're both, we're both like polar opposites.
Well not at the poles, but.
- Alright, 32 for Rhett, and 39 for Link.
- Oooh, six degree difference.
- Well seven actually.
(playful chanting)
- Okay, more spice, spice of life, spice, oooh.
- Ooh, this one is,
this one is colorful.
Ooh, that's gonna be hot I think.
This is spicy.
(wet lip smacking)
- That's the spice tasting sound.
No, no, no, you gotta keep the mouth closed.
It helps, doesn't it?
Doesn't the country go straight to your brain
when you did that?
For me it did. - Oh it did?
- Yeah, I know exactly what country this is.
- Ooh, I chewed up some of those green things,
those are like nutty seeds.
- I've cracked the case, it's nutty seeds.
- You're going first this time.
- Yeah, so my instinct is Namibia.
- [Link] Because?
- When I did the (lip smacking),
Namibia was formed, I almost poked myself
right in the eyeball.
- That would have been bad. - Namibia formed in my,
so I'm going Namibia, going on a one-way trip to Namibia.
Or the Ivory Coast.
- Now interestingly enough, I actually think
this is Cote d'Ivoire.
- Oh really, well aim for it then.
- So now I gotta aim for that, in order to like,
maintain my lead.
I don't know, the orange-ness made me think India,
but it didn't taste like Indian food.
Man, it could be India.
- Could be anything.
What do we know?
- [Rhett] Oh, it could be Namibia.
- That was, we switched. - Yeah we did.
- [Stevie] Okay, bear with me for this one.
This is shichimi togarashi, or seven spice,
which dates back to the 17th-century herbal medicine shops,
and guess where it's from?
- Japan. - Japan.
- [Stevie] Japan.
- [Link] Ooh, we were both very wrong.
- I would've never anticipated that being from Japan, never.
- Link you had 45, Rhett you had 49.
- Oooh, wow, this is a tight game, man.
(playful chanting)
- Okay Rhett, going into the final round,
you have to get 20 centimeters,
- To win, because you're - closer
- Up by 19. - Than me, to win.
- Hey, it's any man's game.
- 20 centimeters is not a lot on a big world, big map.
- [Rhett] Okay, now there's a big nut on that side.
- [Link] You eat this one.
- I, woah,
but you know, I do think,
- It's like another nutty seed.
- Like what kind of tree would that nutty seed come from?
What kind of country would that be?
You smell any, let me smell it, let me smell it.
- Smells like a big pepper.
It looks like it has salt and pepper in it,
it's a salt and pepper nut.
How have I not heard of a salt and pepper nut?
- What is this?
- I mean, this is someth, whew, it gets spicy in a second.
- Who's going first on this one?
- Me. - I know where I'm aiming,
but I don't want to say anything
because the game is on the line.
- First of all, this is like a very tree-ish pepper.
I feel like I'm eating a tree, but I do like it.
- It's got a definite kick to it.
I can see that making some flavorful dishes.
- This is tough, so we haven't been to USA,
Iceland, Norway, India, or Namibia, or,
- We haven't been to either African country.
- No we haven't.
I think this is a coastal thing,
plus it's kind of in the middle of the map,
so I'm hedging my bets here,
Ivory Coast.
- [Rhett] Woah, you're on fire Link.
- Where do you think this is, tell me
since there's nothing I can do.
- I think this is USA, - You do?
- I think it's pepper, I just think it's pepper,
but it's a big corn, it's a big ol' corn.
- It's a big peppercorn?
- It's a big ol' peppercorn, USA, USA,
- [Link] Or Canada.
- [Stevie] You were right, because it is pepper,
it's alligator pepper.
It's a highly sought-after spice used in a variety
of ways, ror baby welcoming ceremonies,
naming ceremonies, meet and greets, in
The Ivory Coast.
- Oh, you did it Link. - Yes!
- You took it home.
- You know I'm coming to you Ivory Coast,
I love it there.
Haven't even been, but those big ol' peppercorns,
and baby showers, those are my two favorite things.
- One at a time.
I'm going to enjoy a 25-spice milkshake, oh,
but I'm not going to enjoy it.
- Thank you for liking, commenting, and subscribing,
and once again, Chase, I am sorry, man.
- You know what time it is.
- Hi, I'm Nema from Namibia, and this is my sister.
- Ashley.
- And this is my other sister,
- Jane.
- [Together] And it's time to spin The Wheel of Mythicality.
- I'm going to enjoy this 25-spice milkshake,
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