- Is sweet food spicy better than spicy food sweet?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Yeah that's gonna be fun.
All right today's episode is all about tongues
but before we get to that, let's take a moment
to acknowledge Rhett's beard.
I acknowledge your beard. - Thank you.
- All right now back to tongues.
Your body's natural flavor flicker,
telling your brain what's right and wrong
in this crazy mixed up taste-filled world.
It's how you come to think of candy as sweet,
habaneros as spicy and pig anus as a little salty.
- But what if we took some well-known foods
and swapped the sweet with spicy and verse vicey?
Will our fleshy food figure out or flip out
or will we bring a brand new culinary delight
into this world?
It's time for Sweet Foods Spicy Versus Spicy Foods Sweet.
Which Is Better?
Won't Know 'Til We Eat.
- A few weeks ago we posted a series of sweet spicy food
versus spicy sweet food match-ups and you voted
on which you thought we would like better
and now we're gonna find out if you were right
and the prize or punishment at stake is for you.
- You're gonna get a point for each round the majority
of you guessed correctly and if you get three
or more points, we'll give you personal shout-outs
to as many of you as possible in Good Mythical More.
But if you don't get three right,
we're going to post a photo of us holding a loser potato
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to be identified as the loser potato that you are!
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College is a time of cheap eats, wild,
unabashed experimentation, oh and education.
So in the name of learning let's mix up
the iconic college food spicy ramen
with Link's favorite cereal, Frosted Mini Wheats.
- Yeah and are we gonna come out on the other side
of this, me not liking ramen or Frosted Mini Wheats?
- Ah, well no, you just might not like sweet ones
and spicy ones.
Okay so Josh, how did you make this sweet ramen sweet?
- [Josh] So the sweet ramen is simply boiled
in Swiss Miss hot cocoa.
(Link chuckles)
- Okay.
What's step two? - Made right in
your dorm microwave.
- Some things don't have
to be over complicated. - Step two, enjoy!
- [Rhett] I don't wanna get too much of the--
- [Link] That's a nice reminder.
- [Rhett] I want it to be kinda dripping
right when it goes in my mouth.
- Now when you eat the ramen,
don't you use a spoon, brother?
- No, I use a bowl.
(slurping ramen)
That's not pleasant.
- Yeah it is.
There's chocolate with noodles in it.
- Yeah you eating it's not pleasant.
- [Link] Oh. (chuckles)
- But that's nothing new.
- I'll tell you.
(crew laughing)
It's, and as it gets colder,
I mean the seasons.
As it gets into winter, remember this.
- It's amazing how-- - Whoa.
- There's nothing about the noodles that takes away
from the chocolate goodness. - Nothing.
- You know what I'm saying? - It adds more.
- Noodles are a canvas.
- And life is the paint, man.
- Well in this case, the chocolate's the paint,
but all right, let's have some--
- This is not gonna be good.
- Spicy mini wheats.
- That is correct. - How'd you make 'em spicy?
- [Josh] Just a simple firey cayenne glaze
so pretty similar to how they do it
just with a little extra.
- Well I'm just gonna pour in this one 'cause we might need
to use this for the thumbnail.
All right so pour this.
- [Rhett] That's some thick milk.
Is that yogurt?
(both chuckling)
- Just thick milk. - Did you shake it?
Where's your spoon?
Oh this is your spoon.
- Yeah, now you gotta-- - I gotta--
- The spoon was never intended for this.
Have you watched people eat ramen before?
- Yeah they use a spoon.
- No I think that's when you're like
in an Italian restaurant with the pasta.
- Yeah that's where I eat my ramen.
- Okay I think you just prove yourself wrong.
- That is some thick milk, homey.
- All right I'm gonna get two of these.
- [Link] Yeah I usually eat two and what I'll do is--
- [Rhett] This is kefir, right?
- There'll be-- - This is not.
- I don't know. - Dink it.
- Now you're gonna eat it the Link way.
Ah ah ah ah!
- I'm gonna eat it-- - Ah!
Hey, hey! - I'm gonna eat it
the right way. - No, eat it the Link way!
You put the sugar up and then you turn it over
in your mouth onto your tongue.
- Which does absolutely nothing to change
the taste that's in your mouth.
- It's happening.
Frosted Mini Wheats is being ruined for me.
- I wouldn't say that this is bad
and I really like spicy things but--
- Well hold on.
- I don't know if I needed that level of spice
added to that type of experience.
- Hold on though.
- I held on for awhile.
- Yeah.
There's no chance.
- It needs-- - Sucks.
- It needs something sweet.
- Now we gotta see what the fans thought.
So we are saying that the sweet ramen was amazing.
- Definitely better. - But did you agree?
Did you predict?
- [Stevie] Well turns out that 62% of the Mythical Beasts
thought you would like the sweet ramen better.
- Wow, you know us so well.
- Actually 62 seems low for this choice.
I'm very surprised that--
- Well they know I like the spicy stuff.
I mean it's like, I think, you know, you never know.
You don't know until you try.
That's why we're trying. - I'm not disappointed.
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All right let's scramble up 7-Eleven
'cause we're flippin' spicy pepper jack cheese
and sweet sweet Slurpees.
- Okay so-- - Somehow.
- On this side we've got the cheese that is no longer
pepper jack cheese, what kind of cheese is it?
- [Josh] Well I'd call it jelly bean jack.
It's sweet jack cheese.
Instead of red and green jalapenos,
we get red and green jelly beans.
- This is a stretch.
- This looks Christmas cheese.
That's the music video we'll come out with this year.
- Christmas cheese, does it Christmas please?
Christmas cheese, it does Christmas please.
(Link groans)
I don't like it.
I don't know why you're, you love cheese so much
that it's dumbing you down in this moment.
It's rounding off all the edges.
Where's the old Rhett?
- What about this face is saying that I'm enjoying this?
What about this picture here?
- That's right, that's your at-rest face, man.
It's resting Rhett face.
- To me it's not so much that it's sweet that's the problem.
It's the jelly bean-ness.
'Cause I think you can put sweet things in cheese,
like you can get like a cranberry--
- Black cherry. - Cheese, yeah.
Yeah, you can put blueberries in cheese.
- No, but you can put a craisin.
- Yeah that's not crazy.
- And that's the struggle. - I'm not that impressed.
- Craisin's not crazy. - I'm not that impressed.
So this is gonna be tough because I can't imagine
that a spicy Slurpee's gonna be good either. (chuckles)
- (chuckles) No this ain't gonna be good.
Dink it.
Drink it.
It tastes horrible, even before the spice hits you.
- It took a long time to hit you,
it hit me immediately.
Is that habanero? - It's hit me in
the goozle, man. - Yeah.
(Link hiccups) There is.
(Link chuckles sadly, pounds fist)
- Yeah, it's very distinctly habanero.
(Link groans) What is it,
just purified habanero put into some ice?
- [Josh] Oh maybe you should be doing
the cooking around here. (Rhett laughs)
- Stop smi-- (Link hiccups)
Stop smilin' man, because I didn't think we were doing this
(hiccups) on this show anymore.
- I'd prefer undoubtedly the Slurpee.
Because it's like, what do you call it when you just--
(Link hiccups)
Instead of taking something orally,
you inject it. (chuckles)
(crew laughs)
What is that called? - Intraven--
- Vein lining. - Intra (hiccups) venous.
- This is like mainlining spiciness.
Now you shouldn't inject it into your arm.
But like-- (Link hiccups)
- When you bite a pepper, it's kinda like hmm, hmm,
but when you just take this,
the whole thing just immediately--
- What are you voting for?
- How is this not clear?
The Slurpee, clearly.
- Okay it's clear.
All right so did you predict this?
I bet you didn't. - Hold on,
you also agree with it?
- You gave a whole speech.
I'm not gonna cross you on it.
- Okay, all right.
- [Stevie] Okay so this one was even closer
because 52% of the MBs thought that you would like
the spicy Slurpee better.
- Ah. - You did it!
- Yes.
- You did it! - You're so smart.
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And now the raw round.
We like our spicy tuna raw and our cookie dough even rawer
but will we still like 'em when we swap
that spicy and sweet?
So we got sweet sushi.
How's it sweet?
- [Josh] Well instead of mixing the tuna with sriracha,
we mixed it with cream cheese frosting.
- [Rhett] Oh gosh.
- [Josh] Then all the accoutrements are also sweet.
Sweet soy, sweet sabi and sweet ginger.
- [Rhett] Okay so we gotta go all the way.
- Now what about the black ring?
- [Josh] Oh that's just seaweed.
- Now in order-- - Oh man, the wasabi
has hardened. - In order to give this
a fighting chance, I can't eat the seaweed.
That's the thing about sushi that I don't like.
- [Josh] Just tongue it out from the middle.
- Just tongue it out from the middle, he says.
- [Josh] Mm-hmm.
- I'll let the ginger be the after burner here.
Get some of the sweet, get some of the wasabi as well,
sweet wasabi and sweet soy.
- Is that a piece of chewed gum?
- (chuckles) You gotta use the chopsticks to get it
'cause it's very hard.
It's congealed a little bit, whatever you did to it
to make it sweet also made it a little congealed.
- Okay.
I'm gonna tongue this out.
- I'm gonna go halvesies.
- I mean some sushi has sweet junk all over it.
Ponzu whatnot.
(crew laughs)
- Yeah but not this much.
It's way too much for me.
- I need the sweetness to overcome the fact
that I'm eating sushi.
- It's unsettling for me and I think anyone
who likes sushi for sushi reasons is not gonna be into that.
- I like it but it does taste like a dessert.
- [Josh] You say that like it's a bad thing.
- Yeah I didn't approach it as a dessert sushi
but if you do, I think you'll like it.
- Spicy cookie dough.
- [Josh] Yeah so it's chocolate chipless cookie dough--
- No! - Which Link loves
and then ghost pepper which Link also loves.
- Ghost pepper. - I--
- [Josh] Just a scosche.
- Crap. - Get a big bite, man.
Get a big bite.
- I love the consistency.
- Oh this one sneaks up on ya.
Ooh.
- It's not even spicy.
- No it sneaks up on you.
It's not nearly as spicy as the Slurpee.
I really like this. - Oh oh oh.
Whoa, you're right.
I'm frickin'--
- You're like seven seconds behind.
- I got scared because you said ghost pepper.
It wasn't nearly as hot as the previous round.
- This one's easy.
- It's palatable.
I mean I could fight for that but I'm not going to.
Were you guys correct? - I thought this was awful.
I thought this was great.
- [Stevie] 60% of the MBs thought you would like
spicy cookie dough better.
- Yeah. - You did it again.
- I recommend this.
- You guys are gonna get some shout-outs in More.
(Rhett grunts) (rhythmic music)
Nashville hot chicken, Nashville hot.
Everybody's Nashville hot chickening stuff,
even Panda freaking Express.
So we're gonna do it too but we're gonna flip it
with a McFlurry because that's a good chaser
for some hot chicken.
- [Rhett] Okay so we got sweet chicken.
What's on the bottom?
- [Josh] It's a angel food cake instead of white bread.
- It looks like bad chicken, like something's turnt on it.
Like you know--
- [Rhett] There's still pickles though, nice touch.
- Yeah, sweet pickles. - Sweet pickles.
- Are you sure this is not an episode of Leaving Things In?
- [Josh] I'm not sure of anything anymore.
- [Link] 'Cause it looks like this has been left
in something wrong. - It smells like a donut
and I will say, I mean you enjoy putting chicken
and waffles and syrup and hot sauce together.
So this is-- - True.
- Seems like a shortcut. - It actually is covered
in donut glaze and then cinnamon sugar so you're right.
- Good gosh.
- I'm gonna go just straight chicken first.
Man, that's good.
- What the freakin' crap.
The things that happen on this show,
I just feel like it's a privilege to be here.
Like, we come in, we sit down in this chair.
We're like, oh yeah, that sounds like a crazy idea, do it.
And then we come, we sit down in this frickin' this chair
and we get served a new thing
that should have been around forever.
- I think this has been around
but it hasn't been done like this.
People have gotten to this combination of tastes
in indirect ways by putting like chicken on a donut.
- It's been dangling in front of our faces
the entire time. - But just to go
straight sweet on the chicken itself--
- Donut glazed fried chicken.
- Now I will tell you, you know what would make it perfect?
Hot sauce on top of it.
- Yeah. - But this isn't about sweet
and spicy, this is sweet or spicy.
- This can't beat it.
- Well I don't know.
It's a McFlurry.
- I mean we just had, we've had coldness.
- All right so what makes this spicy?
- [Josh] Well so it's jalapenos blended directly
into the McFlurry and then there's Hot Cheetos
and Takis on top.
- [Link] Okay a little window dressing.
- Hot Cheetos and Takis. - And hotness.
That is odd.
That is not bad.
- You know what, it's not bad
but this was life changing so--
- Hold on, I don't wanna sell this short
because this is actually frickin' amazing.
Yes this is mind blowing.
- This is like a spicy ice cream which--
- The Slurpee was horrible, this--
- My favorite spicy sweet was the cookie dough though.
I think this is not as good as the cookie dough.
Something about the jalapenos don't work as well
as the ghost pepper.
- Josh I'm not trying to kiss your butt, man,
but you did a good job on this.
- Okay let's-- - Did you guys--
- Let's see who agrees. - Did you guys predict this?
- [Stevie] 70% of the MBs thought you would like
Nashville sweet chicken better.
- Four for four.
You know us so well.
- Mm-hmm, all right, thanks for liking,
commenting and subscribing.
- You know what time it is.
- Yo, I'm Alex.
- And I'm Zack.
- And we just did a spicy Korean noodle challenge.
- Hell yeah.
- And it's time to-- (Zack laughs)
It's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
(Link laughs) - What?
Having fun in the kitchen.
- I love it!
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