- What are they eating for birthdays in Sweden?
- Let's talk about that.
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- We're about to throw some darts
and find out what people eat
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You know what else brings people together around the world?
Birthdays. - Birthdays.
Birthdays, that's right.
Here in the States,
we've been known to get down on some cake when celebrating
getting one year older.
But, what do birthdays tastes like around the globe?
It's time for,
♪ Where in the world are these ♪
♪ Birthday treats at parties ♪
- Hey, you know how this goes, we're gonna try a dish,
that people eat on their birthdays,
as per a tradition in a certain country on the map.
Then we're gonna guess by throwing a dart at that map
and then Chase, the birthday boy cartographer,
is gonna measure how far dart.
- Far dart?
(both laughing)
How are you doing Chase?
- Good.
- Yeah good, he's doing great.
- Whoever has the lowest score at the end is the winner
and Rhett you won last time.
So I get the advantage dart again.
What is it?
- It is the fun darty cake, is a slice of fun darty cake.
You get to throw at the board.
- Okay, the winner of this thing,
gets to hit a birthday piñata in Good Mythical More?
- Yes.
- Look at those sprinkles.
This appears to be crustless bread with sprinkles on it
period. That's it.
- Yeah.
- Is there something else to taste?
- It's white bread.
There's something sugary on the bread.
It's actually not that bad.
- It's really good.
I think there's something,
there's a little bit of milk in the bread.
I think.
- So you're going first. Whoa.
- When you, when you,
when you get that much sprinkles in your mouth,
you really start to crunch.
- Lemme see.
I mean, I got nothing to go on here.
- Simple, elegant.
- But the last time we had something that was
like a sandwich and it was just white bread
and it turned it was from Japan.
That's where I'm getting at.
- That was a while back.
- Japan is not an option,
South Korea is close to Japan,
but I don't feel confident in the answer.
So I'm going to hedge my bets a teeny beanie bit.
So I'm kind of I'm,
I'm on the Eastern side but I'm a little bit left of it.
Okay. Yeah.
- So you almost hit Pakistan.
I'm feeling Vietnam.
That's what I'm thinking for all the reasons you've said,
you know, I'm gonna go with my gut early
and then I may have to play defense.
Vietnam, assertively.
- Okay.
- Up a little low.
- [Stevie] Okay. You just had fairy bread
which is sliced white bread spread with butter
and covered in sprinkles.
- Butter, milk. - Butter.
That's what that was.
- [Stevie] Or, as they call them in the country
this is from, Hundreds and Thousands.
The first known mention of fairy bread
was in a newspaper article from 1929,
which mentioned children enjoying it at a birthday party
at a sanatorium in Tasmania.
And this is now a beloved birthday party favorite
all over,
Australia.
- Oh Wow. Look at that Link, with your little dip
down there you actually get closer to the right answer.
- Yeah, fate is pulling me via pity.
- All right, Rhett you're at 30.
Link, 10.
- Whoa, Whoa. - Yeah!
- Well, I've never had this for one of my birthday parties.
- It's like, looks like a nest.
Like if you climbed up on like a cliff side
and there was like big bird flew away and then you peered
over the crag and you look in there
and it's like, Oh a hard-boiled is it?
Is it, there's a peanuts potato?
Yeah. That's just a, this is potatoes.
- It's almost like mashed potatoes
with some peanuts and some egg.
Well Link, we gotta listen to you think out loud now.
- Mashed potatoes,
mashed potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, peanuts.
- Hmm. I kinda of like this.
- Who likes to put peanuts on stuff?
It could be South Korea.
I could keep going to Vietnam until...
- Until it becomes an answer?
- Every time I aim for Vietnam, maybe,
maybe the map is pulling me to the correct answer.
Now, Imma assertive again.
Vietnam. It is.
Oh it went...
- A little high.
I let go sooner than I wanted.
- That's typically how it works.
- Well, I have followed the peanut lead a number of times
on this show and during this game.
And it has taken me to that area of the world
where Vietnam is.
I mean, it could be Sweden and you could,
fate again could have shone its light on you,
but I'm gonna try to get Vietnam.
- Ooh, a little low. - Little low.
Little low, a little low.
- [Stevie] You just tried Oto.
A dish made with boil yams, palm oil,
hard-boiled eggs and garnished with roasted peanuts.
This special birthday food is presented
to the birthday person and then shared the family
with everyone gathering around to eat out of one bowl
in,
Ghana.
- Ghana. - Oh, Ooh, Ooh.
- Oh man, we're both so far. - We're both pretty
far away from Ghana.
- Communal bowl!
- All right.
That was 32 for Rhett and 38 for Link.
- Oh wow. - Oh, okay, all right,
you still got the lead.
- Wow!
- Look, it's hollow on the inside.
- It's like a freaking cream puff igloo.
- Well, I feel like,
I've gotta start. - Is it gonna.
And I don't know if you can tell, but there's
a like a drizzle of hardened...
It's like a spiderweb of, I think it this honey?
- I just took half of a one.
- Yeah, that's like...
- Oh, that's so good.
- Is it puff pastry?
- Yeah, it's so puffy.
- Mm Oh, have a birthday go. Ugh.
- Boy, I could eat.
Just keep eating that.
- Oh yeah, I will.
So, I'm going first?
- You're still in the lead bro.
I'm sorry, i gotta keep eating this.
- Well, France is on the board, y'all.
Ah, there's a Cuban bakery here in Burbank
that's like really famous.
- Porto's. - Porto's.
- Porto's had a lot of puff pastries too.
So is it Cuba or French?
I wanna throw a dart at this and see what happens.
- Well, well it sticks right in there.
- That's what happens.
- Just goes right in there.
- You should do it too, man.
Hmm. My dart has failed me
but I'm still doing okay on every throw.
So I'm, I'm going for Cuba.
Porto's don't do me wrong, baby.
Oh yeah.
- I think that this may signify
either a tree or a mountain,
so like, Sweden.
Maybe there's a tree, there's trees
in Sweden that are big and tall.
Like Christmas tree type things.
I know I think this is Paraguay
and I think it is emblematic of the mountain range.
Is that the Andes that's down there?
Huh? This is a bold move because if I'm wrong,
I'm very wrong.
And I basically have thrown the game.
- I hope your Paraguay off on this one.
- [Stevie] Okay.
You just had Croquembouche.
A towering desert, desert (laughs)
- A towering desert. - A towering desert.
- [Stevie] A towering dessert of cream filled
pastry puffs bound with sponge sugar.
This birthday tree is also enjoyed
at other festive family gatherings
like weddings and baptisms.
And it has its origins as a fanciful edible structure
displayed on the medieval tables of French royalty
because it's from,
France!
- Yeah
- Ah, so obvious - Dang it.
- [Stevie] Have you guys been to the desert in France?
- Yeah
- [Stevie] Looks like this.
- The towering desert, they call it.
- Right Link you had 21, Rhett 39.
- Oh Ooh.
Wrong direction.
- Oh gosh.
This has a...
- Non birthday cake.
- An aroma that I've never associated with birthday.
It's very green.
- Is that like collards?
- I can't tell you what kind of meat this is.
- Gotta be pork.
A pork slice?
- I got my greens in today.
All right.
I'm still going first now.
I'm substantially ahead.
It feels strange.
I've got this cake.
- You could really, really pull ahead.
- Yeah, would you mind if I just went ahead
and, you know, maybe elongated my lead and...
- Where does this elongated your lead?
- Again, Paraguay.
It's not fishy.
It's just porky and greeny.
I'm thinking this is Paraguay.
If I can get a little bit of Pakistan along with it
that would be nice.
- I'll be very impressed.
(all laughing)
- What happened?
- Well, well, you're close to Paraguay.
- I can't tell you what happened.
- You hit a little low.
- What is your guess?
- I'm actually surprised that you didn't react
more to this, because I think that this is seaweed.
- Oh really?
- I think this is either Vietnam or South Korea.
Neither of them has been guessed.
So I guess I'll just go on between them.
All right, almost South Korea.
- Is that what that is?
I should have, yeah.
- [Stevie] Okay. I'm so glad that you said that
'cause I genuinely thought
that you thought that was collards this whole time
and I was so confused.
- I knew it was seaweed, I just didn't want to say it.
- [Stevie] Good. Good.
So that's Miyeok guk.
A hardy seaweed soup made with soy sauce, Sesame oil
water and beef.
And because of its high nutritional content,
mothers often eat this to replenish themselves
after childbirth.
Thus, it's eaten on birthdays as a celebration of mums in,
South Korea.
- Oh gosh. I'm sorry, man.
I'm sorry. I mean, I just do it a little high.
Just got really close to South Korea.
It wasn't even, it just kind of happened as an accident.
- I mean, this could have been a collard.
- Could have been a collared.
- Rhett you had two, Link 51.
- You've taken the lead.
- Well, man, I'm sorry that birthday cake got you.
- With the differential of 17 centimeters.
We go into this final round.
- There's a hair in here.
- That's disturbing.
I never wanna see that on the outside of a pie.
Do you want to, you wanna cut this thing?
- I kinda just wanna dig into it.
- Slice it. Let's see.
Let's get a nice cross section.
Maybe we'll get the hair out.
So I'm, I'm thinking that's a hint.
That like, at birthdays they make a pie
and they put a hair in it and if you find the hair you...
- Good luck for the next year.
- So, I'm kinda looking for the hair in there.
- Oh look.
- Did you find the hair?
seriously?
- Nope.
- You had a dangle.
- Thought I did.
- Should we, should we go through this?
Looking for the hair?
- Oh, come on.
No, it's a beautiful pie, don't do that, man.
- You were the one who wanted
to dig through it a second ago.
No, I mean.
- Put the knife down, man.
- [Stevie] Guys. There's not a hair in there.
- There's not a hair in there.
- [Stevie] Nope. It was just a fun message.
- There might be a hair in there.
Message not received.
Okay. So there is apple, there seems to be apples.
- It's a really good pie.
- It's is this a blackberry?
A Blueberry?
- But I think it's a kind of berry
that's not familiar to us.
- You've got to stroke first because now you're in the lead.
- Why you have to use that word?
- Sweden hasn't been taken yet.
- Well, I don't have to do this,
but I will say this for the sake of everyone at home
that this is our last round, so it's not labeled.
- Yeah, I didn't, I didn't want to tell you that either.
See, I knew .
- It feels like it's gonna be like some kind
of like a ligan berry or something like that.
You know?
Like some berry that they,
they enjoy in the Scandinavian part of the world.
- Yeah.
- So I'm gonna kind of just do a,
the old Euro throw.
It's like the Euro step
but it's just throwing the dart at Europe.
- Okay. Well, yeah.
I was thinking the same thing about the Euro throw.
I just need to be 18 closer.
- This crust is so good.
- Here I go, with a Euro throw.
A little North of your dart is what I'm hoping for.
Oh gosh.
Well there's no way I can win anything now.
- Well, I mean, that's a good point.
There's, Yeah.
Unless, unless...
- I mean, I had to win by at least 18.
- There is a, there's a way that you can win.
That's a distinct country in Africa
that you hit that I did not hit.
If that is the country you win.
'Cause you'll get zero.
So, I'm just telling you, if you hit the exact country,
you win.
- My strokes are so weak today.
- [Stevie] You just had a personalized birthday pie.
Forget overly sweet birthday cakes.
These double crusted pies usually contain a filling
of fruit.
Like in this case, blueberries,
and a special birthday message carved
or baked into the crust
for the person celebrating their birthday, in,
Russia.
- Russia. That was unfamiliar blueberry.
- Russia.
Take a lingonberry or something.
- Man, that's a good pie.
- Yeah Rhett, you had 10
and Link you had 10.
- I mean, we don't have to go through this
but just typically when you're down by 17
going into the final round,
don't throw your dart at the other guys dart.
Just for it, then just for next time we play.
- I was trying to go 19 above your dart.
- Well, that would have been okay.
All right.
- Just lay off you get, you get to burst
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