Today we ask the age-old question--
- Will it nugget? - Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning!
Today we're going to shopping extremes
as we ask Ellie to buy everything she sees advertised.
And then a little later,
we're conducting a company wide arm wrestling match.
Ooh! But before we do that we have to ask,
"What came first the chicken or the nugget?"
We may never know the answer, but what we do know is
that nuggets bring unimaginable joy to the world.
- Yes, they do. - That's why today we're going to find out...
The typical chicken nugget is made of ground chicken breast meat
that's blended with a mix of seasonings
then it's poured, yes, poured into a nugget shaped mold
and then coated and battered and fried.
First up, who doesn't love sour? Who doesn't like sweet?
And who doesn't absolutely adore kids?
Put 'em all together and you've got yourself Sour Patch Kids.
And what do kids like? Nuggets!
And put all of them together
and you've got Sour Patch Kid Nuggets
or Sour Patch Kuggets.
- Sour Patch Kuggets. - Is it--
Could this be the future of nuggetdom?
Well, I'm not gonna be able to open it. Yeah, here we are.
Okay, so what we've done is we melted down one bag of Sour Patch Kids,
shaped them into children.
Chilled them in a freezer for about an hour,
then breaded and fried them.
We have some dipping sauce there.
Sweet and sour, of course.
Let's look at this.
- So take your little sour man. - It's like a--
It's like a fried gingerbread man hiding lots of candy goodness.
Man, you can really see that Sour Patch stuff coming through.
Peeking through. Just peeking out there.
- It's funny how it smells like a nugget on the outside. - Mm-hmm.
You can slip one of these by. Oh, you gotta dip, though.
- You dip and dink? Dip. - Dink it.
- Dink it. - Dink it.
- Dip it. - Dip it.
Sink it.
Okay. Bite the head off.
Ooh, that's chewy!
That's not bad at all.
The breading actually helps you take it all in.
It's basically a Sour Patch Kid but instead of the really
- sour sugar on the outside, whatever that is. - Mm-hmm.
- Fried. - It's just fried on the outside.
Look down in that neck hole.
See your future, 'cause these nuggets are pretty dang good.
- Yeah, they are. - Mm-hmm. Sour Patch Kids.
- Link: Will it nugget? - Both: Yes!
All right, McDonald's has arguably the most ubiquitous chicken nuggets on the planet,
but what if they've got the makings
of an entirely new nugget right under their noses.
We might be about to make history, y'all.
We got the Quarter Pounder with Cheese Nugget!
We call it the Quarter Pugget with Cheese.
Look at that!
Three nuggets in a box with some ketchup.
Now basically all this is is an entire Quarter Pounder with Cheese
blended up and made into a mush of sorts and then breaded and fried.
And we've got, you know, ketchup--
Keep it simple. As the dipping sauce.
Do you want to take the top?
- They're all the same. - They're all the same.
- I'm gonna take the bottom. - Oh!
Mmm.
- All I can really smell is the breading, but-- - Breading's strong.
- Dink it. Dip it. - Breading's strong with this one.
I'm going light with my ketchup 'cause I don't wanna overwhelm.
Oh, gosh.
Ew! Look at it!
It's almost like a crab cake.
It is like a crab cake.
If I told you this was a crab cake,
you wouldn't be able to tell me I was wrong.
Oh, no, but then you start to taste that McDonald's.
It's almost like the Quarter Pounder with Cheese was chewed for me.
- Yeah. - Which sometimes I need.
- Yeah. I'm so exhausted... - You know?
...but I gotta get my Quarter Pounder in today.
No, no. You know, like, I got a retainer
and I don't wear it often.
And then I'm like, "Oh, crap! I got that retainer."
Haven't worn it in months. Put it in, sore teeth.
- Yeah? - On sore teeth days
I need somebody to chew my Quarter Pounder for me.
Or you could just have these through the drive-through.
These are available?
Should they be?
I think the question is
will it nugget?
Both: Yes!
Swimsuit season will be here in a few months.
So, think about that for a while.
Okay, that's enough thinking.
If you wanna slim down salads are a great option,
but if you want to have fun,
eating salads nuggets are a better option.
Logic.
We have constructed the Caesar salad Nugget.
And it is the best of a Caesar.
Yes.
It's an armless torso, I guess.
And then the head right there.
- Ooh! That is the head. - Oh, it's stuck on the--
- How did we make this? - Well, there's a-- There's a toothpick in there.
We took a Caesar salad-- We took the Romaine lettuce,
dehydrated it for over four hours,
blended that with Caesar dressing, croutons, Parmesan cheese,
shaped it, and then deep-fried it of course.
And we're gonna dip it in some more Caesar dressing.
- Yes, we are! - You want the head or the body?
I'll take the bod.
That's a big, big thing.
It's heavy, too.
That's a heavy salad.
I think this is gonna be good. This is gonna be almost like
- spinach and artichoke-ishisness. - Oh.
I think it's gonna be horrible.
Let's find out. Dink it!
- Dink it! - We did it the wrong order.
Oh.
Strong!
Ooh!
The fish--
It's really concentrated.
Is there a lot of the fishy stuff in this?
Josh: Little anchovy on the dressing.
- Tess: Yeah, there's a classic Caesar dressing. - Yeah.
- Mm-hmm. - Tess: With anchovies.
You know what it is?
- What is it? - That the dried salad is nasty.
- It's just-- - That's it.
- It's like eating fish food in a big fried ball. - Yeah.
It has a fish foodishness to it.
It's like somebody took a lot of the leftover Caesar salad
from multiple Caesar salads at, like, Shoney's.
- Shoney's. - Like basically the Caesar salad bin at Shoney's.
The Caesar salad they couldn't get out
every day for seven years.
- Yeah. Scraped it. - One man named Earl got in there,
got it up, put it in a little bag.
- Yep. - Never did anything with the bag.
He just kept adding stuff to it.
And then one day he left the bag out in the desert,
and then he goes out there and he shakes it up
- and then he takes it out-- - Quite a process.
- Quite an investment on his part. - Yeah, he fries--
Is this what you guys did? Did you do what I'm describing?
- Josh: Yeah. I'm Earl. - Tess: Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. Josh is Earl.
- This is bad. This is so bad. - It's not good.
Caesar salad, will it nugget?
Rhett: No. Un-uh.
You know what's been missing in typical nuggets?
- What? - Creatures that are cold and slimy
and leave a trail of goop everywhere they go.
We have created The Slug Nugget.
Yes, apparently you can just get slugs to eat.
We took a bunch of 'em, ground 'em up in a Cuisinart,
then we added egg and breadcrumbs,
shaped them into slug shapes,
chilled 'em in the freezer and then--
Wow! They have the antenna and everything.
And then we deep-fried 'em.
The dipping sauce is salt and moss.
- Ooh! - Salt and moss.
Sounds like a restaurant in Silver Lake.
"Have you been to Salt and Moss?"
Okay.
- Now this-- The thing that's-- - It's incredible!
The cocktails!
The thing that scares me is that I have to tell myself
there's not one huge slug in there.
It's a bunch of ground up slugs
and that's supposed to make me feel better.
Yeah, exactly. You got the best looking one, though.
Man, yours looks the most sluggish of all.
- It won't matter. - Let's--
Dink it, dip it.
It's thin.
It's brown in there.
They taste exactly like dirt.
Really does.
They taste exactly like you would imagine.
Well, it's not gritty.
Are you getting-- Are you getting grit?
It's more like mud like mush.
Look at that.
I mean, it's not good at all.
But it's not horrible.
It's not inedible.
It's not as bad as that Caesar thing we just downed.
"It's better than the Caesar salad thing."
- I don't know about that. - I think it is.
Well, I think the bar was pretty high
for the Caesar salad nugget.
The bar was a low as a slug can get for this one.
( both exhale )
Is it-- Oh!
Even when you breathe out it's like breathing out--
Potting soil.
- Yeah, it's like you got-- - Like you can plant a garden with my breath.
It's like you got knocked down on the baseball field.
- Yep. - And your mouth was open.
- Yep. - That happened to me one time.
Still think about it from time to time.
Now, for a normal nugget this is horrible,
but for a slug nugget it ain't bad.
It's not a good nugget exactly,
but would you rather eat a slug or a slugget?
That's not the question.
- Rhett: Will it nugget? - Both: No!
Beavers are busy little creatures
scurrying through the woods, felling trees.
They build these ingenuitive dams.
You might be thinking that I lost my train of thought,
and got sidetracked by the fascinating world of beavers,
but you'd be wrong because those big old flat-tailed rats have balls!
- Hey! - And you know what that means.
Yep! We made some beaver nuts nuggets.
- Gosh. - Ooh, and they're big, too!
Is that just one beaver testicle?
- That's-- Look at that. - Or two?
You ever looked under a beaver? That's what you see.
That's how they float.
What we've done is we've taken beaver nuggets,
ground them up in a Cuisinart.
- Okay. - Not a sponsor.
I had to say that.
This ground up beaver nut is brought to you by Cuisinart.
But, Cuisinart, if you do wanna talk
about what we can do with you-- with your product--
- So we took the ground-- - Hit us up.
We took the ground up nuts and we shaped them into balls.
- Or I guess re-shaped them into balls. - Right.
And deep-fried them and we got some dipping sauce.
- What is that? - Both: Wood chip aioli.
- Mmm! - Now, Tess, you have encouraged us
to just pop the whole ball and eat the whole thing?
Tess: Yep, whole-hog. I think it's good.
So, it'll be a better experience.
For who?
Let's get a sizable bite, though.
I mean, I'm going all-- I'm getting a good halfsies.
Okay. Wood chip aioli.
Dippy, dippy, dippy, dip, dip.
- Dippy, dippy, dippy, dip. - Smells good.
Dinky, dinky, dinky, dink.
You know they belong together.
And now we're separating them through our digestive tracks.
- Is that from the same beaver? - ( sighs )
- Okay. - Tess: Yes.
- Tess: Yes. - Yes, one beaver.
Okay.
Oh, gosh!
( grunts )
Mm-hmm.
( grunts )
I had to pull it apart.
It's so chewy.
( grunts )
You know what?
It's not as chewy and grisly
as other testicles I've had on the show.
- It's a much more paletable ball. - Yeah.
Leave it to beaver nuggets to really surprise us.
There's a real mustiness to the ball.
You know what I'm saying?
Like cologne?
I'm just saying if I had to guess what I was eatin',
top three guesses,
I'd get a testicle pretty soon.
- Yeah. - You know what I'm saying?
Just based on...
flavor profile. Oh, gosh!
I'm gagging just because I'm thinking about it.
I'm thinking about this guy waggling around,
- Yeah. - they're just flopping underneath there...
- Propelling himself-- - ...trying to make a dam.
Working his balls off.
I am gonna swallow it, though.
( gagging )
Oh, God!
I did it! I got it down.
I got half a ball down.
You can do it, Link.
I believe in you.
Ah! It's like a hushpuppy.
Ah!
Well, I'd like to thank the beaver that donated to our cause
so that we could learn whether beaver testicles would nug.
- Yes. - Will they nugget?
Both: No!
And you know what? We got another nugget.
We're gonna make a Pad Thai nugget
and a bug nugget in Good Mythical More.
So, keep watching for that.
But before you do that keep watching
because Ellie has our coporate card
and she's buying everything advertised to her
in a single day.
Link: Wash down those yummy nugs
with a glassy of something icy and nicey
poured into this Ear Biscuits jar.
Available at mythical.store.