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Yesterday, we declared the world's best instant noodle soup,
and we picked up so much momentum
that we're speeding right into a whole new set of soups.
We're driving right through it, I should say,
because today we're showing love
to soups that are often overlooked,
soup so comforting you ain't gotta even get
out of your car to eat 'em.
I'm talking about fast food soups.
- Today, eight burning bowls
of delicious drive-through delicacies
will go head-to-head in this slippery slop fest.
Only one fast food soup can be the gustatory goop
that reigns supreme as the wet lunch dream.
It's time for Souptember to Remember: Fast Food Soups.
- All right, we posted a survey on our Instagram
and YouTube community tab.
Always check that stuff.
And over 28,000 of you voted
to determine the top eight vote getters
in today's fast food soup bracket.
They are Wendy's chili.
- [Rhett] Steak 'n Shake genuine chili.
- [Link] Panera southwest chicken tortilla soup.
- [Rhett] Quizno's broccoli cheese soup.
- [Link] Subway cream of broccoli soup.
- [Rhett] Quizno's chicken noodle soup.
- [Link] Panera bistro French onion soup.
- [Rhett] And Boston Market rotisserie chicken noodle soup.
- At the end of today's tournament,
only one of these fast food soups will have the honor
of being placed at top of the golden soup stoop.
- I understand.
- Let's do this.
(boxing bell chiming)
We're starting off with a chili cook off
between Wendy's chili, number one seed,
and Steak 'n Shake genuine chili.
- I didn't even know they had chili at Steak 'n Shake.
I know about the Wendy's though.
- And I didn't know if it was genuine,
but apparently it is, the number eight seed.
- What should we start with?
Everybody knows what Wendy's chili tastes like.
- Well, let me may get one little bean here
with yesterday's burger in it.
I was talking to Josh. - (whispers) That is so good.
- He did confirm that they themselves confirmed
that it's not yesterday's burger, but it's just the burger,
it's the extra burger, right?
- [VOICE] Yeah. - Extra burger.
Now at Steak 'n Shake,
are their steaks made out of burgers?
Or their burgers made out of steaks?
- [VOICE] Yes.
- Neither, no.
It's no and no.
- But really, the chili...
Boy, that's like a Texas style.
- It's very thick.
I mean, my initial reaction was, it's better.
I gotta go back.
- This is the kind of chili that you would taste
at an actual chili cook-off,
whereas Wendy's chili's like kind of chili
you expect from Wendy's.
- I've always liked Wendy's chili-
- [Rhett] It's really good.
- But I've never tasted it right against this.
And this is-
- I don't know, going back to that Wendy's though-
- [Link] It's thicker, it's smokier.
- It's sweet.
- It really comes down to,
do you like sweet, watery,
or do you like thick, smoky, savory?
- This is not as easy as I thought.
I thought this was gonna be a runaway for Wendy's.
- I think the genuine chili is taking it.
- That tastes just like straight-up great chili.
- Homemade, yeah.
- It's genuine, guys.
- And y'all, you know the See You Ladle is back.
So it's on your side.
Hey, don't feel bad.
- I'm sorry.
I hate when the number one seed
gets popped in the first round.
- Sorry, Wendy's, but you're going out, girl.
See you ladle.
Oh, the bounce shot, in and out.
That's because there wasn't actually chili in it.
- Chili doesn't want to go down, Wendy's.
- So the genuine Steak 'n Shake chili
with a big upset right at the start.
(boxing bell chiming)
All right, we got Panera southwest chicken tortilla soup
versus Quizno's broccoli cheese soup.
- I can't help but notice that Quizno's-
- Went all out.
- Yeah, it's like, "We want our packaging to say 12 ounces,
"Not Quizno's."
- You need to know exactly how much you get,
and then that's it.
Where's it from, I don't know.
How much is it, 12 ounces.
- [Link] Oh, there's a meat chunk.
Make sure you get a meat chunk.
- Now Panera, they kind of pride themselves on their soup.
They'll even serve it to you in a bread bowl.
- Yeah, you consider it-
- You gotta have confidence when you're gonna do that.
- When you look at the menu,
you consider their soups a legitimate option.
- [Stevie] Did you guys have a Panera
in Buies Creek or Dunn?
- Well, thanks for giving me so much credit.
We have one caution light.
- [Stevie] Well, okay, all of Harnett County,
did you have a Panera?
Because in Greensboro, even though it was founded in 1987,
I thought it was new.
- Oh, yeah.
- Oh, yeah, we all thought it was new
even though we didn't even have one.
- [Stevie] It took things up a notch.
- We had to go to Cary to go to Panera.
- [Stevie] It felt like a real restaurant.
- That's pretty good broccoli cheese soup right there.
- Yeah, it is.
- I think I like it significantly more than this.
- Oh, absolutely.
This is really good.
This is a disappointment.
- I'm trying to find something about this
that I like, and I can't.
So you know what that means.
- That goes for Panera in general for me.
- Panera, see you ladle.
- That was a flop.
- That was really weak.
- Quizno's broccoli cheese soup.
It don't matter the packaging, it's beautiful.
(boxing bell chiming)
Our third seed, Subway's cream of broccoli,
is staring down our sixth seed,
Quizno's chicken noodle soup.
They hate each other.
- But look how the packaging is done, look at this.
This is like, how much is it, I don't know.
But is it hot?
Yes, it's hot.
- How much is it?
It's 12 ounces.
Is it hot, I don't know.
- This is significantly less creamy looking
than the Quizno's cream of broccoli.
- [Link] Well, hold on, that's not what we're comparing.
- I know.
- Forget that existed.
We're just comparing it to the Quiz'.
- Mm, it's still pretty tasty.
- Yeah, it is.
It's deceptively thick.
- Look at the size of the noodles
in this Quizno's situation.
- Man, they're going hard with the big noods.
Now my kids love to order chicken noodle soup at places.
Any place that has it they'll...
You know, I don't understand.
- Try that, Neal.
- Mm.
- That's as good as I can possibly imagine
chicken noodle soup tasting.
- It's very celery-flor... Florward.
- Is it celery-florward?
- It's celery-florward.
- It's very salty, which might be deceptively
making me think it tastes real good.
- Something else to kind of put Subway in their place,
in 2013, Subway was sued for selling 11-inch footlong subs.
- I remember this.
- Subway had to pay $520,000 in legal fees
and $500 to each of the 10 individuals who filed suit.
We could have gotten in on that.
- [Link] Dang, see you ladle.
- Yeah, this is, again, it's not a bad soup,
but this is extraordinary in my opinion.
- And now I think, since it's going away,
we can say it's not as good
as the Quizno's cheese and broccoli either.
- This is not as good
as the Quizno's cheese and broccoli either.
I'm gonna see you ladle.
- Do it, Rhett.
- I'm losing it.
- [Link] Quizno's moving on again with chicken noodle soup.
(boxing bell chiming)
- All right, now we've got the number two seed,
Panera's bistro French onion soup,
versus the number seven seed,
Boston Market rotisserie chicken noodle soup.
Now I'm a huge French onion soup fan.
If they're serving it at a restaurant-
- I've noticed you order it a lot.
Yeah, and it comes with a big thing of cheese.
But what do you notice is not in this?
- [Link] There's not a cheese crust.
- It's like the part of French onion soup
that nobody likes, and nothing else.
- Topped with Gruyere
and house-made black pepper focaccia croutons.
- You know what?
There actually is a little...
There's a little piece of cheese in there.
I can see it.
- I think I can taste it too.
- It's too much not cheese though.
- You want more cheese.
You're disappointed.
- That's another way of saying not enough cheese.
- Yeah, when you don't have that,
you're left with the sherry wine vinegar.
- It's too strong.
It needs the fat of the cheese to cut that flavor,
and it's just not there for it.
- Speaking of fat, there's a big fat rotisserie chicken
that's been pulled apart and put in this.
I mean, you've got little rectangular pieces of noodle.
- [Rhett] It's almost too much.
- Boston Market was the first place we ever ate at
when we moved to Los Angeles.
- True.
We really broke the seal.
We broke the seal on this city.
- Hey, we just came to LA.
Where should we eat?
Boston Market.
- It's not that great.
It's way better than this though.
- I like Boston Market.
- Panera did not show up today.
I mean, I would say, Panera,
you had an opportunity, and you missed it.
- Yeah, so once again, you got the see you ladle.
- I gotta really concentrate on this one.
These empty things are just hard to throw.
- Yeah, it's not enough in there.
Oh, that was close though.
That was close.
And the Boston Market, first place ever
that we ate at in LA.
(boxing bell chiming)
Steak 'n Shake genuine chili
versus Quizno's broccoli cheese soup.
Guys, we have eliminated the top four seats.
- Yeah, that just shows you
that we have no loyalty at all to your ideas.
No, we're just being honest.
We're just being honest to our palates.
- Some good chili.
It's meaty, it's beany.
- That's a legit chili.
- [Link] It could stand up to any-
- Like if you took that to a chili cook-off-
- Any chili cook-off, yeah.
- I feel like you'd be like,
"Hmm, I see what you did there."
- And I think this serves as a standard
for broccoli cheese soup.
I mean, it's pretty dang good.
- It does set the bar high for broccoli cheese soup.
- Yeah, I really can't complain about it.
- It's waving the banner.
It's waiving the banner for broccoli cheese soup.
- I'm gonna hit you with a couple of facts
because this is not an easy decision.
Steak 'n Shake founder Gus Belt,
first of all, his last name is Belt.
He used to go through the restaurant's trash
and the returned plates,
and then he would reserve the food.
No, he wouldn't.
He would see what customers weren't eating
and use his findings to further hone the menu.
That's smart.
- That is so smart, Gus Belt.
- Owner's out there digging through the dumpster.
Hey, check your pride at the door
for being a good business owner.
- Gus Belt is also my favorite constellation.
(all laughing)
I got to give it to Steak 'n Shake.
Oh, shoot.
- This chili- - So surprising.
- Is so unexpectedly good that I just-
- We've got to let the Quizno's go.
I'm with you on that.
Quizno's broccoli cheese soup, see you ladle.
- (laughs) And that means Steak 'n Shake genuine chili
is moving on.
(boxing bell chiming)
It's come down to a chicken noodle showdown.
We've got Quizno's chicken noodle soup
and Boston Market rotisserie chicken noodle soup.
The story in the Quizno's soup is the noodles.
The chicken is not really the story.
It's really noodle chicken soup.
- [Link] I got some spiral action happening.
- The taste is great though.
- In the Boston Market, it is the rotisserie chicken.
And you can tell that somebody pulled this apart by hand.
- That makes me feel a little bit weird.
- [Link] It makes me feel a little bit weird,
but the quality of it, I mean, that's big hunks of chicken.
- The taste profile is not even close in my mind.
This is like-
- There's not enough salt.
- It's not salty enough.
It's not yellow enough.
I want it to be yellow.
- This just tastes so much better.
- This is a solid... Man, this is so solid.
- Plus Boston Market opened nine locations
in Sydney, Australia in 2002.
- All right, well, you've convinced me-
- Oh, and then shut them all down in 2004.
Yeah, so they get the pity vote.
Boston Market, see you ladle.
See, I gotta go more-
- Gotta go more towards the ladle.
That was further away, but it doesn't matter.
Quizno's chicken noodle soup is moving on.
(boxing bell chiming)
- It all comes down to this.
The eighth seed, Steak 'n Shake genuine chili,
versus the sixth seed, Quizno's chicken noodle soup.
We got a Cinderella story happening here
with this chili, huh?
Lowest seed.
- And I wanted to make fun of the fact
that they used the term genuine,
but now I understand what they meant.
They meant that if you were just on a road trip
and you saw a sign for a chili cook-off
and you follow the signs,
and then you ended up at a chili cook-off
and you had chili like this,
you'd be like, "This totally tracks.
"This makes sense.
"It's genuine."
- I didn't think I love Steak 'n Shake,
but now I gotta reassess their whole menu based on this.
You know, I could just be wrong across the board.
- But again, this is as good as chicken noodle soup gets.
- That's a bold statement.
The best chicken noodle soup on earth is at Quizno's?
I mean, it is good.
- I mean, I think so.
But tomorrow, am I gonna be talking about
that chicken noodle soup?
Or am I gonna be talking about this chili?
- You're gonna be talking about that chili, and so am I.
- I am.
- I got one more shot to get this puppy
into the see you ladle ladle.
- You're gonna do it.
I believe in you.
- All right, Quizno's.
You put up a good fight, buddy, but see you ladle.
- Why don't you aim two feet
to where you think you need to be aiming?
- You put up a good fight.
See you ladle.
- Even when you leaned back,
you threw it in exactly the same spot.
- All right, Quizno's.
You put up a good fight, buddy-
- Let me do this, let me do this.
- But see you ladle.
Hold my hand, hold my hand.
- You want to be over there.
That's where it is, over there.
Now come on and release.
(all laughing)
You know what?
We'll work on it later.
All I know is that Steak 'n Shake genuine chili
is the... Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop-
- Hello?
- Best soup that you can get at a fast food place.
- Congratulations, Shake 'n Steak.
- We mispronounced it.
It doesn't matter.
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- You know what time it is.
- I'm Shy.
- And I'm Edan.
- And we're from (foreign), Israel.
- And we just made nine bean soup.
- [Both] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- Oh, man.
You know the only thing better than nine bean soup?
- 10 bean soup?
- Yeah.
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