- Today we give thanks to the frozen food isle.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning.
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- Now much like premature balding,
Grandma leaning in for a sloppy, on the mouth kiss
and a stranger sniffing your hair in the coffee shop line,
Thanksgiving sure has a way of creeping up on ya.
- And if you've found yourself with no plans
for Turkey Day tomorrow, you can make like a turkey
and at the first sight of a cornucopia, run
to the nearest grocery store to get a frozen turkey dinner
and today, we're gonna help you know which one is best.
It's time for, "Is That Frostbite on Your Turkey
or Are You Just Happy To See Me, Ya Geezer?
We're Eating Thanksgiving Food Straight From The Freezer".
We're gonna try five of the top selling,
best reviewed frozen Thanksgiving dinners for one
and rank them all on this board.
- We've got five spots.
Pil-grim,
I Pecan't Even,
The Meh-Flower,
Butter Ballin'
and Cornucopi-Yum!
- Mm, and the meals we're gonna be tasting are
Banquet, Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, Marie Callender's
and Hungry Man.
I'm a hungry man, let's do it.
(gentle acoustic music)
- First off we have Banquet's classic
turkey frozen single serve meal,
and Banquet urges you to, quote, "Savor homestyle turkey
served with rich gravy and dressing,
tender sweet peas and mash potatoes made with real cream."
Classic turkey, huh?
- So, cook on high for three minutes.
Then you slit the film, then you peel the film,
you stir the potatoes. - A pretty simple process.
- Then you do three more minutes.
Imma try to get one bite of this guy and everything,
but it appears to be that there's a dark meat turkey.
- Yeah, there's dark on one side, white on the other.
- Dark meat turkey, light meat turkey.
I'm a dark meat man
when I dark meat can.
Imma tell you right now.
- [Rhett] It's not bad.
- This is pretty good.
- Now I will say, if we come to any disagreements,
I am the one dressed like a retired
middle school basketball coach.
- Is that a corduroy version of a fitness jacket?
- I feel like, really, a retired and divorced
middle school basketball coach.
I feel like if there's any ties, I have to break them.
- [Stevie] I think you look nice.
- Oh, thank you, Stevie.
(slight laughter)
- Well, we sell this.
This is what you should be complimenting.
- [Stevie] I think you look really nice.
- Mythical.com.
- That's solid.
I mean, that's real solid.
- Yeah, that's good, man.
I predict this is gonna be number one.
- Well, it's made with real cream.
- But imma put it a number two.
It's tasty.
- It's classic.
- It's Banquet.
(gentle acoustic music)
- Now on to Stouffer's classic's roast turkey.
This meal includes tender, white meat turkey and stuffing
with homestyle gravy and mashed potatoes.
No green peas.
Garden peas, sweet peas, whatever you wanna call 'em.
- I gotta say, these cuts of turkey look mighty fine though.
- [Link] They look much better.
- [Rhett] They look much higher quality.
- [Link] Yeah, the Banquet kinda looked like a cold cut.
- Oh wow.
And the dressing and the stuffing
or whatever they're calling it.
- Very authentic.
- It's very good.
- The dressing really has that celery pop to it.
- I'm gonna have to tell my wife
to stop browning that turkey. (chuckles)
We don't have to worry about making our own meal this year.
- I really miss the garden peas, man,
'cause I love garden peas more than I love turkey.
- Yeah, but they're so easy to get.
I mean, you can just get a can of garden peas.
You're gonna let garden peas
throw this one to the top?
- But every item that is presented does taste better.
- It all tastes better and it's a better picture.
- Yeah, throw it up there.
- Look at that.
You see how the background's out of focus
so it really brings the food into focus?
That makes you hungry.
- That's called perspective.
- [Rhett] Yeah, looks like it's on a table,
this looks like it's in hell.
- Depth of field.
(gentle acoustic music)
- Next we have Lean Cuisine's roasted turkey breast.
This meal has roasted turkey and stuffing
in a savory herb dressing with a side of,
not taters, cinnamon apples, because it's
(whispers) Lean.
- Is it?
Okay, 290 calories per package.
- Well those were 280 calories.
So it's more calories?
- I don't know.
- (whispers) It's not so Lean after all.
- I mean, I have to point out
that there's turkey in my apples.
(slight laughter)
- I got no turkey in my apples.
- I got turkey in my apples, y'all.
I'm gonna ignore that for that moment.
So no taters.
- [Rhett] Huh.
The turkey a little odd to you?
- I'll be dang if I didn't get apples in my turkey.
(laughter)
That really throws it off.
- Oh, those apples are good.
- You need to make your partition higher, Lean.
Lean Cuisine, that's what all those rappers drink.
(laughter)
- Right.
- It's nice to have a desert,
especially when you're in Lean Cuisine territory,
but, I don't know, nothing here is speaking to me.
It's mixed up, the taste is not to rave about.
- There's something a little bit weird about the turkey.
In fact, going from the apples to the turkey,
it's not a trip I wanna take again.
- Yeah.
- You think this is worse than Banquet?
- Definitely.
I kinda like the low shelf, two for a dollar on sale
vibe of the Banquet,
especially with those greens, man
- Yeah, there's peas, you can't forget the peas.
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- Now we got our favorite frozen femme, Marie Callender
with her roasted turkey breast and stuffing.
She too urges you to savor tender turkey breast,
serve with creamy mashed potatoes,
homestyle stuffing and vegetables.
There's a vegetable medley in this thing, look at that.
- There's a whole medley.
Listen, Marie went way above
and beyond on this one
and the fact that it's from Marie, it's from a person,
it just makes me feel like
I'm more obligated to say that I like it.
- She's guilting you into a positive review,
that's not healthy.
- I will say that as you're putting together
your first bite there.
- Veggie medley does not look inviting.
- Acedude1 reviewed this on Amazon, he said,
"Nothing at all like the picture on the box,
literally a couple of bites of turkey
and the rest was mush.
Just eat the box instead of the food."
(slight laughter)
A little harsh.
- Dang.
- Doesn't sound like a very ace dude to me.
- It kind looks like the box to me, I don't know.
I'm on Marie's side here, Ace.
How's that medley, though?
Because it looks like toy veggies.
- [Rhett] You mean like Leggos?
- You know like when you would have a kitchen set
with fake veggies and fake foods.
They're really bad.
- That is awful.
- These veggies.
- Marie, I mean, I don't wanna insult you,
but I'm about to insult you.
- Veggies are crap.
- Your vegetable medley is out of tune.
(laughing)
In a real bad way.
And you know what?
Your dressing doesn't taste good either.
- Even with all the pressure from Marie,
Rhett is ripping you a new one, girl.
(laughing)
And I agree with that.
- It's the worst one, sorry, Marie.
- [Link] It's not good, not good at all.
It's Pil-grim.
(gentle acoustic music)
The number one slot is still open.
- Will Hungry Man fill it?
Hungry Man roasted carve white meat turkey
features white meat turkey. (chuckles)
Creamy mashed potatoes, gravy, seasoned stuffing
and mixed vegetables,
and unlike any other meal so far
it has desert in the box.
Apple Cranberry desert to be specific.
- The other one had apples.
That one had apples.
- That's not a desert, that's a side.
- Really?
- Well, really it's the cranberry part.
- We determined it was desert.
- Well, it's got cranberries.
- Finally! - I mean, Thanksgiving's
about cranberries.
- It's like Christmas.
- Well, or Thanksgiving. (laughs)
- It says right here, "do not thaw, cook thoroughly".
It makes me sad that you're eating it alone.
- Get a bite of that turkey.
- But it'd be really sad if you just tried to thaw it
because you didn't have a microwave.
- Get a bite of the turkey and the gravy.
Just do it and then confer.
Take a big bite why don't ya?
It looks cheap but it tastes good.
- Yeah, it's got that cold cut consistency
but it tastes fine.
I wouldn't say it's amazing.
- [Rhett] I think it tastes good,
any the stuffing.
- Here's a review from Casper,
"They taste just like it was my grandmother",
by my grandmother.
(laughing)
They taste like it was by my grandmother!".
- Grandma, this tastes just like you.
- Okay.
But these veggies look Marie Callender sad.
- You're mixing it, I don't wanna take the edge off.
I wanna have the full medley.
- This medley's better.
- Oh.
- A lot better.
- It's not bitter.
- Yeah, it tastes like it's been cooked some.
How many calories are in this?
410 calories.
- Okay, so like over 100 calories more than any other thing,
but it's worth it, man.
- Yeah and the cranberry.
Here's the thing that I'm gonna say.
- Say it, hungry man.
- This cheapo Banquet, something about it,
I keep going back to it in my mind,
I really liked that.
I like it better than the Stouffer's now.
- That's fine but I think that Hungry Man
has everything that Banquet has
but it's better in every form.
- You're right about that.
- [Rhett] And look at the packaging.
- So, what I'm saying is
this to me is better than this.
- I don't necessarily agree with that.
- You can get it for fifty cents.
That's gotta be a factor, on sale.
- And this is, I mean, this is 2.89.
(laughter)
So hold on to your wallet, two dollars and 89 cents
is gonna set you back a little bit.
But listen, man, sixteen grams of protein,
it's bigger.
- So much value. - Thanksgiving is about
going big or going home.
- Yeah, or if you're already home just go get that.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have crowned Hungry Man
the best Thanksgiving meal to have by yourself!
- (laughs) That sounds fun.
- And you can be proud of that!
- Yeah, there's no shame in being a hungry man.
- Go out and grab it for the cranberry sauce,
no one else even did that!
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