- What's the mall pretzel to rule them all pretzel?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Good mythical morning!
- Let's have a mall pretzel showdown, shall we?
- We shall. - Okay.
In 2017, fellow YouTuber Danny Gonzalez tweeted,
"Auntie Anne's is better than Wetzel's Pretzels hands down,
don't respond to this tweet unless you aggressively agree."
And then of course, Tiffany misses grayscale
defied Danny's rule and replied,
"I haven't been to Weasels,
but it's still a fact that Auntie Anne is queen."
And Auntie herself responded with the crown emoji.
- Uh huh, and Wetzel chimed in too,
though barely, when Meghna Reji replied to Danny with,
"WTF is Wetzel's Pretzels?
Auntie Anne's is really good, though.
I just don't like their lemonade, it tastes like metal."
And then the only thing Wetzel had to say was,
"Wetzel's lemonade tastes like lemonade..."
Dot, dot, dot.
- Burn!
Then earlier this year,
Wetzel's name checked their rival by tweeting,
"When they say they prefer Auntie Anne's..."
And then threw in some emojis,
which basically means don't speak to me,
and then had a photo of their cheesy dog bites.
But listen, they didn't go all the way,
because they were too scared to actually @ the Auntie.
- Oh.
See
the two brands,
they're afraid to really go after
each other directly. - Well, people-
- Everyone's doing it for 'em. - Listen.
- People who make pretzels are usually very nice.
That's what I've run into in my life.
- Well, which pretzel- - The day that changes.
- Is worthy of the crown?
Actually, we'll decide.
And which one has got it twisted?
It's time for "Food Feuds"!
Auntie Anne's versus Wetzel's Pretzels.
- We're gonna taste and compare signature items
from your two favorite pretzel stands, head-to-head.
We're rating each one on a scale of 1 to 10,
except for a few items
which we'll mention when we get there.
- The restaurant with the most points
is gonna named the mall's tippity top twist,
and is gonna win a chance to be sponsored.
No, they're gonna sponsor us.
You can sponsor us if you win.
- No, maybe we'll sponsor you.
- That too.
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- Are Dirk and Patty late again?
- Well today's their big day,
so they're probably-
- Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. - Wow, you.
I'm surprised you're here!
- Hi, uh yeah.
So, today's the big day. - I, for real.
- Oh by the way, I'm Auntie Dirk.
(Rhett laughs)
- Okay, good. - Well, I'm pro-Dirk,
but I'm Auntie Dirk, you know what I mean?
- Gotcha.
- Anyways, today's the big day.
And- - Yeah, you look nervous.
- I'm stressed out!
- Yeah. - All right?
And so that's your Auntie Anne's cinnamon sugar pretzel.
It's got, you know.
It's in the title. - Cinnamon and sugar.
- That's right!
4.99, 5.99. - It's gonna be fine, Dirk.
- Okay. - It's gonna be okay.
- I'm not getting rid of clowns,
just 'cause your kid is scared of them at the wedding!
- Well, maybe-
- Fine, don't come- - This is a bad timing.
- To the wedding!
- It's bad timing- - Yeah.
- They're getting married. - I love you too,
I'll see you at Christmas.
- Doing this on the same day. - They could've taken
the day off.
- I mean-
- Now my sister is not coming to the wedding,
so we don't have a ring bearer for today.
- Okay. - Do you wanna be
the ring bearer? - Hi.
Wetzel's Pretzels, Patty.
This is supposed to be on your side!
- Okay.
- Jesus!
(crew laughing)
- Thank you, Patty.
- This is our sinful cinnamon pretzel for 5.19.
Gotta get the price in there.
- Okay.
Okay, well let's start over here.
So Auntie Anne's,
they got 1,200 locations all around-
- The world. - The world.
Started back in 1988.
Versus 340 locations for Wetzel's Pretzels.
- Wetzel's Pretzels.
- Started in 1994.
So they got the, they got the, they got a leg up.
Oh, it's- - It's got a nice,
it's got a nice head.
(crew laughs)
- I didn't know pretzels had a head, I'm just gonna.
- That's good.
I mean it's everything- - The sweet stuff.
- You want it to be.
It's sweet, it's cinnamony, it's got a little buttery taste.
- Mm. - I'm really liking that.
- That's good.
This is all fresh to me,
'cause I'm just not a pretzel guy.
- I'm not really a pretzel guy, either.
- But I like pretzels,
I'm just not. - But maybe I should be.
Okay, well. - Can you hold that one up?
Let's just kinda compare them.
- There's not huge differences in these,
I think that the differences may actually just be isolated.
I mean, this one is smaller,
but maybe they just made 'em a little bit different.
I don't know, is that consistently that much bigger?
- Wetzel's has a lot more of the,
of the good stuff on it.
- Wetzel's has come in really hard.
Same pro, same profile,
but a little bit greaser in a good way.
- Yeah, it's just more cinnamon, more sugar caked on.
In this particular sample,
I would say almost twice as much.
Does that mean twice the score?
- Well, I think they're both really good.
I prefer Wetzel's.
I can't imagine a cinnamon sugar pretzel
being much better than this? - Mm mm.
- I'm actually gonna whatever one it is in front of me,
Auntie's,
an eight.
- I'm gonna give it a seven.
- And I'm gonna give this a nine.
- Nine.
Yep, I agree with that.
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Up next, we have...
Ooh, the hot dog thingies.
- I swear to god, Smack,
if you invited your work wife, Paulie,
you are in big trouble.
- She's not coming, all right?
And I can think of no scenario
in which she would make a surprise debut appearance
at our wedding,
available for first, second and third tiers,
on Mythical Society.
(crew laughs)
- I feel that.
- Well okay, so it's turned into a little bit of a promo?
- I do feel it.
- Okay, so we've got the...
They didn't even say what these were.
- [Stevie] Yeah, that's my job.
That's me, hello.
Hello, I'm Stevie.
On your side Rhett,
is Auntie Anne's mini-pretzel dogs for 6.69.
And then on Link's side,
is Wetzel's Pretzels wetzel dog for 6.19.
- Now, Auntie Anne's does serve a regular size pretzel dog,
but at this particular location they only had the mini ones.
So Link, we're just gonna have to pretend
that these wieners are bigger than they are,
which should be easy for you.
(crew laughs)
- If I didn't have a mouthful of this,
I'd give you a mouthful of this!
(crew laughs)
- Mm.
Tasty.
- It's like big in a blanket, but the blanket is a pretzel.
- I want the, I want it to be flakier.
I mean, I like it.
- That's 'cause you want it to be a pig in a blanket.
That's just not what it is, it's a pig in a pretzel.
- But what about that?
- That's big.
- Are we gonna end on end this thing?
We're gonna meet in the middle?
- Well, there's a-
- We're gonna Lady and the Tramp?
- There's a lighter end and there's a darker end.
(crew laughs)
- If you wanna teach kids about dog's erections,
grab a Wetzel Pretzel. (laughs)
Okay, I don't care what end you give me,
just as long as you give me one.
Oh, that took a few bites, it must be super chewy.
- Mm hmm.
Mm,
that is a mouthful.
- I'm satisfied by both of those.
What I really want,
is I wanna dip 'em in the cheese sauce,
you can get cheese sauce.
I've gotten this and dipped it in cheese before.
- Yeah, and you can't...
We're not comparing the size of these.
- No, because you don't need to do that.
- We're just comparing the taste,
because
it's not apples to apples,
and we're just gonna remove that.
Just like you removed the ding dong from the wrapper.
I mean, this is, it's difficult to differentiate
once you remove the size from the conversation.
- I feel like these are almost equal.
- Yeah, I- - I can't find a clear winner.
- I'm not finding anything to differentiate these,
so we might as well just give 'em both zeros.
No, this is,
this is very good, that's very good,
so overall I'm giving a score to both of these of
seven.
- I was thinking the same thing, friend.
Seven.
- So we- - Seven.
- Seven's all round. - Seven.
- That's 28. - Seven.
- That's not how it works.
(upbeat rock music)
So today is the big day for Dirk and Patty,
they're getting married,
and we are gonna post the ceremony on the Mythical Society,
exclusively, so
you should, you can go over there today and watch it,
mythicalsociety.com.
We're, we're gonna be
watching the festivities. - Feels uneven.
- Well then do it yourself!
I don't even have my dress on!
- And it's gonna be great.
No tension.
- Is this what marriage is like?
- Yeah. - Uh...
At times, at times. - Just, it's your fault.
- There's highs and lows. - Just remember that.
- Highs and lows.
- Just remember that.
- [Stevie] All right guys,
on Rhett's side is Auntie Anne's pepperoni pretzel for 5.99,
and on Link's side,
is Wetzel's Pretzels pepperoni twist for 5.69.
- I'll tell ya.
- So we've got a configuration difference here.
- The back...
This looks more traditional pretzel to me than the Wetzel's,
but the Wetzel's looks fatter
and more attractive for eating.
- Well, they're call- - To me.
- They're calling it a twist.
And then if you look at the back,
I mean there's definitely- - There's a difference.
- A darkness to it.
So let's if we can
explain that. - Again, I don't wanna
over interpret the differences in the pretzels
in terms of like, oh, well the back is darker,
because every pretzel's different.
You can get different people cooking 'em.
I like pepperoni.
Never had it on a pretzel.
- It's kinda magical how they stick,
for the most part.
- I like that.
- A knot shaped breadstick with pepperonis on it.
- I gotta get pieces that got pepperoni on it.
- I will say there's less pepperoni
over here on Wetzel land.
One, two, three, four, five.
Did you get six or seven?
- I wasn't counting.
- I think there was only six.
One, two, three, four, five, six, oh, it's the same!
There's just more to a Wetzel Pretzel, actually.
- This is tough,
but I think I like the consistency
of Wetzel Pretzel more than an Auntie's.
- Mm hmm, it's softer and more buddy.
- Buddy, buddy, it's a buddy.
- And there's more twists in the middle-
So it has- - So that's more buttery?
- It has more of a,
you get more of a pizza experience in that middle piece,
than you do with slightly less twists.
There's only two twists to an Auntie,
I'm counting one, two, three, four twists to a Wetzel.
- I like a Wetzel Pretzel better, I think.
- There's a lot more cheese.
The cheese is falling off of this thing,
and getting like crusty.
Ooh, that's nice.
- This has got a cheese sprinkle.
Again, if you just gave me this
and you didn't give me anything else,
I'd be like, "You've done me a service."
- I'm gonna give that service a five.
- I'm gonna give it a six, because I like it.
- I'm gonna give this one.
Am I gonna go all the way to nine?
- I'm not, I'm gonna give it an eight.
- I'm gonna give it a nine.
- Oh, well you did it.
- 'Cause it- - You did it.
- It really impressed me.
I'm going in again.
(upbeat rock music)
Now we will be attending the wedding,
but we don't have to offic- - Really?
- We're not officiating, or anything.
- Here, let me help you
put this on. - No.
No, if you see me in my dress,
then that's bad luck!
Don't look, close your eyes. - Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry!
- [Patty] Close your eyes, don't look at me!
- Sorry, sorry. - Don't look at me!
- Don't look at me. - Sorry.
- She's already in her dress.
- That's gonna be her wedding dress?
- Okay.
(crew laughs)
- Well, I mean it makes sense that it's not white.
- Marco? - You know what is white?
The Wetzel's cup.
- [Stevie] So on Rhett's side
is Auntie Anne's original lemonade for 4.49,
and on Link's side is Wetzel's Pretzels fresh lemonade
for 5.19. - Okay.
- And which one did we?
Which one tweeted that our lemonade
tastes like lemonade? - I don't wanna know.
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know,
I don't want that to influence me.
- Wetzel.
(crew laughs)
- That's solid lemonade.
- No, it's liquid lemonade.
If it were solid, that would be like,
I don't know.
- A lemon pop. - A lemon bar.
- Okay, I don't find myself wanting anything else.
- Yeah I'm like, I've found lemonade,
I'm gonna stop my search for lemonade.
- Right.
- But look at this, I've found some more lemonade.
At least I think- - Whoa!
- That's what it is.
- Okay, vastly different.
Way less sweet.
It tastes like metal.
- Even the lemony part. - It doesn't taste like metal.
It just tastes like really, really, it's super strong.
- It's wild, it's weird, it's not wonderful.
- It's not coming together for me.
- Especially when you go back to this.
Shoot myself, I just- - Oh, man.
- I just lemoned my crotch.
- Well, you know what? - I'm gonna-
- There are worse things. - I'm gonna have to change
before the wedding.
- (laughs) There are worse things to do.
Okay.
- Man that, this is so weird!
- Keep in mind we're doing this on a scale of one to five,
because we don't think that lemonade
should be the deciding factor for this.
But I'm gonna tell you- - Okay, yeah.
- Right now. - That's good.
- Auntie Anne's is about to make up some ground in my book,
because I think this is- - A five.
- This is a five.
I can't think of lemonade being better.
And I think that,
I don't wanna go all the way to one,
I do kinda wanna go all the way to one,
but I'm gonna go to two for Wetzel's.
What did you do for this?
- A five. - A five as well, okay.
- And then relative to that,
I mean, a one would almost be undrinkable.
I can still drink all of this,
but I couldn't tell you what I was drinking.
- It's just drinkable.
- So I'm gonna give it a two, as well.
(upbeat rock music)
Now we come down to the most ubiquitous pretzel question.
- Oh, he's being led in.
- I can't see her in the dress.
- Oh. - Oh okay, got it.
Well, don't get your hopes up. (laughs)
- We're talking about the-
(crew laughs)
- Okay. - Where do I go?
- [Stevie] Um, okay.
On Rhett's side is Auntie Anne's original pretzel for 4.99,
and on Link's side is Wetzel's Pretzels original pretzel
with butter and salt for 4.69.
- We're down to just the butter and salt.
- Okay, I mean.
And this is what most people I would think,
would order off of these menus, right?
This is the classic salted pretzel.
Again, this one's a little bit more cooked,
but does that mean much?
- It looks like it's cooked to the right place,
as a pretzel.
- Mm, that's very, very well balanced.
It's doughy, it's salty, it's buttery.
- All the stuff that we've eaten before,
this was- - Maybe a distraction?
- I guess it makes sense that they would sell other stuff,
but now we're back, we're back to the-
- The classic.
- [Link] The chewy, salty core
of why we got into this game, Rhett.
- Mm hmm, this is why we do what we do, man.
- [Link] Mm hmm, okay.
Very good.
- All right.
- And I'm going from the same place in this one.
Same granulation of salt, same distribution of butter.
- But is it as buttery tasting?
- Nice and chewy Wetzel.
- You know the pretzel, how pretzels have that slight,
there's slight acidity almost in like a rye type thing?
I'm getting more of that- - From Annie?
- Mm hmm. - Mm hmm.
- Now that there's, Annie is just naked.
Once Annie got naked,
I was able to appreciate everything about her.
- I really like the Wetzel,
but I like it because it's salted, buttered bread.
But you're right-
- It doesn't have a pretzel taste.
- It doesn't have that, that pretzel thing that...
You know, if you eat a bag of like,
super crunchy little snack pretzels,
and you get nothing but that pretzel taste,
I'm only get that from here.
- The more I go back and forth,
the better this one gets.
The saltier, and the more pretzely it gets.
- This one doesn't get worse, it just stays the same.
- That's a nine.
That's a really, really solid salted pretzel.
- I'll give it a 10.
I mean, I'm not gonna hold back.
- You're giving it a 10?
- I've never eaten a better pretzel.
- Well, let me show you around. (laughs)
(crew laughs)
- I mean, you don't know.
This is it, man.
- Okay, now I wanna be clear,
this is not a bad pretzel. - No.
- I'm having a good time in my mouth.
- I'm gonna give it maybe even an eight.
- I'm gonna give it- - It's still great.
- I'm gonna give it a seven.
(bell dings)
I'm not gonna go all the way to eight,
I'm gonna give it a seven.
- I stand by where we are, all right.
So the results are already in- - Whoa!
- Ladies and gentlemen. - This is super close!
- Wetzel's Pretzels at 68.
Barely inched out with a magic 69,
Auntie Anne's!
- Okay. - Coming out with the win!
- All right, Danny Gonzalez.
You were right, they are.
Not hands down. - By the skin of your teeth,
Danny!
- By the one piece of salt on a pretzel, you were right.
Auntie Anne's is the superior pretzel.
- I don't, I don't.
Danny, I don't know if your assertiveness in that tweet is-
- Warranted? - Is warranted.
- You looking for that word?
- Warranted, that's the word. - Yeah, that was the word
he was looking for. - But we.
But we do barely agree with you.
- Yeah, yeah.
We don't aggressively agree with you,
but we barely agree with you.
- Auntie Anne's, the tippity top twist!
- You guys okay back there?
- Yeah, we're just really stressed out.
Can we go, we're late.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, get to it.
- Did I win? - Did you...
I don't know.
- Yeah, you did actually- - You dropped something.
Jesus. - Yeah, you won.
Congratulations. - Thanks.
I'm very excited, thanks.
- No, no, you didn't.
You lost.
(crew laughs)
- Well, we gotta figure out what we're wearing
to the wedding.
- Does it really matter?
- Go to mythicalsociety.com to watch the wedding
once it's posted today, okay?
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