- Happy holidays from the dinner table of history.
Let's talk about that.
(gentle upbeat music)
Good Mythical Morning!
- We're about to shuffle through time
to see how well we know our iconic holiday foods.
- And a portion of today's episode is sponsored by Honey,
but more on that a little later.
- The holiday season, getting us all excited for presents
and family visits, in that order.
- (laughing) Yeah.
- But the best holiday traditions come in the form of food.
- Cheese balls, sausage balls,
chocolate covered peanut butter balls.
Bring on the balls, y'all!
- I love a good Christmas ball,
but we gotta get our minds off the balls.
- Done.
- And onto the pucks because we're about to shuffle our way
through holiday food history.
It's time for the shuffleboard game, holiday food edition.
- Welcome to the happy holiday shuffleboard game zone!
- Yeah, in each round, we're gonna be given
a beloved holiday food and we gotta guess
when that food became a holiday tradition
by shuffling our pucks to the corresponding time period
down there in the triangular area.
- Time period.
Yeah, that's a time period.
- And look down there in the triangle area.
You will notice that it ain't decades.
We're talking-
- [Both] Centuries.
- Whoever's closest to the correct century wins the round.
Bump fest rules are still in effect, but hey, news flash!
For the first time ever, there may be a repeated century
on the board, which makes me think
that there will be a repeated century on the board.
- I do not like this.
- Usually there are not, but we wanted to make this
even more complicated than it already is.
- I don't like that.
The winner's gonna get their own personal blessing
from tiny Chase.
- Really? Okay.
(gentle jazz music)
Look at the size of this cloche.
- Good God!
- We actually stole this cloche from Smosh.
- From one of their grills?
- Do not tell them, okay?
- Look like a grill top.
(cloche ringing)
(mimicking reverberation) It's a gingerbread house
from Christmas celebrations of old!
(crew laughing)
It says it on here, Christmas.
Oh, okay. There you go.
You're just gonna give it a nice little- (grunting)
And then this.
- Does that make whoever made it feel bad?
Nicole, that makes you feel bad?
- [Nicole] Yes. - Sorry, Nicole.
- Why does it taste like hot glue?
- [Nicole] I don't know about that.
- All right, Rhett, you wanted the Taco Bell shuffle,
so you have to go first, which is a disadvantage.
Happy Christmas.
- Listen, you know me.
I love everything.
Easy to please.
I actively dislike gingerbread houses.
- Oh, yeah, there we go.
- Okay?
You found something that Rhett-ster doesn't like.
- Welcome to my world.
Gingerbread houses.
Nothing about them do I like.
Name something about a gingerbread house, Link.
- You have to work with children.
- Don't like that!
- You have to make it structurally sound.
- Don't like that!
- It tastes like gingerbread house.
- Definitely don't like that.
- [Link] Yeah.
- So when did they come up with this stupid idea?
- We're really getting in the spirit of the season,
aren't we? (laughing)
- I almost took Gingerbread History in college
as an elective, but I decided not to
because I hate gingerbread houses,
but I think this might be something that happened.
You gotta make gingerbread and then you gotta realize
you can build with it.
- I think they happened the same day, probably.
- (laughing) You think the day you come up with gingerbread,
you realize you can build a house with it?
No way, my friend,
No, no way.
I think this is 1800, which puts me safely
in bump fest proof placement. (laughing)
Okay.
- [Link] That's a little light, my friend.
- (laughing) Okay, well hopefully it's-
- You did not calibrate.
- It also hit something in year 1300 and just stopped.
- You know what?
I'm gonna do you a flavor here
because I think 1800 is wrong.
I think this is much earlier than that,
so I'm going to bump you in this bump fest to 1800,
just to get you the heck out of here.
You get what you want and I get what I want,
which is the right answer, which you may be on currently.
- I do like icing and that's why I just say that bite,
just in case you're wondering.
- Icing was pretty good on that.
I'm about to hit your snowman from the backside.
1800 it is for you, Rhett.
Come on, don't come back!
- Oh, thank you.
What'd you put me on?
You put me on 1200.
- I gave you a better placement than you even wanted.
- [Rhett] Yeah.
- You're welcome.
Oh, gosh!
- Stevie, what's the right answer?
(cloche dinging)
- [Stevie] While an early form of gingerbread
can be traced back to the times of ancient Greeks
and Egyptians, the iconic gingerbread house
became widely popularized and associated with Christmas,
thanks to the story of Hansel and Gretel
by the Brothers Grimm in the 1800s.
(Rhett laughing)
- Boo!
How can you be so right? - Yeah, buddy!
Yeah, yeah, Hansel and Gretel up in there!
Yeah.
- Hansel and Gretel is not a Christmas tale.
- It is now.
- You're welcome.
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- [Rhett] Oh, we get to holiday foods.
- Yeah!
Well, they're both latkes.
- [Stevie] Yeah, so the latkes closer to Link,
those are present day latkes.
They're made with potatoes
and the latkes that are closer to Rhett,
those are the OG latkes
that are made with fried ricotta cheese.
- Oh, goodness. - Dang, that one's good.
- [Stevie] So you're guessing
when the original latkes were invented.
- I thought I loved that tater latke
until I had the ricotta latke.
- [Rhett] This is the tater latke.
- [Link] Oh, it is?
(crew laughing)
- [Rhett] This is the ricotta latke.
- Oh, well I like the tater one.
- I like them both, man.
Dang! That's some good stuff! - Stack them.
Stack them, man.
- Man.
- Aren't you taking the early lead?
- Now.
- [Link] So you gotta go first.
- I've never studied Jewish history,
but I have hung out with Stevie quite a bit.
- [Stevie] Hey.
- She smells of the latke.
- [Stevie] L'Chaim!
- (laughing) And I asked her lots of questions
about Jewish heritage and Jewish eating customs
and stuff like that and most of the time,
she's just like, do we have to talk about this?
- I'm more than just that.
More than just Jewish. - Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah.
Is this all I am to you,
is just a source of Jewish knowledge?
- Well, does that mean you know the answer?
- No, because we haven't talked about this specific thing.
The only thing I know about Jewish breads
is the unleavened bread from when they had to,
they didn't have time to let it rise
when they had to leave Egypt.
- Yeah.
- And that was way before any of these decades.
- Centuries, you mean, but yes.
- Okay. Maybe about 1500.
- He's going for 1500. It's a big slot.
- Whoa, I'm safely in the year 2000,
which is a almost assuredly not correct.
- Yeah, I like the fact you're on something that's wrong.
Definitely, but you're surrounded by 1500, 1200, 1600.
I could do the reverse bump and get you out of there.
- The first bump's risky, though.
You've had trouble with that in the past.
- This one could definitely go way back
to the earliest slot 1200 on the board,
but then 1300 is on this side.
I've really gotta try to reverse bump you back
while taking control of this board.
- [Rhett] Be careful.
- My answer officially is 1200,
as early as we can go on this board.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- Let me give a nice little bank off the bat
and then bump you towards me.
(Rhett laughing)
- You've had trouble with the reverse bump.
You haven't quite gotten the angles yet.
- That's really unsatisfying for the viewers.
I think they're thinking,
you should give them another chance.
- Okay, well, what do I get? - Okay, that's fair.
- If I give thou this, what do me get?
(crew laughing)
- All right, then any time into the future,
you get one redo at your discretion
without any input from me.
- Not just a missed reverse bump redo?
- I'm desperate.
- If thou grants thou opponent a mulligan.
- A sympathy mulligan.
- Sympathy mulligan, thou receives an automatic mulligan.
- Anytime into the future perpetuity.
Are you good with this?
That's generous, man.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm good with it.
- I just feel so bad.
- [Rhett] Proceed.
- I'm gonna do the exact same thing,
except the way I wanted to do it the first time.
- Okay.
(Link grunting)
There we go.
Now I've done it. Thank you for your sympathy mulligan.
- Okay, but I'm holding on to that mulligan hard!
- You still have a chance of winning.
I don't know how, but.
- No, I don't.
- [Stevie] A rabbi in Italy
named Rabbi Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, maybe,
introduced the fried ricotta cheese pancakes
to the Jews of Northern Italy and quickly turned latkas
into a holiday tradition in the 1300s.
- Oh, wow.
- I was right, so that kinda redeemed my double.
- Well, you said 1200.
- Oh, I did?
(crew laughing)
- But 1300 is close to 1200.
- I get the point and I'm not proud of it.
- Yeah.
(gentle jazz music)
- Eggnog!
It's Christmas time in my tummy.
- I love the idea of eggnog more than the taste of it.
I actually love the taste more than the idea,
but not much more.
- Well, we should hang out more often.
- How's that even possible?
(Rhett laughing)
- Yeah. Great question.
(both laughing)
- It's gonna have to get really weird.
So I won the last round. Does that mean I go first?
No because we're tied now and that goes back.
It reverts back to who won the last game.
- I love it.
- So it's me again, Margaret, for you Ray Stevens fans.
- (laughing) Thank you. That was for me.
- Oh, man. That was only for you.
- Just for me.
- My mom went to high school with Ray Stevens.
- I know this. - [Rhett] Okay.
- No one else cares. Just play the game.
- So I have a mulligan, which makes me feel warm inside,
just like that egg nog, which has no rum in it.
Man.
Eggnog needs to be refrigerated.
- Or just consumed immediately.
- Or consumed immediately.
Because they'd been drinking milk.
- Ever since cows popped out teets.
- I don't know.
I think this might be 1700 and I don't really have anything
besides just cosmic intuition to go on.
- That's a nice little traverse there.
Yeah, put it.
I don't, what is the nog part of eggnog?
- Mayonnaise?
- Yeah, definitely.
It's mayonnaise.
- I don't know what the nog is.
- This is a bump fest.
I can reverse you again, but my track record is 50-50 today.
- Yeah, you've used your mulligan.
- 1700 seems late to me. 1800 was a gingerbread house.
I think eggnog came before a gingerbread house,
so I'm kinda agreeing with 1700.
I'm not gonna try to get you out of there,
but I'm gonna try to get on the other side of you.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- My official answer is 1600.
- Whoa.
- [Link] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
No!
- That was interesting.
Now the only way you can win is if it's 1300.
- [Stevie] Eggnog is a frothy concoction
of eggs, milk, and sugar.
Eggnog originated in Europe,
but after making its way to the American colonies,
it became a popular holiday drink in the 1700s.
- Yay!
- Good work, Rhett. Good work.
You won no matter what, I think, but yeah.
- Well, I mean, hey.
- You're right.
- Let's have some eggnog.
(gentle jazz music)
(cloche dinging)
- Oh, we got some dressing.
They call it stuffing at Thanksgiving
and it goes in a turkey.
- Man, I love it.
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it.
- Ain't nothing wrong with a little stuff in mine.
- And you put stuff in mine?
- I don't know.
I don't know what that means.
- Oh, the stuffing mime's here. Everybody quiet.
- It's like breadcrumbs.
It's like spicy breadcrumbs.
Spiced breadcrumbs. Not spicy.
- I'm afraid if I do too much thinking out loud here,
I'm gonna give you the answer, so I'm not gonna.
You know what? I love stuffing.
I call it dressing.
I have an idea of when it originated,
but I'm gonna keep it to myself
and let my puck speak from my answer.
- All right, I'm looking at his eyes
to see what he's aiming for.
I think he could have been aiming for 1400,
but he stopped at 1500.
This is such a turkey shoot.
It's akin to a crap shoot when you know even less.
With these centuries, man.
When did they first dice up bread
and shove it into a turkey?
This is post turkey era.
- The turkey era.
- It's gonna be tough to bump you out of there,
but I've gotta try it.
- This is so good.
- I have no clue.
Once you take the stuff you don't wanna eat out of a turkey,
it's just invited to be stuffed.
It's like the moment they started prepping turkey,
they probably started stuffing turkey.
- I'm glad I didn't do my thinking out loud.
- I'm gonna guess 1400,
which is gonna obligate me to get past you.
What are you on? It's covered up.
- 1500.
I don't like the idea of you being there.
I'm going for a reverse bump out again because I have to.
Here we go.
Has Link learned his lessons?
Nice! - [Rhett] Oh, nice.
- Now, I've figured it out.
- The reason I didn't think out loud
is because this has to be post Thanksgiving
because it's a Thanksgiving tradition
and Thanksgiving started in like-
- Oh, Thanksgiving.
- I was thinking he probably won't pick-
- It's an American holiday.
- He won't pick up on this.
(crew laughing)
And I think Thanksgiving happened in the 1500s.
- [Stevie] The first Thanksgiving feast, back in 1621,
fowls such as turkeys were stuffed
with herbs, onions, and nuts, but only to flavor the meat.
This stuffing left the animal cavities
and became a Thanksgiving side dish
unto itself in the 1800s.
- Okay.
- I'll take that point, but man,
I'm not proud of my showing today.
- Yeah, I'm not either.
(gentle jazz music)
- And here we have donuts?
Oh. (stammering)
- Sufganiyot.
(Link stammering)
(crew laughing)
(Rhett stammering)
- Stevie, how do you say this? - [Stevie] It's sufganiyot.
- [Both] Sufganiyot.
- So it's a-
- You all got this from a donut store.
I can tell.
- So we've got a raspberry filled donut.
- [Stevie] Jelly filled donut.
- You call it a sufganiyot.
- It's good.
Okay.
- We're tied.
- And it's a bump fest.
But you can't bump- - In the final round.
- In the last round of a bump fest.
- And because I lost the previous game.
- You get the advantage. - Of going first.
- Which means going first. - Yes.
- So you go first.
- Because you can't bump me, I get to box you out
of whatever I assess to be the right answer.
- But I have a mulligan.
Don't forget about that, Sullivan.
- You ain't got to use it today.
- I don't have to, but I might.
- Okay, let's see.
The last time we were talking about Hanukkah and latkes,
I believe the answer was 1600.
I think these, once you start filling stuff,
like that's more advanced than making a latke,
so it's definitely later than 1600.
So we're at least 1700. 1800's way back there.
They've spread it out so I can't be strategic.
I have to be assertive.
So I'm gonna try to nestle in my answer of 1700,
but on the side that makes it harder
for you to get everything beyond it and 1800.
- Wow.
This is advanced techniques.
- I can tell you're sweating my technique.
Oh, a little light and a little to the right,
but I'm okay with that because it makes your life difficult.
You can't touch me, graze me at all
because that's considered a bump.
Again, not pretty, but I gotta do what I gotta do.
- I was thinking, as well, that 1700 was a very good guess.
I could also see 1600, even though it's been guessed
because that was the year that the Jews really started
experimenting with bread products.
I'm gonna try to just basically get past you
and the saving grace here is not too much pressure
on this one because I get two,
if I'm not happy with my first one.
- Oh, man.
That's nice, man.
I gotta hand it to you,
unless I'm lucky on the point of 1900.
- [Stevie] While jelly donuts weren't around
during the original Hanukkah, the tradition of fried foods,
especially fried balls of dough, evolved over time
in Jewish cultures around the world.
The jelly-filled sufganiyot came to be
as Jewish people fled from Europe to the Middle East
and mingled their recipes together,
creating this iconic Hanukkah dish in the early-
- [Stevie And Rhett] 1900s.
- Dang it, Link!
- Again, not pretty at all, but I will take this win gladly
and unapologetically.
- I couldn't have won no matter what.
- Yeah, baby.
- Link, you receive a blessing from tiny Chase.
- Oh, come on in, tiny Chase.
- It's so warm.
God bless you, everyone, except for you.
God bless you, though.
Not you.
- I didn't know I specifically got a non-bless you.
- Yeah, it's more of an insult.
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