- Uh, could you pass the popcorn and mayonnaise?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat intro music plays)
- Good Mythical Morning!
- Today we innovate with popcorn coatings.
Question.
- Okay.
- Does popcorn taste better during a scary movie,
a romantic movie, or an action movie?
- It doesn't change the taste,
it just changes the speed at which you eat.
You know?
- Mmm (affirmative).
- Scary and action is fast-
- Romantic is like... - But romantic is...
Slow and sexy, and you use a lot of tongue.
- Okay.
Well, we should pretend
we are not watching a romantic movie-
- Okay.
- As we eat today.
- I'm okay with that.
- Because we gotta get through this.
Since we've been watching so many movies at home these days,
we got to wondering,
what if butter never existed?
What will we put on our popcorn?
Or even a step further,
is there something even better than butter for popcorn?
It's time for...
(orchestra strikes chord)
Next Best Thing: Popcorn Edition.
- Okay, the popcorn that we're going to be tasting
will be salted but un-buttered.
And we're not going to be trying coatings
that are already commonly served on popcorn
like caramel, chocolate, cheese.
- Boring.
- And we're dealing with coatings, not toppings.
You might be like
"What's the difference between a coating and a topping?"
- "Yeah!"
- Well, a topping is something you put on top
and it kinda stays on top, it's like a mix in.
But a coating is something that's more liquid based,
that will actually coat multiple kernels.
- Yeah but before we try the un-buttered,
we should try the buttered just to be reminded-
- Yeah, classic.
- Of what the classic is like.
- I mean, it's good.
- This is very good.
There's a good reason why this happens a lot.
- Can we do better?
- Well, and even if we can't,
the next best thing is going to be exciting.
- Right.
- So now that we know, let's move this off,
and let's get going into uncharted territory.
(orchestra strikes chord)
First off, the French enjoy fries with mayo,
so maybe the natural evolution is to Cinco some Mayo
into our popcorn bucket. - Mmm (affirmative).
Cinco, that's French.
- [Link] Or Maybe drizzle.
- [Rhett] Cinco. When you look at-
- [Link] The mayo's already drizzled on here.
- [Rhett] Mayonnaise out in the wild just on some popcorn,
you're like "Man, it's a lot more yellow than I remember."
- Yeah, especially against the white popcorn. So that's-
- I mean this could just be a snot rocket
that somebody just blew all over it.
- Yeah, that's a demerit.
- Is that appetizing? - I would say.
Oh yeah.
- I want to give this thing a fine chance.
- Wooh. That's tangy.
- I'm kind of resisting the urge to really-
- [Link] Yeah.
- Dig in because it's going to get super messy
but I do like the taste.
- That is another demerit, it's kinda messy.
- Not super functional but- - [Link] You've got a...
- Very flavorful.
- I like the taste.
Not too much on there. - [Rhett] Regardless.
- But you gotta dodge it with your hands.
- We gotta put it on the podium
because now it's just to see is it going to be usurped.
- Probably.
(orchestra strikes chord)
- All right, we're doing something
that's dedicated to our upstairs neighbor, Canada.
You're not salty out there.
(imitates pouring sound)
You're just so sweet,
they're all so nice.
- Yes.
- So sweet.
And that's why they like maple syrup,
and that's what we put on this popcorn.
That was how I was going to get to maple syrup.
I just got there.
Oh, that's good.
Oh.
- [Link] Now when I eat popcorn-
- [Rhett] Oh.
- I like to put a piece in my mouth
and just let it melt.
- Well that takes a while
because popcorn doesn't technically melt.
- It does melt.
- Not completely though, eventually you gotta chew it.
- This is good, I mean,
there's nothing surprising about it.
It's kind of like a sweet corn.
- But, maple syrup has it's own distinct,
sort of sweet flavor.
- It does.
- This has super mass appeal.
And people don't mind their fingers getting sticky.
Your fingers getting slimy with mayonnaise
is different than your fingers getting sticky with sugar.
- I want to stick up for the mayo for a second
because, one, they put it in 100% recycled plastic,
boy I hope they wash that first.
That's what I think about when I read that.
But, it's good for the environment.
- I'll give you a second to get on your soapbox,
and then we'll put maple syrup up here in a second.
- It's tangy.
([VOICE] laughs)
- Okay. Next Best Thing.
(orchestra strikes chord)
And now we're to pickle juice on popcorn.
But hey, you might have noticed
that our Mythical Mugs have been replaced
by these plastic Mythical cups, which come in four colors,
available in a variety pack at Mythical.com
But they're special.
- They're color changing Mythicups.
That means when you've got room temperature water in there
or a liquid, they just sort of stay the same.
But if you take some ice cold, in this case, pickle juice,
and pour it in...
- Oh yeah.
Look at that.
Now, pickle juice isn't purple.
That's the cup's magic.
- And look what happens to the greeny.
- The green turns a dark blue over time.
(sings "magic")
Okay, there are people who enjoy
dry, pickle flavored seasoning on their popcorn.
- Yup.
- But we're going to push the pickle here and go wet.
And there is popcorn down in here.
- And originally this was over flowing we were told
but the pickle juice sort of collapsed it.
So that is a factor.
If you really want your popcorn to be big and bold...
- Wow.
Well, at first it's a lot of pickle and a soggy popcorn.
But then once you get passed that-
- I like the taste, because I'm a pickle man.
- The taste is good.
- It's too liquidy for the popcorn to really stand it.
It's like what happens
when you put one of those popcorn kernels in your mouth
and just let it sit and melt.
- Yeah, it's just... It's not doing it.
- It's a great flavor profile.
- You can't have a...
I don't think you can have a soggy popcorn.
Um, so even though it wants to get in on the action.
- That's not how it works.
- It's not going to happen.
- Maple syrup reigns supreme.
(orchestra strikes chord)
All right, now it's time to get very colorful
with some rainbow "sher-bit".
Never really know how to say the last part of that.
I'm going with "sher-bert" because that's what we said-
- "Sher-bert."
- That's just like Q*bert, you remember Q*bert?
- You had a Q*bert lunchbox.
- I did, and that's why I said "sher-bert",
sometimes I put some "sher-bert" in my Q*bert lunchbox.
- Had you ever played Q*bert when you had the lunchbox?
- I beat Q*bert multiple times.
- Do you remember picking out that lunchbox?
- No, my parents, they made all the choices for me.
- They just bring it home.
- It was like, get home, oh, Q*bert.
- When I saw-
- I can make myself like that. (laughs)
- Q*bert, I didn't know what it was.
I had never seen it, I had never played it,
and I've still never played it.
- Well, he's a two-footed circular guy
with a vacuum nose, with one nostril.
- [Link] Oh gosh. I poured this-
- And he's gotta get up a pyramid
because of course that's what he's gotta do.
- I poured this out and something flew out of it.
It was black, and it had wings.
- Are you joking?
- Uh-uh (negative).
([VOICE] laughs)
- Can we get that on replay?
- At least it flew out.
(beep)
(fly buzzes)
(voice slowed down)
(beep beep)
I was hoping for a little bit more color.
That's a little disappointing.
Kind of like playing Q*bert for the first time.
I mean it can't be that exciting.
- Don't trash Q*bert, man.
I'll put together a virtual console for you.
- Do it.
- And blow your mind.
- Do it.
- Um, this has...
- A nice taste.
- You remember the incident with the Starburst popcorn?
(chimes strike)
I hate the person who came up with this.
You know, I don't really hate her, you know.
I hate her popcorn, and this makes me think of her.
([VOICE] laughs)
I mean, sorry,
this makes me think of her popcorn that I don't like.
- But not her?
- I'm really having a difficult time-
- You said her.
- You know, when you create something,
you've got to hold it loosely.
You've got to hold it to the side.
Because when people begin to throw daggers at your creation,
if you're holding it tightly right in front of yourself
it's going to hit you
and you're feelings are going to be hurt.
- Fatal blow.
- So don't take it personally
when something you create sucks.
Trust me, we've done it many times.
([VOICE] laughs)
- I think Josh has done it more than we have.
(laughs)
- So you put it there.
I like the way you put it there
just to see how that makes you feel.
- Yeah, it doesn't make me feel great.
We got the-
- How it looks doesn't make a difference to me.
It's how it tastes.
- We got the soggy problem,
and we got a sweetness that is still surpassed
by the next best thing in maple syrup.
(orchestra strikes chord)
These are black sesame seeds
which turn into black sesame paste,
which is a very versatile ingredient in many things
that Josh can tell us about.
(laughs)
So, we decided to stretch the application
to include popcorn.
Now how did you go from the seeds to what's on here?
It kinda has a charcoal type sensation.
- [VOICE] Yeah, so we just toasted them up
to release the oils in a pan
and then pounded them into Mortar and Pestle
with a little bit of honey.
Super big in Cantonese cuisine you can find-
- It's peanut buttery.
- [VOICE] Yeah, and it's a seed. It's a-
- Hold on.
- [VOICE] Ish.
- This is good.
- [VOICE] Oh yeah.
- And not only does it taste good,
it doesn't change the shape of the popcorn,
it stays big and fluffy,
and the fact that it makes it kinda black...
- Dirty. Dirty corn.
- Now you got something you can sell.
Have you had the black popcorn?
- You want to watch a dirty movie?
Well, you need some dirty corn to eat with it.
- You think this is for dirty movies?
- [Link] Yeah.
([VOICE] laughs)
This is fun.
There's a sweetness to it.
I mean...
- This is so good.
- If I was blind folded I would have said
"You friggin' got like a nut butter situation."
- Well, that's kind of what it is.
- Yeah, this is is definitely-
- This is something new, this is something to talk about.
- It's topplin' the...
(makes pitch bending sound effect)
- It's topplin' the maple syrup.
Take that, Canada.
(orchestra strikes chord)
- Okay, we've heard tale
(laughs)
that people in South America
use condensed milk in all kinds of dishes.
And then we've also heard tale
that Stevie has a friend from Brazil,
which, news flash, I didn't even know that.
And this friend loves to put condensed milk on her popcorn.
Stevie, is this true?
- [Stevie] It's true,
and boy is she going to love this shout out.
(laughs)
- So let's see if they know something we don't.
- Condensed milk, very sweet, 'little milky.
But not too milky.
It's not too liquified.
So, it's making the edges of the popcorn soggy,
but the majority of any kernel is still-
- Intact. - Un-soggy, yeah.
- This is a contender, friend.
Hey, tell your friend, this is a contender.
- It's that sweet and salty works-
- What's her name?
- [Stevie] Nada, you know Nada.
- Oh, Nada. - Oh, Nada.
It works better than the maple syrup
so I definitely think
this will be knocking off the maple syrup.
I don't yet know
if it's going to knock off the sesame seeds.
Um-
- Some people are going to be turned off
by the black sesame paste, 'cause it's pretty strong, right?
- But it's fun looking.
- It looks better.
It looks interesting, potentially dangerous.
And it's not gooey, it doesn't...
- You wanna push on that?
You wanna push back?
- That's not a game that I'm interested in playing
because the playing with them like toys
on the top of the podium
just seems like it's going to throw my judgment off
a little bit.
([VOICE] laughs)
Please don't knock it off.
I'm not participating, but please don't knock it off.
- Well, I don't want to knock it off, I just...
I'm going to need your help here.
You don't have to play with it.
- I'm not going to play with it.
I mean-
- Like, you won't even touch it?
- No.
- You won't even push it?
- Vroom. What if I make noises?
- If you quit playing with it-
- Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom.
I'll grab it and put it back in the middle.
If you knock it off it's going to hit the ground.
I mean, at least it's plastic,
but seeds could go everywhere.
(container hits the floor)
- And what about this one?
This is going to go off too.
Come on, play with me.
Ah!
- Sesame seeds!
- It barely stays. - Still the best!
(orchestra strikes chord)
- Stakes are high, and they're about to get stake-ier
because we've got some A.1. Sauce for this final round.
My wife...
([VOICE] laughs)
I look away for one moment, we're eating a steak,
she just slathered it with this stuff.
I blame it on her dad, really.
I mean, it's, you know, I married her, not her dad.
So uh-
- Yeah.
- I can talk trash about him when he's not around.
Your dad raised you wrong.
You don't slather steak in this stuff,
you slather popcorn in it, girl!
- Well, you put it on bad steaks.
So you must be making some bad steaks at your house.
Is that what's happening?
- No!
- Oh, okay, well-
- I'm making good steaks.
- All right, that was pretty defensive.
- Her dad.
Her dad's the one making bad steaks.
- You put that...
If you like a steak well done
you could put anything on it at that point.
- You need too.
- Right.
I like it, 'cause it's even more salty.
- Boy, this is...
Yeah.
I mean, do we need more salt?
- You gotta keep your blood pressure up these days.
Listen, like when I think about, like,
my water pressure at home, or I think about
like, the pressure in like a fire hydrant,
not that we would know anything about that around here.
- Okay.
- Um, I want the pressure to be strong!
I don't want to tap into my tap, and have it not come out.
When you tap into me,
I want the blood to just hit you in the eye.
You know?
High blood pressure feels like a good thing.
([VOICE] laughs)
That's what I've always said.
Could I add that to WebMD?
- As long as you site a medical source.
- In his own personal study of fire hydrants
he has come to the conclusion
that high blood pressure is a good thing.
So, I'm saying this is great.
That's what I'm saying.
- With a lighter drizzle,
I might be a little bit more excited but-
- Maybe an A.1. Steak Sauce flavored powder would be good.
Do they make that?
A.1. powder?
I could probably make it.
- Pour it on your roof and then-
- [Rhett] And wait.
- Wait and then-
- And chip it off.
- As easy as this is to do,
and we need to get rid of this stuff at my house,
it's not the next best thing to sesame seed.
You know, so sesame seed stays in the number one,
but if you want a sweet option
I'm still going to recommend that condensed milk.
I'ma put it way back here
just so you don't forget about it.
- And Josh, you didn't get the sesame paste like...
You don't have to make it fresh, right?
You can get it made, right?
(makes negative buzzer sound)
- [VOICE] Yeah,
but I like to put in the extra effort for you.
- Thank you for doing that. - You know, I appreciate that.
- Dirty popcorn takes the day y'all.
Try it out and thank us on Twitter.
- Yeah, thank us.
- #GMM
- We're asking you to thank us now now.
([VOICE] laughs)
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- You know what time it is.
- Hey, it's Jeremy from Ontario, Canada,
rediscovering some trails from my youth.
And it's time to spin the wheel of Mythicality.
- Oh! - Oh gosh.
- I don't know...
- Did he eat it?
([VOICE] laughs)
- It looked like he was about to lose it.
I was expecting like, a bear.
You know, you watch those people doing the bike videos,
and there's always a bear.
- Or a moose up there.
- Moose, bear, tree.
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