- Got milk? We don't.
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- I'm currently adding milk to this cereal.
- Oh, that's nice. - It's kind of my thing
but it's also what you're supposed to do.
But is it what's best to do?
- Okay, a little while ago,
Reddit user DubitablyIndubitable
set the internet aflame with this post.
Eating cereal with water is better than with milk.
I am a true believer that cereal with water is better.
- [Link] What? - [Rhett] The taste of milk
conflicts with the taste of the cereal--
- [Link] What? - Whereas water does not.
While still getting the same texture,
water does not ruin the taste of cereal.
My friends crucified me, strong words,
when I told them this,
so, for this reason, I am coming here in search of others
who share my beliefs of water being better than milk.
- This is very suspicious but it did get us thinking,
if milk and all of its milk alternatives didn't exist,
what would we put in our cereal?
And what if there's something out there
that's better than milk that nobody knows about?
That's what we aim to find out today.
It's time for Next Best Thing, cereal edition.
Okay so, we're gonna be trying a bunch of
non-milk and non-dairy drinks with our cereal,
and the cereal we've chosen is Honey Nut Cheerios
because it's a good baseline cereal.
- And I'm tasting here,
just Honey Nut Cheerios and milk to remind myself
how good cereal with milk is.
And let me tell you, boys and girls,
it's really, really good.
- Gonna be hard to top.
(light music)
- Okay, we can't do this without at least testing
DubitablyIndubitable's claim,
so, we'll start with water.
- Okay, and you know what, this is kind of my thing,
so, I can do the pouring.
- No, pouring milk is your thing,
you can't just--
- Pouring things is not a thing?
- You can't just be the pourer of all things.
- Well, pouring things is not a thing, you're right.
But pouring milk is my thing.
- Yeah.
- [Link] And, I mean-- - [Rhett] It's not appetizing.
- You don't do this unless you don't like milk, right?
So, Indubitably is making these other arguments,
but what Indubitably didn't come out and say was,
"I just don't like milk."
(both crunching cereal)
That's strange.
- Well, it's funny because my water even tastes--
- The water tastes funny 'cause you think
it's gonna be thicker and milky.
- When you get the water in the spoon,
a lot of water in the spoon,
it's an immediate turnoff.
But when I let-- - Just a little bit.
- When I let the water trickle off
and it's just wet cereal.
- It's not-- - And then it's just Cheerios.
- It's not that much different.
Now, we've got this podium here
which is gonna be the home for the next best thing
and okay, we'll go ahead and put
the water up here for starters.
- Not better than milk though.
(light music)
- When time is limited,
I am not above sipping on my coffee
and (coughs)-- - Are you okay?
- I got some Cheerios (coughs)--
- Put your arms up, put your arms up.
- Now what?
Pour some cold brew and then eat my cereal
but I've never poured the coffee--
- You've confused yourself. - [Link] Into--
- Eat my cereal, eat my coffee, drink my cereal.
- Now, again, this is just pouring cold brew.
- Yeah, if we get to milk again, you can pour it.
- Now, that is a wicked looking bowl.
Now, cold brew is a strong--
- [Rhett] Very strong.
- Strong sensation.
- This'll send you to the restroom.
(both crunching on cereal)
- Mm, woo.
- Okay.
Whereas the water did not interfere at all,
with the taste of the Cheerios,
the coffee is--
- [Link] I mean, you got that bitterness.
- It's there.
- It's like eating crunchy coffee
with sugar but no cream.
I like cream in my coffee--
- You wanna put milk in this.
- Yeah, and then all of a sudden, this might be fun.
- I think the thing that we're searching for,
the thing that we're searching for that water does not do is
there is a complementary nature of cereal and milk,
that's why they go together.
We're not trying to see if this is better than milk,
we're trying to see, is it better than water.
And I think that this clashes
whereas the water is at least neutral.
I don't think it can usurp the water.
- And as you pointed out,
you might get into dangerous territory
in drinking a whole bunch of cold brew,
like a whole bowl full of it.
- Yeah, it loosens the bowels up.
- So, we're gonna leave water up here guys.
Cold brew does not take it's place.
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- We're happy to announce that
Josh and the Mythical Kitchen crew
are back in the Mythical Kitchen,
they're cooking up a storm over there.
- Yup, there's a video over there right now
where he shows you how to cook the perfect burger
on the Cook Food Good series and tomorrow,
he's gonna show you how to make Gatorade muffins
which comes from our Will It Muffin episode.
So, go to Mythical Kitchen channel,
click that bell, and cook some food good.
- Now, let's get seasonal, out of season, why don't we.
The seasonal beverage of hot apple cider.
I actually have hopes for this
because you got the honeys, the nuts, and the apples,
and the ciders all together.
- Oh yeah, yeah, we're kind of
apple-jacking it up a little bit.
- It feels right, you know what I mean?
It feels like you can get that complementary combination
and the hotness of it,
I like a hot cereal, like a Quaker something (laughs).
- Quaker something.
- Quaker's got some hot things, don't they?
- Smell of it first.
- Oh, it does not smell good.
- Yeah, if you didn't tell me what you had done,
I would've been like, "why did you pee in my Cheerios?"
- It's worse than pee.
- It's really got that--
- Oh no, it's settling in though,
my nose is adjusting.
- You gotta know what it is to know that it's not piss.
- Oh, it takes the crunch right out
'cause it's hot, it's hot,
it takes it right out.
- You gotta eat it quick.
- Eat it quick.
I think it can become a Christmas cereal though.
You know what I'm saying?
Let it sit out a little bit, heat it back up,
call it Quaker (laughs).
You don't have to call it Quaker when you--
- It's difficult though, it's difficult to know if it's--
- You don't have to get Quaker's permission
to eat hot cereal, do you?
- No, if it's better than water
because it's so fun.
- It might be too much of a departure.
It's something else.
- Yeah, I-- - It's accident.
- I would've thought that water was gonna
come down immediately
and here we are,
leaving it up there again?
- Dubitably indubitably.
- I don't know, it's just--
- Yeah, it's not better than water,
I'm sorry, we tried.
- Soggy too quick, clash of flavors.
- And Quaker. (light music)
- Guinness beer has the luck of the Irish on it's side.
So, is it gonna get lucky?
- You ever had Guinness is a bottle like this?
This is my first time.
- You like it more in a can? So--
- [Rhett] I've had can and draft.
- It's a very thick and hardy and malty beer, I think.
So, oh, and there's some fizziness there.
- And I recently found out that I am Irish
so, maybe there's something just deep within my DNA
that will resonate with this,
it's gonna hit my resonate frequency.
It's so foamy, look how foamy it is.
- Yeah, that-- - It makes noise,
it brings the sound to Cheerios
and Cheerios don't typically have a sound
like Rice Krispies,
that's the thing that they've been wanting for years.
- Yeah, it's making cereal fun for adults again.
- Right.
- I mean, if you're in a real sad situation,
I guess this might be something you find yourself eating.
(both crunching cereal)
- Oh, there's something about
the taste of this in the morning.
- (laughs). - You know what I'm saying?
I'm really trying,
the Irish boy in me is really, really trying to like this.
I don't wanna--
- Now, if you just taste the Guinness--
- I don't want my ancestors to come after me.
- I don't love Guinness but it's not bad.
It's good.
- Yup, well taste it and be sure about that.
- But then, when you mix it with the sugar and the--
- [Rhett] It's so bitter.
- Oh gosh.
- [Rhett] It's really not coming together.
We're trying so hard to usurp water in cereal
but we're having a hell of a time doing it.
- It makes it more bitter in the cereal
than when you're just drinking it on its own.
- It's like it released a bitter agent
that was hidden in Honey Nut Cheerios
that they didn't tell you about.
- Yeah, it does not beat water.
It's not the next best thing to milk.
There's no freaking way.
It's chemically unstable
and probably not a good habit for your breakfast.
(light music)
- Okay, we're digging really deep.
We're going to the A&W factory.
I don't even know what it stands for,
and we're bringing back their cream soda.
Are you a cream soda fan? - Nope.
- [Rhett] Do you classify it
in the same category as root beer,
is that why you don't like it? - Yeah.
Isn't it the same?
- Yeah, yeah, you can't pour that either,
especially if you don't like it.
- Now, it says cream soda
but there's technically no cream in this
so, we're not infringing on milk territory here.
What is the difference between cream soda and root beer?
Because I think the only reason I put them together
is because they're both from A&W.
- [Woman Offscreen] It's an entirely different beverage.
- I know, but rootbeer.com is on the bottle.
So, there is reason for confusion.
Well, I like both of them, by the way,
but you didn't need me to say that,
you knew that already.
(both crunching cereal)
- Yeah, we got somewhere.
- Now we're getting somewhere.
- And again, I never choose to drink the
aged vanilla, no caffeine soda here.
- Drink it straight though,
'cause you might have never ever tried it.
- Oh, there's nothing in my mug here.
- Is it true that you haven't ever tried it
'cause you thought it was root beer?
- (smacking lips) I don't hate it but I don't like it.
I like the Guinness better.
But, I like it much more when it's with Cheerios.
- It's subtle and it's complementary.
Again, we can't taste all cereals.
I mean, we could, we'll probably make that an episode,
but with this particular cereal,
this is easily better than water.
- Oh yes.
- This is actually good.
We've discovered something.
- It's because--
- [Rhett] I feel like an explorer.
- Do you know what they're doing?
Because there's a creaminess to it.
That's why they call it cream soda,
even though there's no cream in it--
- There's a creaminess to it. - There's a creaminess.
- Without the cream, how do you do that A&W?
- And it really works.
If you close your eyes, it's like drinking fizzy milk.
(both crunching cereal)
- Not exactly, but it's good.
- Yeah, it's definitely the next best thing so far.
(light music)
Now, Mythical Chef Josh has a thing where he says that
cereal is a soup.
This is definitely intermingling that.
- We're about to make a soup.
- Chicken broth warmed, oh that's nice and warm.
- No, this is chicken stock.
- Oh, what's the difference? - I don't know the difference.
I'm not Josh.
- Good source of protein,
you miss that in a lot of your cereals.
- I once invested a lot of money in chicken stock
and it didn't go well,
it didn't go well at all.
Gotta get one of those jokes in every day, don't you?
- That is a scent.
Okay, I gotta find the right place to put my brain
before I taste this.
- I think you gotta take yourself out of the expectations
that you typically bring to this.
- Right. - So, this isn't cereal time.
This isn't even the morning.
It's a late night snack at a bar.
Yeah, I've been throwing axes and kicking ass.
- At a bar? - Yeah.
One of those bars that you throw axes at and you kick ass.
- Okay.
(both crunching cereal)
Wow. - It's not awful.
- The chicken stock has other stuff in it.
- Yeah. - There's veg--
- Stuff other than chicken.
- There's veggies and stuff,
it tastes really good on its own
and I thought it was just gonna be so chicken-y
but really...
- It almost has a matzo ball soup kind of thing going on.
- Yeah. - You know what I'm saying?
It's got a very starchy thing happening
inside of a savory soup.
- It's definitely weird, but it's not bad.
- There's a spongy quality to Cheerios.
- It's not out of the question.
So, I'm gonna nestle it up there.
- [Rhett] Just see how it looks, see how it feels.
- How does it feel for it just to be
the next best thing to milk is chicken stock?
- Yeah, I think that says it all.
- It's not quite--
- I think we had to think about it a lot,
whether we even liked it,
and we really wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt.
- I'm gonna let it peek out, just so it's not forgotten.
- But, the A&W, or any cream soda, I guess, for that matter,
and if you throw some cream in there,
your mind will not even be able to take it
is my theory but--
- Fizzy cereal, yeah.
- Here we go, the next best thing to milk
is not water in your cereal,
it's cream soda.
- Try it and post a picture with a smile on your face
and use #fizzycereal-- - Make it specific
- #fizzycerealthanksGMM - How about #creamsodacereal?
- Let's put GMM in it 'cause this is some self-promotion.
- Okay, #creamsodacerealGMM.
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