- Today we ask the age-old question...
- Will it chicken sandwich?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good Mythical Morning.
- Hey, Rhett, why did the chicken sandwich cross the road?
- I don't know. Why did it?
- To get to your mothercluckin' birthday party, man!
- Hey-hey!
- Happy birthday, Rhett!
(crew cheers)
Your party is chicken sandwich-themed.
- Do I get 44 chicken sandwiches?
- Okay, I'm gonna be honest, this isn't really
your chicken sandwich-themed birthday party.
It's just an episode of Good Mythical Morning.
- Oh. That's disappointing.
- But you know what? You're invited!
- Hey! I'm back!
- It's time for...
- [Rhett and Link] Will It Chicken Sandwich?
- Okay, before you get your britches in a bunch
over what you think a chicken sandwich is,
the Mythical Kitcheneers have already declared
that a true fried chicken sandwich
must have buns, fried chicken, pickles,
and some kinda sauce.
- And since it is my special day,
I'd like to give a special shout-out to ice cream and cake,
two things that I always accompany me on a birthday-
- Is that a slight towards your dad
not being at all your birthdays?
- Well, I mean, he lives in North Carolina.
I mean, he was there for all the ones as a kid.
Was yours? (laughs)
Baskin-Robbins' ice cream cakes are iconic,
(laughing) so how well does the iconic chicken sandwich-
- No fault of mine.
- Mesh with an iconic ice cream cake?
Present the Bawkin'-Robbins Chicken Sandwich!
- This thing is frickin' huge!
- I'm so excited about this!
- Nicole! What did you do?
- [Nicole] Well, first of all, happy birthday, bestie!
- Thank you. - You look so cute!
- Hey! Don't take my birthday thanks.
- [Nicole] Okay, so we have ice cream cake buns,
a crushed peanut and waffle cone fried chicken
brined in melted buttercream ice cream,
and Baseball Nut sauce with sprinkle pickles.
- Baseball nuts?
- [Nicole] Yeah, so Baseball Nut is an ice cream
with vanilla, black raspberry swirl, and cashews.
- Oh my gosh. - Ooh.
- It's just I don't even know how to approach this thing.
I feel like I need a knife and a fork,
but you know, it's a sandwich, so I'm gonna sandwich it.
- I mean, could chicken sandwich be
the 32nd Baskin-Robbins flavor?
- Let's find out.
- I don't think I can dink this because-
- Oh, I'll dink to you, and sink to me.
Hot in the middle, cold on the outside.
- Oh, man. Happy birthday to me.
- I gotta make sure I get a sprinkle pickle here.
We're in a...
I mean, think about chicken and waffles.
Got the fried chicken and some of the sweetness.
Going full sweetness here.
It's strange, dude. It is strained.
And strange.
- The only strange part to me
is I didn't really taste it, but I just saw a pickle.
The idea of the chicken and the ice cream?
To me it tasted like the donut fried chicken
that we had a while back on the show.
- But that was one unit.
I'm wondering if this maybe just isn't coming together.
I mean, it's certainly falling apart.
- It's coming together for me conceptually
because it's just like chicken and waffles...
You know, the sweet and chicken works for me.
The pickle, I'm just kind of avoiding it.
- I've gone in on the pickle. I'll go in for another bite.
- I mean, it is my birthday, man.
I feel like because it's an ice cream cake,
I might have to make a call on this one.
- Then do it.
I know what you're gonna say and I'm not gonna disagree.
- Okay.
Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake. Will it chicken sandwich?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes!
- Bugles are a beautifully greasy snack that allows you
to indulge in both the pleasures of eating and playing.
- Oh no, it's Bugle Man!
- Yes, hi!
Today... - Oh!
- Whoa-oh!
We honor the Bugle by introducing it
to the A-lister of all sandwiches.
Please welcome...
♪ Happy Bugle Day to Rhett ♪
- Hey!
- Chicken sandwich.
- Wow. Nicole, what did you do?
- [Nicole] Well, we have a Classic Bugle-crusted bun
with Hot Buffalo-crosted...
Crusted chicken. (chuckles) "Crosted."
Creamy Barbecue Ranch Bugle comeback sauce,
and a Nacho Cheese Bugle pickle.
- So I didn't know that Bugles had
all these different flavors. - I know, isn't it fun?
- Hey, they do, and so we used 'em.
- Let's get a look at this Bugle comeback sauce.
I'ma get a little tastie.
It is Buglely. - Mm-hmm.
- This definitely feels like all the flavors
are gonna complement.
- Yeah, because it's just savory on savory.
- It's not as heavy as you would think. Bugles are light!
- A good chicken sandwich these days,
you demand a really strong crunch.
- Now, I think I'm gonna have to flatten it though.
I'm sorry, I hate to do this to you, Bugles,
but I want to get this thing in my mouth.
- [Link] Oh! Listen to that crunch.
- The question is: can you have too much crunch?
- Oh! Whoops!
- You lost a few Bugles there, Corporal.
- Dink it. - And sink it.
- Mm!
- Oh man, that's good!
And the crunch is really nice! - Mm-hmm.
- And you know, it feels like Bugles
are not as hard as I thought they were.
They really kinda just disintegrate.
This is a very light crust on the chicken.
- Also, their holes are a lot smaller these days.
Bugle be skimpin' on the hole, now.
- I think people's fingers got smaller.
- Oh, is that what happened?
- Yeah. 'Cause of climate change.
The word "bugle" comes from "buculus,"
Latin for "bullock," which means "castrated bull."
- I thought that the Bugle represented the bull wiener,
and of course there's no balls.
- Oh! There used to be Bugles and Balls.
- Yeah, every Bugle would have a ball sack
hanging from underneath it.
- I think it was just Bugles and Corn Pops mixed together.
You can do this at home- - In a two-to-one ratio.
- You just take two Corn Pops for every Bugle
and you call it Bugles and Balls,
then you tell the story of the castrated bull.
- This is fun.
It's a perfect marriage, it's when like two people
who are really, really compatible get married.
- Doesn't happen very often.
- Or like if twins got married.
- Yeah. I'm a big proponent of that.
- That's what this is like.
Like twins in an inappropriate relationship.
- Yeah. Right.
Bugles. Will it chicken sandwich?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes!
- Quick acknowledgement:
our taste buds could not be tickled,
definitely to this extent,
without the teamwork of the Mythical Kitcheneers.
- Yes.
- And they got their own weekly hijinks happening
over on the Mythical Kitchen channel,
where you can expect interesting food
and a fun dash of chaos.
- Yeah!
- You can also listen to the latest
A Hot Dog is a Sandwich podcast
to hear Josh and Nicole's culinary hot takes,
wherever you get your podcasts.
So check it out, guys.
Credit due to the Mythical Kitcheneers.
Thank you. - Yes.
Now, I don't know a single person
who wouldn't think twice about throwing some 'bows
to get their hands on the last Smucker's PB&J Uncrustable.
The world is a better place because of 'em, without a doubt,
but is it better as a chicken sandwich?
Presenting Smucker's Uncluckables.
- Yes!
- And before you bite into it- - Yes!
- This feels like a cross-section situation.
- Yes!
- And I'm gonna try to...
I'm touching both sides of this.
- [Link] It looks like you've just made Uncrustables
as the buns, Nicole.
- [Nicole] I sure did, Bossman.
- [Link] What's on the inside of this?
- [Nicole] Well, we got some fried chicken
dipped in both peanut butter and grape jelly-
- [Link] Oh yeah, I see the peanut butter on this side
and jelly on that side.
- [Nicole] Peanut butter pickles and some grape jelly sauce.
- [Rhett] You wanna take this?
- I'm gonna save this one for crew enjoyment
and we can just have that one.
- I mean, look at that.
I just want to make sure we got some of the jelly
and then the peanut butter right there,
in a bite. - So many layers.
Layers and layers and layers.
- I'm gonna go pickle side, because why not?
I'm not dinking it now. You done slurped on it.
- I like to squeeze and slurp my Uncrustables.
- Well, you should eat them alone in a closet.
Here we go.
- You wanna back into the dink?
- Uh-uh! - Okay, it's too late.
I respect that.
- Oh.
- Mm, that's drippin'.
- You may be tempted to think
that there's too much happening for our brains right now.
- There's a lot happening for our brains right now.
- But I am enjoying every single thing that is happening.
Even the pickle is striking me in the right way,
which is strange.
- The peanut butter is very strong.
So the chicken sandwich does get a little lost.
It's not the star.
- But it complements it.
- But in subsequent bites,
especially as you get to the edge,
you have a nice chicken sandwich experience.
- This feels like something
that would be on a menu somewhere.
I mean, I don't know the legal issues,
like partnering with Smucker's as a restaurant.
Do you have to, like...
Do you have to call up the Smuckers Brothers?
- I think you don't have to worry about legalities.
- This is America.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah.
- I am also surprised that the pickle...
How is the pickle working in this, Nicole?
- [Nicole] I pretty much just dipped it
into some melted peanut butter.
They work really well together, I don't know.
- Pickles and peanut butter is like a pregnant thing,
and now I feel like I need to get pregnant.
- Yeah. - Good luck.
- I'm definitely ready to conceive.
- I'm loving this, but I can't get pregnant anymore
'cause of those vasectomies that we got.
- I remember that. Smucker's PB&J Uncrustables.
Will it chicken sandwich?
- [Rhett and Link] Yes!
- I'd like to wish a happy birthday to my cohost Rhett.
Without him on this planet, it very well could have been
three raccoons in a trench coat sitting next to me,
and life wouldn't be nearly as fun.
So my gift to him is a two-parter,
or shall I say a two-farter,
because it'll wish him happy birthday twice,
on the way in and on the way out.
Happy birthday, Rhett.
This is the Bonafide Beanified Chicken Sando.
Beanified. - Oh, can I take it?
Nicole, what did you do with all these beans?
- [Nicole] So we got some red bean-stuffed buns,
which are kind of like Japanese Uncrustables,
some pickled green beans for some bean redemption,
refried bean sauce,
and chicken crusted with Bush's Baked Bean juice
and some baked beans put in there as well.
- Now, I'm gonna just ignore for a moment
that green beans have been put on the bean sandwich.
- Come on! - They're pickled though,
so it is a pickle. - Yeah, come on.
- As you know, I've had an issue with that before.
Almost walked off the show because of it.
But I came right back. - It tastes good.
- And I do like pickled things.
I just gotta say...
I just feel so loved.
I feel so loved and appreciated.
This may end up being, depending on how good this tastes,
this may end up being in the top 38 birthdays for me.
You know, this is gonna be right up there
with when I got a bucket of chicken from KFC that one year,
and then that other year when I got
a bucket of chicken from KFC.
- Yeah.
- And then that other year, couple years later,
when I got a bucket of chicken from KFC.
- Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- Definitely mid-30s level here.
- So there's beans inside of the bun?
- Yeah! - Should there be another cut?
- Have you not had a bean-stuffed bun before?
- No.
- You live in Los Angeles, son!
You got all kinds of opportunities.
- I'm really having a hard time getting into it, but...
There it is. It's in there.
I'm just gonna put that back down.
- I did a little cross-section. That's how they look.
They look like Fig Newtons for the culinarily inexperienced.
- [Link] That's beautiful.
- The pickled green beans... - Mm!
- They're doing things for me.
I sort of feel an obligation to like this.
- You don't have to.
- It's like when your family- - It's your birthday, man.
- Like, gets ready to set you up with a girl...
This hasn't happened in many years for me-
- That's good.
- But they're like, "She's gonna be at this thing
and you're gonna be at this thing,"
and you kinda just feel like,
"I guess I gotta like her, at least for a little bit."
- I've never been on a blind date.
Never been set up like that.
- People are trying to protect...
Protect ladies from you.
- Well, I don't mean now. I mean in the past.
- I'm just saying. You're a...
You know, you're an acquired tasted,
and so it's the kind of thing
you don't wanna build it up too much.
- And my taste has been fully acquired by one woman.
- (laughing) Oh my gosh.
- Um...
The chicken sandwich, if I just isolate the chicken patty,
the beans on that- - They are amazing.
- It works. The pickled green bean-
- Curveball. - Is a nice curveball for me,
because there's so much of that thick beanness.
- I like all these things together,
and I like a 13-bean soup.
- [Stevie] Are the red bean buns sweet?
- Yeah. - But it works?
- I just feel like...
Maybe this is too much for me.
I think maybe I've reached a limit.
I've reached an upper limit
of what I can actually experience and take into my life.
- I mean, my opinion?
- I think I'll defer to you, you know?
- It just kind of all blends together into bland beanness,
and there's nothing to really get excited about.
I mean, but it's not my birthday.
- [Rhett] Beans. Will it chicken sandwich?
Yes! - [Link] No.
- Now, humans have only explored 5% of the ocean,
and yes, that includes James Cameron
in that little fancy submarine of his.
Now, you can choose to lose sleep over that fun fact,
or like me, you can hold out hope that somewhere down there
is a little chicken with gills.
But for now, our closet thing-
- Is that what James is looking for?
- Yeah, he ain't found it yet.
Closest thing to a chicken of the sea
is the humble tuna fish. - Mm-hmm.
- So let's check out the Chicken Sandwich of the Sea.
- Nicole, what did you do?
- [Nicole] I did a bad thing. I'm sorry.
- (laughs) Yeah, this comes with an apology.
- [Nicole] We have tuna floss buns
soaked in canned tuna oil,
fried chicken coated in tuna salad,
tuna sashimi draped over the top,
tuna flesh pickles, and fish eyeball aioli.
- Ah ha!
- There's eyeballs in there?
- [Nicole] It's eyeball aioli.
- Ay, ay, ay. - So may...
Okay, so fish eyeball mayonnaise.
- [Nicole] Yes.
- Well, first think I'll say is it smells pretty strong.
You would not want to bring this on a plane.
You know, there's always the person
who brings the tuna sandwich or a fish-
- For real, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah. Um...
Don't put this in your ziplock bag on a plane.
- That's a demerit. I wonder if they...
I mean, for the stuff they sell in airports,
do they take that into account?
- I think they do.
- 'Cause I got boiled eggs once in an airport.
- And took 'em on the plane?
- Yeah.
And then I was on the plane eating boiled eggs
and Christy was like,
"You're on a plane eating boiled eggs."
- [Stevie] It seems like you're trying to blame the airport.
- Yeah, they need to keep me from buying stuff
that I will be shunned for eating.
- I think they are expecting common sense
to play a part in this. - Why is it even there?
- 'Cause maybe you wanna eat it before you get on the plane,
or maybe you wanna take it home with you.
- What's in the bun again?
- [Nicole] So it's tuna floss.
- (retches) Tuna floss? - What does that mean?
- [Nicole] So it's just desiccated dried tuna.
- "Desiccated," my favorite word.
(Nicole chuckles)
Put that before anything. - It stinks.
- I like the texture of the top of the bun though.
Is that desiccated as well?
- I think it's tuna desiccation.
I'm trying to get a place that has everything,
but at least still has chicken coming out of it.
Dink it.
- What would James Cameron do?
- This might not be bad.
(Rhett exhales deeply)
Tuna salad helps, like the mayonnaise of it all helps,
until I realize that there's eyeballs in that mayonnaise.
- Well, you know the way to get through that?
Think about the love scene in "Avatar."
- Where you just whip out the tail?
- It comes out and the things just interlock
and everything's blue and pulsing.
- That's also how you ride the horse. Or was that...
How they were riding the horse?
- They're riding the horse and they're "riding the horse."
(Stevie chuckles)
Can't wait for the next "Avatar."
- This is not horrible.
- Actually, no. - It is, however, stupid.
- Yeah, it's not nearly as bad as I thought it was gonna be,
and I do think I got an eyeball.
I just swallowed it directly though.
- Uh... (stammers)
Is there something I could come up with to say
that would be complimentary?
Nope.
- (laughs) That was easy.
Tuna. Will it chicken sandwich?
- [Rhett and Link] No!
- But nice try.
You know what? I had a great birthday.
This is moving up into top-25 at this point.
- I'm sorry I no'd your bean thing,
but I feel like you yes'd it
out of just a sense of obligation.
- I did, yeah.
- And I'm glad that wasn't a low point on your birthday.
- No, and listen, there's still more to enjoy.
I mean, hopefully you got me some presents, right?
- Yes, I do, actually,
in Good Mythical More, so sit tight for that.
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- And this is a barrel of beans.
- [All] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- Is that their backyard, I think?
- I hate to break it to you,
I think that's the Jungle Cruise
and they're not real beans.
I got in there and I found out
and I was escorted away. - Oh!
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before we chicken out in Good Mythical More.
- And to find out where
the Wheel of Mythicality's gonna land.
- And now, oh god, we're just gonna pick it up
and we're just gonna shake the hot oil off of it.
This is fun for me.
All right, now...
(laughs) I forgot I'm greased up with the hot oil.