- Which snack is the most rooster sauce-like?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
- Rooster sauce, sriracha.
That name just makes my butt tingle and my tongue sweat.
What is the weirdest thing that you put rooster sauce on?
- Well, I went through a little phase where I would just
put it on the back of my hand and lick it off.
- Is that phase over? - No.
- Because I could do that again.
- I can reintroduce that phase.
Well, a little bit on my hand.
- Snack makers are following suit.
They're putting a lot of sriracha on the back of their hand,
so to speak, or already on their products
so you don't have to put it on the back of your hand.
And today, we're gonna try
a bunch of sriracha-flavored snacks
to see which ones taste most like real sriracha.
It's time for Super Snack Flavor Match: Sriracha Edition.
- Okay, we're gonna rank the snacks that we're gonna taste
on a scale of one to 10.
The closer it is to sriracha, the higher the score.
And then we're gonna add up our two scores.
And then at the end,
the snack with the highest overall score
will be declared the truest sriracha-flavored snack
and will be accordingly crowned forever Sriracha Brian.
- Okay, you've already tasted yours.
I wanna taste the back of my sriracha hand
in order to establish a baseline
before we get into tasting all the snacks.
- Is the back of your hand clean?
- Of course, I'm constantly washing this hand.
- Is it everything you remembered it to be?
- Oh, yeah, my butt's already quivering.
- Oh, god.
- I mean, it's... That first bite is--
- It's got a kick.
- It's got a kick, and it's very garlicky.
All right, let's rank these snacks
to see which one is the closest.
- [Both] Round one.
- Okay, first up, we got Go Bacon
uncured sriracha bacon jerky.
- You ever had this?
I mean, look at this stuff.
It looks like it's just mushy bacon.
Oh, my gosh, this one...
Is it just me, or does that actually look like a rooster?
Look at that.
That's a freaking... Look at it, that's a rooster.
There's the hangy-down thing and the beak.
- You're just seeing roosters.
I think you might just be seeing roosters in things today.
I could probably find a rooster here.
- And that means it's a good day.
I'mma eat the rooster, see how rooster it is.
Now, this is the most expensive snack we're eating today--
- That's a very fat rooster. - $3.50 an ounce
is what this thing comes out to.
- Now, Josh, do you pronounce the first R?
Is it SRI-racha?
- And there's two of those.
- [Josh] Technically it's a S-H sound, like SHE-racha.
- She-racha?
- [Josh] SI-racha is just typically accepted.
- First off all, this bacon product is just good.
This Go Bacon stuff, I mean, it's expensive.
- Yeah, but that's not what matters.
It's how much does it taste like sriracha.
I don't know if I'm still tasting this sriracha that--
- From my hand and your hand?
- Yeah.
- The bacon is...
There's a lot more sweetness
that I think they've added too.
- There's a hint of sriracha,
but I don't know if I would even know
that's what I was eating if you just gave this to me.
- Yeah, I love the taste of it.
- Four.
- But from a sriracha-ness, yeah, I'm gonna give it a 3.
- For a total of... We can do math, seven.
- [Both] Round two.
- Carolwood Snack Company, never heard it.
It's like a boutique snackware place.
They talk about, on the website,
how they only use true small batches.
There's like, Carol... I don't know.
- Is this a woman who's really into wood?
- Carol Wood, I think you should meet her.
- Is it a woman who's really into wood,
or is it a woman who has a wood,
like, "Welcome to my wood."
- Maybe Carolwood is just a type of wood.
- Either way, we should meet.
- Mm, that's good a nice little bite at the beginning,
very salty.
- Are they actually saying
that they just put sriracha sauce...
Yeah, it says sriracha seasoning mix.
- I mean, nothing in this is nearly as strong
as what's coming out of this bottle,
which I guess makes sense.
But I mean, you kind of want more
than just a little bit of a hint of sriracha, right?
You're getting excited about this stuff when you buy it.
- The thing is, it's spicy, and it has a lot of flavor,
but it's a flavor that is just not landing
on what it tastes like out of the bottle.
- Just lick daddy it 'cause when you do that,
if you just keep lick daddying it,
you can tell that there's more sriracha on this
than if you just keep eating the pretzel.
And it gets hotter.
- I would just say it's general spiciness though.
- Mm, I'm gonna give it a five--
- You taste the unique combination of--
- Garlic, peppers.
- Sriracha? - Yeah.
- Four, I'm going with a four.
I'm a four man today.
- We're being tough on these today.
Not a bad pretzel though, for a total of nine.
- [Both] Round three.
Quick reminder, going over to the Mythical Kitchen channel,
Josh recreated Olive Garden's
discontinued breadstick sandwich.
I didn't know this was a thing.
- Me neither.
- Did it need to come back?
- [Josh] Oh, it needed to come back.
- It's good?
- [Josh] I might be the only one that believes that,
but it's really good.
- So check that out.
He introduces it to Trevor, the youngling in our group.
Also, A Hotdog is a Sandwich,
their podcast, Josh and Nicole.
They have food debates.
You gotta check that out
wherever podcasts are not sold 'cause they're free.
- Yes, now, let's move to Lollyphile's sriracha lollipops.
Now, I would think,
I would think that you could get close to a flavor
if all you gotta do is put it
into what we used to call a sucker.
That's what we called it growing up.
- Yeah, "You got any suckers?"
'Cause you don't lollipop it, you suck it.
- [Rhett] Well, you can lick it.
- Now, it smells like... Smells like--
- Smells like a toy.
- Yeah, it really does.
- It does not smell like food.
You ever just find yourself, as an adult man--
- Sucking on toys?
- Sitting around thinking, "I want a lollipop."
- (chuckles) Not really.
- If you're over 30, and you regularly seek out lollipops--
- 30, that's the cutoff?
- 30.
The 20s are a fun time.
- 29 and 364 days old, you can get you a sucker.
- If you regularly seek out a lollipop
just to enjoy, not as a joke,
but as your own pleasure device.
Have you tasted any sriracha yet?
Because I have not.
- There's a slight tingle, but it tastes
like a cinnamon... Like a Fireball, really.
- What is it that is--
- And a lot of plastic.
- About putting a lollipop in your mouth
that's just not for adults?
- I'm 14 again.
- You look like an idiot right now.
Do I look like an idiot?
Oh, god.
It's just idiotic.
The whole idea's idiotic.
- The ingredients are written on the pole.
What is this called?
- There's a pole?
- There's a pole in my lollipop.
One, that's my score.
Write me.
- (laughs) Yeah, I'm gonna go with a one as well because...
Is that the lowest we can go?
- Yeah.
- Okay, one, for a total of two.
- [Both] Round four.
- Now we got the Blue Diamond almonds sriracha
from their bold flavor line,
which we are a fan of this bold flavor line.
- We had 'em on the show recently
when we were tasting hot nuts in Good Mythical More.
But we actually had these in our office
and have for years.
And Blue Diamond salt and vinegar
won the salt and vinegar taste test.
So Blue Diamond, whoever they got at Blue Diamond
making things taste like things, yeah.
- These taste so good, so good, so good.
- Have you ever thought, do they taste like sriracha?
I just thought, "They taste good," and I kept eating 'em.
- Yeah 'cause, look, if I blow
this sriracha mist in your face...
- Through my screen, blow it through my screen.
- Don't be afraid.
- It's still a lot getting through.
- I mean, that, and then if I shake this in your face.
- I think I gotta go lick daddy.
- Yeah, 'cause it's a lot of almond smell.
- Just put the almond in your mouth and suck on it.
- [Link] Oh, yeah, I like to do that anyway.
- You can still look like a respectable adult
when you're sucking on a nut.
When you're sucking on a lollipop,
you look like an idiot.
But when you're sucking on a nut,
you are an adult, listen right here.
- You can be 80 years old sucking on a nut.
Doesn't matter, there's no age limit.
- Most of the time you're sucking on nuts,
people don't even realize it.
- That is... This is one of the best--
- Would you know I'm sucking on nuts right now?
- Tasting snacks ever.
- If I wasn't talking, would you know I was sucking on nuts?
- Kind of actually, yeah.
You're chipmunking some nuts.
See, and you just crunched 'em.
- They're so good.
I'm so influenced by how good they taste.
- I mean, as bold as it is, they know not to go all the way.
I'm gonna give this--
- When I really sucked on those two, it hit me.
I almost said I smelled sriracha.
I tasted actual sriracha.
I'm giving them an eight.
- Oh, that's what I'm giving them too.
- Oh, I didn't even see that.
- Yeah, that's why I did it like that
'cause I know you don't look at my hand signals.
- I was like, "What's he doing?
"Does he got more nuts in there?"
For a total of 16.
- [Both] Round five.
- Next we've got Ocean's Halo sriracha seaweed snacks.
I know you're excited, Link.
- No, I don't really like seaweed.
And I'm not alone.
But these things got a five-star review from a hater
who reviewed on behalf of her husband.
Jesse says about her husband,
"I have no idea why I'm five stars.
"Then again, I neither like seaweed nor sriracha.
"The smell can clear a room."
- When somebody opens a pack of these...
Shepherd went through a phase
where he just ate seaweed out of these little packs.
We were like, "I don't know."
I guess it's good for him.
He likes it, Mikey likes it.
- Why eat a plant that tastes like a fish,
dead, floating on the surface of the ocean?
I don't understand.
- [Rhett] I love it.
- [Link] It's a mindset thing, right?
And all I can picture--
- You have the wrong mindset.
- A floating, dead fish.
- You gotta get the right mindset.
Life is just gonna transform for you.
- All I can taste is the part that I don't like,
which is the seaweed, so I can get no sriracha out of this.
- Come on, really try.
Be a lick daddy for a second.
- Be a lick daddy?
- This is made for lick daddying, look at that.
- No, man, it's freaking fish food.
Think about it.
Fish eat everything in the ocean.
- Yeah, and you know what?
I eat fish in the ocean as well.
- They breathe everything, like deadness.
Everything that's floating, their dead relatives,
they're floating all around them,
and they're just breathing it
and eating it and pooping it out.
Is that what we do with air? - I'm not sure you understand
how the ocean works.
- Do we do it with air?
Am I breathing in--
- You're basically just describing life as we know it.
- My ancestors?
- And by the way, we eat dead plants all the time.
- And dead animals.
- I just think that this particular plant
is something you don't like.
I've gotta say--
- I can't taste sriracha.
- I've lick daddied it a few times.
I do not detect sriracha.
Now, I'd have some sriracha in my mouth already,
so maybe my meter's off.
I'll give it a two.
- I was gonna say, before--
- Two, two!
- I'm not gonna give it a score.
I was just gonna take
whatever Rhett's score was and minus two.
But since his score was only two,
minus one, for a total of three.
- [Rhett] Wow.
- [Both] Round six.
- Now, we've got some Uhv vodka.
- Is that how you say it, Uhv?
Is it U-V?
What does it stand for?
I mean, I know ultraviolet.
- [Link] Enjoy in moderation, Rhett.
Dink it.
- The only way to enjoy a shot is to shoot it.
- Well, I think you need to swish it.
Did you even get to taste it?
- Woo, sriracha!
Woo, ho!
Taste that, sucka.
- Oh, sriracha!
Good god.
- That has got a sriracha flavor to it.
Now, see, they reel you in.
- Wow.
- First of all, they're like, "UV, is this sunscreen?"
You're like, "That's the thinnest sunscreen
"I've ever put on my body.
"It's also causing me to burn a little bit."
But they reel you in with the red bottle.
But then you get it out, and you're like, "It's clear."
- Well, yeah, the vodka has a burn to it
that simulates that aspect of sriracha
that we cannot get with any
of the other things that we've tasted.
- And the flavor profile,
I think we've got some extras over there.
I'm not gonna shoot the second one.
Had to shoot the first one because I'm not a child.
- [Stevie] On their website it says,
"What does the UV in UV vodka stand for anyway?
"Uber verified... Just kidding.
"We chose our name because UV implies brightness and color."
- In other words, it stands for nothing.
- Yeah, you know what?
- We stand for nothing.
- I wish you hadn't told me that, Stevie,
because now it makes me not like them.
- [Stevie] We can cut it out.
- No, no, don't cut it out.
Don't cut it out.
Keep it in.
I'm not gonna not give them a good score because of it.
- You know what?
I'mma tell you right now,
this is easily a nine.
And I'm on the teeter-teeter of a 10.
- Oh, really?
Okay, first of all, when I smell it,
I smell your teeter.
I smell--
- [Link] I got another one.
- I smell sriracha when I smell it.
- Yeah, I mean, look at this.
Close your eyes, and I'm gonna...
You tell me which one you're sniffing.
- Well, I could feel the air coming from the bottle.
- Well, that was both.
It was a non-test.
- I'm going--
- 10.
- I'm going nine because you can't be perfect.
Now, I've gotta say, I don't like it
as much as I like the nuts,
but that's a really... It's so close to the actual thing.
They must just squirt it in there.
I don't know how they do it.
- Yeah, it's nothing but actual sriracha.
Giving us a total of a 19.
Ladies and gentlemen, the brand new Sriracha Brian,
which I thought we were the only ones who could be Brian.
- No, things can be Brian.
- Things can be Brian?
- Yeah, it's 2020.
- All right, and you know what?
I'm gonna rebrand them because we don't really like the UV.
- Yeah, we're not a fan of your branding,
but you are the most sriracha-like
of any product that we tasted today.
Congratulations, Uhv.
- I highly recommend Hello, My Name Is Sriracha Brian
sriracha vodka if you really like sriracha and vodka.
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- You know what time it is.
- Hi, I'm Erin.
- And I'm Kevin.
- And we're from Lexington Park, Maryland.
And it's our one-year wedding anniversary.
- [Both] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.
- I love it when you can see the person not talking,
moving their lips with the person who is talking.
- 'Cause it's like take seven.
- Yeah.
- Congratulations on one year.
Click the top link to watch us try
a smorgasbord of sriracha-flavored condiments
on Good Mythical More.
- And to find out where
the Wheel of Mythicality's going to land.
- Calabrian chilies are chilies that are grown in Calabria.
They're really good.
Just pop one out and try one.
They're not hot.
They're pretty hot.
- You lied to me.
- So I'm just gonna do
a nice, little palm heel strike on the garlic.