- Is the luxury supermarket really worth it?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical Morning.
- Whether you've seen the internet sing its praises
or watch the good people of TikTok
wandering through it like a museum,
Erewhon has us intrigued.
- Yes.
- Have you heard of this place?
It's described as a luxury grocery store,
but the prices are bloated enough to make Bezos blush.
- Oh, a Bezos blush.
- You know what I'm saying?
Our question is, is it somehow worth it?
- Yeah, why in the world are people shelling out $17
for something called a cloud smoothie?
We must know!
- It's time for "This Little Piggy Went to Erewhon
and Cried Wee, Wee, We Spent How Much on Granola?"
- [Stevie] You're about to eat a series
of different grocery store foods,
each from three different price points.
Cheaper budget-conscious food from Walmart.
- Okay.
- [Stevie] Middle of the line
grocery store food from Kroger.
- We're a fan.
- [Stevie] And food from none other than the trendiest,
most wallet-busting grocery store there, Erewhon.
You'll attempt to put them in order
of cheapest to most expensive each round.
- We got this.
- [Stevie] And you'll get a point for each correct guess.
If you can rack up at least seven points,
you'll both win a shopping cart filled
with 50 bucks worth of Erewhon groceries.
- [Both] What?
- Teammates, man!
- Yeah!
- Teammates spending way too much money on groceries!
- That's us! Yeah!
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- You ready for some egg salad?
- I am. I'm hungry, man.
- You want the one with a flag in it?
- Well, I kind of, I'm hungry,
so I'm really motivated to eat the one from Erewhon,
which is obviously this one, right?
Isn't it?
- [Rhett] I think we might-
- [Link] It looks fanciest.
No, listen.
I think we might learn that it's, like deceptive.
It's just expensive.
It might not be that it's better.
- Okay, well, let's start over.
- That might be, I mean, this one looks so cheap.
- Have you eaten at Erewhon before or shopped?
- One time, I stopped in there out of curiosity
and I bought some chocolate.
I've had Erewhon chocolate.
- Christy and I went in there once.
I mean, it's a little strange.
A lot of people who were, seem to,
either they came from somewhere else
where they wanted to be seen or they got all done up
to just shop and be seen.
- There's some good looking people in there, though.
- As they die.
- That's some good looking people in there.
- I spent $18 on a jar of peanut butter.
- Yeah.
This is so basic.
I would like to add some pepper to that.
But it's good enough.
Oh, this one.
- This one is even more basic.
Is it not?
I mean, it's just white bread.
- Yeah, but.
Yeah, there's like, less egg.
- I like the egg salad on this one better, though.
- It's sweeter.
- It's got more mustard or something.
- Yeah, it's better.
I like the first one.
I'm realizing, I need more egg salad in my life.
- That can be arranged.
- I like egg salad, but I never eat it.
- I got an egg salad guy.
- This one's got this fancy and what kind of bread is this?
- Sourdough. - Sourdough.
And then there's- - Lettuce.
- There's a whole sheet of lettuce on it.
And then on this side, I mean, the stuff in this thing
just is gonna boost the price.
Can you tell us the prices of these?
- In a second.
- You don't want to tell us yet?
- Kroger does really good stuff.
- Silence.
(crew laughing)
- Okay, if we were going with the one
that I think tastes the best, it'd be the middle one.
This one looks the fanciest because it's sourdough bread.
There's some other stuff going on.
- You can buy this bread at Kroger.
- Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
- And make this sandwich.
- Nothing here looks fancy.
It's egg salad.
But one of them is priced higher.
Do you wanna go with the one that looks the fanciest
or the one that, do you agree this tastes the best?
- Yeah, I actually do.
So I mean, if I was going by looks, I would do this.
- You just move 'em down just how they were.
- Just slide 'em on down.
But if I was going by taste.
- Switch those two.
- We'd switch these two.
- Look, why don't we give them the benefit of the doubt
that they are doing something that's better there
and it tastes better?
- Yeah, let's do that.
- It goes against all logic, but it just tastes better.
- [Stevie] You locked in?
- We locked. - Yes!
- [Stevie] Because I can tell you the prices after
I tell you the answers.
- Yes.
- Yeah. Well, I'm just glad you're talking to us again.
- Yeah, thanks, Stevie.
Appreciate that.
- [Stevie] I'm gonna start from the cheapest.
The cheapest option is on the yellow plate.
That's Walmart for $3.
- We made it the most expensive!
- Walmart did it right.
- [Stevie] Then the middle priced option from Kroger
is on the red plate for $7.99 and the most expensive
from Erewhon is on the green plate for $15.67.
- That sandwich cost $15.67?
- Good gosh.
- Well, it doesn't taste great.
Walmart is the star here in this particular battle.
- Yeah and I do like this one, as well,
'cause there's so much egg in it, but.
- Okay so we were 100% wrong.
But we did learn that what looked the fanciest
was the fanciest.
- As long as you learned something from your mistakes.
- Take your lesson.
- You can move forward.
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Anybody want some chowder?
- Chowder?
- Anybody wanna spend a lot of money on some chowder?
- This chowder over here, Link,
that you have to reach a long ways for,
on just the looks of it, it's pretty fancy
'cause it's got bits in it.
You know, it's got green bits in it.
- Look at the size of that clam.
Look at a side of that clam!
- It's got green bits in it.
It's got clam bits that are very easy to see.
Oh, a big old tater.
- Is it hot?
Is it real hot?
- Does it look like it was hot?
(crew laughing)
- Hey.
- When I ate it with no problem at all.
I didn't even react to it.
- Why is no one answering me today?
(crew laughing)
- Do you think it was hot?
- No.
- You think it was real hot?
- No. See how easy that was?
- I'll warn you, man.
I warn you by my reaction. - No, you won't.
No, you won't!
- That was okay.
This was gelatinous.
- This is some thickness. This is some thickness.
- Oh, this is, I don't know.
I don't know how to tell if clam chowder is good.
- I liked that first one.
I liked the chewy, big, old clam and it wasn't too hot.
Is that one too hot?
- This one is more clammy.
(Link grunts)
It taste like it comes from a can.
- They didn't do something to that clam.
It's like it just crawled out of the shell into my mouth.
- Yeah, they didn't de-clam it enough.
You gotta take some clam out of the clam.
- That hurts, man.
Maybe that makes it more fancy.
- This is so white.
- [Link] You know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. I don't know, man.
So white.
That one's almost too hot.
You didn't warn me.
- That one is, well, I didn't think it was that hot.
This one's classic.
This is what you.
Like, if I sat down at a seafood restaurant
and you gave me that, I'd be like,
"Yeah, that's clam chowder."
It's the right color.
- Yeah, but this isn't about a restaurant.
- It's creamy.
- Is this sitting down at a Walmart,
a Kroger, or an Erewhon?
I'm pretty sure that the red is Erewhon.
I mean, the clam pieces are so big
and for it not to be clammy.
- I am 100% on the same page.
- That's a really good clam chowder.
- Going back to it again.
It's really, really good.
- It's so good. Good gosh.
- It feels like there's some TLC that went into it.
- But Walmart knows how to make an egg salad.
- Kroger is so good typically.
- Kroger can make some good stuff.
- I think Kroger's in the middle, man.
- All right, so-
- Because that one's better.
- We're ranking them based on how we like them,
assuming that they get more expensive.
- We'll see if. Maybe Walmart showed up again.
I don't know.
- Do we want to change something, though?
Because...
Yeah, Walmart could-
- This was too like, filmy and super clammy.
You said a clam jumped from that ocean into your mouth.
- I know, but that could make it more froo-froo.
All right, I'll lock in.
- [Stevie] Okay, starting with the cheapest option.
It's in the green bowl.
- Dang it. - See?
- [Stevie] Walmart's Marketside brand clam chowder, $7.74.
- It's good.
- [Stevie] And then the middle price-
- Kroger. See?
- [Stevie] Is in the yellow bowl from Kroger.
- Yeah. - Yeah, see?
- [Stevie] Home Chef clam chowder at $11.71.
- It's too clammy, Krog.
- [Stevie] Which means the red bowl
has Erewhon's chowder for $21.62.
- It's good.
- [Stevie] Was it that good?
Was it worth the $21?
- It's not worth that.
It's not worth that.
- It may be the best clam chowder I've ever had.
It's just as good as any like, restaurant clam chowder.
And I mean, you might, I don't know if I'd wanna spend
that much at a sit down restaurant for it, though.
- I mean, how much clam chowder is that, though?
- [Stevie] 32 ounces for each one of those prices.
So they're all comparable.
- Especially because of the Walmart is decent enough.
- The Walmart's actually better.
Yeah, like we said, better than the Kroger one.
Walmart's bringing it today.
- Yeah, I ain't paying for this, Erewhon.
- Yeah. You won't see me. - I'm gonna go with this.
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- Link, these are chickens.
- I mean, to tell you these are chickens.
They're the rotisserie.
- I feel like a good test is ripping off a leg.
- Yeah.
- And then maybe diving into the breast, so.
- Maybe I'll, I'm gonna rip off a wing flat,
since you're gonna get a.
Rotisserie, I'm not a huge fan of rotisserie chickens
because like this one, they all tend to be like, undercooked
and like, unless you're eating the outer layer,
it's not good anymore.
- What, undercooked? What are you talking about?
Where are you getting your rotisserie chickens from?
- Wherever this one's from, I guess.
That's pretty good.
- That's pretty good.
Let me go in here.
- [Link] That could be the Walmart deli.
- Everybody's kind of got rotisserie chickens down.
You know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. It ain't that hard.
- That's pretty dry.
That's really dry, actually.
- [Link] With the second one...
- [Rhett] Oh, that really comes apart.
Look at that.
- I don't think we're gonna taste much difference
in these first two 'cause they look the same.
Yeah, one's a little drier, but.
- It's a smaller chicken, the first one.
Means a different supplier.
Maybe it's just a different chicken.
- I'm kind of laying these out so I can go back to them.
- I think the second one is significantly better flavored
and more tender than the first one.
- It's definitely more tender,
but I like the flavoring of the first one better.
It's like, more buttery.
- To each his own.
- Right. And then this one-
- This one's really holding on.
- Not cooked too much, definitely.
- Oh gosh, I have the whole quarter.
- Oh, wow.
- Don't look at me.
Don't watch me.
Some people can't stand watching this happen.
- Dude, if you don't like watching guys rip chicken apart,
I'm sorry.
Just listen to us, but please don't click away.
At least get through the ad.
- That one's cooked better.
It's a bigger chicken, but I gotta say, flavor profile.
And again, this is just kind of like whoever, you know.
Spice profile is not necessarily a judge of quality.
It's just personal taste.
I don't...
- I'm gonna let you speak because I got something big to say
I don't want to make it hard for you to follow me.
- This one tastes the most like a chicken.
- This one is amazing, dude.
It almost tastes like there's charcoal
in the bottom of the rotisserie.
- The reason I think this one is Erewhon,
I actually don't like the flavor profile as much,
but it's more unique than-
- Yeah.
- These feel like the stock ones that you get
in the little bag at Ralph's, which is-
- It almost tastes grilled and that's fancy.
Now, it's a toss up here.
It truly is.
- Kroger.
- Yeah. You know.
- Walmart. Slightly overcooked.
- I don't know.
I don't know about these two,
so I'm just gonna go with what you're saying.
- [Stevie] What does it say about me
that this is like, pique entertainment for me?
- (laughs) You've got the right job.
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- Seriously?
- [Stevie] Well, yeah. This is the reveal here.
- You're not being facetious?
- [Stevie] No because the cheapest option
is on the yellow plate.
That's Walmart for $6.19.
- See, I was right.
- [Stevie] The middle priced option is on the green plate.
- What? - That's Kroger.
- Kroger got the best chicken!
- [Stevie] For $8.99.
So the red is the most expensive from Erewhon for $18
and it's the one that you thought was from Walmart.
- Well, the one thing that I did say
is that I like the flavor profile,
but it's smaller chicken and it's dry as heck.
Look at that.
Look, you've overcooked this chicken, Erewhon.
- So, Kroger is the real story today for this round.
- Boy, I think the real story is the fact that-
- Which is green, right?
- You said 18?
- [Stevie] Yeah. Yeah.
- An $18 chicken is overcooked and undersized.
- Boo!
Y'all gotta do better than that.
- Missed the mark, y'all.
- Erewhon, un-phenomenal.
- Oh, you're talking about the phrase
that Matt Carney wanted us to say?
- Yeah.
- It was Erewhon phenomenon.
So why don't you say something like-
- I said Erewhon un-phenomenal.
- Why don't you say-
- It wasn't it.
- I'm not really buying into the Erewhon phenomen.
- I'm not really buying into the Erewhon phenomenon.
- Me, neither.
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- Hey, next time you go to Walmart to pick up
an egg salad sandwich, before you do that,
go to sporked.com because they've ranked
all of the best Great Value foods sold at Walmart,
from orange juice, spicy brown mustard.
Check it out.
Sporked.com, all right?
- You want some carrot cake?
- I do, homes.
- Which one you think's from Walmart?
Maybe the one with a carrot that says, "Buy me!"
- Well, that's a pretty little carrot, though.
- But what does Walmart believe about its customers
that it thinks putting a little carrot on the cake
is gonna make 'em wanna buy it, huh?
You think about that?
- Hey, man.
- It might be from Erewhon.
I don't know.
- Let's taste it.
- You wanna go there first?
- Yeah, I'm gonna get a little bit of the-
- I like green icing and orange icing.
(crew laughing)
- [Stevie] You just dissed the carrot
and then went for the carrot.
- "I like green icing."
- I'm Walmart's target audience.
(crew laughing)
- The icing is stout.
That's some good cream cheese icing.
- That's not a good cake.
- Well, we haven't tasted anything else.
- I mean-
- I said the icing, not the cake.
- I don't think the icing is coming strong enough.
- I was trying-
- Trying to be nice.
- Trying to be.
Now, what is that nasty stuff right there
in the carrot cake?
- [Rhett] Nuts.
- No, that's a grape?
- Raisin.
- What's that, a freaking blonde raisin in my carrot cake?
This might be too fancy for me.
- I bet you this is from Erewhon.
There's almost like a ginger quality in there.
This almost feels healthy.
- Like a root spice.
I don't like that at all, dude.
- Yeah, it's like a health cake.
Erewhon's known for healthy stuff, right?
- Can we?
- That's gotta be Erewhon.
- Maybe?
- This one, I like to go for, get the most icing a possible.
- I mean, look at the...
- It's so stout.
- Thing on that.
Look at all of that design.
Somebody worked hard.
Now, when you go-
- That's a good carrot cake!
- When you go to Erewhon, there's more workers
than there are people shopping.
Like behind that deli counter,
they're like, making burgers and steaks
and who knows what else.
It's more than half of the store
is just where employees make stuff.
- That's good icing, Link.
That's a good carrot cake.
- Wow. It's very cinnamon-y.
- I think this is Kroger.
I think we know we love Kroger.
I think Erewhon is trying to get two fancy.
They're putting like, healthy ingredients.
The carrot's for Walmart.
Now Stevie, we can't win, but-
- We're feeling good about that.
- Did you tell us if we get all three of these right,
we still win?
Is that what you said or did I just dream that?
- She didn't.
- [Stevie] I think if you get all three of these right,
you can look at what you didn't win.
- All right, that's fair.
$50 worth of Erewhon.
We'll just look at it.
- [Stevie] The cheapest is on the green plate.
- Yeah!
- [Stevie] Walmart for $2.44.
- This is easy. This is child's play.
- [Stevie] The middle is on the red plate.
- Yeah!
- [Stevie] Kroger for $5.39. - And it's the best.
- And Erewhon's on the yellow plate for $10.
- Yeah. Erewhon's overshot it.
- I will say- - $10?
- If you're eating cake for health reasons.
- (laughs) Right.
- Eat the Erewhon cake.
- [Stevie] All right, let's see that grocery cart.
- What we could have won.
- You're saying this is $50 worth?
(crew laughing)
- That's it.
So we got-
- What in the world?
- Oh, daggone it.
- We weren't supposed to be able to touch it.
We were supposed to look at it.
- Well, now we're doing it.
Now we're looking.
Oh, is this the thing?
- [Stevie] That's the cloud smoothie for $17.
- We could have tasted that!
- I wanna taste that.
- We could have tasted that.
- This is germ warfare.
- [Stevie] Yeah. For $10.
- You could have gotten healthy.
- What is it?
Hand sanitizer?
- [Stevie] No, it's a shot.
- You drink that.
And then what is this?
- [Stevie] That's $15 worth of almonds.
- $15 worth of nothing but almonds.
They're not even salted, toasted, or tossed.
- You sell those door-to-door for 16.
Make a dollar a jar.
- That could have been ours.
- Oh, man. Just look at it.
That's all you can do.
- I'm still gonna go to Erewhon,
but I'm not gonna take any money.
- I'm going to Kroger.
- I'm just gonna take my camera.
- I'm gonna keep going to Kroger.
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- Hi, my name's Bethany.
- And my name's Dylan.
- And it's our one and a half year anniversary.
- And we just hiked up to Grotto Falls in Tennessee.
- [Both] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality!
- You guys will stop celebrating
half anniversaries eventually.
(Link laughs)
In fact, that's probably the last one.
- Congratulations.
- Not because it's gonna end. - Congratulations.
(crew laughing)
- Because I mean, but yeah, congratulations.
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