- Today we squash the Wendy's and McDonald's beef,
once and for all.
- Let's talk about that.
(pleasant electronic music)
"Good Mythical Morning."
- Now if Ronald McDonald and Wendy
from Wendy's got in a fight,
who do you think would win?
Well, me, 'cause I mean,
forget all that Jake Paul boxing hoopla.
- Okay.
- I think this is the pay-per-view event
that I'd wanna watch.
- Okay, well my money is on Ron
but my heart will always be with Wendy.
But if those restaurant's foods were to face off,
do you think you would turn out the same way?
Well, the battle has actually already begun on Twitter
because McDonald's Tweeted,
"Reply to this haiku about McDonald's
and maybe I'll make it our Twitter bio."
- And then Wendy's did in fact reply with this haiku.
"Frozen beef circle passed out the drive through window.
A disappointment."
- Ooh, cold, and one time random Twitter user
and upset McDonald's customer @RingtailedBat Tweeted,
"Leave it to McDonald's to disappoint me with a promise
of spicy nuggets just to give me regular.
Cowards.
I should've known never to stray from Wendy's perfection."
- And Wendy's quickly hopped in with,
"Now you can be disappointed in regular and spicy flavors."
- Yeah, it's pretty clear,
when it comes to Twitter,
Wendy's doesn't have any competition,
but the battle is not with words,
it's with taste.
So let's discover the true champion amongst
these fast food juggernauts.
It's time for food feuds.
Wendy's versus McDonald's.
- We're gonna taste and compare popular items
from each restaurant's menu and then rate them independently
on a scale of one to 10.
The restaurant with the most points
will be crowned the fast food feud fiend
and will win a chance to sponsor a future GMM episode.
- Okay, as always, we sent out a Mythical crew member
to each place to pick up our order.
Stevie, what's the update?
We heard back from him yet?
- [Stevie] Well, if you can believe it,
both restaurants have really upped
their communication game in the past year,
so we actually have video call technology
so we can see the employees handling the order,
and I think a call should be coming in
from Wendy's right now.
Brring!
- Wow, that ring sounds a lot like Stevie.
Oh, you know what?
- There's the phone.
- [Stevie] Brring!
- Oh look, it's Patty.
Hey, Patty.
- Hey, hey.
- Hello, gentlemen.
For once there is nothing wrong with your food order.
Although someone from your crew asked
for three spicy nuggets on their Baconator,
which is weird but also sounds really good.
Anyway, I have this thing I need help with.
Could you call McDonald's right now on another phone
so I could talk to Dirk?
- Oh, at McDonald's.
- Okay, uh yeah, you're always wanting.
- [Patty] He works there too.
- To connect with Dirk, okay.
- I have a phone.
- [Stevie] Beep, boop, beep, boop, beep, beep, beep, beep.
- And enter.
- [Stevie] Brring!
- Hey, Dirk.
- Oh, hey.
- [Link] It's Rhett and Link.
- What's crack a lackin', Link and Rut McKackin?
(laughing)
- Hey, man.
It's good to see you again and not just hear you.
We've got, I want to call her Wendy.
Your name's not Wendy, it's Patty.
- No, it's Patty, don't disrespect Patty.
- [Patty] It's his mom.
- We've got Patty at Wendy's and she's asking us
to call you so that you can talk to her?
- Oh, that's so sweet.
- Okay, uh Dirk, I was wondering.
- Do you want to look at him?
- [Patty] Oh yeah, could you do me a favor
and put up our little phones so we could see each other?
- [Dirk] Ooh, now I can see your beautiful face.
- Oh, thanks so much.
Uh Dirk, I was wondering what you were doing
for the rest of your future work tours,
because can I come and will you marry me?
- Well, this is moving very quick.
- Oh my coal chamber, yes!
Yes, I will marry you.
- I'm so happy.
Hey Dirk, I packed your lunch today.
Check the Cheetos.
- Uh, the yeah, you packed my favorite lunch
of all Cheetos!
- All Cheetos.
- You got me a butterfly ring.
You got me a lip ring for the lip.
Look at it.
- [Patty] It's so pretty.
- It's a butterfly.
You gotta look close.
The quality is bad.
- Yeah, I can't really tell what's happening.
- It's a video chat.
- It's there, it's there.
Oh, I would like to respond to my love Patty
with a song that I wrote,
can I do that?
- [Stevie] Oh wow.
- Our time is limited.
- [Patty] This is the most important moment.
- We've got all the time in the world for love.
- No we don't Dirk, make it quick.
♪ Patricia, I wanna kiss ya ♪
♪ I wanna live my life in blissa with Patricia ♪
♪ Patricia, Patricia, I love you ♪
♪ Patricia, Patricia, Patricia ♪
- [Dirk] I'm workin' on it still.
- It made me very emotional.
(laughing)
Oh, man.
I love you my butterfly sugarbaby.
I can't wait to.
- [Dirk] I love you too, baby.
- Okay, guys.
Congratulations.
- [Dirk] I love you.
- We have a show to do.
- [Patty] Sorry about that, okay.
- Best wishes Dirk and Patricia.
- Good luck with your future.
- [Patty] Thank you very much.
- Okay.
- [Dirk] I love you.
- Let's eat some food.
(rock music)
- [Stevie] Okay, gentlemen.
We're going to begin with breakfast.
On Rhett's side is Wendy's Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit,
which you can order for $3.29,
and on Link's side is McDonald's Bacon,
Egg & Cheese Biscuit,
which you can order for $4.79.
- Yeah, we didn't go with the McGriddles
or the McMuffin so that we could do apples
to apples comparison or biscuits to biscuits.
- Right.
It's a very cakey biscuit.
- Yeah, and it all kinda comes together into one thing.
- I mean, it's not bad.
- The main flavor that you get is.
- Is egg.
- Is cheese.
- Oh yeah.
- And then bacon.
- And then egg.
Are you now agreeing?
- No, I thought it was very eggy.
- I just, I'm not very impressed with that.
- No.
Oh, but let's see.
- [Link] I'm not ready to give it a score, though.
- [Rhett] Speaking of egg.
- [Link] A lot more egg on this and it's a scrambled egg.
- Oh my.
That's more than twice as good.
- Okay, so let's score Wendy's first.
- Okay.
- I'm gonna give,
I'm gonna give it a three. - Four.
- It's not great to me.
- I don't want our answers to influence each other.
So I just, as soon as you say it,
I'm saying what I got.
I'm giving that a four.
- And then I'm gonna give this, okay.
I'm going to, I think we should score it
and then add points for the McGriddles,
which is not here because I just think McDonald's deserves
that in their breakfast category.
- I don't even think I have to do that
because it's just so much better.
I said it was about twice as better.
I'm saying it is twice as better, eight.
- I'm going to give it a six and add one for McGriddles
to make it a seven.
- Don't understand, but okay.
(rock music)
- [Stevie] It's nugget time, boys.
On Rhett's side are Wendy's 6 Piece Chicken Nuggets
that you can buy for $1.99 and on Link's side
are McDonald's 6 Piece Chicken McNuggets
that you can get for $2.50.
- This is kind of like a version
of what you might get in the frozen food section.
- I think these are very good.
You know, there's lots of people that'll bend over backwards
for a Wendy's nugget.
A McDonald's nugget on the other hand
is its own entity incomparable to any other thing,
including nuggets on the planet.
It's got a harder shell.
- Yeah, they're just so difficult
to go side-by-side because.
- In a signature taste.
- If you didn't know these were from McDonald's
and you didn't know McDonald's was a thing,
you might think something was wrong with this nugget.
- Right, you'd be like, this is, this is horrible.
This is like alien.
But once you get used to it,
you again, you either love it or hate it.
- You anticipate that taste,
which is not bad but it's also not good.
- If I'm not three years old,
I'm not lovin' this.
- I prefer, there's something I prefer.
Okay.
- Six.
- Seven and.
- [Both] Four.
- [Stevie] Ouch.
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Fries versus fries.
I've been dreading this round, man.
- [Stevie] Yes, oh.
- [Link] Because I think this is going
to be a difficult one.
- [Stevie] So the Wendy's medium sized fries come in
at $2.59 and then the McDonald's medium sized fries
come in at $3.19.
- Now Wendy's is kind of going for the natural.
You've got the skin still on,
kind of trying to do like a Five Guys kinda thing, you know?
Where we already know McDonald's fries
will stay good for like 40 years.
- Well, they won't turn into anything
but after a few minutes,
they're not good.
You got to eat those suckers fresh.
I mean, that's kinda true of most fries.
I'm not really gonna hold that against it.
I try to eat half of my fries at McDonald's
before I dig in to anything else
so that they're not lingering out there
and getting cold and nasty.
- Again, McDonald's has done something
with the specificity of each one
of their items and it transcends.
- The genre.
- All other, yeah, it transcends the whole genre.
- Well, Wendy's has done a great job with these fries.
I think that it's the best fry you can get
that's got a little bit of the skin on it.
Again, this is almost like it's other worldly
and you may love it.
Stevie, I know that you absolutely obsess over these.
- [Stevie] You know it.
All the time.
- I'm feeling a little pressure,
a little of that energy.
- [Stevie] Yup.
- They do something very different
for me and they both do it well.
- Yeah, that's why this is tough.
Okay, huh.
- It's like both of my kids, you know?
I mean, they're very different.
I love them in different ways.
- I know my number.
- But I love 'em the,
well, I love one a little bit more than the other.
(laughing)
So.
- I've got three.
How do you think I feel?
- I've been going with uh.
- [Both] Seven, eight.
- Whoa!
Wow!
- I mean, I think it just edges it out
because there's just some ubiquity
to these that you just keep coming back to 'em.
- Yeah, it's good.
- It may be the best thing McDonald's has to offer.
- Oh, okay.
Well that's not what we're judging, though.
(rock music)
- [Stevie] Burgers!
On Rhett's side is Wendy's Dave's Double
that you can order for $5.99,
and on Link's side is McDonald's classic Big Mac
that could be ordered for $5.59.
- Yep, and you can,
man, I remember when you can get a Big Mac meal for $2.99.
- I mean, look at that cross-section.
This is a classic burger.
You've got the square patty,
which I can kind of take it or leave it,
but it feels like a diner burger.
And that really soft bun?
- [Stevie] And this is the first round
where the Wendy's menu item is more expensive
than the McDonald's.
All the rest, Wendy's has been cheaper.
- I think you can taste the difference, man.
- Their beef and their cheese.
That is a winning combination.
- That's a good burger.
- When you start to analyze everything they put around it,
it distracts from how great that one taste is.
- Well, what do you mean around it?
- The lettuce, the mayo,
all that stuff around it just kinda like blah.
It doesn't bring anything to the party
but the beef and the cheese together,
and especially that beef is very notable.
- But none of it's overwhelming.
I mean, to me, it's a subtle,
and again we're back to the same kind
of thing with McDonald's.
The food science that goes into a McDonald's menu item
like the Big Mac,
it's just so, it's so engineered.
You know what I'm saying?
- You don't take a bite
and you're not thinking about the meat.
You're not thinking about any ingredient.
You're thinking about the entire entity.
That thousand island
or secret sauce dressing and the onions,
it really brings it all together
and it creates a defining culinary moment
no matter what your age.
- That special sauce really does a lot.
But I'm trying to let myself.
- That corner of beef, though.
- The beef on this,
the quality of the meat is something that.
- Have we fallen for the marketing?
- Nope, it tastes different.
Look at it.
- [Link] It's real.
- [Rhett] Look how thick that is.
- It's tough, that's fabulous.
- I got a score for over here.
Eight. - Seven.
- Seven. - Eight.
- You went bigger with the Wendy's?
- I did.
- I went slightly bigger with the the Big Mac
and we've canceled each other out.
- This square beef, the bigger beef,
where's the beef?
- This is a tie round.
Didn't think that would happen, but.
- It did, I'm gonna finish it.
(rock music)
- [Stevie] On Rhett's side is Wendy's
Spicy Chicken Sandwich that you can get for $5.39,
and on Link's side is McDonald's
New Spicy Chicken Sandwich that you can buy for $4.99.
- Okay, it's a little cheaper.
- All right, something to note about this.
This particular spicy chicken sandwich
at Wendy's has been around since the mid-nineties.
So it's pre-chicken sandwich wars that have been happening
since Popeyes did their thing, right?
And so this is a response to Popeyes.
So I have to think,
and he's not distracting at all.
I have to think that this is going
to be a completely different experience
than this like mid-nineties chicken sandwich,
you know what I'm saying?
- But I've never had either so let's find out.
- This is more like a McChicken.
- But from Wendy's.
- Mm hm.
- I was thinking more like school lunch but spiced.
- It has a school lunch quality to it.
Not great.
- I really can't say anything positive about it.
- And this is again.
- It's spicy.
- This is looks a lot like a Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich.
There's no sauce on it.
There's just pickles.
- There's a stripe on the bun, though.
Kinda like that guy from "Gremlins."
- You know, Traver can do that.
I've seen him do that on a bun.
- Oh yeah?
He can stripe a bun?
- Mm hm.
I mean, I can almost taste like a brine there?
- Mm hm.
The bun tastes better.
Chicken tastes better.
Where's the spice?
- There's not a lot of spice.
- Nope, okay.
Three. - Four.
- [Both] Four.
- We don't like these.
But we both liked.
- I said four and four.
- Oh, you tied, you tied them exactly?
Man, you were pretty tough on McDonald's.
It's definitely better in my mind.
- It could have done more.
Could have done more.
(rock music)
- [Stevie] Okay, it's time for dessert.
On Rhett's side is Wendy's medium Classic Chocolate Frosty.
which comes in at $2.19,
and on Link's side is McDonald's regular size Oreo McFlurry
that you can get for $3.49.
- All the stuff we've talked about
McDonald's creating something that transcends the genre.
- Wendy's did it with this.
- Of the item.
They did it with the Frosty and they've never looked back.
- But have you ever thought to yourself,
I don't know how good a Frosty is?
Like, like.
- That's a good point.
- You enjoy it but then when you really stop
and think about it you're like,
it's sort of this mildly flavored chocolate,
completely homogenous.
- It's like, it's almost like a Yoohoo shake.
You know?
- Yeah.
- But I love it, it's great.
- I mean, I'm not saying I don't like it
but I've never really thought about it.
I don't think about food when I just go out and eat it.
I just eat it.
- No, but when I go to Wendy's,
I go to Wendy's and I'm like,
I haven't been here a while and then I realize.
(gasping)
- [Both] Frosty.
- I get all excited.
- But a McFlurry is a different thing.
First of all,
you have this hollowed out spoon.
- It's like the freaking "Sword in the Stone" here.
What's happening?
- Gracious.
All right, whoever gets it out first is King McDonald's.
- Me.
- I mean, you have the addition
of whatever you've McFlurred into it.
- In this case, Oreo.
- And I'm really influenced by things
that had been McFlurred.
- The consistency of a Frosty.
It's more airy than soft serve.
I'm gonna add points because it's so unique.
- Yeah, and you can dip your fries in it.
That's kind of a thing.
- Well, you can do that here too.
- But it wouldn't be good with Oreo, though.
- Yeah.
- Okay, I gotta say, I liked both of these.
The Frosty when I came back to it,
it's growing on me a little bit.
And I think these are both great dessert offerings.
I'm going eight. - Nine.
- And eight. - Seven.
- Again, I think that they end up tying in the end.
- Okay, well it seems
that I'm the only one moving the needle.
What is the result, Stevie?
- [Stevie] Well, it looks like by the hair
of their chinny chin chins,
the winner is McDonald's.
- [Link] Congratulations.
I Feel good about that.
- [Rhett] Yeah, I mean.
- [Link] No hate to Wendy.
- Both of these are good fast food establishments
with a long storied history,
but you know what?
I think that McDonald's just edged 'em out
just a little bit.
Congratulations Mickey D's,
you know you won?
You're the fast food fiend.
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