- Do you enjoy eating your food wrong?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Food preferences go way deeper than things like,
"Do you put ketchup on a hot dog?"
Or, "Should pineapple go on a pizza?"
- Oh!
- The world is filled with strong opinions
about different ways you prefer to eat the exact same food.
- Like which piece of a brownie do I want from the pan
and exactly how hard am I willing to fight a child for it?
- The one right in the middle.
- Oh, yeah.
This episode is about important opinions like that.
- Yeah.
- It's time for Incredible Edible Percent-ibles!
- [Stevie] Okay, gentlemen.
Here's how this is gonna go down.
We surveyed the mythical beasts about a series of foods
and two different ways people prefer to have them served.
- Uh-huh.
- [Stevie] You will taste both versions of those foods
and decide together how you think the Beasts voted
using our Incredible Edible Percent-ibles chart.
- Can I just say, our team, amazing job.
- You can say it!
- When we were talking about this idea
of like, what if we could dial in a pie chart?
I had no idea that it would be so beautiful!
Look at that.
- It's almost all yellow now!
- Look at that.
I'm so excited.
- All right.
- [Stevie] On this chart, you can register your guess
down to the very percentage of the votes.
- We see that.
- [Stevie] If you guess the correct preference
of the vote breakdown, you win one point.
If you guess within 15% of the actual total,
you win an additional three points.
There are 20 points up for grabs in the game.
If you earn 11 or more, you win
some super cool percentage T-shirts.
But that means simply getting every round right
isn't enough to win.
- Not gonna do it. Okay.
- Right, so just knowing which one was more preferred.
- You gotta get that percentage.
- You gotta dial it in. - We can do this.
- I feel really good about our abilities in this area.
- All right, then I'll balance it out
and feel not good about it.
- Okay, great. We feel okay.
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- [Stevie] There are strong opinions
when it comes to bacon being overrated or the best food ever
but what's the best way to eat it?
Is it better soft and chewy or well done and crispy?
- (chuckles) Now, I'm a crispy man.
- Crispy's better.
- Whenever I order bacon, I always specify crispy.
- So I grew up in a household
where maybe because it was my dad or my mom's preference
that most of the bacon would come out like this.
And because it's bacon, I still ate it and loved it.
- It's still great.
I grew up in a household of floppy bacon, too.
And then I would go to my nanny's and she would just fry it
until it was harder than a plank, man.
- Yeah. - And I didn't like it.
And then at some point, I don't know, post-puberty?
Definitely post-puberty.
The crispy.
- Post-puberty.
You think something happened?
- Yeah.
- You got pubes and you start lighting crispy things?
- The distance between my mouth and my balls increased
and I think that's why I like crispy or bacon now.
- Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, Link.
Medical sense.
- I mean, I wouldn't even call this as crispy.
- It could be crispier.
- I mean, you could almost burn it
and I would still like it.
- You can get crispy bacon where that there's no give.
It's completely rigid and there's no flop at all in it.
- I mean, this is pretty rigid.
- Now-
- Compared to this.
Just slinging grease.
- I have to believe that the majority of people think
that crispy bacon is better because a lot of people
do not like fat being presented as fat.
- Yeah, so let's just start with like, make it yellower.
You know, you got two good arms.
- I mean, dude, I think this may be all the way to there.
It might be 75-25.
- That's pretty far.
- But it might be 70-30.
How does that feel?
What if it was 35-65?
- That's still feasible.
We're trying to get within 15%.
Honestly, my gut says 25, but I think, let's go 27.
- You think we should go the way to 27?
- Go to 30.
Go to 30.
It's less than 30.
Why do people like floppy bacon?
Even when it's all I ate, I couldn't tell you why.
It's greasier.
It's nastier. It's like, I don't know.
This is our answer. We're locked in.
- [Stevie] Over 73,000 Mythical Beasts voted
and 21% said that they liked soft, chewy bacon better,
while 79% liked their bacon well-done and crispy.
- Wow, so it was almost 80-20.
But we were within the percentages.
- Yes!
- That means we got four points!
- But we should have gone with the original gut, man.
- Of 25 all the way.
- [Link] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I mean, all the way to there, really.
- I mean, that is the answer right there.
That's what she said.
- Well, so if you like floppy bacon,
that's how wrong you are.
How's that make you feel?
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- [Stevie] Apparently, some people like their grilled cheese
a little more on the extra well-done side,
but is that the best way to eat grilled cheese,
according to popular opinion?
- Hold that up there.
- No way.
- So, I thought you might like-
- You have lots of opinions about me that are not true.
Like, you thought that I would like the floppy bacon.
You think that I'm gonna like.
- I didn't say you would like the floppy bacon.
I didn't say that.
- You think I'm gonna like burnt grilled cheese.
- I didn't say that!
- Well, you said, "Well, I'm a crispy man!"
I thought you're about say, "As opposed to you."
Why do you think I'm gonna like burnt?
I have good tastes, man.
- I thought, I don't like burnt or over-toasted toast.
Like even this part right here
is starting to get sus for me.
- Now, if I had to choose between just a cheese sandwich
that wasn't toasted and burnt, I'd go burnt.
- And I would choose an 11 second cheese sandwich,
which is my favorite.
So you don't like anything toasted that's like a bagel
or anything that like, gets a little dark?
- Here's the thing.
If you gave me this at a restaurant,
I would think they burnt that a little bit
and then I would eat it and not say anything else about it
'cause it's still good.
- I will acknowledge that it gives it a different taste.
Like-
- It's really good.
- It adds a taste that is a matter of preference.
Some people really like it.
I do think they're in the minority,
but I don't think it's by much.
- Here's the thing.
We are sitting here eating both of them,
but the person at home with a survey.
We mail the surveys?
- We mail the surveys. That's right.
- They open them up.
Blue or black ink.
When they're doing their survey at home,
they're not tasting these things side-by-side.
They're going off of what they think.
When you hear lightly golden brown grilled cheese
versus burnt grilled cheese, you're gonna be
on the lightly golden brown side every single time.
- 'Cause burnt is a negative term.
- But some people are like,
"No, but I do like my burnt stuff!"
I mean, I immediately.
My initial gut reaction is all the way to 75-25.
- That's way too far.
And you know what?
I'ma be real and I'm not talking about
that application right now.
I actually prefer this and I didn't know it.
I didn't know that was gonna happen because it's not burnt.
It's toasted. It's heartily toasted.
I think it's really neck and neck here.
I say go to 45. 45%.
- I think burnt.
I think I can only go to 43.
I think that's as far as I can go.
We have to have some compromise here.
- We're locking it in.
- 57-43.
- [Stevie] Only 13% of the Mythical Beasts
voted in favor of burnt grilled cheese
and a whopping 87% voted in favor
of a light golden brown grilled cheese.
- It's 'cause you used the word burnt.
- But that's what I was trying to say a second ago.
(crew laughing)
Lightly golden brown versus burnt.
- We blew it, man.
- Well, we is a strong word when you're the one who blew it.
- Yeah, but we're in this together.
History is gonna say that we blew it and I'm fine with that.
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- Stevie, it seems that we have cookies.
- [Stevie] Yes.
Where do the majority of people fall
in the crunchy versus chewy chocolate chip cookie debate?
- Stevie!
- This is not easy because...
- Look at this. Look at this crap.
- It depends on if you're talking about store bought
or if you're talking about homemade
because the perfect homemade chocolate chip cookie
is crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside,
but you can't get that.
If you buy them, they're on the shelf.
They've gotta be all the way crispy or all the way chewy.
- I am a chewy, gooey, doughy boy through-and-throughy.
What about you?
- One of each.
I mean, I'm serious.
It's just like-
- Stevie, which one do you grab?
- I appreciate both.
- Can we create our own survey?
- I appreciate both.
- Are you chewy or?
- [Stevie] I'm chewy.
I'm a chewy, gooey, soft boy.
What did you say?
Whatever you said.
That's what I am, too.
- Okay. Yeah.
We're chewy, gooey, soft boys.
- But it's not about us.
It's about you.
- I mean, we're like, two and a half
out of three right now liking gooey.
- We're almost cheating by surveying even three people here.
And it's crunchy is the word.
- I think more people...
- Crunchy is a good word.
Chewy's a good word, as well.
- People like chewy more.
- I think you're probably right.
- People like chewy more.
- But I think it is a-
- [Link] Send it more red.
Go ahead and start.
- But I mean, it can't be more than 55%.
It can't be.
- Nicole just laughed at you.
(crew laughing)
- It can't be more than 55%.
You want it to be more? You want it to be 60?
- I don't think it can be more than 60%.
- You wanna say 58?
- [Link] I wanna say 57 and a half.
- 57 and a half.
57 and a half percent people prefer chewy.
That feels right.
- [Stevie] You're locked in?
- Yes.
- [Stevie] 15% of the Mythical Beasts voted crunchy,
which means 85% like their chocolate chip cookies chewy.
- Well, you're right, but wow.
Where are the crunchy boys?
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- [Stevie] This round is all about salmon.
Crispy skin or no skin at all.
- All right, before you taste it, what's your survey answer?
- Clearly, people like it without skin more than with skin
'cause the skin, while it is the healthiest part,
is too fishy for most people and salmon is really-
- Is the skin where the fishiness is?
I didn't know that because I prefer it with skin
because it tastes good and, I mean, if it's done crunchy.
- You always surprise me.
- I always surprise you?
You thought I wouldn't like the skin?
- I don't know if you do like the skin
because the skin is where most
of the fishiness is concentrated.
- [Link] Well, shoot.
Now, I don't like it as much
- And a lot of cases, salmon just doesn't taste great to me.
But I get it a lot because it's so healthy
'cause of those omega-3s.
- Okay.
- And I know that the skin has got more of that in it
and so I eat the skin and I kind of just get through it.
- Because typically, the skin is like, you know,
it's less healthy, like on a chicken.
- Well, this ain't no chicken, man.
- This ain't no chicken.
- And this lightest part here, so it's not.
- I do think some people are gonna be
a little revolted by skin
and then some people just don't like the taste of it.
There's multiple reasons to not like skin
that stack up higher than the reasons I gave,
which is the crunchiness, the flavor.
- See, I think salmon with no skin is the preference, but-
- Agreed.
- I would've been in the 80-20 range
until you started talking.
- I've sent us sideways a number of times.
- Well, I seen sideways last time.
- Well, but I agreed with you.
- Yeah, it was your fault, really.
- And now- - The more I think about it.
- I mean, they've been so adamant.
- 85-15 twice.
- I know and they're serious.
- How does it make you feel when I do that?
- [Link] Well, that's 20.
- These skin lovers here.
These skin lovers, there's only 20 of them out of a hundred.
Just picture a hundred people.
- I think it may be less than that.
I mean, I'm thinking, how many restaurants,
when you order salmon, do they leave the skin on it?
I mean, are you saying that's 50-50?
- I don't know. I haven't done a survey.
- Well, so we have to be within 15 on these next.
We have to get at least one of these exactly right
in the next two to have a chance.
- Maybe 75-25 feels better
because then it has to be all the way down to 10%.
- You think less than 10% like?
Let's go to 24, in case it's 9%.
- This seems risky.
- I think it could be 9% like skin.
- You're 24?
I feel like, hey, if that's what does this in,
I'm gonna be upset with you.
- We're locked in.
- We're locked in at 24%.
- [Stevie] Well, boys, this was the tight race.
A really tight race with 47% of the Mythical Beasts
voting in favor of salmon with crispy skin,
which means only 53% like the salmon naked.
- So we got zero points?
- Zero points, homie. No.
- [Stevie] No, no. You got the one point,
but it's just like, it was more of a 50-50 situation
and yeah.
- [Link] Hey.
- We can still do this!
We can still pull it out.
- We should have weighed in-
- That was my fault, man.
- Because I surprised you.
Other people were gonna surprise you.
- Oh, yeah.
- I was really the litmus test here.
- I came in with it. - You failed me.
- With so much confidence. I've lost all of it.
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- [Stevie] Do more people like their fries
fresh and crispy or soft and floppy?
- Before you taste it, what's your gut?
- For me or them?
- Both.
- For me, I search for the floppy fries
and I don't know if it's because I like them better
or just because they're more special and they mix it up.
But I'm team floppy, especially at like,
fast food establishments.
Places where the fries get thinner
and they're even floppier than like,
the thinner, than floppier they can be.
- Man, I don't know what I'm learning about myself.
I guess I could have told you this,
but like, I don't have strong preferences
when it comes to this stuff.
Like, when I'm presented with a thing of fries,
I love the fact that there are some big, long ones
that are floppy and then there are some little thin ones
that are crispy and it's just like,
this spectrum of enjoyment that like, hits different notes.
Like somebody's putting Mozart is reaching into my mouth
and doing that in my mouth.
That's what it's like for me to eat.
- What's what's he doing to your mouth again?
(Rhett vocalizing)
I'm glad that you're covering your mouth with your hand
when you do that.
I'm seeing an angle I don't want you to see.
- Sometimes Beethoven.
- We need to get within 15% to get our percentage shirts.
- And I really want that shirt.
- I think this is an extreme.
- I don't. I don't.
Listen, I know I failed you.
- Do you know some floppy?
- I know that I failed you. - Some floppy fellers?
- I know you failed me,
but I think there's a lot on the line here.
I think crispy is clearly the majority,
but that's not what it's about.
It's about being right.
- But it's not the clear majority?
- I think it's, oh man.
I think it might be 60-40.
- 45-55?
- Maybe.
- Well, go to 60.
Let's see what that looks like.
- Crispy, floppy fries.
- So that's-
- That's 60-40.
- 40% floppy.
I just feel like...
- You think it's more extreme than that?
- I don't meet a lot of floppy fellers.
(crew laughing)
I really don't.
So I wanna push it.
I wanna push it to 30.
- To 30?
- Let's go to 35.
- I don't have any confidence in this.
- Let's go to 35.
We're locked in.
- [Stevie] 21% of the Mythical Beasts
prefer their fries soft and floppy.
- We did it!
- [Stevie] Which means 79% crispy.
You barely made it.
- You were right!
- Barely and I changed-
- [Stevie] Close one.
- Totally saved us, so give us our percentage shirts
'cause man, that came down to the wire.
Zero percent vegan?
- What do I get?
- That's yours.
I don't want that one.
And what about this one?
"I always give 100% at work over the course of a week."
(crew laughing)
- Oh, that's great.
And it's a tank.
- I need more tanks.
- Well, hey, Link.
Thank you man for pulling that out.
I mean, if we had stayed over here.
- I'm gonna wear this to physical therapy this afternoon.
- 60-40 we were doing.
- Yeah, for my shoulder.
- We wouldn't get this T-shirt.
- This is perfect.
I might put it on for Good Mythical More.
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