- Is a raw cheese stick a huge mistake?
- Let's talk about that.
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Raw.
It isn't just the way to describe
your college roommate's slam poetry
when you can't tell 'em what you really think.
It's also the state of most of our foods before
they are properly prepared.
- But certain foods are meant to be enjoyed
in their natural state, with no heat or cookery applied,
and on the flip side, some foods require
copious amounts of cooking, lest you
twist your tastebuds and tum tums into times of tumult.
(he laughs)
Though today, we tip toe towards that troubling temptation.
- It's time for raw foods cooked versus cooked foods raw,
which will be yay and which will be naw?
- A few weeks ago we posted a series of cooked raw food
versus raw cooked food matchups,
and you voted on which you thought we would like better,
and now we're gonna find out if you are right.
And the prize and punishment at stake isn't for us,
it's for y'all.
- Right, if you guess three or more rounds correctly,
we'll each recite a haiku just for you,
but if you don't get three right, you have to watch us
watch something extremely hilarious, and you will
never get to see what it is.
Never!
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- If you want a quick and speedy vegetarian meal
but you also want it flipped, you are in luck.
We've got a raw pizza, and a cooked wedge salad.
- Okay, some basic, this is like, sad.
Doesn't it?
- Yeah, and this is, I mean, the dough is completely raw.
Which one you wanna start with?
'Cause my theory is that I'm gonna like this,
because I like wedge salad, and I know you don't
like blue cheese, but like-- - I like dough.
So, we can start over here.
- Why don't you try to get as much of the ingredients
that you actually don't mind,
so you don't get too soiled by the blue cheese.
- So cooked onion, is that avocado?
- Well, there's cooked lettuce, mostly.
- But that's onion, right?
Isn't it?
- [Josh] Yeah.
- Josh?
- Yeah, there's onion, the stringy part's the onion.
- Wow, but that right there, that big thing of lettuce,
that's kind of nasty.
- [Josh] That's the wedge.
- And now you're sitting there
cutting into this moist wedge?
Ugh.
- I gotta say, I like it, man.
It tastes like a cooked,
it tastes like, you know, like sauteed something.
- Yeah, kinda like-- - It's not pretty,
but the taste is coming together, for me, personally.
- Yeah, it's very ugly, but it's not bad.
And there's blue cheese on that?
- [Josh] Mhmm.
- I typically don't like that.
- Oh, okay.
So you might give it a chance.
- I got a lot of the onions, and I love some onions.
- Gonna try to get a bite that's got,
- I'm gonna try to pick it up like pizza.
- Everything in here.
- I guess, like New York style.
(crew laughs)
So here's the thing.
I love raw mushrooms
and I don't really love cooked mushrooms.
I like raw veggies.
I like uncooked cheese, who doesn't?
And this, what is that?
Just tomato sauce?
- [Josh] It's uncooked tomato sauce.
- Mmm, now that, ugh.
(crew laughs)
Now that part's nasty, 'cause I don't like raw tomatoes.
I like cooked tomatoes.
- And pizza dough is not a dough to enjoy raw,
it's not like cookie dough.
It feels wrong.
- I'm having a real hard time, and it's basically like
salsa, but all it is is tomatoes.
- This is super easy for me.
(Link spits)
I actually like the cooked wedge salad.
- Yeah, I was really hopeful, 'cause I like dough
but I'm with you, man, this surprised me,
met your expectations, so we are voting
for the cooked wedge salad.
- Let's see what the Mythical Beasts said.
- [Female Announcer] 54% of the Mythical Beasts
thought that you'd like raw pizza better.
(buzzer sounds)
- Ah, you were very close.
- But you were wrong.
- Wrong!
- What you didn't factor in is that raw tomato,
I'm sorry, that did it in for me.
- Yeah, pretty nasty.
(energetic music)
- Now french fries are usually fried, duh,
and often dipped in pure, unadulterated sauces,
so let's flip that with raw french fries
and adulterated sauces.
- Okay, how did you get these Fruit Roll-Up-like
things over here?
- [Josh] Well, I adulterated 'em hard.
So what I did is I spread them out on a thin sheet pan
and then I put them in the oven at a really low heat
with a convection setting, just to kind of dehydrate them,
and they should turn into kind of a Fruit Roll-Up situation.
- This is barbecue sauce, ketchup, and mustard?
- [Josh] Honey mustard. - Honey mustard.
- Really sticky.
- [Josh] That's Sweet Baby Ray's.
- Oh, we know we like that.
- Now were you hoping I'd be able to scrape this up?
- [Josh] Is it not scraping?
It might be sweating a little bit.
- [Link] Yeah, I think this one, we got a little compromised
integrity here, because--
- Well, and you know what, if you served it,
- Oh, that one's working.
- If you served it on one of those,
a Fruit Roll-Up sheet,
- Mmm.
- Take some ketchup, Neal.
- I like this Sweet Baby Ray's.
- Yeah, it's very good.
Oh, we could sell this.
- Mmm.
(crew laughs)
- Straight up, just like Fruit Roll-Up ketchup?
- Ketch Roll-Up.
We could just call it ketchup.
- Let's try the honey mustard, honey.
- Sweet Baby Ray's, oh, this side's kind of coming up,
here we go.
- Tell me what you think about this, honey.
- I will.
Is it honey?
Why'd you call me honey?
- Honey mustard.
And of course, sometimes I just call you honey.
My mama used to call me honey.
- That's good, honey.
Honey.
- I think more mamas should call more of their kids honey.
- You don't think most mamas call their kids honey?
How do you know how many mamas call their kids
honey and don't?
- I think it's a dying art, man.
But I'll tell you what's not a dying art.
- This.
- Dehydrated condiments.
- And how could this be smart?
How did you prepare these?
- [Josh] Uh, well, I was about to drop 'em in the fryer
and then just didn't.
- Oh, but you salted them.
- [Josh] I did.
- Very crunchy.
- I gotta say, it's not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
- No, it's really not.
- The salt helps. - Helps a lot.
- And it makes it seem like some sort healthy snack
you would get out of strangely named place like
Sunflower Heaven, or something like that
that's like off La Brea.
- Sunflower Heaven.
- [Josh] This is raw vegan.
- I know you're not supposed to do this,
but take some of that ketchup.
- Have you been to Sunflower Heaven?
They have french fries, but they're just french.
- Wrap that around.
(Rhett laughs)
- This could be a killer combination.
- Whoa.
- That's weird.
- Make me a reservation.
But, I think we're both--
- Combination doesn't work.
- I think we're both saying that
this is revolutionary.
- That's so much fun.
I'm having so much fun.
- This could be sold right now.
- Did you agree?
- [Female Announcer] 52% of MBs thought that you would like
raw french fries better. (buzzer sounds)
- What?
Seriously, guys?
I mean, that was really close.
- Y'all having a bad day.
- 2%.
- Sorry.
(energetic music)
- Sushi is the ultimate raw food, but fish sticks,
typically not eaten in the raw form.
And caviar ain't typically cooked,
key word being typically.
- So we got some cooked caviar over here,
but let's skip to this, because I'm concerned.
- [Josh] About what?
- Is this like sushi-grade fish, but then it's just
battered and then nothing?
[Josh] If I say yes, will that make you eat it?
(crew laughs)
- I'd like for you to tell me what it is.
- What kind of fish is it?
- [Josh] It's tilapia.
(Rhett scoffs)
- Raw tilapia? - [Josh] Yeah.
- Tilapia is usually not enjoyed
in sushi restaurants, is it?
- [Josh] Usually is a word that we don't use a lot
around here.
(Rhett laughs)
- And then it's battered?
- [Josh] Yeah, just simply floured and actually
coated with a little bit of mayonnaise, actually.
- Little bit of mayonnaise never hurt anybody.
- [Josh] That's how I do my fish sticks.
- So tell me something that's gonna make me confident
that I'm not gonna get sick.
- [Josh] Oh, all right, have fun.
(Rhett laughs)
- You know what, I think all your experience
in enjoying things on this show
and never really getting sick,
- Means that I never will get sick?
- Yeah.
All right, we're starting with this, by the way, I guess.
Okay, dink it?
- And sink it.
Just a little nibble.
- Oh gosh.
It's tough.
- Yeah.
- Oh gosh.
This is like, stranded type things, you know?
(crew laughs)
This is like biting into a fish in a lifeboat.
- Yeah, yeah, this is survival situation, lifeboat time.
- And I've always thought about that, you know?
(Link spits)
Watching those movies with Robert Redford in 'em?
(Link retches)
That one movie with Robert Redford in it.
- I just wanna be clear, here.
Not good.
That was not good.
(Rhett spits)
- You know what?
If I was with Robert Redford, I'd swallow it.
I mean the fish.
(crew laughs)
- But he ain't here.
- Let's talk caviar.
- Now for some reason, I was thinking that this is like,
I was getting this confused, 'cause of the way it looks,
like cat food, really.
Yeah, so this is, I guess,
(crew laughs)
the eggs,
- What happened?
- The eggs break down.
- It looks like rice.
- [Josh] They're scrambled.
- Oh.
- Oh, you scrambled the black eggs, the fancy black eggs.
- I gotta get more, you're making me look bad.
Gotta impress Robert.
- Dink it.
- Oh, it's immediately better than the raw fish.
It tastes exactly like caviar, just cooked.
(Link retches)
- I'm not a huge fan of caviar, but that's--
- Yeah, this is absolutely horrible,
this is just mildly horrible.
Guys, you haven't been doing well.
[Female Announcer] It turns out that 65% of MBs thought
that you would like cooked caviar better.
(bell dings)
- Okay, good, see you're back on track.
- Coming around.
- You're pulling it together.
(energetic music)
The last time we did the switcheroo episode
there were moments of happiness and discovery
and celebration.
- Well, the ketchup Fruit Roll-Ups, that was good.
- That was fun, but I've forgotten that.
- Think about those.
- This is a Philly Cheesesteak that's completely raw.
And that is an Acai bowl that's been cooked.
- Completely cooked.
- I have a little bit of hope in this.
If I were a Mythical Beast I'd probably
be voting for that.
- This feels like porridge-y, you know what I'm saying?
Now I'm one of those guys that will get the steak tartare,
I know that's not everybody's jam,
but I typically don't put it on a raw dough.
- Oh, gosh.
- You having trouble?
- Oh, here's your half.
I'll let you grab your, wow that's a lotta raw meat.
- [Josh] Yeah.
- Is it tartare-grade?
- [Josh] If that makes you more comfortable.
- Yes, just say what makes me comfortable.
- [Josh] That doesn't exist, but fine, eat it.
- It doesn't exist?
- [Josh] Tartare-grade is not a thing.
Just eat the beef.
- All beef is, you know,
cool to eat, right?
- All beef is (he stutters)
- You wanna dink it?
- Kiss it and diss it.
- Okay, I'm really going for it.
- Oh gosh, are you serious?
- Yeah.
- I just can't.
I like the dough and I like the onion part, and the cheese.
(Rhett retches)
- What are you reacting negatively to?
The raw meat, man.
It just hit me.
And again, I like tartare.
Did you get raw meat?
- I got some, yeah, but I got a lot of dough,
and that's helping me.
- I got more meat than dough, and I literally,
I tried to swallow it, my body said,
"nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope,
"not today."
(Link spits)
- Yeah, I don't wanna have to be thinking about the fact
that this is in my body, later.
- I thought that I might like that.
I tried.
- I'm actually wondering.
- Oh look, look at that.
- Oh my gosh, that's like an oil slick.
- It looks like congealed blood.
Congealed Acai.
- That is gross.
- Get some of that.
- We got some goji berry on this?
- Yeah.
- Look how dark it's turned.
It's turned, the acai is turned.
- All right, this is gonna be good, I believe.
- It's a pasty, glue consistency.
- You're a puddin' man, though.
I thought a puddin' man would be all over this.
- I mean it tastes fine, but there's something.
- I thought this would make you goji crazy.
- Something about the hotness of it.
- I like it.
- It's basically like a cobbler.
- Yeah, it's cobbler without the cob.
- Mhmm.
Who needed the cob anyway?
- Right?
It's just a blur.
- Yeah.
- It's all a blur.
- This blur is good, especially when you start to wrap
your mind around the cobbler-ness of it.
So that was easy.
Did you agree?
- [Female Announcer] 55% of MBs thought that you'd like
the cooked acai bowl better. (bell dings)
- But only 55%.
- Yeah, that's strange.
I would have thought that one was easy.
Well then, you know what?
It doesn't really matter, because you only got
two out of four, which means you're going to be punished.
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