do restaurant brands taste the same at
the grocery store let's talk about that
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good mythical morning some restaurants
know that their signature dishes are so
popular people might go to the grocery
stores to buy them if they could but
would you buy them from the grocery and
never go to the restaurant again well it
depends on how much like they originally
are and whether or not i'm willing to
get out of my pajamas oh exactly so how
do the taste of iconic restaurant dishes
translate to their make it home versions
because they do make those and then you
can make them at home and can we tell
the difference and why aren't we
currently in pajamas it's time for these
dishes both share the exact same name
brand but ones from the restaurant and
one's from a can or bag or box or
plastic wrap you get
you can see we can't okay you guys know
how this works you're gonna have two
dishes in front of you one is the
restaurant version the other one we got
from the grocery store and is that
restaurants version and you're going to
taste both and then you're going gonna
put your credit card
in the little stand
thingy next to the one that you think is
from the actual restaurant wherever
whenever i stay at home to make a dish
from a restaurant i use the mythical
credit card available to no one
well i think there's a few people that
have a company car oh yeah these are
chips okay so yeah so your first dish is
spinach artichoke dip from tgi friday oh
friday i was like how's this gonna be
and you're concentrating on the dip yeah
i can't find it i found it is it close
to me
okay go ahead and do it
oh there it is
who knew
that i could love artichokes it's not
the artichokes that you love it's the
dip that's right man
but you know what i had a chip casualty
that's the way to i have one of those
too that's a way to like sneak
some
i mean lots of lots of nutrients
into your cheese dips just throw some
artichokes in there going over here to
the second did you like that
i did and i couldn't i mean this is
tough because
how do i know if it's been in a
microwave or
straight from the restaurant i don't
know
it's like i have a lot
oh gosh
i felt that on my thigh on your thigh
you did a little drippy drip
you notice the difference in the taste
because the consistency is a lot thinner
over here on my side i mean i do like i
do
wasn't your elbow
oh is that your face
what was that
i'm ready to vote
i'm not i don't know
one of them tastes better but it makes
me think that they put more
i like salt and stuff in it because it
was you were going to make it at home
oh you're you're doing the you're doing
the reverse i think i'm going to reverse
reverse psychology i mean one is
definitely better two
and i'm going to vote for that one yes
oh we disagree
yeah okay you can just
yeah
what
uh
no
no all right
i think that this one might be
look at that
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whenever i get a stain on my thigh i use
the mythical credit card can you can you
can you uh scrape it strip it with your
card
to scrape it off
okay so before i reveal what's what we
disagreed you
you disagree on what tastes better or
you agree i think this is actually from
the restaurant now that i see it but
again i think my reasoning for liking
this better is because they put some
like preservatives in it and it made it
taste like cheesier and saltier well the
one from the restaurant is actually on
link's side okay so i did like it better
um and the the store-bought one cost
4.99 the one from the restaurant costs
13.69 so there's quite a large price it
tastes like five times as good to me not
to me
so there you have it
if you uh
i i mean if you like stuff that doesn't
taste good hang out with link
okay guys i forgot to tell you what's up
for grabs this game whoever wins gets to
be the manager of good mythical more
after this so there's a lot on the line
oh uh you are sticking your forts forks
into uh p.f chang's chicken fried rice
this round and we're not wearing our
blindfolds because they look the same
yeah
but they also
kind of don't there's a couple of
distinct differences let's see if i can
tell what those are
i don't know maybe there's there's a
little bit of egg in that one i don't
know
it's dry
it's a little disappointing
that's pretty good
but i keep eating it
this one has um
like what is that edamame in it peas i
think look peas and edamame
that one has a lot more green stuff in
it
the chicken is smaller
but way more way more green stuff
wow this is
i think they taste drastically different
and one tastes a whole lot better than
the other
okay yeah
all right three two one it's gotta be
over here yeah whoop there we go yeah
you're both correct that is the rest no
i'm gonna play no no i'll i've got this
one can you split it just split it so
does it taste just
way better
this one tastes like yeah there's a
little bit of a taste that like
something has been frozen and unfrozen
yeah it's not horrible but it's not
great and then they like when they
package things they like them to be more
uniform but that actually
the visual difference is not what did it
for me even though these carrots are
longer than those
the taste this is just tastes fresh
so when you uh get it from the
restaurant it's 15 when you buy it at
the store it's 7.99
i mean i would say for store-bought
chicken fried rice
it's not bad
if i didn't know this existed
i would say that the chicken of our rice
at the store is also not great
restaurant at the restaurant yeah this
you call the restaurant the store yeah
take me to the store where they serve
food
i want to sit down
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okay so the cheesecake factory's famous
brown bread actually just comes free to
your table but you can also buy it in
grocery stores so that's what your
what's the what's the price difference
uh store-bought is 469 and and
restaurant is free
yeah it's free man that's part of the
great thing 469 is the price difference
i did the math
um and is it just fresh when you buy it
at the grocery store you're like it's
just like in a thing that you would get
fresh bread in
you have to put it in the oven for five
minutes
okay
so just to warm it up
what kind of bread is it nicole
i call it brown bread
yeah but i've called it that my whole
life
but it
is it wheat it's got oats on it
there is a taste difference this one is
a lot softer
it has a uh
what is a bread flavor
it has more bread flavor i don't know i
mean i don't know what yeastiness is
there a yeastiness to it when i tasted
this
having not tasted this one
i was
a little disappointed
and then when i tasted this
i know i'm giving it away but you
already know what's up nobody it's so
different right but coming back to this
one
it doesn't look like oh there we go i'm
still liking this one though i think
it's probably baked and made at the
exact same place
did they do something to heat it up at
the cheesecake factory
that's the same as what you do at home
this is pretty dang good that's my
theory three two one it's gotta be this
though this one has a stronger flavor on
this side it has like a and it's softer
it has a fresher so it feels like it
hasn't been like fresherness shipped and
baked guys
your minds are about to be blown because
the restaurant bread is on rhett's side
so
my mind is blown
i've lost all cognitive function
really well see first of all
once you said the thing about putting in
the oven i this thing has been
a little bit more brown but i guess that
just happened the first time it was it
was brought out a cheesecake
i'm really missing the butter that's
what really puts this over the top for
me
but the store-bought stuff's good
get you some famous brown bread
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something
strong
you have roasted garlic chicken pizza
from california pizza kitchen cpk cbk
the one and only
i remember when they had
they put a
cpk who does garlicky
at the um
at the southpointe mall in durham and we
were flocking over there to darn man
so it's garlic and what
roasted garlic chicken
okay i've never had that i always get
the barbecue chicken pizza it's like
it's nice
well this one this one feels floppy yeah
it does
huh
the garlic is real hidden over here the
garlic is like
tastes like browned garlic
that's a good that's a good taste of
garlic man we're gonna be reeking
i'm going back this is not immediately
obvious
they're both they're both good but one
of them the garlic is really really
pumping huh apparently they look
different because we're
we're not looking at anything big price
difference too store-bought is 7.69 and
restaurant is 18.99
well you're paying for the experience
stevie or being in a california pizza
kitchen
it's absolutely amazing this is not easy
they have booths they have tables this
is not easy man
i have two reasons to believe two
different
reasons to believe that each one is from
the restaurant you have two different
beliefs two different beliefs about this
are you harboring two different belief
systems in your body right now and i
have a feeling of cognitive dissonance
yeah feeling the cognitive dissonance
okay
three two one he's got i got him i i'm
going on a limb and going on this side
because of the crust now that i see the
size of it i know i'm wrong
yeah the one from restaurants on link's
side yeah oh that i got to start
ordering this there's no sauce on it the
um so no burps that was really
interesting to watch though because
aesthetically they look very different
but you both were
super torn on on the team
apparently i went with the crust
because the crust on
these uh one from the restaurant was a
little tougher
but i think it might just been bigger
pizzas
that garlic is a treat
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wow
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your answers out loud well don't listen
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it normal volume
we get to sniff it
am i gonna get to answer questions about
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but the only one i'm sharing with you
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um
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it's coffee time coffee time starbucks
pike place so one's from the bucks
itself and one's from the grocery store
right so this is the most common
uh restaurant to store experience people
do this
yeah people do this all the time they
don't even think about it
it's pretty good it's pretty good
is that gross
it's percussive
there's a difference well i mean i
hardly ever get regular coffee from
starbucks i get a latte so much as so
much is in the brewer were you the
brewer nicole i was and you were you
were trying your best
to match the a starbucks brewer yeah
did you did you ever work as a barista i
was a barista i was a blue bottle
trained barista i was 19 years old blue
bottle trained you
that's why it tastes like blue box
i'm getting more and more confused the
more i taste them it seems this seems
very easy to me i'm ready i was i was
ready before we started
i don't know
i was already on the first
i only needed it once
what
you're wrong oh no this is this is the
i'm sorry that this is the one that
nicole too late too low too late too low
just another one
i was thinking about the one the nicole
brewed
not cheating
yeah so you both picked the one from the
actual star i just got to tell you
nicole this is so much better than what
you did i believe well wonder why
the thing that the deciding factor for
me is the one i felt like i don't this
might sound insulting the one i could
taste the water in do you know what i'm
saying yeah like it tastes that there
was water that was not from starbucks
no
no like tasted watered down no
there's like a thing that happens when
you brew coffee and it happens to me
every time i brew coffee no matter what
the strength if i do it at home i can
tell that it was like coffee beans and
water yeah it did but
when i get it at a real place it's just
it's just coffee it's a totally
different thing i do something it must
be that yeah they make that big
and then they like stir it up it wasn't
a bad taste it's something that happens
it wasn't a bad taste it just i tasted
the water i'm sorry for the i bet it has
to do with like the batch size that
starbucks makes at the store it there's
something going on that there's a reason
why people are are lining up and
blocking traffic
by neighborhood the price difference is
pretty extreme with this one because a
tall cup in the restaurant is 269 but
the the bag of whole beans that you buy
is 8.69 and we did the math that would
be when once you brew all that coffee
it'd be 58 cents per tall
cup
so it's like that you're saving a lot of
money yeah but you bet you're getting
coffee beans and water which is
different than the coffee from the place
i mean i don't know how he he's exactly
right it's like you could taste a little
bit of water i'm with my friend
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okay guys it all comes down to this to
see who's gonna be the manager of good
mythical more well that would look good
right here
i don't even know what the duties are
maybe i don't want to be it
marie
calendars
razzleberry pie okay let's look at these
together i mean
very noticeable visual they didn't
blindfold us but let's just we just got
to say this is glistening and but hold
on do they do some sort of gliss
anything to it so that it like survives
the process because this is like super
flaky yeah let's see what this kind of
looks like something grandma would do
have you been in a marine calendars
um not recently what is a razzleberry i
think i dropped in there to use a
bathroom one time is it
is that all maria's to you just a place
to take a dump
why you assume it was a dump
i thought it looked like between that
and the other place i had to choose it
just looked like it might have a better
bathroom but was that right
oh yeah i took a dump yeah
yeah when you really are thinking about
bathroom choices
right
i don't think i've ever bought anything
from a marie calendar's restaurant but i
have given them something
that's good and i feel
i feel like
i owe you something marie sorry well
you're paying her back right now
that's really good i mean but we have
nothing to compare it to
oh well the way that flaked pie is just
so splendid
you know if you were left-handed it'd be
helpful
i can beat
can you be left-handed on the show from
here on out uh for you
no
for the sake of giving my right hand a
rest sure
i might have to go to a marine calendar
after this just to
just to say thank you you know what this
one is not in my own special way
this was a lot prettier
but it's not as tasty
see now i got to use my left hand to
come all the way over here it's like i
can't do you know the things that will
happen in your brain if you start using
your left hand for everything i'm ready
i'm ready to vote
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that's really really good there's so
much happening in my brain which you
don't know about three two one i oh we
disagree they're both excellent oh gosh
do you agree that that one tastes better
um
i don't it taste it definitely tastes
distinctly different but i honestly
can't tell you i have a preference i
like the this crust more that's why i
like that crust more
so the pretty one prettier one that's on
link's side is from the restaurant oh
okay well yeah
but the store-bought one link is only
5.97 and the restaurant one is 16.99 so
you might as well just get the one
that's cheaper from the store especially
if you don't want to run in a rent
trying to like get to the bathroom
you know what i'm saying all right
i i'm glad to let you be manager because
you got to clean all this up and good
mythical more sorry
what did we learn though
we've learned that i think i might take
a trip into the store this time and
actually purchase something i think
depending on your taste buds
it's worth a shot to just go down the
grocery route and get them all go to all
the restaurants at once in your home
oh that's my opinion food court in the
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