- Today, we're skipping dinner
and heading straight to international desserts.
- Let's talk about that.
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"Good Mythical Morning."
- I often think if I was stranded on a deserted island,
I'd wanna bring a dairy cow
because I usually like to drink milk with my dessert.
What would you bring?
- Ah, I see what you did.
Deserted island, yeah.
- An island covered in desserts.
Yes.
- It's time for.
♪ Where in the world do these ♪
♪ International desserts come from ♪
- Y'all know the drill.
We're gonna be trying a very specific type of dessert
native to a particular country on that map
that we're gonna be throwing darts at.
And Chase, our cupcake cartographer,
is gonna be measuring how far our darts are
from the correct country.
- Whoever has a lower score at the end is the winner.
And listen, this game has gotten interesting as of late.
Link and I have been winning this game back and forth
for four months in a row now.
If we keep flip flopping like a sea bass,
we're gonna be on the deck of a Carnival cruise
before we know it, and I've always wanted to go on a cruise.
- Not really though.
You have? No.
- No, I'm too big for cruises.
Just for the beds.
I'm just, I'm a large man.
Okay, so we're currently tied
for the longest ever flip flops.
- I'm surprised, because you seem to always know
where things are from and I can't throw darts.
- Yeah, I, yeah.
- Except for remember that time when I.
- I've been giving you lots of hints.
But here's the deal.
If I win this time,
then we've got a whole new flip flop streak.
The longest, we'll set the record.
- [Link] Oh yeah.
- And of course, if you win then, I mean, the world may end.
I don't know, but you know what?
Because you did win last time,
I get the special advantage dart.
It's the elegant ladyfingers dart.
The winner will receive the coveted dessert squirt,
which I'm told is a good thing.
Let's do this.
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Some sort of mummified.
- I think we've got insects that have taken up residence
on this plate and gone into a cocoon format.
- What is this? Is it a cocoon?
- Oh, God.
(Link mumbling)
- It's very chewy.
- Look at how stringy that is.
And it reveals, what is that on the inside?
It's peanuts.
- [Rhett] Or it's like a nougat.
- That was difficult to get into, but it tastes really good.
- Well, you won last time, so you go first.
- And don't you forget it.
'Cause it may never happen again.
Hmm. Oh man.
Look at that wide-open map.
I'm thinking Argentina.
- [Rhett] Why is that?
- What? (laughing)
What is, you got a, okay.
You got like a hat cam.
- [Rhett] What are you talking about?
- You've got a camera in your hat.
- [Rhett] I always wear this hat.
- I've never seen you wear that hat.
- Well, I've been wearing it a lot lately.
Maybe you haven't seen me in it, but I've been wearing it
at least 60% of the time that I'm awake.
- Colloquially in the office,
we call it the Rhett Hat.
- It's the Rhett Hat. Chase knows about it.
Chase has been wearing that cupcake hat.
I've been wearing this cowboy hat.
What are you talking about? Yeah.
- You look ridiculous.
Man, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't.
What? - Huh?
- I have no clue.
It's just sugar wrapped around peanuts.
I mean, that could be anywhere. Who doesn't like peanuts?
I mean, peanuts are everywhere.
Dig a hole anywhere on Earth, you're gonna unearth a peanut.
- Yeah, dig a hole anywhere on Earth,
you're gonna unearth a peanut.
That's what I've always said.
- Ah, dang it. I have no clue.
- I've also always worn this hat.
- I think it's Argentina.
Gotta go for the middle of the map.
- Okay. - So what, now speak freely.
- Yeah, I've been waiting for this.
- And remove that dumb hat.
- What are you talking, the hat's awesome.
Tell me how awesome the hat is.
- Zero awesome.
- [Rhett] Say the hat is awesome.
- It's too small and it's got a camera in it.
- What are you talking about, it's too small?
(Rhett laughing)
You notice how I didn't say anything about the camera.
- Do you have any type of guess, man?
- It kinda, sometimes it catches the light.
So yeah, we'll have to work on that.
- Play the game.
- Do I have any type of guess?
- You sad Macho Man ripoff.
- Oh, okay. I'll take that any day.
I'm thinking Ukraine, man.
Just because it's got like a snowy sort of feel to it
but also there is a blandness to it
that I associate with Eastern Europe.
Not the people, you know, just the food.
- Just everything.
- Sometimes in the winter, the landscape just,
and the people, everybody kind of
just blends together. - Throw the dart.
Aim at Ukraine.
Oh, I love that placement.
- [Rhett] That's horrible. Hopefully it's Pakistan.
- [Link] Lay it on us, Stevie.
- [Stevie] You just ate dragon's beard candy.
- [Rhett] Nice.
- [Stevie] Resembling a white cocoon,
dragon's beard candy is made from sugar and maltose syrup
along with peanuts, sesame seeds, and coconut.
This handmade traditional dessert
quite similar to cotton candy is enjoyed in China.
- Oh.
- [Link] I'm glad I didn't go for Argentina.
- Well, I got a little bit closer to China.
- You lucky dog with a too small dumb hat.
- All right, Link, you had 27, and Rhett, 22.
- Ooh. - 27 to 22, huh?
Five centimeters separate our top two contestants.
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- What in the world do we have here?
- Good gosh.
- [Link] I mean, we've got a, we've got this.
- It's just, it's just.
- Is there anything else? - Is there just cream?
- Yeah, it's like iceless cream, and it's, okay.
Is it marshmallow?
- [Rhett] It's pretty.
- It's like bubblegum flavored.
What is that? Is that toothpaste flavored?
- It's like if an alien got a broadcast from Earth
and saw people eating ice cream and they were like,
"We must recreate this dish from Earth"
but they couldn't tell how cold it was.
And then they get to Earth and they're like,
"Please have ice cream.
- "We come in peace, we bring hot ice cream. Thank you."
- No, they wouldn't know that it was hot ice cream.
They wouldn't even know it was ice cream.
They would be, "Please enjoy cream."
They would just.
- They would know it's cream?
- Yeah. - Wow.
- It's not great.
This comes from a fun place.
- Okay. You're in the lead now.
So what is that fun place, pray tell?
- Now, there's a number of things that I think about this.
Not only is this a fun place, but it's a place of community.
- [Link] Communal dining, yes.
- Because this is like,
"Everybody gets your cone and put some cream in it!"
You know, where would they say something like that?
Man, the thing is is I'm pulled towards
both halves of the map.
I'm pulled towards Indonesia.
Davin is potentially one of the most fun people I know,
he's from Indonesia.
I could see Davin enjoying this with friends.
(crew laughing)
And, but I could also see them doing this in Argentina.
Indonesia, Indonesia? Argentina.
Indonesia, Argentina.
Argentina.
- Now, here's the thing.
It seems like it should be something that's frozen,
but it's iceless.
I think it's in a place where they're over ice.
- They're over ice?
- It's a cold place and they're so over it,
the last thing they want is.
- They're trying to take the ice outta the cream.
Iceland then, huh? - Yes, exactly.
- I think here's a lot of logic in that.
- Iceland!
Oh.
- [Stevie] You just had a whopping load of espumillas,
which translates to foams.
And while it may look like ice cream,
this dessert is actually merengue cream made from
fruit pulp, sugar, and egg whites.
Espumillas are a very popular street dessert
served just like this in Ecuador.
- Ecuador. - Ecuador!
- [Rhett] Pretty close to Ecuador.
- So the opposite of like a cold place.
On the freaking equator.
- Okay, Rhett, you had 10,
and Link, again, 27.
- Why do they want hot ice cream?
- Ugh. Hot ice cream.
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- Over on the Mythical Kitchen channel,
they make these highly imaginative foods.
I mean, I can't even imagine it.
I just watch it. I'm like, "Wow, they did that."
And they imagined it beforehand.
Like the three-course meal with Baja blast panna cotta?
That was chef's kiss.
That's what that is.
- Yeah. - Chef's kiss.
- I'm getting a shot of Josh watching you.
- [Josh] What's your favorite part about panna cotta?
- Just the pan part.
- [Josh] Yeah, me too.
- Right, tune in wherever you have the internet.
Mythical Kitchen. It's a whole channel.
- It's a thing.
- Speaking of, what is this thing?
- Hold on. Y'all forgot to take the BBs off.
I mean, look at that.
- Look at, is that edible?
- Well, let's find out.
- And look at that, it's a candied
tangerine? - I think it's just
a whole orange.
I think it might be.
- Oh, that's gonna damage the, I mean, is this a cake?
What's in there?
- It's pretty hollow inside.
- Give me a nice little. Yeah.
You're smooshing it, man.
Gosh, you're messing it up.
- [Rhett] I'm sorry. Oh, gosh.
- [Josh] Nah, he's doing great.
- You know what?
No, actually, what happened is
it got some of that orange juice
and it just collapsed down into there.
- [Josh] Just grab a fork and eat it.
- Scrape it out.
I wanna see a cross section of this thing.
Okay.
- Oh, and what is that in the middle?
- Is that a- - Is that M&Ms?
- Is it an M&M? It's just chocolate.
- It's just chocolate chip. - Chocolate chip.
So this is a layered cake.
- [Rhett] I got the BB.
I got one of the BBs.
- Very citrusy.
Very festive.
- Yeah, you can eat, you can bite the BBs.
You can bite the BBs.
- You're 22 centimeters in the lead.
So lead on.
- Man. - It's refreshing.
I mean, it is, festive is the best word
I can come up with for that.
- And I don't know where the idea
for the ball bearings comes from.
- [Link] And this thing, this is.
- Could be fun. Could be a Davin idea.
- An entire. - Yeah, could be.
- An entire little orange that's been candied.
- I believe that it might be from a place
that they really value ball bearings.
Like, so like there's machines there.
Where are there machines?
There's something about the color scheme
that makes me think Senegal.
Of course the, you know, red and green and white
is also like, and that's the Italian flag.
Oh gosh, I don't know.
I'm just thinking too much. I'm thinking out loud.
I shouldn't do that.
- It's not helping me. I'm kinda glazing over.
- I don't know. Senegal, why not?
- A little north of Senega he lands.
Yeah, I mean, I always think of the parties in Argentina
and I could see this thing coming out.
It's definitely the first thing I thought of.
And then I was like, but Ukraine.
- But Ukraine.
- Nothing drab about Ukraine to me.
I'm gonna go for Argentina.
(Rhett laughing)
It's not that funny. It was just a low dart.
- It's not that funny. Come on.
- The dart just went down a little bit.
I don't know why that's funny.
- Here, have a ball bearing.
- [Stevie] This liqueur-soaked sponge cake
is called cassata,
and it is filled with sweet ricotta cheese and chocolate,
has a marzipan shell, and is decorated with
candied fruits and royal icing.
Cassata is usually reserved for special occasions
and is steeped in the history of Sicily, Italy.
- Oh, wow, Italy.
- Italy. - Yeah, I mean, that's what.
- So you accidentally get closer to Italy
and I accidentally almost throw off the map.
- Here's the thing. My arm is controlled by logic.
And my brain is controlled by pure conjecture.
So somewhere they meet in the middle
and I get close to the right answer.
I can't describe it. That's why I wear this hat.
- All right. This was a pretty close round.
Rhett, you had 10. Link, 52.
- Oh, pretty close. Yeah, pretty.
Now Chase is being sarcastic with you now.
- Italy, huh?
- Yeah, Italy.
Yeah. It's good, with the colors of the flag.
You know, I did say that.
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Might I just take a moment to point out that, Link,
you would've been better off missing the entire map
in that last round because you would've
gotten a 50 automatically and you got a 52,
which is two more.
Just something to think about this round.
This is something orange in a bowl.
- I'm not even gonna look at it.
Now what is this? What is this?
Carrots, crushed nuts, and raisins?
It's hot.
It's like a warm orange muesli.
- I was thinking sweet potato,
but I do believe that you're right.
It is carrot-based.
But where is it from? That's the question.
- Carrots.
- [Rhett] Where do they love carrots?
- [Link] That tastes good.
- I think this is the Ukraine
because you know, it's cold.
It's cold there and this is warm.
It's in a bowl, it's carrot-based.
I can just imagine, like a little Ukrainian boy.
- Leave boys out of this.
- I would just like, I would like to be warmed,
like the little match boy.
You remember that story?
I think he was in London, but that's not an option.
Okay. - That was a good throw.
- [Rhett] You think that's a good guess?
(Rhett laughing)
- Man.
- Seems a little demoralized.
- This is Pakistan.
The only way that I'm gonna feel good
is to get a bullseye.
- Oh, okay. That's quite, it's quite tall order.
- Fine. All right.
Make my day, Stevie.
- [Stevie] You just had the comforting wintertime dessert
known as gajar ka halwa, which translates to carrot pudding.
And it's made with grated carrots,
milk, sugar, and cardamom.
While you might also find this in India,
it's equally as popular in Pakistan.
- Oh, look at me! I had a good guess that I missed.
- Yeah. Good guess, bad throw.
- All right, that counts for something.
- All right. Rhett, you had 16, Link, 9.
- See? - Hey, there you go.
You know things.
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- Some sort of white. - It's a pistachio nougat.
- [Link] Is it nougat?
- Hm, okay. Well.
- It's got a flower taste to it.
- It's got rosewater in it, I believe.
- Yeah, like a rose.
- And I love rose-flavored stuff.
- Hmm.
- Link, you know. - Rose-flavored nougat.
- I don't like to lose,
so I'm gonna try to guarantee my victory
by using my cheat that I earned by losing last time.
- That's right.
- I lost fair and square last time.
- [Link] The lady fingers.
- So I'm gonna get her fingers all nice and fudgy.
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
Yep.
Okay. - And then what?
- And then I'm gonna, oh, watch yourself.
So I feel confident that,
based on the fact that this is a mild flavor of dessert,
almost in like the, almost like a baklava, like just very,
a subtle flavor, incorporating nuts and rose flavoring.
This is, I bet one of my fingers
that this is from the Middle East.
So I'm gonna try to just center my lady fingers
right there.
- No, and, okay, there you go.
You didn't rotate that much, so I'm happy with that.
Yeah, with those pistachios, yeah, I mean,
I was thinking the same area,
but in order to win, I've gotta go for the gusto
away from it.
So I'm gonna go against my instincts
because all that, that doesn't gain me anything.
I'm gonna have to go for New Zealand.
There's no way it could be New Zealand, but I'm saying.
- Hey, if it is New Zealand and you hit the country,
you win no matter what.
- Okay. - You heard it right here.
- Do I get the hat?
- No, no, no. Of course not.
- It's the Rhett Hat.
- Yeah, I mean, I kind of, I've almost fused with this thing
I've been wearing it so much.
- New Zealand for the win.
(crew laughing)
- Hey, that was pretty awesome.
That was a practice throw. There was no dart involved.
- Yeah. Nobody saw it. Nobody saw that.
Nobody saw it.
There is a dart stuck in the ground.
- New Zealand. - At an angle.
- For the win.
- [Rhett] Oh!
- [Link] I hit New Zealand.
- Hold on, did you?
You might be right in between the two islands.
- I think I missed.
I went in the the strait between the two islands.
What is that called?
- [Chase] Absolutely right in between the two islands.
- Right in the buttcrack of New Zealand.
- Wow, that's pretty impressive.
- I can't win for losing.
- [Stevie] Okay. This sweet dessert is called gaz.
It's nougat made with pistachios and rosewater
and then it's shaped into logs or rectangles
and cut into smaller pieces.
Nicole, I'll just, I'll let you take it from here.
- Oh, she's from New Zealand.
(Nicole speaking foreign language)
- Iran. Yes.
- Nicole.
- Did I get any chocolate on Iran?
- Yeah, you did.
So just for posterity, Rhett, you had zero.
And link, 43.
- Thank you, Chase. - You're welcome.
- And thank you, Nicole.
- How does that make you feel?
I mean, just talk to the hat.
- I'm not talking to the hat.
- The hat's, hey, the hat's here for you.
- Do you win something? - The hat cares for you.
Yeah, I win Hershey squirts. What is it?
(crew laughing)
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