- Ever wonder what 50 year old space candy tastes like?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Good mythical morning.
- We're pretty seasoned at this point
when it comes to tasting some fairly old snacks.
- I think of myself as a barbecue seasoned man.
- Okay, well, I think of myself as a ranch man.
But do you ever think about what food from right now,
if you were to, instead of eating it,
you would just save it so that later
when people wanna collect it,
you can put it on eBay and make thousands,
if not millions of dollars, what snack would that be?
- It's tough for me to just hold back
and not eat my snacks. - I know.
- Like saving them for an investment strategy is,
I don't even know if that's on my docket.
But I think it would be that popcorn that's a little bit
cheese and a little bit caramel mixed together,
I think they call it Chicago style.
I can imagine people like fighting
to the death on eBay over that.
- I've been told I need to stay away from it.
But now that we've gotten the future taken care of,
because we can start hoarding those,
we're gonna take a dive into the past, all right?
It's time for, To Be Discontinued, More, More, More, More,
More, More, More, More Snacks Edition.
We all know somebody, or a group of somebodies,
who are completely obsessed with Trader Joe's, right?
Their products, and sometimes even their cashiers.
The only thing that Trader Joe's fans
seem to not love as much is the fact
that some of their favorites don't stick around forever.
'Cause Joe is always discontinuing crap.
And one of those hopefully delicious items
is our first discontinued snack,
Birthday Cake Popcorn from Trader Joe's.
- He giveth and he taketh away.
- We paid 20 bucks for this satchel of popcorn.
You wanna open it up?
- This was pretty recently deceased.
- Released in 2018, deceased just a couple of years ago.
Oh.
- I party packed it. - Yeah.
- I want you to reach in.
- Have a party on the table, so what is in this stuff?
- Well, you know, I'm sure it's that birthday cake flavor
that they've been putting in so many things.
I mean, how's it holding up two years later?
- It tastes fine, very sweet.
- Well, it tastes fine, as in-
- Frosty.
- It tastes fine, as in,
it doesn't taste like it's gonna hurt us.
But it doesn't taste good to me.
And I like everything.
- It's coated in icing, and it tastes like frosting.
So I guess I'm gonna say it's coated in frosting.
- I don't like it.
- What's the difference between frosting and icing anyway?
Who gives a crud?
- I'll tell you what people give a crud about.
You said that thing about the cashiers.
This is actually a phenomenon at Trader Joe's.
Like people be flirting with the cashiers.
- And vice versa.
- Audipenny on Twitter said,
"The cashier at Trader Joe's was so nice to me
"that when I walked out of the store,
"I thought, should I go back in?"
And then- - Yeah, there's more.
Read another one.
- Jennifer Merritt says, "I used to want a boyfriend,
"but now I just go to Trader Joe's
"once a week and make conversation with the cashier.
"It's the same level of intimacy."
- Ouch.
- And then Marc says,
"If you didn't flirt with a hot Trader Joe's employee,
"did you even grocery shop?"
I mean, listen, I'm a married man.
I don't think of Trader Joe's in this way.
This does explain why,
when I was talking to my older kids about getting jobs,
like summer jobs or whatever, a while back,
they were like, "I think I wanna work at Trader Joe's."
That's what Lincoln told me.
- How do you make birthday popcorn flirty?
Can you do that for me?
- Oh, there's some sprinkles in here.
Can I sprinkle it?
- That's your flirty voice?
- Can I sprinkle it in your mouth?
- Please don't apply to Trader Joe's.
I hate this. - You hate it?
- I hate it.
- But you loved the other popcorn.
- Yeah, because it's the right flavors.
It's caramel and cheese together.
This is just, eh, I don't like it, you like it?
I mean, you can bring it back if you want to.
I won't eat it if you do.
- I don't give a crap. - Okay.
Trader Joe's Birthday Cake Popcorn.
- [Both] Nah, that's whack.
- You ever think back to the Y2K era,
and wonder what were people eating for breakfast
while waiting for the imminent
computer shutdown-instigated apocalypse?
- I was a toddler then, I wasn't alive then, whatever.
- You were just a toddler?
'Cause I seem to remember we had just graduated college.
- Oh, we lived it.
- Well, it turns out the answer is,
people were eating Cheerios Millenios.
I do not remember this.
- But it seems like we should with such a flashy packaging!
- I mean, it looks so futuristic.
- It's Cheerios, but then they also made a two.
- [Rhett] They threw some twos in there.
- So you could have a 20, you could have a 200,
or you could have a Y2K, baby.
- But if you put the 2000 on your spoon,
the entire box would disintegrate.
- Oh, really?
- You know, because of Y2K.
- I just thought if you were the right age
and you ate these, your balls are dropped.
- Yup, right, well- - Get it?
- Let's see if we can find out now.
- Yeah, let's drop our balls!
- Have your balls dropped?
- There's always room for more.
- Have your balls dropped lately?
Mine have been slowly dropping for quite some time.
- The second drop is a slow one.
- The first one is sudden, the second one is a lifetime.
- If your balls had already dropped by Y2K, then...
- They're still dropping.
- This just makes 'em keep dropping.
- Speaking of dropping balls,
you know, Dick Clark's countdown in September of 1999-
- Dick's Clark.
- They actually collaborated with Dick Clark.
And I think this might be what killed him.
- Definitely, this is kinda my thing here.
Okay, keep that over there.
- Is it okay to make Dick Clark jokes now?
Sure, got a sure.
- I'm sorry, but that's not a two.
- It's an S. - That's a five.
Isn't that a five?
- [Rhett] Well, it's tough to make a two.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on.
- [Rhett] I mean, that's actually a pretty good...
- That's a two for me.
- It's a two for you. - What's a two for you?
- That's a pretty good two.
- What's a two for you?
Is that a five for you?
- I mean, the two machine,
there's more delicacy making a two than a zero.
I think this is a real bad idea to eat these,
especially with milk on 'em,
because it unlocks something from the millennium.
- Ooh, it tastes, it tastes horrible.
- I can smell the bogs on this.
- I think we've got a bogs taste.
Can we bring in the bogs?
- Yeah, this has got a bogsiness to it.
- Oh god, yes, yeah, bogs it.
- Let me compare the Bogsness.
Oh, it's got more bogs than bogs.
- We're getting bogged down, y'all.
- Because at least bogs has chocolate.
This is just straight bogs, oh gosh!
- [Link] Unadulterated bogs.
- And a little bit of Dick Clark.
- The thing that I love about, on the back,
they encourage you to create your own time capsule,
so people can remember you when you inevitably
die at the stroke of midnight.
This is morbid. - I love it.
- I mean, it wasn't you that made it morbid.
Let's close this.
- Yeah, keep Bogs airtight.
- Was the box, Cheerios Millenios-
- [Rhett] I mean, how would we even
bring it back if we wanted to?
- [Both] Nah, that's whack.
- Before we try our next discontinued snack,
we wanna ask you, did you happen to see
what happened to us over this past weekend on our TikTok?
- Well, we pulled an all-nighter.
And things got way crazier than we expected.
But we were able to capture the whole thing on camera.
Oh God.
Link?
Oh God.
Link?
Link!
- [Man] Turn around. (Rhett screams)
- Okay, so head over to mythical on TikTok
and experience what ended up being a very strange night.
- Okay, when "Toy Story" came back,
it went down in history as one of
the greatest sequels of all time, wouldn't you agree?
- I do agree. - Even to this day.
So does that mean that these
22 year old "Toy Story 2" cookies should come back too?
Let's decide, we paid $60 for this unopened,
unspoiled packaging of cookies.
- Now, I can not enjoy a "Toy Story" movie without crying.
I mean, I can't enjoy a Pixar movie.
It is like just waterworks for me.
Like sometimes just like opening title will get a tear.
So I'm wondering if these cookies
are gonna do the same thing.
I mean, it's got all eight characters that you can...
Not all eight, but eight different characters
that you can chew on.
Oh, and there's something complimentary.
- Yes, all right, here's all the cookies.
- [Rhett] What's this, Link?
- Here's a pig.
- Oh, it's SweeTarts!
- SweeTarts are in here, it says, SweeTarts are inside.
And what you're supposed to do is,
special interactive spaceship cookie.
You can put Buzz Lightyear inside of a space ship.
- Well, we're gonna do that.
- All right, here. - Let me tell you right now.
- There's a spaceship for you.
I just really wanna get a Woody.
Where is that?
- [Rhett] Well, you know what?
You're gonna have to do that on your own.
- Oh, here's a Woody, I got a Woody!
- Look, you put Buzz in there,
to infinity and beyond!
- It's got the bogs, be careful.
- Oh, oh, oh.
- Yeah. - I shouldn't have done that.
- It's never occurred to me- - Way too much cookie.
- To eat like a shortbread cookie
and a SweeTart at the same time,
especially if they're 22 years old, but.
- Okay, I feel like I got the taste.
Did you mix a SweeTart in there?
'Cause that was actually pretty good.
- I did, that helped.
"Toy Story 2" has staying power.
I mean, you can go back and watch it.
- How?
- Just like looking at it again.
- No, but how do you access it?
- I don't know, I just get my kids to put the movies on.
- Oh, okay.
- I like the mystery of not knowing where they come from.
- You're talking about DVDs?
- Yeah, something like that.
- Digital video discs?
- But I really like...
- Yeah, this is a good combo to put a little...
- It's a strange combo.
Of course, we're big fans of strange combos.
Nobody else is doing this.
Pixar can pull it off, and you can cry in the process.
- [Rhett] "Toy Story 2" cookies...
- [Both] Bring it back!
- Houston, we have a problem.
The Pillsbury Doughboy is floating
outside of the space station.
Wait a minute,
it looks like he's trying to give us something.
It's 40-plus year old Pillsbury Space Food Sticks.
Yes, that's a thing.
These, we paid $30 for.
They were discontinued in the late '70s, early '80s.
Originally developed in the '60s.
And actually they were supposed to be
a non-frozen, nutritionally balanced food
that one could eat on the go.
And the reason they called 'em Space Food Sticks
is because the chief food technologist, Howard Bowman-
- Shout out to Howard.
- He helped engineer
the first solid food astronauts could consume.
So he was like all into space food.
They went to the source.
They went to Pillsbury, and Howard,
when they wanted to get space food.
- So it's like an energy bar, but before they existed.
So they called it a food stick.
- You don't wanna think too much, like when-
- There's nothing like this out there now.
- Well, crises are happening in space,
and you're gonna be like, where are the food sticks?
It's like easy to remember, food stick!
- Food Stick! - Food stick!
- Food stick!
- I will say, though-
- Oh gosh, look at it.
- Oh, ga-ga, gosh. - Oh, ga-ga-ga.
It's got some sort of internal.
- [Rhett] Is that part of it, or part of the packaging?
- I think it's wrapped in astronaut intestine.
- You need to be careful though,
'cause if you consume this,
it may be blasting out of your anus later.
- So there's a foil wrapper.
And then there's a plastic wrapper.
I wanna keep it intact,
so I can look at this log in its glory.
- [Rhett] It looks like a beef jerky with some liner.
- [Link] It's a Tootsie Roll, it looks like a Tootsie Roll.
- [Rhett] No, it's a food stick.
- I mean, it's chewy chocolate malt.
- [Rhett] Can I have half?
- I mean, it's a freaking Crayon.
- Is it gonna break or is it just gonna be-
- [Link] It's too old to break.
- [Rhett] Oh, there it goes.
Are you supposed to share food sticks?
Or does everybody get one?
- Here, take half my food stick.
- Thank you, Bill.
- Now, are you scared?
'Cause I am.
- Hold on, this is really bogsy, wow.
- It's the same, it's on the low-
- Oh, oh!
- It's exactly, isn't it?
- There's no difference.
There's no difference between bogs and food sticks.
- That's a meme.
- What just happened?
There is no difference.
- I can't see any different, what is this?
- It's the same picture. - It's the one with Pam.
- It's the same picture.
- I like the idea of a food stick, though.
- But you didn't smell both of 'em.
You got caught up in the memes and didn't even do the thing.
That's amazing. - I did smell it.
- It's exactly the same, close your eyes.
- I get it.
- Close your eyes and tell me which one you're smelling.
- Okay.
- Sniff.
- Probably the food stick.
- (laughs) Got him!
I bogsed him! - Oh, you did?
- Yeah, I was just fricking bogsing you, man.
- I thought I would feel the box.
- I fricking bogsed you right in front of your face.
- Okay, all right, you got me.
They're the same picture, is what I was thinking about.
Thank you for that. - That's what I said,
at least twice.
- Oh, okay, let's taste.
I like things in stick form versus bar form.
- 'Cause you have a mouth.
- I'm not gonna...
- I mean, think about it-
- I'm not gonna swallow that, but.
- Round things fit in mouths better than flat things, see?
- See, and since when-
- I just made a meme too.
- Since when can you talk...
- It's the same picture.
- You can't talk with an energy bar in your mouth.
- Right.
- You can talk with a food stick in your mouth.
- Yeah, a food stick leaves the rest of the mouth closed.
- Hey man, I'm just chatting it up with my friends
when I'm eating my food stick out here in space.
- How are you supposed to
talk to Houston with a bar in your mouth?
- Yeah, you can't do it, but you can talk to anybody
with a food stick in your mouth.
And it makes you seem like
you got a little bit more swagger.
- And you can't tell, but I'm still licking it.
- [Link] Pillsbury Space Food Sticks...
- [Both] Bring it back!
- You know what?
I don't have enough elderly caterpillars in my life.
- Who does?
- So let's eat some roasted caterpillars
that are over 50 years old.
- Look at this can.
- Straight out of the can.
Reese Brand Roasted Caterpillar, not Reese's or Reese's.
- This is a different company.
I would love for there to be a fricking butterfly in there.
I mean, it's been 50 years. - That's true.
- What have they been up to you?
- Just waiting to come out,
- If you open this thing up with a can opener
and a butterfly flies out,
we're taking the rest of the day off.
Going to the movies.
- Oh, we get to go to the movies?
- Going steak dinner. - Yes!
- Getting desserts, splitting a sundae!
- Yep, and then can we play... - Hockey?
- X-Box. - Air hockey.
- Air hockey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I'm fine to air hockey.
- [Link] Like a air table?
- Just like old times.
I really hope there's a butterfly.
- I'm just gonna slam this on there.
I just broke the seal.
- It hasn't been broken in 50 years.
You smell anything?
Is it gonna be wet?
Oh, okay, the smell, okay.
- I don't get the smell.
- Oh, I got the smell, oh man, I got some smell.
- Okay, first of all-
- Oh, gosh, you can't smell that?
What's wrong, you too close to it?
Flip the lid and put your face on it.
Make a meme.
- Ah! - Okay.
- Gosh!
- Can you not smell that?
Oh, it's horrible.
- I can't smell it.
- What?
- That smell was going that way.
- The smell was going this...
There was a smell hole right above it,
and it was going around and getting to me.
I'm not trying that.
I mean, I just don't think that would be wise.
I mean, they made 'em moist back then.
Is there any butterflies in there?
- [Link] No, it's dry.
- [Rhett] Maybe there's a butterfly on the bottom.
Maybe one of 'em got brave.
- It looks alive, it looks like it could just...
Look at that, when I move it,
it seems like it's still keeps moving on it's own.
- Here, you gotta dump 'em on it, dump 'em on this.
- Dump 'em on some whiteness.
- I think that those are not caterpillars, guys.
They're just grubs.
They were like, well, let's just call 'em caterpillars.
- Yeah, they're fricking grubs.
- It's the '60s, we can get away with anything.
- [Link] And there's so many of 'em.
- [Rhett] I'm kinda starting to like the smell,
now that you put it on a napkin.
- [Link] They look like they're honey coated.
- Yeah, is there honey?
Look at the ingredients.
- We have to taste 'em.
- We got to now.
- First of all, look at the residual crap
at the bottom of this thing, it's like...
- It's still wet.
I mean, that's a good can.
This is a new smell, there's no bogs at all.
Bogs has left the building, okay?
There's no bogs in this at all.
It is its own thing.
It's unlike anything I've ever smelled in my life.
- I don't know if you'll be safe.
- [Rhett] I think at least I gotta tongue it.
- We just gotta tongue it.
Let's just put it on the tongue and taste it.
- That is how you taste.
- Let it dance around?
- You're gonna set it on your tongue?
- I'm gonna set it on my tongue,
and then I'm gonna let it dance around.
- Okay.
Oh! - Ah!
- Oh, oh, oh, that spot!
- Yeah, the one spot, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I need bogs.
- Give me some bogs. - Get some bogs.
- Let me get some bogs.
- Just take it, take it right in the mouth.
- Oh yeah, the killing of the brain cells
help us not realize what happened.
- Suck with your mouth, suck with your mouth.
Yeah, that helps.
Bogs cover a world of hurt.
- Now, if Pixar came in and did a bug's life with this,
add a little SweeTart.
- We could be eating the characters.
- Still not gonna work.
Reese's roasted caterpillar.
- Nah, that's whack. - Nah, that's dangerous.
- Yeah, potentially dangerous.
- But hey, they were roasted, so kudos to them.
- Okay, but listen, we had a couple of winners today.
We brought back "Toy Story 2" cookies
and Pillsbury Space Food Sticks.
You're not gonna forget that.
- Yeah, that's right.
You know what time it is?
- Hi, my name is Ryan.
- And I'm Randy, we're from Atlanta, Georgia.
And we're here at Westside Park
with the skeletal remains of the mythical beast.
- Now it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality.
- I think that they're trying to try pull one over on us.
- It's a sculpture, I think it's just a sculpture.
- You think it's not a real mythical beast?
- They think we're stupid, they think we're stupid.
- Ryan and Randy, don't try to fool us!
Click the top link to see what extinct animal
we should bring back in Good Mythical More.
- And to find out where
the wheel of mythicality is gonna land.
- [Rhett] Wear the sounds of the Macon Brothers
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