- Could a 60-year-old mint still be refreshing?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical morning.
- Do you prefer to study history or make history?
- I prefer to eat history in expired snack form.
- Of course.
- It's time for to be discontinued.
More more more more more more more
more more more more more more snacks edition.
- So many snacks.
Wow.
- I may have said one too many,
we'll find out later. - Wow.
- Now usually when we do this
we try out a whole mix of discontinued snack types,
but today everything we're gonna be trying
is from the sweets department, why?
Well because that's just the hand
the eBay gods dealt us.
- All right, let's start with candy corn.
Candy corn is a polarizing candy,
you either hate it or you kinda hate it.
- Right yeah.
- In 2018 Sour Patch Kids
tried to make it a bit more exciting
when they released sour dusted candy corn.
- And we got a two pound bag of it
for 100 dollars guys. - Why we gotta pay
100 dollars for this?
I mean-- - Well because it was here
for one year, this is seasonal release in 2018.
- That's an indication
that it might need to be brought back.
I mean if 100 dollar price tag for this thing,
only four years old?
- I'm gonna shower you with.
Okay so it looks like there's two different kinds in there.
- Yeah we've got like a purple.
- Well I can tell you. - A purple kind.
- [Rhett] I can tell you what they say.
- And we've got this kind-- - Orange and grape.
- And these pieces are really,
this has to be a function of it being four years old.
It expired, I mean definitely by 2019.
I didn't know that Sour Patch Kids
were originated in the '70's, they were called Mars Men.
- Now I've gotta give 'em credit before it try it,
I'm gonna give them credit
for trying to mix things up in the candy corn world.
I mean that you know, you gotta respect that.
I'm gonna start with what I believe is the orange.
- I'm gonna start with what I believe is the grape.
The grape one tastes exactly like grape Big League Chew.
I really like the taste.
- The taste is good. - Of grape.
- But it kinda feels, and the orange is good too.
- Oh it is?
Let me try it. - But it feels
like it's not any one thing.
- Wow.
- Do you know what I'm saying?
If it was a Sour Patch Kid
it would have like a gummy-ness to it.
I don't think that candy corn
is like appreciated for its texture.
- Nope, but that's the-- - So this is taking
something that's good. - Signature reason
that people don't like it.
- Taking something that's good, a Sour Patch Kid,
and making it a little bit worse
by giving it the texture of candy corn.
But then the respect.
I mean you gotta respect it.
And to put it in a two pound bag,
just anticipating people are gonna love it so much.
- I like how it's redeeming candy corn
for those that have written it off.
It's bringing a fresh new perspective to Halloween,
which you know what, is applicable year round.
- Yep.
- I think we should bring it back dude.
Were you thinking we should not whack it?
- I was thinking that I don't think
that it can compete with the current candy offerings,
but listen, again the respect. - There's not enough
sour candies at Halloween.
- Is the respect enough to bring it back?
- If we say bring it back now,
by the time Halloween rolls around
it might be on the shelves again.
- 'Cause we have
that kinda power. - Power.
Yes yes. - Oh I'd like to see
if that could happen.
- So there you go, Rhett's on a power trip,
I've got him on board.
Sour Patch Kids candy corn.
Bring it back. - Bring it back.
In 2015 Mountain Dew went retro
with their glass bottled Dewshine,
their first clear soda ever.
There was a commercial for it.
(upbeat rock music)
(birds chirping)
Dude with a long ZZ Top beard, having some fun.
- [Narrator] Go ahead, let your beard down,
and crack a Dewshine.
- That was it?
- I don't know how to feel about that.
Underwhelmed, definitely. - Yeah yeah yeah.
- Go ahead, let your beard down?
So it's kinda playing into like
hillbilly meets hipster thing? - I hope that guy
didn't grow that beard just for that commercial.
- That was an impressive beard.
- 'Cause that would've been quite a build up.
- I love the fact that this bottle,
which we paid 10 dollars for,
has to say non alcoholic down there.
- Yeah 'cause it's got that word shine in it.
Now they probably had to really emphasize that
on the other bottle that they sold
that looked exactly like a moonshine bottle.
Okay so here-- - That's kinda fun.
- So here's the difference,
and you're gonna learn something new today.
So the one difference is that Dewshine
had 42 grams of real sugar okay in the bottle.
- Sounds like a lot.
- Versus 46 grams of high fructose corn syrup
that you get when you get regular Mountain Dew.
- Even more.
This is-- - But also, and maybe
this is why it's clear,
Dewshine did not contain orange juice
which Mountain Dew does contain!
Could you, if I called you this morning,
when I call you
at our morning phone call. - Right so when you called me.
- So at 4:30 AM when I call you, your wake up call.
- Yep and you say.
- And I say. - You whisper.
- Hey Link-y, it's your friend Rhett.
- Are you awake?
- I'll be like,
I'm awake. - And then I were to say,
did you know that Mountain Dew has orange juice in it?
- I knew that's where you were going with this.
- Yeah yeah yeah that was all for that.
- [Link] And it was all worth it.
- Yeah.
- Open it son.
I'll hold it.
- Oh good.
Hey Link can I-- - Hold on!
Don't do that, it says "twist off" right there on it.
It says fricking twist off right there.
- [Rhett] You baited us!
- Here, twist it.
Or do you want
me to twist it? - I'm so, my hands
are always a little clammy.
Go ahead.
I require.
- There's nothing like trying to twist off
something that needs a bottle opener.
And there's nothing like using a bottle opener
on something that needs a twist off.
- This was discontinued in 2017
but it still-- - It's kinda like the fact
that every time I try to plug a USB in
I get it wrong every time even though it's a 50/50 chance.
How does that happen?
How does that happen that every single freaking time.
- You gonna get it wrong. - I have to plug
in a USB. - You don't.
- It's I get it
wrong every time! - No it's perception.
- And wouldn't you know it,
the times when I think-- - That's difficult.
- That to myself and then I switch it before I try it,
then I'm wrong!
- Hey Link, wake up and taste your Dewshine.
(Link slurping)
- I mean this is old.
- Well this is probably discontinued in 2017.
- I know it's bubbly but it tastes so flat.
I wonder if it's just flat.
- I think it's lost a little of its flare.
It tastes more like 7UP which already exists.
- It was a fun little foray into beard-dom,
but we're over that, I mean we are completely over beards.
- Yeah yeah beards are not in anymore.
- And there's something about just kinda
like winking at the hillbilly of it all.
- You feel a little insulted as a southerner.
- I feel a little insulted. - I feel a little insulted
to be honest with you.
I kinda feel like y'all kinda did what did us
a little dirty on that one.
- Mountain Dew Dewshine.
Nah, that's whack. - Nah, that's whack.
- In 2010 everyone's favorite ogre appeared on shelves
in the form of marshmallows shaped like his head.
Pull these out Rhett,
let's see if these 12-year-old Shrek ogreheads marshmallows
are worth bringing back.
- Okay 32 dollars for a 12-year-old bag.
I mean this might be worth something some day,
I'm gonna be very careful.
(bag rustling)
- Sold for two dollars in 2010.
(marshmallows clinking)
Good gosh.
Are they are hard?
Is it hard?
- I'm like an ogre.
I don't know my own strength. - Is it hard?
(backstage worker laughing)
I mean they're very accurate
in-- - Oh gosh that has got
a smell to it doesn't it?
- What is the flavor? - Swamp apple.
- Seriously?
- Yeah I'm not
making things up. - Swamp apple.
- They're marshmallows.
- [Link] Yes Rhett.
- But they've turned into hard candy.
(marshmallow crunching)
Oh I quite like a old hard marshmallow.
I'm gonna go in for a bite.
- Don't, your tooth will never come back.
Taste's banana-y to me.
- Take a bite of it, the texture's actually really nice.
(Link grunts)
Like.
- What do you mean
the texture's really nice? - Don't think of it
as a marshmallow,
think of it as like a packing peanut.
I like these and I can imagine what they tasted like.
I like 'em.
I'm not gonna continue to eat them
'cause it might be unsafe.
No it's not unsafe, these are edible.
(backstage worker laughing)
- The fact that it is apple flavored.
(backstage workers laughing)
Is interesting.
- I like this as a product.
Like if you told me there were sour apple.
- Right.
- Flavored marshmallows.
- What do you-- - Shaped like anything.
- Put it with though?
- Nothing, this is a late night snack,
one at a time, you're by yourself.
- So you wanna bring this back?
- No, I like the concept,
but I think the fact that they're Shrek themed.
- Doesn't fit. - I don't think,
you can't, that's just not working in the market right now.
- Doesn't fit, doesn't work in the market,
there's no market for it.
- So. - Market's changed.
Shrek ogreheads.
Nah, that's whack. - Nah, that's whack.
- Everybody knows I love lesbians.
- I love 'em too.
- And when we released this key chain
as part of our like retro key chain collection,
it sold out within 24 hours.
- 24 hours. - And then we re upped it,
it sold out again.
Everybody wanted to show their love for lesbians.
- Yeah you guys love lesbians. - In key chain form.
Well now your favorite key tag is back.
I keep saying key chain, key tags,
slightly different thing. - You know what we mean,
you're lookin' at it.
- There's a whole collection.
We've got a hoodie, a tee shirt,
two stickers, one of 'ems holographic,
and as well as the key tag coming back.
And they all say "everybody knows I love lesbians."
Lesbians.
So if you're into that. - That's the correct
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- All right, we have tried some pretty old
baseball themed candy before.
In fact, the most candy that we have tried on this show
might be the original Wade Boggs milk chocolate bar
which became the standard for Boggs-iness.
- Woop woop woop.
- And so (Rhett clears throat) I actually,
I've started to like the smell.
It's weird the way it's grown on me.
Let's see if these sugar candy bats
give the Boggs man a run for his money.
These are from, we don't know, late '60's early '70's
based on the-- - Good gracious.
- Collective speculation.
- Older than us. - The team.
- And that is old.
- They're from World Confections Incorporated,
which we have had some stuff from World
Confections Incorporated. - Whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa, what the schoop?
- That's a bat?
I believe that the same people making the bats
were making the candy cigarettes.
- So this is left fielder.
Did the left fielders bats just look like sticks?
- Yeah, left fielders don't get tapered bats,
they just get completely smooth.
Now first of all, it's pink on one end.
Is yours pink on one end?
- Yeah, there's a little remnant of pink there.
- I think we're gonna have to potentially
break one in half,
but I think maybe the way to do that
would be to play a little baseball.
Link we have a giant bag
of candy balls. - If only we had
a giant bag-- - Chocolate baseballs.
- Of chocolate baseballs.
- See if you can,
just toss one up and I'm really gonna go for it.
- I never had chocolate baseballs,
but I would always somehow have chocolate footballs.
- Oh yeah, that was big time.
- And I really remember the taste of those.
- I'm ready to swing, I'm.
- I'm gonna taste one of these.
- I'm waiting over here,
ready to swing. - Now these aren't expired.
- It's all I wanna do is just get a hit in.
- Under hand? - Yeah a little arc.
(candy clinking)
Okay, we got lots where that came from.
(candy clinking)
We got lots, oh that went, oh.
(candy clinking)
- You're getting close.
You're getting farther.
(candy clinking)
Should I throw 'em
like 10 at once? - You're doing great.
(backstage workers laughing)
- [Backstage Worker] You're late every.
(Rhett and Link shouting)
- And it broke, it broke, it broke.
- And do you get a scent from that?
You get a Boggs?
- Nothin'.
- I'm smelling your finger.
(backstage workers laughing)
- How's it smell?
- Like every time when you say, "smell my finger."
(Link laughs)
- Were there, I mean,
is there a kid somewhere in the late '60's early '70's
who is legitimately excited.
- No taste.
- When their dad had been on the road for six weeks.
- Daddy's home!
- Here kid.
- What do you have
for me daddy? - I got some candy bats.
- Oh! - Go to your room
and play with yourself.
- Yeah this is quite a disappointment,
even if you are a left fielder.
- Yeah yeah yeah. - Which is,
that's the loser position right?
- Right field is probably
the least talented position. - Okay all right so.
Doesn't add up.
Candy bats, nah that's whack. - Nah that's whack.
- And now we come to it, 60-year-old breath mints.
- Yikes.
- Will clove Life Savers safe our lives or end them today?
These were discontinued in 1981,
but this roll that we paid 19 dollars and 50 cents for
is supposedly from the '50's or '60's.
- Now do they, when you get Life Savers now
do they still come in a roll like this?
Like-- - Yeah, I believe
that you can get it that way.
- It's a cool way to package candy.
- But clove flavor?
That's so strange. - I kinda feel
like the same dad that brings his little boy candy bats
is like only, his only candy that he gives himself
is clove Life Savers and he doesn't give any to Timmy.
- [Link] Look at this old ad from way back then,
it's a baseball themed ad, we can't get away from it.
A hit.
- America's pastime. - It's a Life Saver.
Now look right in the middle there,
Life Savers, the candy mint with the hole.
Be sure the hole goes clear through,
that's a genuine Life Saver.
Oh. - Oh yeah the imitators
never get the hole all the way through.
They don't have
the right machinery. - Yep all right
this is it, the hole's going
all the way through. - Oh bet you, hold on,
I bet you you can get your bat in this hole.
- Where the bat? - You still got
a little bit? - Bring back the bat KG.
- I don't know what it'll prove.
- 'Cause you know you-- - But if we can get
that little bat through this hole.
- And then when you do that,
that's like a weight.
You know how when you bat with a weight on it
and then you get up there and you just.
- When you-- - Bobby Bonilla.
- When you're warming up.
I'm gonna eat this, I'm gonna lick it at least.
- You're gonna live on the edge.
- This can't be bad,
it's been wrapped in foil for half a century.
- Clove is not really something I think of
when I think of candy.
This is clearly mint territory.
60-years-old.
- It's got that mint immediately that I like.
- It tastes totally normal.
- It's only gotten better over time.
- I wouldn't call it clove-ish
as much as-- - Maybe the cloves
is what died.
Maybe the cloves is what faded.
- It's great, oh it's good.
And it's good forever apparently.
- You know what they say about clove,
you can't spell clove without love.
- That's a much better saying
than the candy mint with the hole.
(Rhett laughs)
- Well hold no but no that's the whole,
that's the Life Savers whole thing.
- What about you can't spell, make love to the clove hole.
- Yep.
- That could be a saying. - Well when
we bring these back because we're definitely going to.
- Yep. - Little heads up.
- I'm getting a headache though.
(candy clinks)
- A licorice flavored.
- Saving that for later.
(backstage worker laughs)
- Yeah I probably shouldn't finish this.
- Yeah I'm getting the Boggs-ache.
(Rhett spits)
But that's impressive, Life Savers.
- You've done it.
- [Link] Clove savers.
Bring it back! - Bring it back.
- And along with those clove,
I mean it just seems like a cool thing to do you know?
- If you told me that cl-- - They take your breath away,
that's what it says on 'em. - Clove Life Savers
to come back. - That's a much better
slogan. - And like they were
really popular amongst like a certain set of folks.
You know what I'm saying?
Like all the gamers are doing
clove Life Savers now. - Right.
They all have pony tails. - Yeah I believe it.
- So we brought that back, and we brought back
the Sour Patch Kids candy corn, just barely.
- You're welcome, now you don't have to do that work.
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- You know what time it is.
- Well howdy there friends, it's your old buddy Ryan
down here in Pensacola Florida.
And I just found out that Rhett and Link's
favorite chicken sandwich, the Ch'King has been discontinued
and I never got to try it.
(Ryan sniffling)
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