- Today, we fry around the world.
- Let's talk about that.
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- Today, we're throwing the pointiest of darts
at the rectangularest of maps,
and discovering what kind of unique and exciting
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- Mm-hm, now, what if I told you
that when it comes to deliciously fried foods
from around the world,
the heavenly taste of fried chicken, onion rings,
and mozzarella sticks barely touched the tip of the tot?
Well, it's true, and we're about to stick our hands
deep into the international deep fryer,
and see what we pull out.
It's time for...
- [Both] Where in the World
Do These International Fried Foods Come From?
- You know how this goes,
we're gonna try a unique fried food dish
that comes from a certain country on the map,
then we're going to guess which country it comes from
by throwing a dart at it,
and then Chase, the fly fry cook cartographer
will measure how far our dart is from the right answer.
- I can't help but notice that Brunei is not on the board.
I thought I asked that it be on the board every time.
- Is that your prerequisite for-
- That's my mojo.
Okay, yeah, it's on the map, but it's not on the board.
Whoever has the lowest score at the end is the winner,
and since I won last time,
Rhett, you get a special advantage dart this time.
- You didn't just win, lemme just say,
you didn't just win, you had the performance of a lifetime,
the lowest score ever, and the only bullseye ever.
So, I mean, are you gonna ride that wave?
- I had him scared at the end there with that last question.
- Oh, yeah, you totally opened the window,
and now you stayed right in the house.
- I'm not acknowledging any waves,
you're gonna have the Blart, which is a blooming onion dart,
that you're gonna have to throw all over the board.
The loser is gonna have to read all the ingredients
from the back of a french fries bag,
using his best vocal fry.
- Oh, I love the vocal fry, like (indistinct).
- Let's do it.
Good gosh.
- Is this just fried pizza?
- Oh, it's a half of a pizza, completely deep fried,
with some french fries on the side.
Wow.
Is it even sliced? - I think it is kinda sliced,
but not really.
- Deep fried pizza.
- I would think America, but you know what?
- Crunchy on the bottom, crunchy on the top,
pizza in the middle, you know it don't stop.
- Steak cut french fries with gravy.
- Oh, is that gravy?
No. It's like Italian dressing or something.
- It has an Italian dressing-ish vinegary taste to it.
- Vinegar but also very sweet.
That's gotta be the hint.
- All right, as we established, you won last time,
so you go first.
- And there's so much grease on my,
are you gonna film me with your camera, by the way?
- You know what, I feel weird about filming you.
It feels intrusive, and so I just was like,
we have a lot of cameras,
let's just let them do their jobs, you know?
- Well, I wasn't gonna say it, but yeah.
See, this right here, this is the hint.
What is this?
I'm tasting something in it.
I mean, do you?
Okay.
- What are you talking about, man?
- I see what's happening here.
- You can't be the only guy with glasses.
- That's true.
- Where do they love Worcestershire? Morocco?
- That's what I've heard.
They love Worcestershire in Morocco.
- [Link] It doesn't really go with this, that's a steak dip.
- What about the fried pizza part?
- That could be anywhere.
That's not giving me anything.
It has to be the Worcestershire steak dip,
that's leading me to South America.
Venezuela, Peru, get ready for your dart.
Oh, little high, I hit Florida Keys.
What are you thinking?
- Well I love my new glasses, first of all.
- They suit you.
- I love my new glasses.
Taking an American thing and doing something nuts with it
always strikes me as, this is something that might happen-
- [Link] Pizza's not an American thing, man.
- Well, pizza, like this form of pizza,
this is like a Domino's pizza.
I'm thinking Philippines.
- [Link] Oh, we're on polar opposites.
- But these, my friend, these steak fries,
with this sauce, makes me think of England,
'cause this is the type of fries that you get
when you get fish and chips.
England's not up there, but Scotland is,
and I used to think I was from there.
But deep-fried pizza does not seem Scottish at all.
I will say that.
I feel like I'm overthinking it.
Scotland.
- Definitely overtalking it.
Ooh. A little high for both of us.
Stevie, make my dreams come true.
- [Stevie] This battered and deep-fried pizza
is known as pizza crunch, and is commonly served with fries,
or chips, and a side of chippy sauce,
which is vinegar mixed with brown sauce.
If you wanna know what brown sauce is,
you're gonna have to ask your local pizza crunch maker.
- That's what brown sauce is? Dang it!
- [Stevie] Scotland.
- Oh, man! Woo!
- [Link] Brown sauce, I remember the freaking brown sauce.
- I did not see any fried pizza during my trip
to what I thought was my homeland.
- Shoot, I knew that was the key.
You didn't know it was brown sauce, either.
- I didn't wanna say anything.
- Okay, Link, you had 27.
Rhett, seven.
- Oh. Hey, you know what? That's cool.
I mean I didn't get a bullseye or anything.
- Nope, you didn't.
- Good gracious.
- Ooh, look at this.
- I think this might be a fork and knife situation,
I'm coming-
- Is that a donut?
- All the way through, it's a donut with a donut hole...
- [Link] On top of it?
- [Rhett] Oh man, it's thick, gracious.
- It is dense. I can't even pull that thing apart.
Heavy, too, boy.
- [Rhett] So it's a super thick donut with cherries...
- [Link] And some sort of cream cheese icing.
I completely destroyed that.
Mm!
- All right, now I'm first again, okay.
- Yep, yep, yep.
- [Rhett] Okay. Where in the world do they do this?
- Yeah, that is the object of the game.
- I wanna know if the thickness of the donut is relevant,
do you know what I'm saying?
- Josh, can you say?
- Is the density of the donut relevant?
- [Josh] The donut is indeed dense, yes.
- Josh would have us believe
that everything he does is for a reason,
so he doesn't wanna have to defend himself to that level.
- [Josh] Thank you.
- The meeting of the cheese and the fruit,
and the fried thing together,
takes me to a European location,
and the only European location
that's on the board is Romania,
so I guess I gotta go to Romania.
- You've got to. You've got to do it.
Oh!
- I'm going consistently high.
I'm gonna start aiming low.
- And I'm backing up against the wall, here,
down 20 centimeters.
I can't take a big risk unless I have an assertive answer.
Spoiler alert, I don't have an assertive answer.
I just got nothing else to go on here,
except your answer.
But maybe I'll go a little bit to the west of Romania,
but definitely not all the way up there where your dart is.
Oh, gosh. That really lost some steam.
- Well, it might be South Africa. You don't know.
- It's the grease on my fingers.
- We don't really know, we're just guessing.
- [Stevie] This is papanasi,
which is basically a fried cottage cheese-filled donut
topped with sour cream, jam, and powdered sugar.
Some believe the name papanasi comes from the Latin papa,
which means food for children.
While this dish is also sometimes enjoyed in Moldova,
papanasi is probably most strongly,
definitely most strongly associated with,
Romania.
- Hey, hey! - Oh.
Man, I was aiming for it.
Of course, so were you.
There's cottage cheese in this thing?
- Inside the donut.
- [Josh] Yeah, so that's probably
the denseness that you were reading.
Also it's cold in Romania, they need to stay warm.
- I love cottage cheese. - It's very calorie-dense.
- And I love a cottage cheese donut,
and that sour cream on top. - That sour cream,
not cream cheese, even better.
- Okay, Rhett, you had six.
Link, 15.
- Boo!
- Are you upset?
- Yeah, I'm kinda, 'cause I know what I'm capable of now.
- Right.
What in the world, Link?
Is this a testicle?
- [Link] I thought it was a lemon.
- Is it a testicle or a pear?
I mean, an orange.
It could be a testicle, it could be an orange.
- It's really mushy.
You've got me scared now.
And there's some sort of a...
- Is it a tomato, or a testicle?
- [Link] Let's just bite it and see.
- [Both] Oh, it's an egg.
- It's a hard-boiled egg.
- The possibility of it being an egg
did not present itself to me.
And there's some, it's a vinegary sauce.
- That kinda works together, I like it,
I like the color of it.
- Deep-fried eggs.
- That's fun.
All right, you're still going first,
so I can copy your answer, if I need to.
- I'm going solely off of the color of this thing.
I'm thinking Mexico.
I don't know, I can also see them
doing this in South Africa.
This is about gamesmanship at this point, Link.
I'm sorry, I don't like to be that guy,
but I don't feel like I can make a strong guess,
so I'm gonna kinda triangulate those answers,
and just go for Romania again.
- My observation is that it's a bland dish,
and then the only thing you've got to dip it in is vinegar?
- With some onion.
- You know, and you really need that because it's so bland.
I just don't think it can be India or Mexico.
There's just no spice.
There's nothing to jump out at you.
- So where does that send you?
- Russia.
But Russia's so big, I think that's a red herring.
- Uh-huh. Well this is red egg.
- I'm changing my answer to South Africa.
I could see this happening there.
- Quite a shift. - I mean, if I go for Russia,
it's not gonna...
- Right.
- Why are you...?
You're breathing down my neck, literally.
- I have glasses that film.
Hey, brother!
If that's right, then you just got a good guess.
- [Stevie] This is kwek kwek,
hard-boiled duck eggs deep fried in orange batter
and served with a spiced vinegar dipping sauce.
A variation of this dish also exists using quail eggs.
Kwek kwek is a popular fried street food in the
Philippines.
- Okay, that was basically a no man's round.
Where's the color come from, Josh?
- [Josh] So it's an annatto seed batter,
and annatto seed is actually very commonly used
in Mexican adobos as well.
- Wow, so I was actually thinking correctly,
but incorrectly guessing. - [Josh] I'm proud of you.
- All right, Rhett, you had 25.
Link, 38.
- Oh, wow. Okay. That's worse than I thought, Link.
- What do we have here?
- It looks like, I mean it's shiny.
- It's kinda like a funnel cake type situation?
- It's almost like deep-fried honey!
- It gushed on my face.
- Is that just grease?
- Is it deep-fried grease strings?
It's very sweet.
I think it is honey.
- It's good, though, isn't it?
- Yeah, it is.
It's some sort of syrup.
Like they just do it down in the fryer, I guess?
I don't know how it works.
- I would like to point out,
as justification for what I'm about to do,
that last time you were doing the best performance
in the history of this game,
and you still chose to use your cheat.
So, I'm also gonna do that. - Yeah, I did.
I'm not gonna apologize for it,
and you do what you gotta do.
- So there's no shame in this.
- Throw that blooming onion.
I mean, there's still some shame in it.
- I believe that this is from either Mexico,
Venezuela, or Peru.
- Why?
- Because the willingness to go super, super, super sweet,
is concentrated on that part of the map.
But I'm gonna try to just sorta go
for the Atlantic Ocean, and get some splatter.
- Trying to block me out, huh?
Oh, gosh. That was quite a mess.
- I feel good about that, though.
- All of your splatter went south and west.
- [Rhett] So I'm in all three of my guesses,
I'm in Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela,
I'm also in Morocco. - And when it comes to cheats,
that is one of the most effective cheats I've ever seen.
- So you understand,
Venezuela is underneath all that stuff I put on the board.
- So I'm 32 centimeters down.
I mean, I've really gotta...
- Lemme get kind of a cool cinematic shot
of you thinking here,
I think if I can almost be like a steady cam,
I can do this.
That's what we're guessing, right there.
- Then, and yeah, the unapologetic sweetness,
I think you're right.
I can't go for the gusto on this one,
I just can't afford to do that,
'cause I'm still in this.
So, I'm going for Venezuela.
- [Rhett] You're gonna have to get through the sauce.
Oh, Peru!
- I hit Peru, though.
Maybe the fates have aligned.
- [Stevie] This is jalebi,
which is also known by other names
such as zulbia and zalabia.
This sweet snack is made by deep-frying a maida flour batter
which has been pulled and twisted into circular shapes,
which are then soaked in sugar syrup,
and it is very much enjoyed in India.
- Oh, man! My shot!
I just didn't think there was anything
Indian about it. - I'm glad I got
that little spurt close to India.
- Dang it!
- Okay, Rhett, you had 11, from right here.
And Link, you had 49.
- That's quite a bit.
- What can you do? What can you do?
- Not a lot, not a lot.
- From glory to gutless.
A bag of fried stuff.
- [Rhett] That's a fried piece of meat with a...
- [Link] It's dusted.
That sauce is good.
- That's good.
That is a jerk sauce.
- It's spicy, too.
There's french fries in here,
there's dusted and fried pepper pieces.
That is nice.
There's no way I can win, man.
Just put me out of my misery, man.
- This has gotta be Jamaica,
which I have covered up with sauce.
Thank you, Chase.
Chase is making Jamaica appear.
Oh, I hit the United States.
- Okay, what is something that seems
like it could be an educated guess
that is as far as possible from Rhett's dart,
so as to make my score somewhat respectable?
- Well let's figure out a way to make it from New Zealand.
- It has to be.
- You know, everybody in New Zealand is so nice,
that they have to eat jerk seasoning just to try to get
a little more salty.
- I love it, that's what I'm gonna do.
New Zealand!
See, that was close, too, see, we can focus on that.
- [Stevie] This is the spice bag,
an on-the-go bag consisting of spicy fries,
fried chicken, fried onions, peppers,
a variety of spices and served with a curry sauce.
The spice bag was created in 2010
by the Sunflower Chinese takeaway,
and quickly became a huge craze with cult-like following in
Dublin, Ireland.
- Oh, wow. - Ireland.
So it's not a jerk sauce,
it's a white sauce? - So Josh, why did I think
that was a jerk sauce?
- [Josh] So, one of the main spices
in jerk seasoning is allspice,
and what you were tasting there
is actually Chinese five spice,
which is very similar 'cause it has cinnamon, star anise,
clove, and Sichuan- - Thank you for making me
feel like I'm not that crazy. - Five spices,
not all the spices.
- [Josh] Correct, yeah, yeah.
- 'Kay, Rhett, you had 23.
Link, 64.
- Mm.
- Okay, you're trying to send a message here,
but you know what?
No one's picking up the phone.
Because-
- What message?
- I'm not gonna say your message for you.
- I don't know what the message is,
you say I'm trying to send a message?
What are you talking about?
- I'll win again. That's my message.
I can do this.
- I mean, yeah, man.
I mean, listen, that was potentially
one of the biggest victories
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