- Will we scream for store-brand ice cream?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat cheerful music)
Good Mythical Morning.
Take a stroll down the ice cream aisle
and more so than in other aisles,
it becomes immediately apparent,
the number of generic options.
Pretty expansive.
There's a non-name-brand version of all the best flavors
and they're right there in your face
and the price differences are too.
- Yeah, so you're being tempted by ice cream,
but then you're being doubly tempted
to save a few bucks by buying the cheaper generic brands
because, like you said, they're right there.
So today, we want to find out
if the name brands truly do stand out.
It's time for Knock-Off Knockout Ice Cream Edition.
- It's real simple.
We're going to be presented with
several different rounds of ice cream.
There's gonna be three that are non-name-brand
and one that is the name brand.
- Yeah, we're going to be competing
to try and correctly identify which one
is the name-brand ice cream
and the loser is going to have to do
whatever the winner wants for a Klonduck Bar.
- A Klonduck Bar? - Yeah.
- They got duck in Klondike now?
- Klondike Bar. - Yeah, bring on the cream.
(rock music)
First up, we have the runner-up of this year's
Take It To The Scoop Ice Cream Tournament.
Chocolate peanut butter ice cream.
Specifically, Haagen-Dazs brand.
So which one is Haagen-Dazs and which are Haagen nahs?
- Let's start down here.
- [Rhett] We really love, oh, this is hard.
That's hard, hard.
Man, that's harder than I thought it would be.
- Yeah, I hardly have any.
That is the deep darkness of chocolate.
It almost tastes like dark chocolate, doesn't it?
- I got a little peanut butter ribbon and it's good.
- I didn't get a peanut butter ribbon,
but I see it right there.
- [Rhett] Remember, it had those giant
peanut butter ribbons?
- I don't like the taste of that first one.
I can feel the ribbon.
- [Rhett] Get a ribbon, get a ribbon.
Get a ribbon, friend.
- Now this one is much lighter chocolate.
Mm.
- That one-- - That tastes a lot better.
- That one's worlds better than the first one.
Mm.
Ooh, that's good.
All right, let's go here.
You see a ribbon here?
- [Rhett] Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Oh, I see other things too.
- There's some chunk. - There's chocolate.
I don't remember chocolate chunks.
Tastes like a brownie chunk in it.
I'm not complaining about it, I like brownie.
- But chocolate ice cream...
- Not as good as that.
- Yeah, it's not as good as the first.
- Oh, this is soft. - Or the second one.
- This is a softie. - Look, this one's got--
- Other things. - It's got some sort of
peanut butter pellet.
So it's not ribbons, it's pellets.
- I'm a pellet man. (Link laughs)
- What do you mean you're a pellet?
What does that even mean, I'm a pellet man?
- You know, back when you had a BB gun,
but you could also get pellets for it?
You loaded them in there.
They were different than the BBs.
You couldn't shake it.
- This is the second-best tasting ice cream.
The pellets pack a punch.
Even if you do feel like you're eating rabbit turds.
- [Stevie] You guys think you're ready to guess?
There's going to be more ice cream.
- Oh good. - Yeah, probably a lot, right?
- You mean this isn't all the ice cream?
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- Oh, you mean we're doing a show?
- [Stevie] Yeah, it's true.
Okay, stab the Haagen-Dazs in three, two, one.
- I mean, if it's not this. - This is clearly
the best-tasting one.
- [Stevie] Yeah, you guys had to get this one right.
The Haagen-Dazs is in bowl number two.
- So much better.
- [Stevie] The others are Archer Farms from Target.
- Not great at all. - Bad.
- [Stevie] Signature Select from Safeway slash Vons.
- It's all right.
- [Stevie] And private selection from Kroger.
- Kroger does it, man. - Kroger brings it.
- They always do it.
- I mean, Kroger putting some pellets in it.
(rock music)
Ice cream sammy time.
Which of these is Blue Bunny brand
and which are just red herrings?
We're starting off with a thicky.
- [Rhett] That's a thicky, a stubby.
- [Link] Yeah, it's shorter and wider.
- I don't know what a Blue Bunny
ice cream sandwich is shaped like.
So I don't know that this is not it.
- It's good. - It's just good.
- I think the ice cream is very fluffy.
We might discover a fake quality
once we start diving into some of these.
Now we're to the long slender.
- [Stevie] If we weren't watching you eat these right now,
is that how you guys would eat an ice cream sandwich?
Or do you have a way?
- I probably would eat half of it in one bite.
(crew laughs)
- This is how I eat. - I know that there's more
ice cream coming 'cause you told me there was.
Honestly.
- This one, I'm not going to say it tastes bad.
- It's not as good as the first one.
- But it's as close, it's almost bad.
It's not, you know what?
It's bad.
It's just is.
This one's same exact dimensions.
- It tastes almost like nothing.
Like it's good, but--
- It tastes like nothing.
- Like it doesn't have an aftertaste.
Like they figured out how to not have the aftertaste.
- It's better than bad,
but it's literally a tasteless ice cream sandwich.
- No.
- No. - It tastes
like an ice cream sandwich.
- Are you talking to whales all of a sudden?
- No. - No.
- It tastes like an ice cream sandwich.
It just doesn't taste like much of one.
There's a form factor difference on these.
Look at the cross-section. - That's nice.
- [Stevie] I was hoping that, Link,
you had a weird way to eat an ice cream sandwich
because I think I have a little bit of a weird way
and I just thought that you would too.
- What, you open it up? - Do you eat it like this?
- [Stevie] Kind of like that.
Like I like to eat the ice cream
and then have a little bit of the cookie in a different way.
It's stupid, I never eat ice cream sandwiches.
- Me neither, I don't like them.
- I only eat them on this show.
- The only thing I like about them
is it's the only way I can bite ice cream.
- [Stevie] Stab the Blue Bunny in three, two, one.
- I think it's the one that tastes like nothing.
- What? - I don't know.
- [Stevie] The Blue Bunny ice cream sandwich
is one plate number one.
(buzzer sounds) - Wow, dang.
We went away from these because they were different.
- Yeah, it's fluffy and it's different.
- I think it was. - There's a life lesson here,
guys. - But what's the nasty?
- [Stevie] The others are Signature Select
from Safeway Vons, Great Value from Walmart.
- I thought it was pretty good.
- [Stevie] And 365 Organic from Whole Foods.
- It was also good, it was also good.
But Blue Bunny, they shorten it up, huh?
- Wow. (rock music)
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- Okay, next up we have rainbow sherbet.
So I guess we're just calling everything
against frozen ice cream now?
I mean, sherbet is not ice cream.
Sherbet is the step-family you never asked for
but have to be polite around of the ice cream world.
This is not ice cream.
This is a frozen scoop of shame
and I don't care what you think.
It will never be ice cream and, to be honest,
I don't know how any of you sleep at night.
I'm done.
- Our job is to find the Baskin-Robbins sherbet.
(crew laughs)
Oh yeah, look, I'm going to get a little pink.
I'm going to get a little green.
I'm going to get a little orange.
- I've calmed down a little bit.
I mean, it is pretty.
- Yeah, and it's a nice change of pace.
- It is pretty.
- Nothing to complain about in bowl number uno.
The mixing that's done here
seems to be much more random in bowl number two.
Bowl number one is more like a striped situation.
- A lot stronger, but almost like a chemical taste.
- I like it a little bit better.
It's not as smooth, it's more icy.
- This doesn't have green. - What happened?
It has white instead of green.
- Oh, so fruity.
So fruity.
- It's like really bad kid's toothpaste.
- I like that one.
- It's very, what is the white flavor?
I can't tell, but it's...
- Man, these are so drastically different.
- You like that one the most?
This is more about preference
than about quality, I feel like.
Lots of green over here.
- I mean, there's something to like about each one, I guess.
- One of them stands out as being an upper echelon
and I don't want to say which one because I'm ready to vote.
That's the one I'm voting for, so.
- Okay. - Three.
- It's a dramatic quality improvement in my mind.
- All right. - Two.
One.
- All the way of, okay.
- I think it's the one without green.
- [Link] That's just strange.
- [Stevie] Baskin-Robbins is in bowl number three.
- Yeah. - Oh.
- The others are-- - What are they doing?
- [Stevie] Kroger, Great Value from Walmart.
- Not bad, not bad.
- [Stevie] And Signature Select from Safeway Vons.
- Oh, you got your Safeway this time.
- That's interesting.
I mean, it's interesting.
- I think I just remember that there wasn't green
in the Baskin-Robbins sherbet.
I think from my childhood.
(rock music)
- Now we have a cone, a scoop, a coating
and a bunch of nuts,
but we have to find the Nestle Drumstick cone.
I couldn't say Drumstick to start
because I think that's a Nestle thing.
- We know that we like the Drumstick
because it won best ice cream truck treat,
but boy, they really match the form factor.
There are some differences in the cones though.
The one I have in my right hand, the first one,
the check on the cone is tighter.
It's tight. - Lighter and tighter.
Tight crosshatch. - This one is the darkest.
Number three.
Then this one starts to look a little green.
- I think I have to just taste them.
I'm not learning anything by looking at them.
- I think those nuts are the darkest.
- [Rhett] Hmm.
- I don't know why I started on number two.
- The nuts are a little bitter.
- Well, I'm gonna tell you right now.
Number two is good.
How's number one?
- Not as good as number two.
- The ice cream in number one is very white.
Ice cream in number two is yellow.
- A little bit yellow. - And tastes better.
- It is better.
Two's better than one.
Wow.
That's really good. - This ice cream
is as white as number one.
- But it tastes better than number one.
- And then number four.
That's a yellowy ice cream too.
- What if we just went out to an ice cream truck?
- It tastes good.
- And started doing this in front of the guy?
(Link grunts) Hmm.
- Okay.
- [Link] I'm stumped.
- Here we go. - I got it narrowed down.
- [Stevie] In three, two, one.
- I think it's either two or three, is where I ended up,
but I couldn't decipher.
- [Stevie] The Nestle Drumstick is on plate number one.
(buzzer sounds) - One.
- Oh, we said that one wasn't good.
See, once you said it wasn't good, I just fell for it.
- [Stevie] The others are Great Value from Walmart,
Signature Select from Safeway Vons
and First Street from Smart & Final.
- They're all good.
- They're all good, except for the Nestle.
(crew laughs)
(rock music)
- Finally, we had the most ice cream of all ice creams,
good old classic vanilla. - Yeah.
- But is finding the name-brand
going to be plain and simple.
We've got to find Dreyer's vanilla ice cream or Edy's.
Or Eddies, Edy's?
If you're on the East Coast, you know who you are.
- Very vanilla extracty.
- None of these have a vanilla bean
in them that you can see. - Yep.
They just went straight up.
- It's just like eating plaster,
but it tastes like ice cream.
- It doesn't taste bad, but it tastes manipulated.
- [Rhett] Manipulated?
- First one tasted better.
Ooh, this one is...
- That's creamier. - Dramatically creamier.
It's too much.
Too much vanilla.
Is that even possible?
- I think that the vanilla makes it taste manipulated.
I like my ice cream to be never manipulated.
Like no one has ever done anything to it.
Except just made it ice cream.
- I think this is cheaper.
- Okay.
I gotta guess.
- [Link] Oh man.
- I don't have a lot of confidence in it,
but I got to guess.
- [Stevie] Here we go in three, two, one.
- Ow! (Rhett laughs)
God, god, why did you do that?
Why did you let me do that?
It's not bleeding, but it certainly punctured.
- Man, you came in so hard and I was going this way.
- Why are you going forward?
You're not--
- I was going like this.
I didn't know you were coming in so hard, man.
- I went, like, never point your in like that.
Even when I do this, recreate it,
you went in the exact same spot.
You touched the same spot with the point.
- Is it okay?
Put it in some ice cream.
- If I win, you're gonna have to kiss it.
- Well. - Boy.
- At least I hope you're right.
- You know how a puncture wound,
there's a delay before it starts gushing blood.
I think by Good Mythical More,
we're going to need a bandage.
- There might be some wood lodged in there
that's gonna push its way out.
- I mean, look. (Rhett laughs)
Look at the hole.
- (laughing) Oh god.
- Okay. - Oh man.
- All right, can we redeem this by giving me this?
Stevie, come on. - Let's see.
Let's see if we can.
The Dreyer's slash Edy's vanilla ice cream
is in bowl number four.
(Rhett laughs) (buzzer sounds)
The others-- - At least you didn't get it.
- [Stevie] Are Market Pantry from Target,
Great Value from Walmart,
and Kirkland Signature from Costco.
- Huh, huh. - Okay.
Not a great performance today,
but I did get just enough to squeeze out the win.
And I injured Link in the process,
so I mean, we're all winners.
- Starting to bleed a little bit now.
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