'Tis the season for peppermint-flavored food.
Let's talk about that.
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Ah. But first, pumpkin spice, we need to break up.
I've decided I wanna see other spices.
And 'tis the season for peppermint-flavored everything.
Mm-hmm. Now, once again, Trader Joe's has gone overboard.
What? So it's time for...
Okay, so we are going to be tasting and ranking
various peppermint-flavored Trader Joe's items.
Now, we've got six items.
- There's a lot more. - They got more than six,
- but we've narrowed it down to six. - Joe goes cray cray.
We narrowed it down to six that we think
are representative of the peppermint offerings.
In order to help you make your choice
if you need to narrow it down further than that.
We've got our score, what's it called?
- A scale. - Scale, not score.
Amaze-mint, enchant-mint, mint-iocre.
That one was a stretch.
It was really working until "mint-iocre."
What about mehhh-int?
Ah, that's good.
Disappoint-mint, and abolish-mint.
- Wow, that's harsh, harsh words. - Maybe don't buy that one.
I don't know, let's get going with the first one.
What do we have here? Some peppermint pretzel,
- oh, no, peppermint bark. - This is peppermint bark.
Now, lemme just start,
you don't even have to hear us say this,
but just in case you're new,
you know that I'm going to like everything
because I like everything, and Link is going to have
a fundamental problem with peppermint,
because Link has a fundamental problem with peppermint.
And Rhett is gonna seethe with frustration
And Rhett is going to be a little bit annoyed by that,
so let's just go ahead and get that outta the way.
Yes, I'm gonna be annoyed by the fact
that he doesn't like peppermint because I love peppermint,
- and this is one of my favorite things on Earth! - But you know what?
This is my number one!
Well, don't go ahead and...
I'm just telling you, if you can beat peppermint bark,
I'll give it to you.
I never had peppermint bark
because I never thought I would like it.
I'm gonna set it aside for a second.
Somewhere in between the two of us, is an impartiality.
But you can't not like everything
just because it's got mint.
We're the "Ying" and the Yang,
as we would say as kids
- who didn't know what Yin-Yang was. - Yeah.
- ( snap ) - Good gosh, bark is hard.
Yeah, it wouldn't be bark if it wasn't hard.
It's got quite a bite, too, you hear me?
Just promise me, just promise me...
Promise me that this is it!
that the one thing you won't say is, "It would be good
if were not for the peppermint,"
- ( laughs ) - just don't, you cannot say that.
- I was about to say that. - No.
Tell me how to interact with it
because I'm thinking about chocolate and peppermint,
but I'm not thinking about them together.
Don't think about it, just enjoy it,
just embrace it, man.
I would say it's not bad.
Don't think, that's the problem, you think about food,
I just eat it, I use my stomach and my mouth, not my brain.
Since I don't think it's bad and he thinks everything is great,
I'm gonna put it right here in the middle
like we normally start,
and then I'm not opposed to moving this forward
because it's not bad at all, but let's move on.
Okay. All right.
Now we have the pretzels.
Now, these are Peppermint Pretzel Slims.
"Our thin, crunchy Pretzel Slims
with a creamy coating and peppermint sprinkles."
Now, people out there be eating these by the bagful
thinking they're getting skinny,
because they're called "slims."
That ain't how it works, y'all.
I think it's just that the pretzel is slim.
The pretzel is slim,
you're not going to be slim if you eat a lot of these.
Now, I don't love pretzels either.
I mean, there're so many things to eat,
I don't have to like everything.
Exactly, exactly, it's like the world is your oyster,
and you don't like oysters either.
- I don't love oysters. - ( laughter )
This isn't bad, this isn't bad,
I feel like I'm getting in the holiday spirit,
and I can tell you are.
- ( laughs ) - They're so good, man.
The pretzel thing kinda widens it out.
Can we put 'em both at number one for now?
No, this is a little better,
I think this is a little better.
Really? That hurts me, man.
I've been living off that bark for a long time.
Those are really good though,
especially coming off of the bark getting into the slims,
coming off of the bark, going the sweet to the saucy?
- Not saucy, whatever it is, salty. - But that being said...
- Okay. - Oh, now we're gonna mix it up with some beverage.
- We've got... - No, this is green tea, man.
Candy Cane Green Tea, decaffeinated.
Now, I'm a fan of green tea,
I've been doing a lot of green tea since I stopped
drinking coffee because it does something to my insides,
I don't wanna explain what it does,
I'll show you some pictures, follow me on Instagram.
I don't take pictures of what I deposit
in the toilet, don't get excited.
He has taken some selfies on the toilet,
he didn't think you would notice, but you did.
No, that was Snapchat,
my first ever Snapchat selfie was a toilet selfie.
Now, this is a sweet spot for peppermint for me,
I mean, on a cane and in a tea.
So, I'm all about this.
This is really good, but it doesn't excite me.
Yeah, exactly.
Like, I'd hurt somebody over either of these,
- you know what I'm saying? - Oh, really? I couldn't tell.
Like if this was the last thing on the aisle
in Trader Joe's and it was not even Black Friday,
- I'm just talking like a regular Tuesday, - Right.
I might hurt somebody.
I mean, I'm a big man, I get excited,
I might hurt somebody over this.
I'd be like "Oh, you could have the green tea,
I'll get something else."
Well, because peppermint tea is something that,
any time of year, I could grab out of a shelf.
So, it's not that it's bad,
it's just that it's not special enough.
Man, boy, talk about-- now I got two mugs.
- What is this? - Okay, now, we keep these in supply at my house.
Really?
We got all this stuff, we have a peppermint shelf.
The shelf itself is made of peppermint.
This time of year, or you stock up?
This time of year, but me and the kids,
we really like these Minty Mallows.
You don't like marshmallows either, do you?
I don't love marshmallows.
I'm not proud of it.
- I'm beginning to think that you, at some point, - I'm not proud of it.
you set out and you just decided to hate things, man.
Is it because I love everything and you feel like
you have to hate things just to balance us?
I recognize that I know there were people on my side,
you may have been on my side at the beginning
of this conversation, and now I'm losing you.
You've not liked everything so far.
I know, it's a problem, but you know what? I'm trying.
And we haven't even gotten to the peppermint,
we're just talking about the other things
associated with the peppermint.
I'm trying to, maybe the peppermint will help me like--
I don't hate marshmallows, it's just that it's not
what I choose when there's other things on the shelf,
like peanut butter, or just chocolate,
or white chocolate, which isn't really chocolate.
I love the texture, love the texture of a marshmallow,
but I gotta say, in the context of these other things,
it's not as good as I remember it,
it's not as good as the slims or the bark,
I mean, right off the bat, it tastes a little toothpast-y.
You're right, it's very strong,
it's aromatic, and it's not as good.
I'm not gonna take 'em off the shelf,
the peppermint shelf, they will stay on.
You're gonna put it low, low, low?
Let's put it low, low, low.
Really? I feel bad about that. All right, next one.
We can switch it in a little bit.
Now we've got some Candy Cane Joe Joe's.
Now, they look like Oreo's, they're not Oreo's.
I love Oreo's.
- Is that a joke? - Yeah.
- You don't like Oreo's? - I don't hate Oreo's,
but if there's, like, another type of cookie there,
I'm probably gonna choose it.
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And I'm sorry, I'm legitimately sorry
that I'm being this way.
You cannot say that it's not a little annoying,
- I know, I know. - I know you people in the comments.
You're like "Well, I don't like things too."
We know you don't like things, you made that very clear.
Now, but, it's a little annoying
when somebody doesn't like everything, right?
I mean, this, come on, maybe I'm a little annoying being annoyed by it,
I understand that too, but I mean, come on, gimme a break.
Lemme say this: nothing that I've eaten...
- Is bad. - has been bad.
Okay.
You know, I've been talking about preference.
After eating the other peppermint stuff,
I think that marshmallow especially,
I cannot really taste the peppermint in this.
- This is a very slight peppermint, - It's mild.
It kinda tastes like somebody
stuck something into some Oreo's, though.
Which is good.
No, in a bad way,
like Oreo's, and somebody put some like Borax in 'em,
like they were trying to kill the roaches.
Borax is not peppermint-y,
I tried it. I like that, it's really good.
- But it's like crystallized and crunchy. - There is a crunchiness.
I could take it or leave it, I'm not gonna hurt anybody over this,
you know what I'm saying?
I like the mild peppermintiness of it,
It's better than the tea, it's not better than the bark.
I'm saying it should go in there.
Okay, and final.
Gimme something else, guys.
Oh, finally some, what is this? Chocolate milk?
Chocolate peppermint almond beverage.
- Ooh, now-- - Boy, that sounds appetizing.
- You know what I love? - Almond beverage.
- Chocolate milk. - Oh.
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It's not chocolate milk, it's almond beverage.
They couldn't even say almond milk.
You know the milk people have been really upset about people saying almond milk?
'Cause it's not milk, according to them.
The milk lobby's like, "Listen,
you can squeeze a nut all you want,
you ain't gonna get no milk out of it.
Speak for yourself.
They are really upset about it.
They got to Joe, Joe caved and said "almond beverage."
You gotta come up with something better,
"almond juice," at least say that.
- Beverage doesn't sound... - Almond juice.
Almond juice, chocolate almond juice.
Chocolate almond juice.
Dink it and keep drinking it.
You like it?
I cannot taste the peppermint after the other stuff.
We need a peppermint palate cleanser.
Typically for an almond juice, it's kinda thin,
- but this is a thickness that brings me to the farm. - It is pretty nice, though.
What's happening on the farm?
Oh, the yard, not the farm.
The milkshake brings the kids to the farm,
that's what I thought the lyric was.
Yeah, I think you're talking about a field trip.
Okay, it's fine, again, it's just okay,
I can take it or leave it, like if you gave me this,
I wouldn't be insulted, but I'd like be "Oh, okay."
It's better than the tea,
I don't think it's better than the tea.
- It's not better than the tea. - It's not better than the tea.
It's not better than the mallows.
Oh, you're going low, low, low?
- Yeah, come on, beverage. - Man, it's not even in the yard.
All right, what do you think about this?
I know you wanna put the bark at number one.
I don't know, I feel the slims were really good
and they help you lose weight, so, you know,
there's a lot to love about 'em.
I am in total agreement, and I think that, you know what?
This has opened up a world of peppermint and pretzel for me,
and you know what? I'm a new man,
I'm never gonna bad-mouth peppermint stuff again.
I don't believe you.
Well, I'm gonna try,
and I do wanna apologize one more time,
but you should probably apologize, too.
- I'm sorry, Link. - For what?
I don't know.
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