- Does Mountain Dew taste better in Japan?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
Good Mythical morning.
- Foreigners have not been shy about passing judgment
on what we eat and our standards for food
here in the US, okay? - Uh-huh.
- For example, a lot of Europeans like to claim
our American chocolate tastes like barf.
- Yeah, well, how do you guys know
what barf tastes like, huh?
(Link chuckles) - Ha-ha, got him!
- We're not saying
we got the best tasting version of everything,
but I will say there's plenty of American snacks
that other lands have adapted for their own palates.
- I'm just saying. - Uh-huh, that is so true
that we can prove it.
Today, we're gonna be trying foreign versions
of familiar snacks and seeing if we can tell the difference.
It's time for Same Munchy, Different Country,
Snacks Edition, Part Three.
- As you can see, we can't.
- But why can't we see?
Why are we blindfolded, Stevie?
- [Stevie] Because it's easier to pull things over on you
when you can't see
what we're doing. - Oh, no.
- Like the covers? - [Stevie] And also--
- Is it bedtime?
- [Stevie] Yeah, it's easier to pull the covers over you.
- Yeah, yeah.
That's how Link goes to bed every night.
- Stevie--
- They blindfold him and then they tuck him in.
(crew laughs)
- And Christy's like, "Hush, hush." (mumbles)
- It's the only way she can get him
to calm down and stop talking.
- [Stevie] Okay, you're going to be tasting
versions of the same snack from different countries
and seeing if you can identify
the American version by taste.
The winner will get compliments from the loser
that were written in English,
Google translated into another language,
and then translated back into English
in Good Mythical More.
- Whoa.
- [Stevie] And you're blindfolded 'cause some of these,
you know, they look a little bit different
and we don't wanna give you any hints.
And up first, you've got Lay's sour cream and onion chips.
- [Rhett and Link] Ooh
- [Rhett] We know we like these.
- Those are so good.
All right, let's put a wager on this.
How confident are you--
- Two chips.
- That you can pick The American one?
- Two chips' worth.
- Two chips' worth?
- [Rhett] I don't know, man.
- [Link] I'm a five chip--
- I have found that confidence doesn't always help
with these games 'cause it's like,
oh, yeah, this seems like it's gonna be easy but then--
- And where's the other one from?
- [Stevie] Thailand.
- Thailand?
- [Stevie] Thai-land.
- Thailand!
- Hmm.
- [Link] Thailand.
- That's a good chip.
Hey.
- I made a mistake right before this.
- Oh, man.
- You know what I did?
- You didn't wash your hands after you peepeed
and you just tasted a little, (crew laughs)
you just tasted a little peepee
and it's messing everything up.
- Ew, no, dude! (Rhett laughs)
I gargled.
- Well, one is much stronger than the other.
- Well, they're definitely,
is that how they're different?
One of 'em seems sweeter.
- [Stevie] What about texture wise?
'Cause visually, it--
- One of 'em is harder.
- [Stevie] Okay, yeah, that's what it looks like.
- One of 'em is harder.
- [Rhett] They're good.
They're both good.
- I'm gonna have to get lick daddy on this.
- And we're trying to figure out which one's from the US?
- [Stevie] Yep.
- Where are we from?
- I just gotta eat a whole lot of these
to cover up my gargle.
I gotta like make my breath bad on purpose.
- I gotta say I'm thoroughly confused but--
- It's tough.
- [Stevie] Nicely,
three, two, one.
- Ha!
(Rhett grunts)
There we go.
- [Stevie] Okay, you can take your blindfolds off.
- Yeah.
- Well, thank you for that.
- Oh, I think we're right.
- [Stevie] You feel differently?
- Oh, gosh, they're brown, homie.
They're like the same color
as your shirt. - [Stevie] The American chips
are on Link's side.
- Oh, really? (buzzer blares)
- [Stevie] Yeah.
That's what American chips look like.
- [Link] What?
- I just don't, I don't really look at food.
I just eat it.
- Do we have any facts about why--
- [Rhett] These are better.
- Why they're so different in Thailand?
- [Rhett] The Thailand version's better.
- [Stevie] It's processed with rice bran oil.
- [Rhett] Oh, that's my favorite.
- [Stevie] Which can reduce saturated fat by 50%.
It has no preservatives.
And,
oh, has less seasoning.
I don't know.
I don't know if that adds up necessarily
but it's healthier for you. - It does to me
'cause I don't think they taste nearly as good
now that I've gotten rid of my fresh breath.
- Wow, you think it has less seasoning?
- And the consistency, they're just,
they're too thick for me.
- I agree.
The consistency of the American version is better.
And I kind of feel like the Thailand chip,
the first one was really good,
and the more and more I eat,
this flavor actually gets a little bit off-putting.
- Yeah.
Been there, done that.
- Hmm.
Well, we were wrong though.
- No, I wasn't.
Yes, I was.
- Yeah.
- You know what?
I voted for the wrong one.
- Good.
Good, good.
- So why did it take me this long to realize?
I meant to vote for this one.
- Okay. - All right, fine, whatever.
Zero to zero.
But I knew,
I was voting for Thailand.
Gah!
- Keep doing that.
Keep it up.
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- [Stevie] All right, up next,
we have Trolli Sour Brite Crawlers.
And up there you've got
one from the US. - Sour Brite.
- [Stevie] You've got one from Germany,
and you've got one from Australia.
- [Rhett] Okay, we decided-- - Germany and Australia.
- To take the blindfolds off.
There is a difference in these.
- Oh, yeah. - But
we don't buy these the, so I think that--
- But you're a lover of these, of sour
gummies. - I'll eat 'em
if people give them to me
but I don't even really get these at the movie theater.
- I mean, like--
- This one feels more American.
- This one is--
- Two color or three, four color.
- Pink and blue.
This one's just pink and blue.
And then this one is just pink and blue but then--
- [Rhett] But squiggly.
- [Link] But then there's also pink and yellow,
and then there's--
- [Rhett] Oh, I've got pink and yellow here too.
- Green and,
so it's just--
- Actually, these are also yellow too.
There's yellow and pink in these too.
- Okay.
- Oh, and there's also orange in here.
- Well, I'm gonna taste the same ones out of all these.
So I'm going with the pink and blue.
And I know that I'm voting for the US this time.
I don't know how I got confused.
I was just--
- [Stevie] You gotta say that more confidently, really.
- I know!
- There's something pretty distinctive in that first one
but I'm not gonna tell you what it is.
- Those worms are smaller.
They're-- - Well,
it's like these stretch.
- Their diameter.
- Hold one of these.
- Mm-hmm.
- And I'm gonna stretch this one
and see if it ends up being the same.
Nope.
- Nope, it didn't.
- Look at that.
So this has more volume.
It's also softer.
- Mm-hmm, a lot softer.
- And a different, a totally different fruit profile.
- [Link] Not as sour.
- And then the squiggly fatty over here.
Boy, they--
- Why are they so different?
- They took the time to squiggle these.
- Oh, it's very sour.
- And then a completely different, another fruit profile.
- [Link] Mm-hmm.
- [Rhett] All the same company?
- [Stevie] Yeah, they're all Trolli.
- [Rhett] What do they do?
How do they do this?
Do they--
- I guess they're sourcing ingredients more locally?
I don't know.
- [Rhett] No--
- There's different plants?
- They think that the people who live in this country
like squiggly more than the people
who work and live in this country.
And these people like four colors instead of two colors.
Like, this is like market research, man.
I'm fairly confident
based on flavor profile, texture, and sour level.
- [Link] I'm trying to go with which one's the most sour.
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
- Pricha-bop-boop-beep.
- Why did you vote for that one?
- Because I think that bigger, softer,
and I think it has a more nostalgic fruit profile.
That's my vote.
- [Stevie] So Link, you thought the ones that you stabbed
were the sourest?
That's why you stabbed them?
- [Link] Yeah, yeah, that's what I was thinking.
- [Stevie] Is that what you thought, Rhett,
that those were the sourest?
- They are the sourest.
- [Stevie] Okay.
The American gummies are in the middle.
- Whoo!
Boodoop-boodoop-boop-boop! - You did it, Rhett.
- [Stevie] The other ones on Rhett's side
is the Australian version.
- [Rhett] They like it sour.
- [Stevie] On Link's side is the German version.
- [Rhett] Sour!
- [Stevie] And the Mythical crew actually thought
that the American version was the most sour,
so it's interesting
that y'all both chose the Australian version.
The main ingredient difference is that--
- These are way more sour.
- [Stevie] The German version is made with potato starch,
the American is made with cornstarch,
and Australian has no starch.
- No starch?
- Is that what makes 'em smaller, I guess?
- Well, what do they do?
What do you do without starch?
- I think you do just fine.
I like 'em.
- And they are, I think they are the best.
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- As you can see, we can't again.
- [Stevie] Okay, this is gonna be
an interesting round for multiple reasons
because you have four glasses of Mountain Dew
in front of you from four different countries.
You have one straw each.
- Uh-huh.
- [Stevie] And you're gonna need to go down the line
with the single straw that you have
and put it in each of the glasses
to guess the Mountain Dew from the US.
- Oh.
- This is like a '50s soda shop.
- Oh, good lord.
Now--
- Just two boys in the '50s drinking out of the same drink.
Well.
- [Link] Is this it?
- That's it, man.
- Is this it?
- That's it, man.
- Is that it?
- What countries did you you say?
- [Stevie] The UK, New Zealand, Japan, and the US.
- The UK, New Zealand, Japan.
- Okay.
Okay, okay.
- I thought it was a bottle.
That's my hand.
- Am I in?
Hey, whoa.
- That one's not as good.
- It tastes like soap.
(Link pants)
Why is,
I feel like I'm breathing hard too.
- [Stevie] You're both being so respectful and nice.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Stevie] Like you always are, of course.
- Rhett whispered to me,
"Don't spin anything on my Paddington shirt."
- Yeah, yeah, I did say that.
Also, we've been taking an etiquette class.
(crew laughs)
Did you not know?
That's where we've been on Thursdays.
That's why you can't get in touch with us.
- We gotta get ready for our quinceanera.
(crew laughs)
- [Rhett] Maybe I just don't like Mountain Dew.
I think I don't.
- It's trash.
- I think I've established that on this show, actually.
- We're Mello Yello boys.
I don't know why my leg is still underneath you.
- Where is the drink?
- [Stevie] No, no, you gotta go farther.
Gotta go farther.
- Let me use some etiquette to help you.
- Don't grab my straw!
- Well, I was,
ow!
- Don't grab my straw! (crew laughs)
- [Link] Now, remember the etiquette class.
- [Stevie] I'm also just realizing
Rhett's straw is just upside down.
- It still works.
- [Link] Yeah, it is.
When I grabbed it, I felt the joint in it.
- Oh, it's jointed?
- [Link] Yeah.
- Hey, don't squeeze it. - What, what?
- Why do you touch my straw so much, man?
- I wasn't squeezing it.
- Let go of my straw!
(crew laughs)
- Okay.
This is quiet time.
(crew laughs) (Link grunts)
- [Link] I got it.
- [Stevie] Okay, okay, you're about to, you're--
- [Link] (grunts) I gotta get that.
- Where is this?
(Link grunts)
- [Rhett] Wait!
(crew laughs)
What you doing, bro?
- [Stevie] Okay, are you ready?
- Not quite.
I don't know, man.
I feel stupid.
- Okay, ready.
- [Stevie] Three, two, one.
(Link grunts)
- Are you, are you...
- Not confident, man.
- [Stevie] Okay.
- You're in, man.
- Are you,
are you in?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. (crew laughs)
I'm in a different one.
- Oh, good.
Okay, good.
- [Stevie] You can take off
your blindfold. - I'm pretty confident.
- I can look at the colors and tell you
that it's definitely one of these two 'cause look how--
- We kept going back here because--
- Look how like greeny green these are.
- [Link] It's definitely not that one.
You're wrong.
- [Rhett] And these are yellow.
- You're wrong.
I'm all over this.
It could be this one.
- Well, the first time I tasted this one,
I was like, "That's definitely not Mountain Dew."
But then I confused myself more.
Eventually, I was like, "Maybe that is Mountain Dew."
- [Stevie] The American Mountain Dew is in glass number two.
(Link grunts) - Yeah.
- Really?
- [Stevie] Yeah, yeah.
So--
- Hold on, so you're right.
Why are you upset?
- [Stevie] Oh, I thought that was like a--
- Oh!
- [Stevie] Celebration grunt.
So that was in anger?
- What is wrong with you, man?
(crew laughs)
- Well, I just gotta tell you, I thought I was over here.
I thought I was in the...
Every time I was going back, was I tasting this one?
- [Stevie] I don't even know how to answer that question.
- I was tasting that one when I coming back, right?
- [Stevie] The last time, the big physical tumble,
you were tasting the one that you voted for.
- But I thought it was the farthest one.
- Oh, it's okay.
- And then I thought I was voting for the farthest one,
but I was voting for the one I was tasting.
So here--
- Hold on, so are we okay?
- This is the hardest thing I've ever done, guys.
- I mean, it's not hard
as you're making it seem. - Why is this so difficult?
- [Stevie] Do you wanna taste it
now that your blindfold is off?
- No, I did. - I wanna taste it.
- I did.
- I wanna taste it.
- [Stevie] The second one< Rhett, you were like (gags)
when you tasted it, and this is the US version.
- Yeah, 'cause I don't like Mountain Dew.
I'm just confirming that I don't.
And in a fact, it's my least favorite of all of these.
- What's the difference?
Do we have the cans?
- [Stevie] So the one Rhett voted for is from New Zealand.
- [Link] Oh.
- [Stevie] Then the US, then Japan, then the UK.
That's the order.
And the US formula cannot legally be sold in the UK
'cause it has restrictions on high fructose corn syrup.
- Oh, snap. - Yeah.
- [Stevie] And then Japan and UK versions
have no artificial color,
so that's why you can really see that difference.
- Yeah.
It might be hard to see on camera, but here in person--
- This is very tepid.
- It looks like urine.
- [Stevie] And then the US and the New Zealand versions
both have orange juice listed in the ingredients,
and the UK and Japan don't. - I learned that recently.
- It's interesting that the Japanese one,
they still spell it in English
because I guess it's such a well-known brand.
- It's still Mountain Dew, bro.
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)
Hey, Rhett, look at this sweatshirt.
You see it?
Describe it.
- It's beautiful.
- Yeah.
What color is it?
- Uh.
I mean,
you know, I don't think I could really put a label on it.
- Does it have embroidery?
- Oh, yes.
- Yeah.
- Yes, it does. - You know what it's called?
The Mythical Vacation Sweatshirt.
- Why? (chuckles)
- Well, I don't,
Stevie, why is it called the Mythical Vacation Sweatshirt?
- [Stevie] Well, because it was originally called
the Winter Vacation Sweatshirt--
- [Stevie and Link] When it was in green.
- [Stevie] And it was so popular
that we had to bring it back for all year round vacation.
- This is the best-feeling sweatshirt.
And everyone loved the green one.
Everyone in my family got one back in Christmas.
And now, I'm gonna have to get 'em
the blue one and the gray one.
- Oh, my goodness.
- Grab a blue one, a gray one, or a green one.
- Complete the collection.
- Over at mythical.com.
This is nice.
That's embroidery.
This is like, it feels good!
It looks good. - Hey, did we,
did we mention that it's embroidery?
- It tastes good.
- [Stevie] All right, we're ending things today
with a little dessert.
You have Chips Ahoy! cookies in front of you,
one from the US, one from China.
- You would think
that we would be able to know the difference here.
- Well, it's not the chewy version.
Chewy Chips Ahoy!.
Who likes those?
Me, kinda
Do you, kinda?
(crew laughs)
- I believe in us.
- (chuckles) We're tied, man.
- Hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
One of 'em is taller than the other one.
Yep, one of 'em is taller, one of 'em is shorter.
I'm gonna keep these for myself.
All right.
I gotta tell you, even with no blindfold,
even with a blindfold, this is gonna be easy but--
- [Stevie] Three.
Two. - But
I'm always confused at this game, so.
- Are you gonna count down?
- [Stevie] One.
- Ow.
- I tried to fake you out, man.
No, this is definitely,
yeah, you're right.
Yep, there you go.
- [Stevie] Yeah.
- This was easy.
- [Stevie] We thought this one was gonna be
a little bit easier.
So the one on Rhett's side is from China.
The one on Link's side is from the US.
- Yeah, we make, we do things bigger here.
- But let's analyze the taste difference here.
- The chocolate is different.
It's even crispier than the already,
what some people might think is too crispy.
- Like, crumbly.
- it's too crumbly.
- It doesn't taste nearly as good.
The cookie part of it is not--
- You know, I bet you it'd be good with milk though.
- [Stevie] So--
- It's probably absorbs milk. - It's airier, yeah.
- [Stevie] It's probably because the US version
has canola oil, palm oil, high fructose corn syrup,
and the Chinese version does not have any of those things.
- You need those three things.
- Yeah.
So that means we're still tied.
So--
- [Stevie] Well there's a lot of translated compliments
to go around in Good Mythical More,
and I'd like to hear all of them.
- Yeah, Link.
You know, I think--
- If I wasn't so dumb,
I would've had that point from the chips in round one.
- You know what?
You're completely right
that you knew which one was the right version.
- But I didn't deserve--
- But when you call timeout
and you don't have any more timeouts,
you still get a technical foul.
- Yeah.
And I didn't deserve the point for Mountain Dew.
- You're sorta like the Chris Webber of this show.
- Sports joke.
(crew laughs)
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