- Who will win the ultimate food fight
between corporations and customers?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good Mythical morning.
- Now, I'm no sucker, but I will get sucked
into a commercial if it's telling me
to try some new delectable item at a restaurant,
fast food or otherwise.
- I know.
- I just love shiny new things, especially shiny food.
- Mm-hmm, and the thing is, restaurant ads,
they do a really good job of making their new thing
look all shiny, don't they?
- Yeah.
- Especially for you.
But I do not eat the ads, I eat the thing.
- That's smart and probably better for you.
It's time for customer gripe
versus restaurant hype, part one.
- All right, we're gonna try some new menu items
from Popeyes, Pizza Hut, and Arby's, good old Arby's, today
to see how they stack up to the hype of their campaign ads.
- Or their ad campaigns, 'cause campaign ads is a-
- It seems like they're running for something.
- It's a political thing.
- Right. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah. - Ad campaigns.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Hold on, is Arby's running for president,
because I'm voting.
- I'll write them in.
- Okay, we're also gonna be taking into account
some scathing reviews from real people who've tasted it
in order to see who is closer to the truth.
- It's more of a balanced perspective,
- The ad or the bad review.
- I'm just hungry, let's do it.
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- Up first, we've got Popeyes'
Buffalo ranch chicken sandwich,
released in May, available for a limited time.
Let's start by taking a look at the commercial.
- Okay.
- [Narrator] Popeyes new Buffalo ranch chicken sandwich
is gonna sauce things up.
The Internet's favorite chicken sandwich
now comes with a zesty Buffalo and creamy ranch sauce
spread on our brioche buns with crunchy pickles
and juicy chicken breast.
- [Rhett] Oh, that's a lot of sauce.
- [Narrator] Try it today.
♪ Love that chicken from Popeyes ♪
- The announcer sounded like he's got
some Buffalo ranch sauce caught in the back of his throat.
- He's had a lot of Buffalo.
Now, does the regular sandwich have sauce
on the top and the bottom of the chicken?
- I think that's the only difference.
- That's the only difference,
'cause those those pickles,
which, according to the press release,
which we have access to.
- We get that.
- Like Popeyes traditional chicken sandwich,
it's served on a buttery brioche bun
with barrel-cured pickles.
So we've had that before.
The only thing that's new is the new sauce
with creamy buttermilk ranch
and a zesty and buttery Buffalo sauce.
- They call it another culinary masterpiece.
- They've just mixed some ranch with Buffalo sauce.
- But, I mean, it's a great sandwich.
You can only improve just a little bit more.
- Oh, I know I'm gonna like it.
- Yeah, so I'm feeling pretty good,
but we're not gonna move our slider until we taste it,
but we're not gonna move our slider until we hear a review.
So let's go to Yelp up in New Jersey, Inquiring M.
- It probably is a mind.
- Today, I tried the Buffalo ranch sandwich
just because it's new.
- Yeah, I understand.
- That's a good enough reason.
- You only live once.
- And, as expected, it was weak AF.
- Okay, so as expected?
You can't bring negative expectations
into your fast food experience.
- Why were you expecting it was weak AF?
I do like their spicy and original chicken sandwich.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- Then why were you expecting to be weak AF?
- Yeah, what's wrong with Inquiring M?
- You're undermining yourself.
This new contender is not something I'd get again.
- [Rhett] Okay.
- It had a nice spicy taste, but as I but into it.
- Bit, probably.
- But the lingering ranch.
- Oh, that's the problem, he tried to eat it with his butt.
- But the lingering ranch remnants it left
was a horrible aftertaste, in my opinion.
- Lingering ranch remnants, that sounds positive.
- I was able to power through since the sandwich was fresh
and the pickles made a nice performance
with their crunch and bitterness.
- Okay, you're getting a little too wordy here.
- Thank God, and he's bringing God into it.
- Yeah, you didn't have to make it religious, dude.
- But overall not a sandwich I'd recommend,
yeah, you said that earlier,
toning against this location.
- I think maybe probably nothing,
unless he's like working out there also, he's toning.
he's toning at this location.
(high-pitched vocalization)
- I tone regularly at this location.
- I show up here and I, (high-pitched vocalization)
is that what he means?
- I just mean he's getting toned.
- Oh.
Nothing against this location,
but rather the dudes at corp got it wrong
when they approved this idea.
- Ouch. - The dudes at corp,
why they gotta be dudes, huh?
- All right, so we'll be the,
this guy, I'm not believing him too much.
- Now, this doesn't look as good as the ad,
but that's not what we're.
- That's another thing we do.
- But the sauce is much more Buffalo-y in person.
- Yeah, look at how look at how bright that is, good Golly.
It looks like gravy.
- [Stevie] No, that's crazy.
It looks like red sauce; in the commercial,
it looked like a slightly pink ranch situation.
It looks like marinara.
- To be honest with you,
I wouldn't know I was eating a different sandwich.
- Unless you're eating it side by side.
It's not as spicy as the spicy,
but they're not marketing it that way.
It's not spicy.
I would say from a spice standpoint,
it's kind of weak AF.
And I will say it's definitely not
an improvement over the normal spicy.
- So you think this is different chicken than the spicy?
You think this is the regular sandwich chicken
with the sauce added, instead of the spicy chicken
which has spicy built into it?
- And it has sauce on it too, yes.
It has a much better sauce.
- After tasting it, I would say I don't agree with this guy.
I don't like the review,
I don't like the way he brought God into it
and the fact that he's getting toned,
but he does have a little bit of a point.
But I mean, this center is actually
a little bit weighted towards the ad,
just using, you know, proportions here.
But I am in enough agreement with the review
from that boy to move it down a little bit.
Not all the way.
- I just don't think there's,
they're trying to squeeze every ounce of,
you know, popularity out of this super popular sandwich,
and they haven't done it,
and I agree with this guy completely,
except for his grammatical errors.
- Okay, yeah.
- But his assertion is.
- I mean, toning against that guy, but.
- It's not spicy, so it is kind of weak AF,
and it's not better than the other one.
Either get original or get spicy, but don't mess with this.
- I have to agree with that.
- It's a disappointment.
I'm sorry.
- Don't apologize.
- I'm sorry for being sorry.
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All right, now we got Pizza Hut's spicy lover's pizza,
which debuted back in January.
Spicy lover's pizza, did you hear of it?
- When you said it right now.
- I did not hear of it back in January.
But spicy lover's pizza is not for spicy lovers.
- Oh, lovers who are spicy?
- Right, it's for people who just love spice.
- That makes more sense.
- But they could be spicy lovers, as I am.
- 'Cause I was thinking about like an S&M kind of thing.
- It could be that.
- Yeah.
- It could come with a whip and a chain.
- Right.
- But it doesn't.
- It's not about that.
- Maybe it does, let's watch the commercial.
- Mm, new spicy lover's pizza from Pizza Hut hurts so good,
with this spicy marinara and sliced red chilis.
It's like a roundhouse kick to the taste buds.
How's it looking?
Don't be bashful with the fiery flakes, now,
I want it to be real spicy.
- I haven't started yet
- Okay, I'm ready.
The new spicy lover's pizza, get it while it's hot.
You want respect?
Red chilis get you respect.
No one out-pizzas the Hut.
- Craig, man.
- Friend of the show, Craig Robinson.
- Friend of the show, yes.
- Got a spicy lover's pizza tattoo.
- Getting that Pizza Hut money.
- I'm sure that's real.
I'm sure that tattoo is real
because he believes in the spiciness.
- He said, "Roundhouse kick to the taste buds."
That's quite an expectation that's set there, Craig.
- I believe he said, "It hurt so good."
- Yeah, he did say that.
- That comes up.
Spicy marinara.
If I'm looking at the press release, and I am.
- Yeah, right.
- It says that it's perfectly balanced
and flavorful layers of spicy ingredients,
including the new spicy marinara.
It's game-changing with a touch of heat and sweetness.
A touch of heat?
- Okay.
- Each layer of heat is balanced with full zesty flavor.
The carefully-crafted combination
performs an intricate dance on pizza lovers' tastebuds.
- What?
- And brings the spice of life we all so desperately need.
- Hold back a little bit.
- Resulting in a masterpiece of piquant, piquant?
That's a word?
- [Emily] Piquant.
- Piquant?
- [Emily] Piquant.
- Piquant.
- [Emily] Piquant. - Piquant-y.
- Piquant.
That offers a craveable, bold taste, not burn.
You're talking over my head, Hut.
- Yeah, I'll tell you right now,
I didn't think Pizza Hut was gonna get
too complicated for our taste, but they have.
- I feel dumb.
- Piquant.
- Just trying to process the ad.
- Is it a masterpiece of piquant?
- I don't know, man, I'm not feeling great about this.
- Now, we don't have a Yelp review.
We've gone all the way to an actual food blog review
from the one-person food blog, Brand Eating.
- Okay.
- Not a placeholder title.
This is interesting. - Shout-out to Brand Eating.
- Most of this review centers around the fact
that he interpreted it as sour.
So he's like, "Strong, spicy, vinegary smell
"that's generally not what I want a pizza to smell like.
"It seemed to be the sliced red chili peppers,
"but, oh, actually they're actually
"just red jalapeno peppers
"that've been pickled and they're sour as a result."
He says, "I felt like I was tasting less
"in terms of smokey, savory, and salty
"due to the strong sour bite of the peppers.
"Less like a pizza and more
"like a spicy sour fried bread stick."
So that's the expectation
that has been set by the food blog.
- Yeah, that's not how they marketed it.
- Here's the pizza itself.
So you see you got the jalapenos,
you got the spicy red pepper.
- Does it smell sour?
- Doesn't strike me as that sour.
- Doesn't smell sour to me.
Now, see, I would make this choice.
I love a pepperoni pizza,
I love to get jalapenos on there.
- I'ma eat one of these.
- I like to go hard with the red pepper.
- Now, these are hot.
- I feel like I got the roundhouse to the teeth, man.
- Is this pickled, 'cause it?
- Yeah, it's pickled, but it doesn't mean
what he thinks it means.
- Woo, woo.
- Doesn't make them sour,
it just takes the edge off a little bit.
I like this a lot.
- Those are hot, dude.
- So I definitely don't agree with the review here.
- And there's double layers of pepperoni in it,
there's like a hidden pepperoni.
- The expectation that Pizza Hut set in that press release,
you start talking about things dancing in my mouth,
you've lost me.
So I'm gonna go up, but I mean,
it's not a piquant masterpiece.
- I still don't know how you use that word.
- Yeah.
- I don't like spicy stuff.
I don't think I would ever order a spicy pizza.
- Are you a spicy lover, though?
- Mm-hmm, oh yeah.
- Oh, yeah, I am, oh yeah.
- I misunderstood the question, I'm a very spicy lover.
But it was good.
I have nothing to complain about.
It delivered on the heat.
- Yeah.
- And it makes me wanna make love, let's just be real.
- Oh, okay, well, I think that can be arranged,
but not by me.
- I can't say that I love it,
so I'm not gonna go all the way here.
- Have you ever had a conjugal visit
with your wife here at Mythical?
- It's gonna take a while to answer that.
Save it for More.
I think More has a different rating these days.
- Oh, okay.
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- Last up, we're gonna try Arby's'
new pecan chicken salad sandwich,
or pecan chicken salad sandwich.
It comes out during the summertime sporadically.
It's just been released again this May.
Do you know about this one?
- No, I don't.
Chicken salad sandwiches are not
like something I'm always thinking about.
- I'm not Googling that,
but let's see what the ad has to say to us.
- [Narrator] There is no pecan chicken salad sandwich
quite like this one.
Nope.
This Arby's made-to-order masterpiece can't be topped,
except very literally by honey wheat bread.
Arby's: we have the meat.
- It's hard to really sell
a chicken salad sandwich, isn't it?
It's just like, I feel like they should have brought in
another voiceover person for this one.
- Well, he's got the most epic voice, I do like that,
but they're really, it's called pecan chicken salad,
like that, it doesn't even say sandwich,
you just see that it's in between two slices of bread.
- Yeah, just inferring.
- That made me think that, oh,
Arby's sells a pecan chicken salad.
- Sandwich?
- No, and now they're just putting it on a sandwich.
I didn't even think that, oh, this is chicken salad.
Chicken salad is not a chicken salad.
It's its own thing.
You know what I'm trying to say?
- No.
But what does the press release say since we're so confused?
- I'm so confused.
- Gives Americans a satisfying lunch.
- Okay.
- Puts a gourmet twist on plain chicken salad
with the addition of pecans, apples and grapes.
Now, listen.
- So it's just fancy chicken salad.
- Hey, my wife has made a chicken salad sandwich
that had some grapes in it,
and she didn't talk to Arby's before she did it.
- Yeah, it's been around for a while.
- And here's the kicker.
It was called an epicurean sandwich.
- That's another word I don't know what it is.
- Well, the definition of epicurean is,
and I'm pulling this right outta my head,
the cultivation of a refined taste
as in food, art music, et cetera, connoisseurship.
- Oh, so we could be connoisseurs if we eat this.
- Oh, we're about to be, yeah.
- Oh, all right, but let's balance it.
I know I've only said positive things about this ad.
But let's see what an average Joe reviewer
has to say about this.
Not Joe, Candace.
New pecan chicken sandwich is a joke is the title.
- [Rhett] She put a H in sandwich
where there's not supposed to be.
- Was this review left on TripAdvisor?
What kind of stars are these?
Saw the commercial for the new pecan chicken salad sandwich
and was excited to try it.
- Well, that's your first problem.
- She fell for it.
Huge disappointment.
First, the ratio of salad to bread is way off.
Okay.
My sandwich consisted of one small spoonful
of actual chicken salad in the middle.
The chicken salad wasn't mostly made up
of grapes and apples.
- I think she means it was mostly made up
of grapes of apples.
- She said the opposite.
Hardly any pecans and chicken at all.
Maybe if there was more chicken salad on the sandwich,
it would've had more than just a bland taste.
Almost $9 for a meal and very disappointed.
Gave one star only because the fries were good.
- Oh, okay.
- Let's taste it for ourselves.
Oh my gosh, look how big this knife is.
They've given us a huge one to cut this thing in half.
- You gotta be more careful.
- I know you want to take it.
- We've made it this far with nobody being injured yet,
but you do realize that the way
you irresponsibly handle a knife
is gonna come back to bite me at some point.
- I can do it, I can do it.
So the question is, having seen the commercial,
will we buy it?
No.
Having read the review, will we buy it?
- Even less.
- No.
- Yeah, yeah, I mean.
- But maybe it tastes good.
- But we should cut it in half.
- Knife's gone.
- Where did that go?
- Nicole, did you take the knife?
- [Nicole] No, I didn't.
- First of all, thank you for taking it, if you did take it,
but could you bring me a knife so I can actually slice this?
- Yeah, here you go.
There you go.
- It's a different knife.
- I like a good chicken salad sandwich,
if I don't think there's just a salad in between bread,
that's all I'm trying to say.
- But what do you think a chicken salad sandwich is?
- I don't consider chicken salad salad.
It's not a salad, but what is this?
I mean, this is-
- A little peek into Link's brain.
- It's a little chunky.
- You get one every once in a while.
Epicurean.
- The mayo is very thin.
I would almost call it watery.
- But if there was more mayo,
we'd probably be complaining
about there being too much mayo, just so you know.
- Mine has enough chicken.
I kind of like this.
It has real chunky pieces of celery in it and grapes.
- It's not bad at all.
- It needs some pepper.
Our expectations were really lowered by everybody else's.
- I don't know who to agree with though,
because my expectations were set low
by the ad and the review.
- But let's just say the ad means it's good.
- I guess the ad was trying to communicate that it was good,
so I'm going almost all the way to the end
because the expectations that I bring
to a chicken salad sandwich are so low.
- I'm feeling you, man, because it's fresh,
it's got pieces of stuff that makes you feel like,
"Oh, this is gonna help with my lower GI."
- Yeah, right.
- But I don't like it that much.
- Okay, well, don't get too excited.
- Not as much as you.
- Okay.
- So I'm gonna do one of these.
This is where I'm gonna leave it.
- So we're agreeing with the restaurant hype,
and I think when all is said and done here,
that makes the chicken salad sandwich
the highest ranked position of anything that we tasted.
- We went higher than with the Pizza Hut.
- I think we did, didn't we?
Yeah, we did, okay.
- It's all about expectations.
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