- Do restaurant's dishes taste the same
as their frozen versions you make at home?
- Let's talk about that.
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- Mhm, but first, have you ever wandered
through the grocery store and noticed that they have
a lot of your favorite restaurant appe-teasers
in the frozen section?
- Yeah, but do they have the same magical taste at home
as they do in the restaurant?
I don't know, let's find out.
It's time for Was This Food Made by a Restaurant Chef
or Sold In a Grocery Store by a Guy Named Jeff?
- I love Jeff, he's great.
Alright, this is how it's gonna work.
We're gonna have two identical meals placed in front of us.
One dish came from the actual restaurant,
it was prepared there, the other dish will be from
the grocery store version that the restaurant sells
in the frozen section that was prepared here,
or it could be prepared by you at home.
- Wow you just made it more complicated than it actually is.
- Really? - One's from the restaurant,
one's from the grocery store.
You could have just said that.
We're going to select which one is from the restaurant
with this nice little credit card holder.
Now, of course, the person who gets the most ones right
wins a special restaurant-themed surprise.
- Nice. (hip hop music)
Arby's curly fries, hm.
- I didn't know you could get these in a store.
Did you know about the
frozen ones? - Yeah, in a big frozen bag.
- I've been missing out.
- Let's eat off of this one first.
When you cook out of the bag,
do you re-fry them or do you just bake them?
- I think you could do either, right?
- Do you know?
- [Man] The bag recommends to bake, so we baked them.
- Okay, hm...
- So, they're already fried
and then you just heat them up in the oven.
- Now, there's a distinct color difference.
Did you notice that?
- These are darker. - These are more vibrant.
(both mumbling) - That's a good curly fry.
- They've vibrant.
- And I'm picking out a tight curly from each one.
- Wow, holy moly, they're very different.
- I was actually thinking they weren't that different.
These are a little more crunchy.
- No, they taste different,
but I don't know which one tastes like what.
- They taste the exact same to me, man.
- No, there's a big difference in taste,
but I don't know which one's more frozen tasting.
- These taste better
to me, - Those taste better.
- which is why I'm voting for these as from the store.
- These have a mealiness... - Not from the bag.
- These have a mealiness that it feels like
it's gone through some sort of transformation.
- Now, they're not horrible, though.
- Alright. - We agree.
Are we right, Stevie?
- [Stevie] The restaurant fries are on Rhett's side.
(buzzer) (laughing)
- How is that possible?
Arby's, I don't know what to say.
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Okay, now we've got the Panera Bread broccoli cheddar soup,
which you can get inside a bread bowl.
You ever done that?
Woo, you have not lived if you haven't done that, my friend,
but this is just glass, (tapping)
not bread. - Every time I go to Panera
I'm miserable - Oh, they make a...
Hold on, they make a different sound.
Maybe that's a clue.
Do it.
(tapping)
Jaws.
(laughing)
That was amazing, how...
What are the chances that we just made the Jaws theme
with two bowls of broccoli cheddar soup?
I mean, (sighs), we've just peaked.
We should quit right now.
- Yup. - Alright.
- I'm still gonna sit here though, 'cause...
Oh, let's try this one first.
This is pretty great, me.
Alright, you're back, I can talk to you now.
- Are you still making the show?
- Yeah, I didn't think that was legit peak.
It was just a nice little... - Oh, I quit for a little bit.
It felt great. (laughing)
- Warning, it's very celery forward.
- This is the one you tried first?
- Yeah, try it.
- Celery forward, huh? - Yeah.
Isn't it?
- I would call it broccoli forward.
- Oh, is that what that tastes like?
Now let's taste this one.
Well, I didn't get any broccoli in that other bite.
They look identical
and they taste...
identical.
- Again, I don't agree. - Really?
- I don't know which one I like more,
but they taste different.
- Well, what do you think is different about them?
- This one has, like, a...
If I were to describe it as a musical note,
not just because we just played a musical note, ironically,
(tapping)
- It's the same now.
(tapping)
- No. - No.
- This one tastes high. - Hold on, I felt like
we were about to peak that time.
- Hold on, this one, ironically, tastes higher,
and this one tastes lower.
You know how some things have a higher taste,
like a more acidic taste?
And some have a bassier taste?
That's actually what's happening right now,
but they're making the opposite notes
and so my mind is blown.
- I think the only differences I can discern
is that the broccoli's a little firmer in this one.
- I'm going restaurant on this one.
- You know what, I'm gonna differentiate myself.
I'm gonna change my vote. - Okay, that's a strategy.
It might work because I'm kinda guessing.
- [Stevie] Okay, the restaurant soup is on
Rhett's side. - Yeah, see?
- Yeah, okay.
- But Panera did a good job of freezing up
this bowl of stuff. - Yeah, I actually preferred
the taste of this one. - Indiscernible to me.
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Tater skins from the Friday's.
- Now, without even tasting these, I just...
Blind guess, these are from the frozen on ones
and these are from the restaurant,
just because the process that leads to
bacon distribution in the factory,
and this is just Dwight who works at TGI Friday's
just making a decision
or maybe having a bad day. - So, it's Jeff, that's Jeff,
and this is Dwight? - Jeff and Dwight.
- Now, because this one has a lot more bacon
is just another way that I'm interpreting this.
Dink it. - Right.
It's part of the process,
and there's the same amount of bacon on each one
because it's a machine.
It's not Jeff, Jeff is just selling to us.
- That tastes good. - Really tasty.
- Really crazy tasty.
- Not as much bacon, it seems.
Oh, this is obvious.
Even, this is so much more potato-y tasting.
It just stays fresher, the potato itself.
So, they're compensating with more bacon and cheese,
which, let me tell you...
- And they're doing a job of it.
- I actually think it's better,
but I can tell this is from the store.
Do you think this is better? - You mean the restaurant.
- The restaurant.
- Because they're both stores.
- True. - Yeah.
- [Stevie] Okay, the restaurant's skin's are on
Link's side. (bell rings)
- Yup, we got it, - So close.
But I recommend these from the grocery store.
- I'll eat another one right now.
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Now we've got Chili's cajun chicken pasta,
and, newsflash, they use different pasta.
Look at that, they've got...
Is that penne?
Is that the correct name for this one.
- [Stevie] Penne, yes, that is correct.
- Penne pasta, and then what's the other one?
What's that? - Shells.
They look like shells, you know.
- That's the curly Q. - What do you call that?
What's the official name of that?
- [Stevie] I think it's a derivative of fusilli,
but I can't really see that well.
- A derivative of fusilli. (laughing)
- [Stevie] Cavatappi, sorry.
- Papatappi? - Cavatappi.
- Cavatappi. - Just like that, yeah.
- Papatappi? - Yup, that's the one.
- Cavatappi, no.
You've already eaten this, huh?
I've never ordered this in the store.
The restaurant. (laughing)
This tastes really good.
- Yup, what is the philosophy behind changing the pasta?
Is it so you know that you got the frozen one?
- I don't know the answer to that.
I'm not Mr. Chili. (laughing)
- It tastes completely different too.
- Nothing like it.
Oh, it's.. - It's super spicy.
- It's really spicy.
It's not the same thing
in any way.
- And we're sure this is what they...
They sell it as the same thing.
They're calling it cajun chicken pasta.
- [Stevie] That's correct.
- Well... - Yeah, this is..
This has gotta be the restaurant, right?
- I just think because the flavor intensity
in this is so high that it just feels
like more of a processed thing, and again,
this feels like Dwight threw it together last minute.
- This is like...
This like a TV dinner type situation.
- Yeah, right. - Are we correct?
- [Stevie] Okay, the restaurant pasta is on Link's side.
- [Both] Yes.
- Yeah, yeah, don't go for that.
Chili's, you need to revamp.
You need to re-examine yourself.
- Well, it's not bad, I'm still gonna eat it.
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- Beef and broccoli from PF Chang's.
What a store.
- Yeah, it's a great store.
- Now, this one is juicier looking.
This one's a little dry looking.
- Now, right off the bat,
I would say that this is from the freezer section
because of the lack of juice, but you know,
when they sell a Chinese food item at the store,
they give you a packet of sauce
that you warm up and pour over the food
a lot of times.
So, that makes me think that
that might be why it's more juicy.
- Or it might have more preservatives.
Let's see if it tastes better.
- It tastes better because of all the sauce.
- Mhm,
but the sauce is kinda like gravy in not a good way.
It's gravy-ish.
- I'm kinda going out on a limb here
and I'm going restaurant on this side
because of my juice packet theory.
It's not the first or the last time
I'll use my juice packet theory.
Solved a lot of my own personal problems with that.
- You're right, the consistency of this is better,
but I'm 100% sure that this is the restaurant.
- Oh, 100%? - Yeah.
- [Stevie] Okay, fine, the beef and broccoli
from the restaurant's on Rhett's side.
- Yes!
- This isn't bad though.
I'm not gonna not recommend it.
I'm just not gonna not gonna not recommend it.
- Right, mhm.
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- Alright, we've got a California Pizza Kitchen
gluten free barbecue chicken pizza.
- Oh, this is gluten-free, huh?
- Yeah, and that's just a game changer.
- Which means they're both gonna be bad.
- Now, there's a distinct difference.
I mean, this is like little chopped up ingredients.
You know, look at the size of the chicken,
look at the size of the onions.
We got whole onions here,
and we got larger pieces of chicken,
different kinds of pieces of chicken.
Just right off the bat eye test,
that's gotta be from the restaurant
or the store, as Link calls it.
- So, let's eat this one first.
- It's tasty. - It is good.
- But it can't be as good as this one, right?
- This one is stacked.
It's three times as heavy.
If you served this at a restaurant,
you have a riot on your hands.
You know what I'm saying?
- You could serve this at that...
What's that place, Cici's?
Remember when we used to go to Cici's
and spend three hours there?
- You can serve anything at Cici's.
- Yeah, it's an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet.
You just go in there and you just rack up.
- You can just flatten out somebody's flaked off skin
and people would get up there and just take it down.
- Mhm, yeah, and you can't complain
'cause it costs like $1.99.
- And it's skin, but it's pizza skin.
- Yeah, and I get as much of it as I want.
- Okay, so I can't win at this point.
It's all about pride, but I'm not gonna guess different
just to be different 'cause that would be wrong.
- [Stevie] Yeah, you're right, it's totally on Link's side.
That's obviously the restaurant version.
- Yeah, but never would you venture
to eat these at the same time.
You could trick yourself into thinking this was good
if you're home alone watching reruns of Frasier, you know,
just living your best life.
- That does sound like a good time.
- You might be kinda happy
with just that. - Let's do that tonight.
Let's take these two slices. - So, I win, what do I win?
Where's my prize?
- It's right here.
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Okay, bye. - Happy birthday, dink.
- Don't forget to tip your waitress.
Tip your waitress.
- Eat your ice cream, make a wish, man.
You're the winner.
(exhaling) How do you feel?
- Like maybe I shouldn't have won.
(laughing) - Okay, alright.
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