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  • - Today we crown the barbecuiest of

  • barbecue flavored snacks.

  • - Let's talk about that.

  • (fun theme music)

  • (fire blazing)

  • Good Mythical Summer.

  • - Woop!

  • A few weeks ago we sampled snacks that had sour cream and

  • onion flavoring - Yeah.

  • - In order to determine which one was most like

  • the actual flavor.

  • - And it was the crickets, the crickets won out.

  • - Yeah, who knew they could get so sour creamy?

  • - Yeah, they did.

  • - Let's see if we're surprised again today when we set our

  • sights on the most American of flavors.

  • - Potentially.

  • - Barbecue.

  • It's time for Super Snack Flavor Match

  • Barbecue Flavor Edition.

  • - Okay, now as we have established on this show and in a

  • song that we wrote a long time ago, barbecue is meat

  • prepared in a very special way.

  • - It's not a verb.

  • - Right, and barbecue flavored things though, in America,

  • usually are not trying to replicate the flavor of barbecued

  • meat. - Right.

  • - It's trying to replicate sauce.

  • - Right.

  • Which we have some here.

  • - And usually it's like a Kansas City sauce.

  • - Right which is

  • - It's a sweet, - Thicker.

  • - Hickory-ish.

  • - [Link] Sweeter.

  • - [Rhett] Sauce.

  • - So we're tasting this now in order to establish a baseline

  • with which to compare all of the snacks we're

  • gonna taste today.

  • - Right, and see which one gets the closest.

  • Let's get started.

  • (rock music)

  • Okay, up first we have the classic

  • Barbecue Lay's chips.

  • When somebody says, "Give me some barbecue chips," you

  • usually can't go wrong if

  • you get Lay's. - This is the go to.

  • - I mean, look.

  • We've got the same exact thing happening in the real world

  • and on the bag.

  • - [Link] We don't have a hairy baster.

  • - Do we have a hairy baster?

  • - Where's the hairy baster?

  • (laughs)

  • There's all these people here and I'm looking at no one

  • because I don't really want a hairy baster, it's

  • just for comedy.

  • - It was my nickname in high school.

  • (laughs)

  • Never gets old.

  • - (chuckles) The thing that I noticed from eating the actual

  • sauce was the bite.

  • There's a bite that you can't neglect

  • - Don't neglect the bite.

  • - When comparing it to this.

  • Now I was hoping I'd get one of those chips that's folded

  • over 'cause those are the jam.

  • - Like this one?

  • (laughs) - Aw.

  • You looked, man.

  • You can't win the lottery by cheating.

  • - Yeah.

  • - That was a good chip.

  • - It's better than the sauce.

  • Isn't it better than the sauce?

  • - See, what I'm gonna do is, I'm just gonna lick it.

  • 'Cause I don't wanna taste the potato.

  • - Here's a foldy.

  • Here's a foldy with a baby chip coming out of it.

  • - I ate the baby and I'mma

  • lick the daddy. - Here's another foldy.

  • (crew laughs)

  • - Eat the baby and lick the daddy, kids.

  • It's so good.

  • Korde Busby on Twitter said, "Barbecue Lay's

  • "are slap peach."

  • - Makes me wanna slap a peach!

  • - I think that means a butt.

  • - This is really close, man.

  • - Especially if you dip it in there.

  • - Okay, so we're each giving these a one to 10 and then

  • we're going to - It's very close.

  • - Average between the two.

  • - It's coming from the same exact place.

  • - So smoky, it's got that bite.

  • - I'm going with a

  • - Eight. - Eight.

  • Hey, that's what I was going to say.

  • - We agree.

  • - [Rhett] Eight.

  • - So that's a total of 16.

  • (rock music)

  • Alright, now let's check out some David Jumbo Sunflower

  • Seeds roasted and salted and then barbecue

  • natural flavor added.

  • No picture of sauce on it.

  • - No.

  • - Let me give you a little bit.

  • I love the name David for a brand.

  • It's like, "My son David has these sunflower seeds, you

  • "really gotta try 'em.

  • "What should we call 'em?

  • "I think we're just gonna call 'em David."

  • (laughs)

  • - What if it was a tribute to somebody?

  • - "Well, it's my son David.

  • "He's dead.

  • (laughs)

  • "He died of sunflower overdose."

  • - What if that's true, man?

  • - "Eat, spit, be happy."

  • Are you talkin'?

  • - Yeah.

  • Why'd you give me so many?

  • - I love eatin' these when I'm fishing, gives me something

  • to do besides fish with my father-in-law.

  • - I'll be honest with you, they could just be salted and I

  • wouldn't know the difference.

  • - I cannot taste any barbecue sauce at all now that you

  • mention the point of this episode.

  • (crew laughs)

  • Sorry, David.

  • I don't taste any barbecue flavor in your sunflower seeds.

  • - You don't know he's in heaven, man.

  • He may have been a bad boy.

  • - (laughs) How could anyone who makes this be bad?

  • "I kept all of the barbecue sauce for myself but I still

  • "labeled it barbecue flavored (laughs)."

  • - Oh, he's from a different place now.

  • - He's Lucifer himself.

  • Alright.

  • This is not barbecue.

  • It's still great, David.

  • - I give it a one.

  • - Yeah, two. - Sorry, David.

  • - [Link] It's a total of three.

  • (rock music)

  • - I've got high hopes for these because I

  • love eating Fritos.

  • Have you had the chili cheese Fritos?

  • That's not what this is about but

  • have you had those? - It's interesting because

  • I've had those and I've had normal but I've actually never

  • had barbecue Fritos.

  • - Really?

  • Oh, but the corn is really strong.

  • - That's why I'm just gonna lick this one too.

  • - They're so good.

  • - They are very good.

  • - They're so satisfying.

  • It's so corny. - There's a subtly to it.

  • It's so corny.

  • - Gotta lick the daddy on this one.

  • - You gotta lick the daddy and then spit it out real quick.

  • - Why can't you lick the daddy and then eat the corn?

  • - Because then you only get corn.

  • - You don't want only corn.

  • - Again, because we're not analyzing how great of a

  • snack this is.

  • It's a great tasting snack.

  • - It's so salty though.

  • - But how much barbecue-ness is there to it?

  • - In fact, eat some sauce to remind yourself of what you're

  • trying to taste for.

  • - It's so sweet. - It's so sweet.

  • There's no sweetness on this.

  • It's just salty and savory.

  • It's good.

  • - But it's like half barbecue.

  • It's like barb.

  • - I don't even know if they got to the B, man.

  • It might just be bar.

  • - And that leaves me giving this a

  • - Four.

  • - [Link] Four.

  • - For a total of eight.

  • (rock music)

  • You're copying my scores.

  • - (laughs) No I'm not.

  • I had it in my mind and I wanted to say it in unison and

  • then I said it a little late.

  • - So we're just on the same wavelength?

  • Nothing wrong with that.

  • It happens sometimes.

  • - You know what, I'm going first this time.

  • - Okay, yeah.

  • - Weight Watchers.

  • How many points?

  • - Air pop, not baked or fried.

  • - Two smart points.

  • - "Our popped barbecue potato chips are your go to snack

  • "when you crave a savory snack.

  • "Enjoy this classic chip flavor for just two smart points."

  • We get two smart points?

  • - Yeah, the more you eat, the smarter you get.

  • That's what it is.

  • - Oh, after eating the things with lots of points.

  • - Oh, wow. - It tastes like

  • some old gum that somebody left on the gym floor.

  • - Yeah, you know those black circles?

  • I pointed to one of those I was like, "Kids,

  • "you know what that is?" - "You know what that is?"

  • I was with you.

  • - You were there?

  • - When you taught that lesson.

  • We were in a parking garage.

  • My kids were there too.

  • - (laughing) Yeah.

  • - You were like, "All kids,

  • - Yeah that's right.

  • - "Gather around.

  • "You know what these black spots are?"

  • And Shepard was like, "Gum."

  • (laughs)

  • He was like, yeah we've had that lesson in

  • the McLaughlin family.

  • - Yeah, I thought that would've been a cool lesson.

  • Uncle Link teachin' 'em about something.

  • That backfired.

  • We should've eaten these first.

  • They're so bad after everything else.

  • Yeah, dip it in some barbecue sauce.

  • - Have you licked the daddy yet though?

  • - I'm licking the daddy.

  • - Actually, when I licked the daddy I got

  • more barbecue flavor.

  • - Well of course you did 'cause you don't have the

  • flavorless-ness of the gum.

  • - Yeah, the old gum.

  • - But do you taste how sweet it is compared to the Fritos?

  • - Hold on, but it gets barbecue points.

  • Not only does it only give me two smart points but it gets

  • a lot of barbecue points.

  • I'm gonna give, well, I'm not gonna tell you 'cause I don't

  • want Link to copy me.

  • (crew laughs)

  • So Link, what do you give it?

  • - It has more sweetness than any flavor I've tasted but it

  • has none of the bite.

  • - This is what I'm thinking over here.

  • - I'm giving this a three.

  • - What?

  • - I don't like it and I don't think it's barbecuey.

  • - [Rhett] Seven.

  • - That's a 10 total.

  • (rock music)

  • That's a disappointment.

  • (crew laughs)

  • That's exactly what the review said.

  • - Yeah. - Now we know why.

  • - It looked so big in the picture.

  • Looks so small in daddy's hands.

  • (laughs)

  • ♫ Daddy's hands

  • - Okay. ♫ Were warm and soft

  • ♫ When I'd been bad

  • (laughs)

  • - No.

  • - (laughing) I don't remember.

  • - "They were hard as steel

  • "when I done wrong." - "Done wrong."

  • (laughs)

  • - So these are Stonewall's Jerquee.

  • Jerquee.

  • - Jerquee.

  • - That can't call it jerky because this is a vegan...

  • - It's a vegan product.

  • - It's a vegetarian snack.

  • - Is it vegan, it's vegetarian.

  • There's a difference.

  • It's animal free.

  • - Barbecue beef.

  • Oh, my goodness it looks like a dog treat.

  • - You sure it's not?

  • Is there a dog on there somewhere?

  • - Is this a dog treat, guys?

  • - It's in such a small pack. - We're gonna eat it anyway,

  • just tell us.

  • Okay.

  • - This is definitely a dog treat.

  • - They're not saying.

  • - It smells like a dog treat. - Smells like a dog treat.

  • - Barbara stuff smells but I would never give

  • this to Barbara.

  • - It's meaty.

  • - That's not meat, man.

  • - This is a dog treat.

  • - If I had a choice between eating this

  • - It's horrifyingly horrible.

  • - Or just expiring,

  • (crew laughs)

  • I think I would expire.

  • - I think it's expired.

  • I gotta just lick the daddy.

  • (crew laughs)

  • Do not eat this.

  • - Oh, even licking the daddy's bad.

  • Oh, it's horrible.

  • - Zero trans fats though.

  • - Oh, my goodness, that's horrible!

  • - Come on, let's stress the positive.

  • It's got a mustachey old man winking on me.

  • - It does have a good mascot.

  • - He's winking on us.

  • - And it has a cactus on the front.

  • A blactus.

  • - I'd rather eat a black cactus.

  • (laughs)

  • - Blactus.

  • - I can't even get passed how horrible

  • this is. - Sounds like a superhero

  • that lives in the desert.

  • Comes out at night.

  • (laughs) - Oh, my goodness.

  • Okay.

  • - And licks the daddy.

  • - This is just abysmal

  • - Man. - In taste.

  • But can you decipher any barbecue-ness?

  • - It's got a little bit of spice.

  • I can taste a little bit of garlic powder,

  • which is in barbecue sauce.

  • - But it's more like a jerkiness than, like a teriyaki jerky

  • they'd just probably do. - They tried.

  • They tried but they started in the wrong place.

  • They started trying to make meat out of something

  • that's not meat.

  • But just pure flavor, eh, two.

  • - [Link] Zero.

  • - For a total of two.

  • (rock music)

  • Alright, you ready to

  • (laughs) go fishin'?

  • - So this is Thai Taro Fish Snack barbecue flavor.

  • Or as my dad would call it, thigh toro.

  • Like literally we passed a Thai restaurant and

  • he said out loud

  • - Thigh food.

  • - Thigh food.

  • - All dark meat.

  • - (laughing) When he came to visit me in LA.

  • - All dark meat all the time.

  • - And I didn't correct him.

  • I didn't say anything until right now.

  • What is this, man?

  • This are made of fish?

  • And they got barbecue

  • sauce on 'em. - Oh, my gosh.

  • Talk about smelling like bait.

  • - Ooo, man it smells like walking down a wharf.

  • - Yeah, it's like when you're on a pier or a wharf.

  • - What is the difference between a wharf and a pier?

  • I think one floats. - A wharf is concrete

  • and bigger?

  • - No, a wharf moves a little.

  • - Really?

  • - Oh, yeah.

  • - I'm gonna wharf it down though.

  • Oh, gosh.

  • I can't read any of that.

  • - [Link] Another language?

  • - It's in thigh language.

  • (laughs)

  • I don't speak thigh.

  • - This is so chewy

  • and stringy and fishy.

  • - It's not nearly as fishy tasting as it smelled though.

  • Don't you give it that?

  • Give it that.

  • - Well, it's not that I can taste barbecue flavor, it's that

  • maybe the fish flavor is noshed down a bit by

  • whatever they added.

  • - As you can see though, there's no indication of

  • barbecuey-ness on this.

  • There's just a fish and then it's orange.

  • And then there's a carrot on the back.

  • - There's a carrot on the back?

  • But if I look at it there is an orangeness.

  • There's an orange tint that I don't think comes from

  • anything except a snapper.

  • - It says barbecue flavored on there though.

  • Maybe they thing carrots are barbecue in

  • - Hold on. - Thigh-land.

  • - I don't know if I'm getting residual barbecue flavor off

  • my tongue, which we've been cleansing our palette between

  • each round with a lime but, that being said...

  • Ooo, that tickles.

  • - Oh, got a little spic under that.

  • - It's not like crickets, I'll tell you that.

  • They douse those crickets with flavor.

  • We should've got more of those.

  • - Nothing.

  • - Nothing.

  • - I mean, it just tastes

  • like I'm on the wharf. - Well, you know what,

  • I got a little bit of something, I'm giving it a two.

  • - I feel like I'm sucking on fisherman's finger.

  • I'm gonna give it a one for a total of three.

  • Okay, so clear winner.

  • No surprises here.

  • Lay's. (bell ringing)

  • - Yep. - With 16 points total.

  • - Ran away with it.

  • Good work, Lay's.

  • There's a reason why it's on your package.

  • (laughs)

  • - Yes.

  • - Come back Friday when we've got a special guest host and a

  • special message from us.

  • Thank you for liking, commenting, subscribing and sharing

  • this with your barbecue loving friends and family.

  • - You know what time it is.

  • - Hello, this is Sarah.

  • - And this Alola

  • - We're from Egypt.

  • - [Both] And it's time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality.

  • - We've got new merch over our store that we haven't even

  • talked about on the show.

  • You should go over to RhettandLink.com/store and find out

  • what it is.

  • - Yeah, and click through to Good Mythical More.

  • We're gonna do a

  • pulverized chip identification test.

  • - Let's Get Textual.

  • This is when we have you text something to someone and then

  • screenshot the response.

  • We want you to text, "Theoretically, where would you

  • "dump a body?"

  • - Theoretically. - Theoretically.

  • - Emphasis on that.

  • - And then screenshot the response with hashtag let's get

  • textual and we'll repost our favorites.

  • (laughs)

  • - That's a creepy one.

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  • Good Mythical Morning.

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  • Is Mythical, by clicking the video at the bottom.

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