Does One Company Own All Your Favorite Foods?

Which products are secretly sold by the same companies? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. A few months back, we played a game exposing the incestuous web that is capitalism by revealing. the parent companies that own the brands we know and love. Which is my really fancy way of saying we put a bunch of objects in a box. and tried to guess what was inside.

And it was my fancy way of getting to eat Burger King, Popeyes, and baby food all on the same day. So I'm crossing my fingers that something like that happens again. It's time for. Untangling The Family Tree of Capitalism. The Game, Part Two. Okay, boys, before you is some Juicy Fruit gum. It's up to you to figure out which product. also owned by the same parent company as Juicy Fruit is inside that box. You have three lifelines you can choose from one time throughout the whole game.

I'll refresh you on those when you decide to use them. And, of course, if you get more than half of these correct, another big money making opportunity is on the line for you. Oh, yeah, we always perk up with those. Just like when we eat a stick of Juicy Fruit, because. the taste is gonna move you. How do you really feel about Juicy Fruit? I love the taste, but I never think of it as fruity at all. But what would you call that taste?

Juicy Fruit, like its own thing. Right. And it really moves me. But what is it trying to be? It's an athletic gum. I think it might be too juicy. The product in there might be a juicy product. What kind of fruit is Juicy Fruit supposed to be? Oh, I have a product over here. Yeah, so do I. Does Juicy Fruit also be owned by. You know what I'm saying? I understand. diapers. Luvs Diapers. Or does Juicy Fruit also be owned by.

Royal. Canin, or canine. Canin? The land? Well, it doesn't have an E on it. Feline, health, nutrition, cat food. But there's, like. Last time we learned that there were, sometimes there's no rhyme or reason. There's, like, a gelatinous. component to diapers, you know, that absorbs the water. Yeah, yeah. That may have been discovered from the Juicy Fruit making process.

Look at the front of that, though. You see, Juicy Fruit is made by. Wrigley's. Wrigley's. Let me see if I can see anything on here that would give me any. I think if you have expertise. You guys put tape over it. And you're smart. If you have expertise in, like, stuff for public consumption, even if that's just chewing. that easily extends to cat consumption. So I'm saying we should vote for the cat food. And people don't consume diapers.

I hope not. Okay, we're going. Because of Link's incredible reasoning, we're going with the cat food. And were we correct? Yes! There it is. Look at that. And. this is the cat food that. I feed Sokka. So. All right, this is gonna be easy. Well, so both are owned by. Mars, which is, I believe, what we had blacked out on the Juicy Fruit.

That's a candy company. Best known for being the company that makes M and Ms and Skittles. But it also owns a variety of pet care brands. I didn't know that, but I've been to the Mars plant. in Georgia that my, we had a family friend who worked there, and it was a treat to go to the Mars plant. Good. The good old days. That was a treat? It was a treat. It was a treat. I've got. What you got? Quaker Oats. Quaker Oats? Let me sample them.

Are they in the cylinder? Oh, yeah. Sample them. Make sure they're good. Classic. You ever made oatmeal in your mouth? No, but I'm doing it now. It's actually quite good. I need some. I do like them. Cinnamon sugar. Have you ever made overnight oats in your mouth? Takes more time. Give me a second. Okay. Quaker. Oh, well, this. I mean, Honey Nut Cheerios. I mean, another part of a balanced breakfast that lowers cholesterol.

Or Rockstar Energy Drink. Oh, you think that this might be. a little bit of a decoy? Does this lower cholesterol? Heck yeah, man. Why don't you do that? How did someone who's been told repeatedly that he has high cholesterol, who likes to not eat shrimp because of it, not know that oatmeal is, like, the number one thing? Do you not watch television? Never. I can't avoid commercials telling me that. Oats lower cholesterol. And I like oats.

So the Quaker. Can you, can you. visualize the Quaker man. drinking a Rockstar Energy Drink? Well, I can visualize him. He's got a. nice. Well, he's right there. Well, he's also right here. A nice hat, a nice scarf. I want to do this because. it's a fun little story to tell. Little party trick. Quaker Oats and Rockstar Energy Drink. I think it is a decoy, Link. So, let's go with Rockstar.

We're locked in. Here I go. Is it in there? Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby! Yeah. Rockstar. You can't fool us. Are both owned by a maniacal genius of. cholesterol and drinking reduction. And this is what they've been asking for, a little bit of oats. Stevie, are you whispering at us? Yes. I thought you were saying. both owned by, and then leaving a blank for me to say PepsiCo. But you said a maniacal.

Do that, man. Make some Rockstar oats in your mouth. I don't want to. Hey, be a rock star with me, man. Tell me that's not good. Overnight Rockstar oats. It's a bit much. PepsiCo, huh? I've got some Best Foods Mayonnaise. Mayonnaise. Established nineteen thirteen. Made with cage free eggs.

And then. Could it be owned by the same company that owns Axe Body Spray? I'm looking at some Dark Temptation. Or, is it made by the same company that makes. K-Y. Jelly. Mayo and K-Y. You don't put that on your sandwiches, if you know what I mean. Mayo, K-Y. It kind of. They kinda. They're both easy to say. We recently. established, Link, that you, on your.

wedding night, had to send one of your groomsmen, thankfully, not me. Yep. To a store to get. K-Y Jelly. Buckets of it. And he brought you. a lot of it. How was that? It was enough for my first year of marriage, easily. Like, I don't. He had no idea, like, how far that stuff goes. or how far I was gonna go. K-Y Jelly was established.

in nineteen four. They were doing that back in nineteen four. They were gliding back in nineteen four. They were doing it before then. Well, I don't mean they were doing it, obviously. They've been doing it since the very beginning. Is mayo? They were sliding and gliding. An acceptable substitute for K-Y, or vice versa? Well, it's got oil and egg yolks in it. Sounds like fun to me. Do you think, again, I'm going more. I'm going less on the fact that K-Y and mayo.

feel like cousins. Yeah. And more on the fact that nineteen four, nineteen thirteen, this is when they were. You know? But they made K-Y first. They thought about K-Y. But the companies could be acquired at any point. I think this is not a decoy, like the last one was. Okay. I like that. So I think this is. K-Y. No!

It's Axe. It's Axe. It's a big, brown eyeball. And I will not spray it because I do not want to give you any. Please don't. Oh, but look at. Please. I wonder how that works. Best Foods, also known as Hellmann's, and Axe, are both owned by Unilever. And last time, we also revealed that Unilever owns Ben and Jerry's and Vaseline. So, they're owning everything. But they don't own K-Y. Nope. That's true. They're missing out on. Because they've already got Vaseline. Already got Vaseline. We should have remembered. But it's not a great substitute.

Oh, Link, you're not gonna be happy. You're not gonna be happy. Jimmy John's. I can see it. Oh, get that crap out of here. So let me go ahead. One sided. Let me check and see. Let me check and see. Maybe since you did that rant, they've changed their ways. Have they opened up their subs? I'm gonna see if it's what kind of cross section we got. Oh, no, no, we've got it, man. We've got. all meat on one side. Oh, look at that. I'm still gonna eat it thought. Just bread. Oh, my goodness.

Hold on, that meat bite's pretty good. Yeah, if you only want to eat down half of your sub. All right, I got Shake Shack over here. I got Dunkin' Donuts. Shake Shack wouldn't do this with a sandwich. Reminder that you guys still have all of your lifelines that. you have not asked for. Well, let's. We can smell. Yeah, well, let me remind everyone else, who wasn't paying attention for the first time we did this episode, what they are. So there's shake. Somebody will come out and rattle the box for you to listen to the sound it makes.

Smell. You may give the inside of the box one sniff. Yell. Chase will go into your dressing room and yell the right answer, and you try and hear it. So. Yeah, that didn't work. Smell. You're going with smell? You wanna smell a donut or a burger? Yeah. Yeah. I'm too much. I'm eating too much over here for my smelling to really work. So. why don't you smell for us? Dunkin' Donuts. Oh, easy? Yes. I smelt it, and I'm gonna dealt it.

All right. Flag it. Dunkin' Donuts right in here. Oh, it's the coffee. Is that what you smelled? Almost poured. I smelled a donut. Is there a donut in there? Let me smell that. Is it donut coffee? Smell, no, smell through the hole. Maybe the cup smells. You know what it smells like? It smells like a Dunkin' Donuts location. Yeah. So Jimmy John's and Dunkin are both owned by Inspire Brands,

and it's the same restaurant group that owns Arby's, Sonic, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Baskin-Robbins. Oh, all the inspirational fast food places. Very inspired. Are you wondering what to buy at Costco? Well, you should head over to sporked.com for updated lists of the best. foods to buy at Costco right now. Whether you're looking for the newest deals, the best fall foods, or the best stuff to buy if you're living solo. Sporked.com. What do we have? Trojan! Oh, so here we are.

Did you? Pleasure pack. Did you have to get Tim to go get you some of those on your wedding night? I think I was prepared in this, in this way. Okay. Pleasure back twisted, her pleasure, intense and warming. Okay. Do they also make. Clump and Seal Slide. kitty litter? Clumping kitty litter from Arm and Hammer. Or. do they make, fittingly, or not, Slim Jim?

That's a good story to tell. You know, Slim Jims and Trojan are owned by the same company. And we learned from. Shock G. in the Digital Underground. that a condom is also known as what, Link? A sex packet. And also known as what? A Jimmy. A Jimmy hat. A Jimmy hat. Yeah, a slim Jimmy hat. And maybe Shock G. was involved in the development of the Slim Jim and the Trojan condom.

We don't know. The Jim hat, but what if. Trojan was owned by third leg and hammer? Oh, me. Oh, me. I think we should use a. lifeline here. What we have, yell, then we have shake? Shake the, shake the litter. Shake it. If you shake Slim Jims. or shake. What do you have? Litter. Cat litter. Yeah. Shake it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shake it, shake it, shake it.

I'm not looking, because that'll cheat. But I think he broke the box off entirely. Oh, I'm closing my eyes now. He's shaking too hard. I started to see something. I don't know what happened, but Chase shook it too hard. Chase, you are out of control. Get out of here. They said it couldn't be done. Link, did you hear any litter? I heard no litter. I heard no litter.

Did you hear, like, meat sticks? I didn't hear. meat sticks either. I think. No, I think Chase was playing the meat sticks. Chase was playing the meat sticks. It was a big box. I saw the corner of it, dude. What color was it? Red or yellow? I can't say. I don't remember that because I didn't want to cheat so bad. that I just closed my eyes. I think it's Slim Jims. Yeah, I think. It didn't sound like litter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hope it's Slim Jims, because I want one. Reach in there. Oh, crap. No, another.

It's so big. Cat crap, to be specific. Why is it so heavy? So cat. crap. and Jimmy hat? Yep. They're both owned by Church and Dwight, a parent company that owns a lot of home and personal care brands. But no snack brands yet. No snack brands. Church and Dwight staying in their lane. All right, Link, I've got some. What you got? KC. Masterpiece. Boy, this was a. This was like the barbecue sauce of all commercials.

Before there were, like, eighty on the shelves. Now, it's crazy how many sauces there are. It's so thick. Speaking of sauces, I have Ken's. dressing over here, so that's pretty. Pretty similar family. It's smoky, thick, sweet. Not what North Carolina boys usually like. Yeah, not my flavorite. We might dip our nugs in it. Right. But we won't put it on our pork. Not for a second. No, no, no. I've got Burt's Bees.

Okay, now I know something about Burt's Bees. You know Burt's Bees. sold to. Clorox. That's right. That's right. My friend's been studying. I don't know how I knew that. It's the time we've been spending at the library on the weekends. That's right. That's right. Yeah, we've been at the library on the weekends. How did you know that he knew that, much less how did he know that? We don't remember many things that we talk about on this show,

but I feel like we've talked about Burt's Bees being sold to Clorox. enough times. Like, if we talk about something three times in a decade on this show, it clicks. Not for me. Also, Burt's Bees is from North Carolina. I think he's from Durham. So, Burt or Ken? Which one. also owns KC? You have Ken's blue cheese, but you don't have the actual bottle. Because. I'd like that. No. Maybe the actual bottle is in there. Zesty Italian.

Oh, Ken's blue cheese is so good. I don't even have that. You don't have that? We have one more lifeline, right? The yelling? You do. And you have to get this round to win the whole game, so you might as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Chase. Chase. Go. Go in there and yell. All right, one second. Now, last time, it. It didn't help us.

He's done? I heard you saying, okay, and then it went away. Because people in here started making. Y'all started laughing at him. He didn't even do anything funny yet. Okay. He was, like, telling a story. I don't know. I think. Does Clorox own KC Masterpiece? That would be a little disturbing. I hope not. So. But you can totally see how.

Ken and KC. Ken and KC make sense, because we got sauces. Ken. Maybe the K in KC is Ken. Maybe it is. All right. Ken Charles. We're going. with the dressing. No! Crap! Crapola! Well, I mean, you were right that they're both owned by Clorox, who also owns Hidden Valley Ranch, which you learned. last year. Oh, crap.

We did? See, we didn't remember that. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, I'll still let you hear. the business pitch. You just don't get to get in on it, so. Okay. Oh, okay. Let's hear it. Hey, Rhett. Hey, fellas. It's me, your friendly neighborhood doomsday prep, prepper. Lazarus, Aeneas, Chappell Roan, Tower of Babel Malachi. Tower of Babel. And have I got a product for you.

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