International Carnival Food Taste Test

- Today, we're tasting a parade. of carnival food from around the globe! - Let's talk about that. (upbeat music). - Gooooood Mythical Morning! - And welcome to the premier of season 22! (crew applauds). - This season, we're gonna just talk like monster truck guys. - Yeah. - What better way to celebrate a new season than.

with carnival food? There's actually many meanings to the word carnival, though, around the world. - Preach! - Now, if you're from the U.S., you're probably thinking about a Ferris wheel, lots of games where you might win a giant stuffed bear, but you never will win that bear. It's there to lure you in! By the way, that is the type of carnival. that we're gonna have at Mythicon, but not with like big bears that you can't win. - Yeah. - Everybody's a winner at Mythicon. - But when it comes to the rest of the world, carnival can mean different things. - Yes. - Oftentimes it's a celebration right before Lent.

or some other traditional cultural event, complete with parades, masquerading, and most importantly, feasting. - That's right. Is there anything better than carnival food? Well, maybe carnival food from around the world. It's time for-. - [Rhett & Link] Where In The World. Do These International Carnival Foods Come From? - Our Mythical Kitchen has recreated carnival dishes. from all over this beautiful planet of ours, and we're gonna throw a dart at the country we think. those dishes came from,

and our lovely assistant Chase Carnie the Cartographer. is here to measure how far our dart. is from the correct answer. - Hey. - [Rhett] Hey, Chase. - Just doing like the ring master thing. - Yeah, with your measuring tape. Yeah, like as if it were a lion. - [Chase] Yeah. - Now, is there any relation between you. and former Hot Dog on a Stick employee, Matt Carney? - There is. He's actually my cousin, but we, we don't really talk. We excommunicated him 'cause he left the carnie life. to just put sticks into hotdogs or whatever.

- Oh really? Yeah, that did become his thing, and it still is for the most part. - Oh, I'm sorry. It seems, seems like it's a sore spot. All right, I have won four times in a row. Link, that means you still get an advantage dart. - The madness ends today. - This is the Mardi Gras dart! Maybe this will help you. Maybe you'll get to show us your nipples! Today's loser will have to feed the winner chicken nuggets. in Good Mythical More, though. That's unrelated, but it's because last time I won this game,

you were supposed to feed me chicken nuggets. in Good Mythical More and you forgot! - No, I just ate 'em all before. All right, let's do it. (upbeat doo wop music). - Look at this. - Mm. This is kind of a-. - They're cold. - A homemade, I don't know. This looks like a say ah stick with a thing on it. Ah. - The doctors might have success. if they put this on the end of it. - It's maple-y. - That is a-. - [Link] Is it maple syrup? - It is a maple syrup. - [Link] Maple syrup.

- [Rhett] Do I go first? - You go first, man. - You know what, Link? I, I mean, this is, I'm so tired of winning. that I'm not even gonna move my chair this time. I'm just gonna, I mean, I just, you know, I'll just swivel. I'll give you the advantage. of being two to three feet closer. - Whatever. Man, this is good! - If this isn't Canada, then-. - How could it not be Canada? I mean, that is maple syrup. - It's maple syrup and Canada's up there. But they may have put Canada up there as a distraction.

- You want one, Chase? - Oh, thank you. - Wow, that's sticky. - I kind of feel like you just broke a rule of the game. - Yeah, you guys have never done that before. I was kind of thinking of that. - But there were multiple of these. - At least you gave him the one I've been lickin' on. No, he didn't, he gave you a fresh one. Okay. Canada. Oh gosh. (dart clunks). I didn't hit it! I didn't even hit Canada! - You're in New England. - You did, dude. - Ugh, New England.

- Okay. How could this not be Canada? I mean, if I don't go for Canada, see, this could be my opportunity, though. But what else would it be? Malta? It doesn't seem too Malty. - [Herb] Are you sure you're wanna do that? (crew laughs). Are you sure you wanna do that? - Was that the globe talkin'?

Good gracious. Hey Chase, did you see the globe talkin'? - I think so? - Hey globe, was that you talkin'? - [Herb] Yes, it was me. I've been sittin' here a long time, waiting for you guys to speak to me. You spend so much time talkin' to that dadgum map! I'm a globe, I'm a better representation of the Earth! - You gave him-. - What?

You don't know that that's a he. - You gave him a puffy version of a globe. - [Globe] I'm a mother! - It's a mother, it's a woman. - Mother Earth? - Mother Earth, I get it. - [Rhett] Yeah. - How long have you been workin' on this? - What are you talkin' about? You're talkin' about my new ring? You're talking about my new black ring? - Yeah, I'm talkin' your new big ring. Quick, introduce me to your, to your friend. - Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

This is the first time that I've experienced this. - Oh, you're just as surprised as me? - Yeah. Hey globe. - The globe that's been there. - Hey globe, was that you talking? - [Herb] Yes! - What's your name? - [Herb] Herb. - Her? - [Herb] Herb. - Herb? - [Herb] Herb, the Earth. - Herb, the Earth? - [Herb] Herb is a, Herb is gender neutral. - Okay, what? All right. - [Herb] Do you need any tips, big boy? - Don't call me big boy. Don't call me big boy.

If we're gonna do this, I don't want to be called big boy. I have to go with Canada because I don't want. to seem stupid. - It's kind of mind blowing. Mind blowing. (dart thunks). (Rhett laughs). - [Link] I missed it too! I missed it! There's so much Canada and I missed it. (Herb laughs). - Whoa, really got into that.

(Chase laughs). - [Stevie] Okay, You just had-. - I'm not gonna talk to it. - [Stevie] Maple taffy, composed of hot maple syrup poured onto snow, then lapped up with a Popsicle stick. to create a sticky-sweet lollipop. This treat is a staple at the Quebec Winter Carnival. in Canada. - Neither one of us hit fricking Canada. What is our problem, man? - I don't know. Like it repelled the dart. - All right, Rhett, you had 11. Link, 12. - Wow! It's anybody's game. - Yeah, it is.

(upbeat doo wop music). - Some sort of corn soup thing. I mean, this like, whole things of corn. And then there's this-. - There's this thing. - What is this? This long thing? - Is that a potato? It might be a potato dumpling. Hmm. - This is nice. - I'm still in the lead. - I like a good, like a corn chowder? - You like it a little too much. Why don't you grab it and pull it back. - I'm gonna eat the rest of this dough finger.

- Okay. The corn nature of this, it's so corn forward that it makes me think. that this is either gonna be Guatemala or Bolivia. You know, I've been to Thailand and I, I don't remember there being any corn there. - Right. Yeah. Especially not on the beaches. - Cross that off the list. - I'm going for Bolivia just because I don't feel any better. about the Bolivia guess than the Guatemala guess, but it's bigger and I might have a chance of hitting it.

(dart thunks). - [Link] Whoo! - [Rhett] Right in between the two guesses. - Okay. I mean, there's four potential answers right there. - Right there. - [Link] Clustered. - [Rhett] It's a answer cluster. - [Link] That's a real cluster. - [Herb] Speaking of cluster, talk about this losing streak. - You what? - What? I mean, listen, I'm just getting to know, I'm just getting to know Herb. She's rude. She's rude, it's just-. - Can you ask her not to distract me when I'm-. - Yeah, Herb-.

- Thinkin' about stuff? - When he's thinking-. - [Herb] Yeah, but maybe he wants a tip. - She thinks maybe you want a tip. - I don't, I don't want to talk to your puppet. - Okay. - I don't wanna encourage this. - What do you mean, puppet? - It just seems like a weird-. - What do you mean, puppet? - Like relationship. You've clearly been practicing. - We don't have a relationship. Yet. - Okay, fine. Where do you think I should throw this thing? - [Herb] Japan. (crew laughs).

- Definitely not Japan. - [Herb] Corn soup's huge in Japan. - Kazakhstan, Turkey. I don't, I just don't know much about Malta. I can see that the boot of Italy, it's just kinda like something kind. of falling off the boot there. - Right. - I'm sure the Maltese won't appreciate that. It's really good. Wherever it is, I want to go there and I want to eat this. - All right, where do you think is?

- I'm thinkin' Malta, you know? I'm, oh! (Chase laughs). I'm just gonna stick to my guns. - [Herb] Are you okay? - I'm fine. Thank you. Not as many answers around Malta as around. where you threw your dart, but what ifs? (dart thunks). - Well, you actually are sort of close to my answer. - Just can't. I just can't pull it together. I don't know, I just feel like, I just feel bad.

- [Stevie] This soup is made with whole bits of corn, split peas, flour dumplings, and spices, and is the most popular dish eaten. during the Pre-Lenten carnival in Trinidad and Tobago. - Oh! - None of us said that. - But we were both pretty close to it by accident. - All right. Rhett, you had five, and Link again, you had 12. - Oh, so I'm sticking with the 12. - Sticking with that 12. - Your lead grows only by a little.

(upbeat doo wop music). - We have some sort of-. - Cut into that. Is it an ice cream cake? - Yeah, it feels like-. - Is it cold? Is it real cold? - I'm having a little trouble 'cause. with my new ring that I'm wearing, it's tough to, it's tough to, this feels like, you know, like-. - So that thing's wireless, huh? - Like what are you talking about, wireless? Yeah, the new ring's wireless. It's not connected to me in any way. - Pick it up. Let's take a look at this.

- There there's one. Whoa. - Oh, is this like a-. - We have no plates. - Oh, thank you. Here's a plate. Is it? It looks kinda like a frozen fruit cake. - There's some chocolate on there. That's almost like crackle on the outside. - Whoa, it's kinda like cookie dough. - Wow. - It's cake but it's like infused with pieces of fruit. - Wow.

I don't really like it. - Like a sugary doughiness. - I don't particularly like it. I like the part with the cream on it. - I like this better than normal cake. - Okay. - Would you call it a cake-ified frozen fruitcake? I'm so confused. - I would say fruitcake. Like when I think about a fruitcake, I think about this must have come. from some place in Europe, you know? And my only option is that we got Turkey and Malta.

Again, Turkey's a little bit bigger. That's my logic. Sticking to it. - Ooh, a little high. I'm actually feeling like I need to think about Bolivia. - [Herb] You should think about all countries equally. - I think-. - [Herb] That's your problem, Link. You think too much. - As a carnival barker, you gotta get used to hecklers. It's like, it's just a thing.

- Can we refrain-. - [Herb] I'm not heckling. I'm just trying to help you with some good friendly advice. - I can't believe you've been over here this whole time. - [Herb] Whole time. That's right. - And you've never said anything for years. - [Herb] I've been holding my equator. (crew laughs). - Well, you should, you should think about going back to that. Great. Your guess is as good as mine. - Usually better. Usually better, actually.

- Mine. Mine's gonna be different than yours. Your guess is gonna be different than mine. 'cause I'm going for Bolivia. (dart thunks). (Rhett laughs). - I mean, I'm surprised that hit the thing. It was like-. - I just, I'm, this is bad. - You wanna go to dart camp? - I need to go to dart camp. - Can we go to dart camp? - I mean-. - Surely there's a dart camp for kids.

- [Stevie] This dome shaped cake-. - Dart camp for kids. - [Stevie] Made up of almonds, biscuits, and citrus fruits topped with cream and pine nuts. and decorated with melted chocolate and cherries-. - Bolivia. - [Stevie] Is called a prinjolata, and is a traditional sweet treat offered. for the Pre-Lenten carnival in Malta. - Oh, Malta. - Oh gosh. - Pretty close to that. - See, you just got lucky! - I said European and my two choices were Malta and Turkey.

I chose Turkey. - Rhett, you had eight. Link, 23. - Okay. Okay. (upbeat doo wop music). - New season, new mug! - That's right. - Mugs, two. - With an S, yes. - Yeah, look at this thing. Can you see this sort of iridescent, like bluish-purple-y color here? - Yeah, there's like a depth to it. It's like staring into the eyes of your lover. - There's a Rhett mug, where I'm saying Good Mythical Morning! - And there's a Link mug that says,

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You first, step up. - Don't drink, don't. - Seen it here first, folks. Get yours at mythical.com. - Oh, thank you, Chase. - He's a barker. - We're breaking all kinds of new ground here. - Carnie barker. - You gave Chase some food, he did an ad. And what is, is this a whole stick of butter? - It's a whole stick of butter. and this feels to be just meat? - That's a hard boiled egg. Is this meat? What? - It's crispy, like almost jerky-like meat.

- Shards of it. - Over beans and corn. What, what is this? What is this big yellow thing? - And there's a sauce. It's like a Lima bean? A butter bean? - Oh man, that sauce. - We need the sauce. - Seems good. - What was this? - I'm really enjoying myself. That's just butter, bro. Isn't it? - It's cheese. - That's just cheese? - This is-.

- It's cheese. - This is crazy. Crazy. - We're gonna have to take this all the way. to dart camp with us. Well, I keep trying to go to Bolivia. If I rolled into Bolivia and they gave me a plate of this, I'd be like, all right, I'll stay. So I'm gonna go Bolivia. - Oh, and you're way low, which opens the door for me to choose anything else. and make up some ground. I am gonna use my cheat dart.

Bring in the Mardi Gras dart, whatever you called it. Where is it? Good gosh. So what? I just throw this whole thing? - Yeah, I think so. - Like even the-. - [Stevie] The beads are covered in icing, so yeah. I believe you just throw the beads. - Yeah. - [Stevie] Or you wear them. - [Herb] Hey, Link! Can we talk? - These beads aren't covered in icing. - [Crew Member] You get 'em covered in it.

- What? Yeah. I gotta-. - [Herb] Hey, Link! Can we talk? - Yeah, you don't have to yell so loud. - [Herb] You didn't listen to me the first time. You were in your own world. And I know exactly how that feels. (crew laughs). - Why do you, why every time that she talks-. - I look. Outta respect, I look at her.

- But then I've noticed whenever she's done talking, you swivel back around. and you got this weird look on your face. - Like I making a new friend. and my relationship just went a little bit deeper. - You just have this look on your face, like you're really pleased with yourself. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like you need to credit. - I'm interacting with the Earth, man. - [Herb] My feelings are hurt. - I had to put this sauce on here, guys, because-. - [Herb] I said my feelings are hurt. - I'm sorry your feelings are hurt.

- [Herb] You told me to keep my equator shut. - You know what? - [Herb] I need to be consoled. - That was mean. I shouldn't have said that. - [Herb] Could you come console me physically? - Physically? - [Herb] Physically. Console me. Physically. (Herb screams). (Stevie and Chase laugh).

- [Herb] Don't sneak up on me. Just place your hand gently in my equator. - I'm sorry. - [Herb] On the equator. - I'm sorry. (Herb screams). (Herb gobbles). - Is that what you want? (Herb gobbles).

(Herb chokes). - Step right up. Watch Link put his hand into a globe's throat. - And she's dead. (crew laughs).

- That felt uncalled for. The globe just wanted to be comforted and you-. - I think the globe wanted to eat my hand, so I gave her all that she wanted and more. - Okay, throw your big cake up there, big boy. - All right, so there's still a cluster. of three out of the four. - You throw that whole cake, the map might fall over. - Yeah. We could break the map on this one. - Well, Chase-. - Do it. - Would you hold the map up? That's a good point. - Yeah, don't hit Chase on the legs, though. He's in shorts. - It's not Japan. It's not Thailand.

My official guess is Guatemala. (Link grunts). (crew laughs). - Well. - [Stevie] Are you okay, Chase? - Chase, come out. You all right? - Yeah, I'm good. - I mean, were you holding it up with your face? - No, but there was a small window and it closed the window. - [Rhett] No, no, no. - You closed it. - But you got that protective hat on. - Sorry, man. - Man, look, you went right over Bolivia.

Like the stream of your sauce went right over Bolivia. - [Stevie] Okay, this popular carnival dish. is called charquekan. - Charquekan? - [Stevie] Charquekan. And it consists of dried and shredded llama meat. - Llama meat? - [Stevie] But it can also be substituted. with dried shredded beef, which is what we used today. - Okay. - [Stevie] I was try, I mean zero reaction on Rhett's face. Zero care as he's eating the purported llama meat, but okay. - It's good. - [Stevie] It's served on hominy corn.

and accompanied by boiled eggs and potatoes, fava beans, and a spicy sauce and cheese. This dish is popular during the Oruro Carnival in Bolivia. - Bolivia. - Ah! I struck. - You got zero, man. - I struck gold! - [Rhett] You went right over it, but I'm also almost there. - [Link] I stringed right through it. - So you didn't make up much ground. - That was a good guess. - Cause it was correct. - Rhett, you had six. Link, zero. - Zero. Didn't make up too much ground. - Good job.

(upbeat doo wop music). Ooh, what is this? Oh, is this gonna be cheese? - It's a cinnamon sugar-. - Cheese and then you dip it on, dip it in this thing? Oh, I kind of didn't catch much of it. - No, I don't think that's cheese. I think it's custard. - [Rhett] I'm not gonna say it. - Oh, you don't wanna say it? Don't wanna say it? In this round, it's not on the board. This is the mystery so it can be anything. - Now Link, these are two very good scores. for this point in the round. 30 and 47.

That's very, very low. - 17 centimeters separate the two leaders. - Okay, I'll just think out loud. Why not? There's a flan-like quality to this. - [Link] Flan. - It's also, I don't know. The custard-like stuff that you're talking about. feels like it could have a home, so many different places. I'm sticking with the flan-like quality of this. and thinking that taking flan.

and putting it in cinnamon sugar and dipping into something. is something they may do in Mexico, 'cause that's where I've had flan from before. - [Link] Now, all my sauce is gonna mess with you. - I think I can break through the sauce. (dart thunks). - [Link] Whoop! - [Rhett] Well, maybe it's in the U.S.. - A little high. Chase, can you do me a favor? - Sure. - Can you show me a 17-centimeter radius. around his answer?

- [Chase] All right. So you're down to the Galapagos. - Hmm, I gotta go outside of that to win. I'm actually feeling like my best guess to be educated. and still win is Southern South America. All right, Chase. - Southern South America. This could go poorly for you. You could miss the board. - I'm not gonna miss the board.

No excuses this time. (Rhett laughs). - I hit myself in the glasses. How do I even do that? - That's why he wears glasses. It's not because he can't see. - What a great start to a new season. I'm hitting myself in the face. - Practicing darts. Hey, listen-. - Talkin' to my friends' new puppets. - First thing you learn at dart camp. is how not to hit yourself in the face while practicing. That's day one. Hour one.

(dart thunks). - [Link] Yes! - [Rhett] Whoa! - [Link] That's exactly what I was aiming for. Maybe I should hit myself in the face-. - That was a very good throw. - First, every time. All right. - Very good throw. - I have a chance. - [Stevie] You just had leche fritta, which translates to fried milk. It's made with fried dough consisting. of flour and milk simmered with sugar, cinnamon, and lemon zest. This treat is quite popular. during the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. in the Canary Islands of Spain.

- Spain! - Okay. - [Link] Spain! - I don't think that's gonna help you, Link. I think we're pretty equidistant from that. - But let's see, let's see. - All right. Rhett, you had 27, and Link, 29. - [Both] Oh! - Even worse. - Even worse! - Man. - All right, Rhett. Congratulations. You won the nuggets. I'm gonna feed 'em to you. - You're gonna feed these to me? - Whenever you want 'em. - Oh, I want 'em in More.

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