- Chipotle versus Qdoba. It's going down. - Let's talk about that. (upbeat folk music) Good Mythical Morning. - Before we start
battling fast Mexican food against fast Mexican food, we wanna let you know that this is the last week of Season 21. - We're gonna be taking next week off for a brief little week long catnap, but then we'll be back with another-- - Cack nap? - I tried to say catnap,
but then I just kept going. Cack nap. We're gonna be back with
Good Mythical Summer beginning on July 11th. New episodes drop in every
Monday, Wednesday, Friday. - Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Good Mythical Summer.
- Mythical Summer. - And today, we're pitting two build
your own burrito empires against one another. - Chipotle and Qdoba wants you to think that they're all
nicey-nicey with each other. Take for instance, this tweet thread. Cassie Colwell tweeted, hey, @ChipotleTweets, @QdobaMexGrill grill
workers are talking smack. She didn't say smack about y'all. - [Link] Uh-oh.
- [Rhett] To which Qdoba said, whoa, now, we're all just burrito buddies. To which Chipotle replied, right, can't we all just get along? - Okay, but if they're burrito buddies, then why did Qdoba in 2018 mock Chipotle for its Free Guac Day by delivering truckloads of avocados to several Chipotle locations in Denver. And then they had this
orange sign out front of it that said, hey, Chipotle, heard you're giving away free
guac with an entree today. Well, from the people
who have been doing that for a while now--
- Ooh! - We worry you have
underestimated what it takes. Happy smashing, Qdoba. - Whoa, happy smashing. That doesn't sound too
buddy buddy to me, Qdoba. It's time for Food Feuds,
Chipotle versus Qdoba! - We're gonna taste and
compare popular menu items from both establishments and rate each one of them head to head. - Whichever restaurant
gets the most points will be dubbed the Best Bean Boy and win a chance to sponsor
a future GMM episode. - Are you jealous if they take
the title of Best Bean Boy? - I'm the Best Bean Man. - Andale. All right, let's see
who's serving us today. - Hello.
- Hello. - I'm Quintin from Qdoba, super
famous Mexican restaurant. We are the sleeping giant of
Mexican fast casual dining. - Okay. - We are expanding so quickly that soon, all of your Chipotles will be Qdobas, but we won't stop there, no. Soon, your schools, and your children, and your homes will be Qdobas. Villainous laughter. - Okay. - So this is our grilled
chicken adobo bowl. It's delicious. It has beans. It has seasoned rice. It has lettuce and cheese. And it's only 9.95.
- Huh. - Yes, delicious. - There's just a melted cheese on this and we have a side of just meat, so we can isolate that. - Why is he German? - Hey, sweetheart. Excuse me, all right. Hey there. - Hey,
- I don't know what Qdibby is, but I'm Cheryl from Chipotle, and-- - Cheryl? - Cheryl with a chair.
- Okay. - And this is, well, let me tell you about myself first since he did a whole thing. I am happily married for 25 years. All my kids went to college, so now I have an empty nest, so I took a part-time job
at my favorite restaurant, Chipotle. And I'm really excited. So this is our chicken
bowl and it has brown rice. It has pinto beans and
fajita veggies for 8.80. All right. - Thank you, Cheryl. - [Cheryl] No prob! - We've got some salsa here. We kind of got what we thought
was a comparable salsa, the spicy one. - Maybe just dip that 'cause
it could be kind of spicy. - I'm just gonna do some on one side. You know, I won't do it on your side. - Now, I'm familiar with Qdoba. There's one in Downtown LA, but back home in North Carolina. - This was the first place
that came along for us. - Yeah, it was. There was one in the town
of Apex where I was living. - Yeah. So I knew about Qdoba before
I knew about Chipotle. Interestingly, Qdoba
came out after Chipotle. Chipotle was founded in '93, Qdoba in '95. And Chipotle's been a
little bit more successful. They've got over three, about 3,000 locations in the US where Qdoba's only got about 700. - Yeah, I haven't been back
to Qdoba in quite a while. You know, I usually get guac on this. I get guac on everything at Chipotle. - Here's some individual chicken bits if you wanna analyze that. - No, I'm actually gonna
go in for the bowl here. You know, they got a rounder bowl. I'm trying to, okay, here's. - I'm not gonna come to
any conclusions about that. Pretty comparable in
terms of looks, you know? Like, a bean's a bean in some ways. Chicken's a chicken, right? - Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm gonna stay away from the heat, but I'm just gonna do a direct
comparison of the chicken. - Hmm. - Qdoba chicken has this like rub on it that makes it taste sausagey. Isn't it a little weird? - You're right. - The Chipotle chicken is not as tender, but it's very much just
like a flame broiled taste. - Much more of a grilled. Little bit of a char on there. - It tastes a lot better, dude. - I like it better. I'm not saying it's a huge improvement in terms of the overall bowl though. That's a really solid bowl. - I know. The chicken really
makes a huge difference. Everything else is kind of the same. I'm gonna give that Chipotle
bowl sans guac out of 10, a nice solid, I'm gonna give it a seven. - I'm gonna give it a seven as well. - Over here in Qdoba land, the chicken is hurting me a little bit. I'm gonna give it a five. - I'm not going that far
down, but I am going to a six. - The chicken was just that
much different to me, man. No regrets. (upbeat rock music) - All right, what's next? - I think it's the pork round. - Vibe check! My young coworkers told
me what that means, the vibe check. Apparently, everyone has a vibe. Mine's menopause. (laughing) This is our carnitas quesadillas for $10. So the vibe's good, you have a good vibe? - Yes. - Thank God. - That wretched woman
reminds me of my mother. She was always keeping me
from creating more Qdobas. - Oh, you're right. - This is our superior
pulled pork quesadilla. It's delicious and it is only 10.45. - Oh, okay. I think the other one's just $10, so. - [Rhett] This one's actually
cheaper, but you know. - So we've got the isolated
carnitas from Chipotle versus the pulled pork from Qdoba. - And I'm bringing in
the sour cream, you know, it's a little side by side. I like dip my quesadillas into sour cream. - That seemed nice. - Why did you dip into
the wrong sour cream? - Because it was closer to me.
- Ignore that bite. This is the sour cream that
you should be dipping in. - You're right, Rhett. Sorry. I'll even spit out this bite. - Yep. - That bite doesn't count. Gone from his mind. - Yep. I almost screwed up the whole episode. - It's so simple. - It tastes exactly the same. - I figured that would be the case. I mean, first of all, that's a thick, there's a lot of meat there. If you look at the Qdoba one, it has a little bit of a
Taco Bell sort of shape to it in terms of the way the Taco
Bell quesadilla is kinda thin. - Yeah, which is more of what I expect. - Oh, it's what you expect? - Yep, yep, that's right. - Feels like something
you might make at home. Or if you drew a picture of a quesadilla. - The flavor profile of the Qdoba one is much more to my liking. - Well, the cheese is better. - And strangely-- - [Link] I'm gonna try some of this alone. - They call that pulled pork and they call this one carnitas, which carnitas is more what you expect to be like a stewed thing. - Yeah, 'cause there's like a, the juice that it's in is... - Wow, oh man, look at that. - It's very seasoned. It's almost like a salsa verde
or something down in there. And this is just dry. - Whoa! That pork is worlds better. - I think the cheese is
a lot better on this. - And the cheese is better. - 'Cause the ratios are really good. - Chipotle, pretty big disappointment. And I usually don't get the quesadilla, but pretty big disappointment for me. I'm gonna just give this a five. - I agree. I'm going five here. Over here, I'll gladly go seven. - I'm saying this is a
very good quesadilla, all the way to eight. - Wow. (upbeat rock music) Let's get another round. - All right. This is our sofritas.
- Sofritas! - With crispy corn tortilla, black beans, lettuce, cheese,
and then queso blanco, but it's a dollar 60 extra. I know what you're thinking, everything's extra with Chipotle, but you know what else is extra, and my coworkers say this. Me. - That's a good thing.
- I agree with that. - Here's a free avocado. Hope you choke on it. - Avocado. Thanks. - This is our impossible meat taco. So we've got the crispy. This, what is this called, tortilla? - Shell, taco shell. - No rice, black beans,
three cheese queso, lettuce, more cheese, and then
of course, delicious salsa. - Okay, and you got another one for me? - Would you like a free avocado? - Oh yeah. Totally free, right? - Endless supply. - Not charging extra for the guac. - [Quintin] No, it's what we do. - I love avocados. You know what? Mexico, you guac my world, but you know what doesn't guac my world when it comes to Mexico? What? - Everybody okay?
- What was that? - Okay, we're getting at thumbs up. - What was I saying? - I don't know. You like avocados. Okay, so we've got, I never do the tacos either. I just do the burritos or the bowl. So this is kinda like new territory. - But I do do sofritas at times. - And we've got the
sofritas by themselves. - I've never had this. I've had 'em in a burrito.
I've had 'em on a bowl. - So there's cheese mixed into this. - Yep, we paid extra for the. Mm. I mean, and it is a factor that you can get queso on anything just as a normal no added
cost topping at Qdoba. - Hmm. - As well as the guac. - I feel like I'm making a compromise with sofritas in taste just to be completely honest with you. - They've got really generous here. - [Rhett] I mean, look at how
much meat is on that thing and look at how much cheese is on top. - Yeah, they're generous with the queso. And again, it doesn't cost extra. - Hmm. - We can also isolate just
the sofritas over here. - The sofritas look great. They look super flavorful and stewy. - It makes me feel healthy to eat it. It's spicy. It's nice. - It's got a little spice
when you isolate it. - Now, what kind of taco
seasoning are they working on to this impossible meat? - That's a lot of meat. - That's good. - But it's better in
the context of the taco. - It works as meat in this context, which they don't have an
impossible option at Chipotle. - I'm gonna give the Chipotle
tacos a six with the sofritas. - I'm not loving it. - It loses a little bit of flavor in the context of the
taco and everything else. - I'm gonna give it a four. - Oh, wow. That's harsh. - These impossible tacos, they really, it's not a different thing. It's an emulation of the original thing, which I'm talking about a taco here. - You're talking about a taco here. - I'm talking about a taco here, which is why I'm giving
this a nice solid six. - I'm actually gonna give that a seven. I want to give it one more point. - Okay. - So I'm going to give Qdoba
a seven 'cause I like it more. (upbeat rock music) - We want to invite you
to check out Sporked.com. Stuff's being added all the time. Something special's been added. You asked, the Sporked team answered, and has added some of our
rankings from this show to a special section on the Sporked site. So stuff that we've tasted and ranked like best barbecue sauce, stuff that you experience
here is at Sporked.com. Also, all types of rankings that will enhance your everyday life and grocery store experience. Best salt and vinegar potato chips, best frozen meatballs, best instant ramen, and more, Sporked.com. - Hey, Cheryl. - Hi, you got my name right. Oh my gosh. It took my coworkers so long to do that. This is our dank chips and queso
blanco for $4 and 40 cents. I heard that word is a good thing, but I've only used it to
describe my unfinished basement my husband refuses to fix. - Soon, her unfinished basement
will be a finished Qdoba. This is the Qdoba three cheese
queso and chips for 5.65. - Mm. - Now, the Chipotle queso was very controversial when it came out. - [Link] Yeah. - [Rhett] Well, people had
a lot of opinions about it. - [Link] Yeah, mostly
negative from what I saw. - I believe they have changed it because this is the queso blanco because a lot of people
complained about it being too orange or something. - Maybe let's just eat a chip first. - Whoop, too late. - Oh, okay. - I dipped. - Nice, thin chip. Almost as thin as a Chili's chip. - Almost as thin as a Chili's chip. - But that queso blanco, I still don't have an
overwhelmingly positive experience. - It's not bad, but queso could be more. Let me just put it that way. - [Link] Now, these
Qdoba chips are thicker. - More traditional chip, you might say. - And that queso. It's clumpier. - Tangier. - Almost has a nacho
cheesy kind of quality. - You know what it tastes like? It tastes a lot like a canned cheese dip, like a Tostitos. Like if you're gonna go and you're gonna get the salsa and the queso from like the grocery store? It has that taste, which
is not a bad thing. - It meets your expectations. Chipotle is like, what's wrong with this? - Well, I was gonna say
that's a good and a bad thing 'cause you think you could
get more from a restaurant. I like the thinner chips
better than the thicker chips. - They taste basically the same. But yeah, something about this thin chip is just a little bit more fun. Now, if I could take this thin
chip and dip it into this, then I'd be happy, but I can't do it. I can't cross streams like that. - Because I like these
chips a little bit better and I like this queso a little bit better, I'm gonna give 'em the same score, and I'm gonna give 'em both a six. - That's wild, man. Yeah, I agree that chip's a little better, but this queso is so
much better than that. That's almost like an
alternate universe substance. Like, I don't know what
that was squeezed out of. - The reason I don't agree with you is because this takes like
something out of a jar. - Nuh-uh. Three and six over here. I gotta do it. (upbeat rock music) You know, you compare the
Qdoba queso to store bought, but in Good Mythical More today, we are gonna be tasting the
best store bought queso. - Yes, we are. - According to Sporked. - Sounds like fun. This is our final dish. It is a burrito with grilled
adobo steak, cilantro, lime rice, black beans, three
cheese queso, guacamole, shredded cheese, and sour cream and lettuce for only 10.85. Soon, the Chipotle woman
will be working for me. - Sweetheart, just like one sec. - What? - You got a little something right there. - She's not scared of you. - [Quintin] That is not sanitary. - Oh, he's so cute. - She's not intimidated. - Doesn't know how to wash his dang face. All righty, this is our
Chipotle steak burrito. It's got guacamole, it's got queso blanco, it's got shredded cheese, lettuce, black beans, and sour
cream already all in there. - Wow. - All right. - That's packed.
- [Cheryl] I'm out of breath. That's a lot of stuff. - [Link] All right. - Oh, this is a juicy burrito. - So there's gotta be steak
buried somewhere in here. - I got steak right there. - I never ordered the queso
on the Chipotle burrito, but we had to add it
to do apples to apples because at Qdoba, because
it's free, it's so tempting, it's part of some of these burritos. It's like part of the menu
items, if I remember correctly. - And there's guac on the burrito - I meant, it's part
of the suggested thing to add to a burrito for free at Qdoba. - You follow the suggestions? - Mm-hmm. - That guac is hot. You know what I'm saying? That's the thing about
putting guac in a burrito is it gets hot. I mean, I still make
that choice quite often. - But it is the best guac
anywhere that you can buy. - I don't know if you're right about that. - I assert this. - I do think it's amazing, but I don't necessarily think
that Qdoba's is gonna be bad. - And as we discovered on Inside Eats when we went to Chipotle, there's no tomatoes in their guac. Now, this one's spilling out everywhere. And again, you're not
paying extra for that guac. You're not paying extra for that queso. - That does mean something. - But you're getting all of it. I mean, that's probably
like a $6 swing at Chipotle. You all right? Right here? - I'm gonna be fine.
- Punch the armpit? Making me cry a little bit, its so good. - I think the lettuce was a
mistake all the way around. - I think I may have
gotten a bean in my lung. - Is that a problem? No, not for you. I'm trying to isolate their guacamole to see what I think about it. There's a little bit right here. - Wow, there's not like a wild
difference between these two. - No, there's not. - The tortilla, very similar. - Yep. - I think the queso, because I do like the queso more. But we've already scored the queso, so I'm not gonna let that
impact the burrito too much. - Let's isolate these meats. So you've got-- - [Rhett] It's the first
time I've heard that. - Just the grilled carne asada. Chipotle's meats stand on their own. Was this adobo chicken
and the adobo steak? - I don't know, but you
just made a false statement 'cause we already said that the Qdoba pork was so much better than the Chipotle pork. - Okay, you're right. I meant chicken only. - And I think it was because
we were misinterpreting the, there it is, the bean's coming up. - That adobo on the chicken, I didn't like it. I don't like it on the
steak as much either. I like this steak better. Only their souped up pork is better. - [Rhett] I quite like the
seasoning on the steak. It overpowers the chicken a little bit. - [Link] This is tough. - I think I actually like
Qdoba's slightly better, but I like both of them. I'm given the Chipotle a seven. - I'm not gonna hold the Chipotle queso against this burrito. - 'Cause it's inside of it. - Because it's hidden and the guacamole is so amazing that I'm gonna give it an eight. - Wow. - The Chipotle burrito, it's hard to beat anywhere you get a burrito, period. Even if you are paying
extra for this stuff, I'll gladly pay extra for that guac. - Unless you go to Qdoba and where you can get a
burrito that's an eight. - So I'm gonna give this a seven. - So you gave that what I gave this and I gave this what
you gave that gave that. So that's a tie.
- So they tie. So what are the totals? Chipotle with 58 and Qdoba with 66?! - [Rhett] Running away with it! It wasn't even close. - [Link] I'm shocked! - I'm actually not that shocked. They're both solid offerings. Qdoba may be a little bit more rare, but it might be worth seeking out when you have the opportunity. Congratulations, Qdoba! - Splurge on that queso. - You're the Best Bean Boy and you won a chance to
sponsor a GMM episode. - Come on, big Q. Thanks for subscribing
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the Wheel of Mythicality. Dink it and sink it. - Stay safe out there. Click the top link to watch us taste test store bought quesos in Good Mythical More. - And to find out where the Wheel of
Mythicality is gonna land. Over at Sporked, they cracked a more than a dozen bottles and braved killer heartburn to find the most refreshing
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summer food rankings.
What was that?? Did anyone else find that loud bang, followed by Link losing his focus, really weird? Wouldn't something like that be cut out?
Lol Emily's "it's an avocado thanks" reference XD
I enjoyed the More today! I think it was much better having one Sporked member rather than a bunch of them, and I personally really like Jordan. It was funny seeing her react to Rhett’s antics :)
Spot the classic Vine reference by Chairyl
Also, Chipotle's queso always felt weirdly granular to me, as if they made it from a powder, and Harris Teeter's store brand queso is rancid.
LOL what do y'all think Link going to say about Mexico that he didn't like???
I'm 90% sure it was meant to be a joke with the noise/loud bang interrupting him at that point and then him "forgetting" what he was going to say.
Been preaching Qdoba>Chipotle for years. Only thing I disagree on is the adobo chicken. Love it and found a mock recipe that is my go-to for at home quesadillas and bowls.
An avocado! Thaaaaanks!
There were points during today’s More, when Rhett was working on earning his HR meeting, where you could see Link practically having an aneurysm trying to break into the conversation so he, too, could make their employees uncomfortable. Which is my favorite type of More.
Pancheros is older and better than both.
Here in Canada, Chipotle has gotten so cheap on their burrito sizes. So many local places that are way better. Kinda wanna try the Qdoba impossible tacos!! Wish we had one in Canada.
Can't stand the weird staff bits during food feud. Just leave the food and go. Annoying.
My least favorite Sporked rep today too. Jordan is so matter of fact it comes across as condescending to the guys. I liked the Sporked rep who did the sodas the other day. She seems sweet and has an easy to listen to voice.