- Today we're tasting scoops
of international soups. - Let's talk about that. (upbeat music) - Good mythical morning. - There's a reason why soup
is considered comfort food. It's as warm as your
mother's loving embrace, it's as filling as time
spent with good friends, and you don't need to worry
about having teeth to eat it. - Oh. But how much can you tell about a place based on what's in its soup? Today we're gonna be slurping soups to see if we can guess which
international ladle ladled them. It's time for where in the world do these international soups come from? All right, you know how this works, when we're tasting some soups right here that come from places all over there, around the globe. And then we're gonna guess
where the soups came from by throwing a dart at our
trustee map over here, where Chase the
cartographer is exasperated. - Okay, the person with the lowest score at the end,
- Would I hurt you? wins a very valuable
briefcase full of gold. What? Can we do that? Season 17, what? - Yeah. - Okay, since I won last
time we played this. - We rich. - Link gets the special advantage dart which is a lota matzo dart,
that's three matzo balls, to be thrown at the
board with just one hand. Let's get to slurping. What in the world do we have here? - It's purple soup. - [Rhett] Is that apples? - [Link] There's like
sliced fruit, it's... - It kinda tastes like something that we would do in like a
episode where we made something into soup that
wasn't supposed to be soup, like ice cream turned into soup. - Right, but somebody
somewhere on this map actually does this. - Okay, where do they make a sweet soup that's kinda like melted yogurt? You ever been to New Caledonia? Or is it New Caledonia? - Cale-donia. - Caledonia. - [Link] That's way over there, I think you should go for it. - I know nothing about New Caledonia. There's sort of a cluster of answers in the middle of the board, I could just play it
safe and kinda aim for like Morocco and hope for the best. - Okay. - Which is what I'm gonna do. - All right. Going for the center of the
board because he's a coward. Coward! Now, you may not have picked up on this but Rhett, that's goats milk in there, which is very popular in Ghana. So I am aiming for Ghana. - Well it's pretty close to where I was. - Oh yeah, look at me! It's a new year, it's a new me. What is this Stevie? Besides goats milk. - [Stevie] You just tried fruit soup, a hot creamy soup made
with apples, sour cherries, vanilla, cream, cloves and lemon zest. No goats milk. - No goats milk. - [Stevie] It can also be enjoyed chilled. Fruit soup is from Hungary. - Ooh you lucky dog! - Aim for the middle, hope for the best. - Get hungry in Hungary y'all. - All right Rhett, you had
five, and Link, you had 12. - Hey it's not a bad start
for either, either boy. - We got a thick soup, some
sort of gravy consistency. There's like-- - [Rhett] Is that a
potato or a cauliflower? - [Link] Lots of lumps,
and then this big thing. - What are these lumps? Okay, I know what meat that is, you'll probably know
as soon as you bite it. - Well mine was bread. - Oh, no, it's coated. It's coated in bread. - There it is, there's some meat. Mm. This is a hearty dish. - But not from Hardy's. - Hold on, that meat is very gamey. - I'm not gonna say what
I know about that meat. - That's a tough meat for me to eat. - You know what, I'm just
gonna say what it is. - [Link] Goat! - It's lamb. It might be goat because lamb
and goat do taste similar, but I have more experience with lamb. And I know that there are more sheep than people in New Zealand.
- Mongolia? - Oh. New Zealand? - Which is not too far from New Caledonia. - Go for it. Now don't go off the board. - I'm not going for New Caledonia. - Might hit Kiko. - But when I think Mongolia I think like, like if you get like a Mongolian soup it usually is more clear and less creamy, but that's, you know, I don't know if this has been translated to American food, so I probably don't have
an accurate representation. - At some point you gotta stop
talking and start darting. - I'm going Morocco, again. - [Link] Man! - [Rhett] Wow. - You did not hit Morocco. - My aim is on today. - You got really close. Now is that goat? 'Cause I'm going back to Ghana if it is. (laughing) - Going back to Ghana. - You know what, I feel like
this is mountain goat soup. - Like Peru or Mongolia? - Mongolia. - [Rhett] I think that's
a good guess, man, I was there with ya. It's all about New Caledonia. - In order to even things
up, well you know what, I'm not a coward, I'm going
straight for Mongolia. Hoppety boppety boppety boppety, boom. Oh, a little low. What's up Stevie? - [Stevie] This soup is
called Banshtai Tsai, a soup with a salty milk tea broth and dumplings that are
traditionally filled with mutton, so you were correct. It's from Mongolia. - Oh, you were right!
- Yeah! - But I just couldn't nail it. - You made up a lot of ground. - All right, Rhett, you had
33 and Link, you had nine. - Pulling ahead. - I believe this is the spoon, Link. - Oh we don't get spoons with this, we just get a big thing of bread? That bread is mushy and inviting. - [Stevie] There is no spoon. - There is no spoon? - So this is fish. Is that fish? Oh this smells good, it's a peanut sauce. It was very fishy tasting. So it's like the soup has
fish in it and around it. I mean there's enough peanut butter that it makes me not-- - Try the fish, man. - Oh try the actual fish? - Yeah that's tough. - Peanut sauce. - I do like that bread though. Fish and peanut. It's not something I'm used to. - Well, no okay. - Now peanut sauce, I mean I
definitely think of Thailand, which is not an option. I don't know, I don't feel... You know what, I'm just
gonna go for Thailand even though it's not an option. - I like that strategy. - I've been there, ate
a lot of peanut sauce. There we go. - [Rhett] Aim for the
country that's not available. - Yeah, well I hit China but whatever, and I'm not gonna get in your way, so. - Well yeah 'cause I'm so far behind I've gotta make a big
move because you've got the advantage at the end. So, um, I don't know anything about peanut sauce and where it comes from,
other than Thailand, which you already threw a
dart at, and so I'm not-- - I've staked my claim. - I don't wanna throw a dart
at the same place you did, but I'm going solely off
the fact that there was no spoon offered but yet a bread utensil. And I know that this is the kinda thing that happens in Africa, 'cause I've been to an
African restaurant one time and they don't give you anything, they just put everything
on top of a giant pancake. - A piece of bread. - And then you eat it with the bread. So eating with bread,
- Oh you're thinking Ghana. is either Ghana or Morocco,
but I'm gonna go for Ghana. - Ooh, gosh. You know what, I think
that's good reasoning man. And it's right there on the coast where all the fishes swim up and they get into peanut butter. - Right, yeah. - [Stevie] Okay, you
just ate groundnut soup, or peanut soup, with tilapia and fufu. Groundnut soup is made from
a peanut butter like paste which is added to a base
of tomatoes and water, and the fufu is made from boiled cassava. Groundnut soup is a favorite in Ghana. - Ghana! - Hey man, I gotta give it to you. - I didn't throw a great throw though, I should have gotten closer. - Yeah, Link you had 31
and Rhett, you had eight. - Ooh okay, think I closed the gap. - [Link] We've got some
sort of green floaty stuff, in a milk? - It doesn't smell good. It's like spinachy. - It's not bad. - Maybe asparagusy. - Now, you have slightly pulled ahead, which means you've gotta dart first. I don't dislike this. I feel like there's a little health in it, there's a little slurpiness in it, and it's not bad. - Okay I gotta really
think game strategy here, because, going into the final round you're gonna have the matzo ball and the splatter is
gonna give you basically, probably almost guaranteed a right answer. - Mm-hmm. - So I can't play it
safe, I have to be bold! And if I'm wrong I'm wrong. - Do you think that
they put New Caledonia, Falkland Islands over there,
just to screw with us? - I see where you're going with this. I think they put one
on there because it is the correct answer for one of 'em, and they were like, hm,
let's do something else like another island nation on
the other side of the world. - You think they got
time to think this hard? - Oh no they're trying
to trick us constantly. - It's their mission in life
to make us look like fools. - I would think if it was
from one of the islands it would be like a fishy dish. Oh man. Oh gosh. I have to make a choice. Something about the creaminess
is making me think Norway. I don't feel good about it though. I don't feel good about this guess at all, but I'm just going on instinct for Norway. - Speaking of going on instinct, I just feel like Falkland
Islands is on there just to Falkland Island with us. - 'Cause they wanted to hear
us say Falkland Islands? - Yes, but New Caledonia
is where this came from. - Okay, if you miss the board, you automatically get 50 centimeters and you're basically handing me the game. So don't miss. - I aint gonna miss this one. - Don't go wide right. - I'm not missing the board. - Don't go wide right. - Stop making me nervous. - Yeah don't make him nervous. - Just concentrate. - Oh, a little high. Stevie! - [Stevie] This is called lettuce soup, it's made of lettuce leaves,
flour, onion and chicken stock. Lettuce soup is enjoyed by the people of a small group of islands, specifically the Falkland Islands. - No! Falkland way. - Oh man. - No! - I got so lucky. - All right Rhett, you had
49, and Link, you had 75. (laughing) - Well I have a chance. I have a chance! - We got a watery soup with some sort of beans floating in it. - That is not a bean, brother. Get a load of that bean. Why don't you put that bean
in your mouth and crunch? - [Link] It's a little trilobite. We got a trilobite soup. - [Rhett] It's something
in the larval stage. - Oh my gosh. - All right, enjoy. It's not bad. - It's spicy. Crunchy. - It is spicy. I've had worse soups. You ever been to Soup Plantation? - Speaking of worse soups. - I've had worse soups at Soup Plantation. - And they're our sponsor today. (laughs) I didn't love the thought of that. - Okay, again, it all
comes down to strategy. - 32 centimeters difference. - What we've learned
is that 32 centimeters seems like a big lead
until it is erased by three matzo balls that are
splattered onto the board. So I can't just do the safe play and just guess in the middle. I know that in South America
they do eat bugs in things, from time to time. I can see this happening maybe in Morocco, but I'm leaning more
towards Peru, but again, the wild card is New Caledonia, and if New Caledonia's the
correct answer and I go for Peru, I'm basically handing you the game. - Yeah, maybe in that little island they don't have a lot of big
creatures roaming around, they just got little crawlies. - Why do they have New
Caledonia on this map? Is it to throw us off or is it because it is the correct answer? These are the questions that
will keep me up tonight. Well actually I'll know
the answer in a second. This decision will keep me
up tonight if I am wrong. Okay, I'm gonna hedge
my bets since there's two reasonable guesses on
the left side of the board, so I'm just gonna go kind
of in the Atlantic Ocean between Peru and Morocco. - All right. Ooh. Okay, you've aimed at what you intended, and I have soaked these on multiple sides. Well that looks like
it could really stain. I don't know, I actually think this is also the Falkland Islands. I think they've doubled up. - You think they went double Falkland. - Falkland twice. - Did you guys go double Falkland? - You know what they say,
once you Falkland Island. - You gotta Falkland again. - Okay, I get to use one hand to get all three of these going. - What are you gonna do,
what's your strategy? - I'm gonna go for your dart
in order to insulate my guess. - And then maybe splatter
towards Caledonia. - Why you want me to do that? - Well because the only way
to beat me at this point is for me to not be right and it to be on the right side of the board. Why am I giving you tips? - No, what if it's Peru? - If it's Peru you can't win,
'cause I'm definitely not 30 whatever centimeters away from Peru. - Right, here we go. Chase, can you hold this bowl? - Oh sure. - Three, two. I think one of 'em went in my trashcan. - I think my dart went in your trashcan. - [Chase] Yeah, the dart fell. - Okay, so I've gone all around your darts and your dart fell out. - I do remember where my dart was, if that's any consolation,
it's right there. - Okay Stevie. We know these are larvae of some sort. - [Stevie] You just ate silkworm
soup made from silkworms. It's a delicacy in South Korea. - Silkworm larvae. - Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. - All right. Link, you had 27, Rhett, you had 46. - That's less than 30 whatever, which means I retain the title! Woo! - You did it. - Thank you silkworm. - Just barely. We didn't know these were silkworms. That would have helped a lot. - Oh, you know what I won, I
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This was one of the better International Foods episodes. Rhett and Link switch back and forth for who's in the lead, and the foods are intriguing and new. Well done research, Mythical Crew! And thanks for the fun banter and good sportsmanship, R & L! Chase, you've certainly earned any extra insurance money benefits you may desire. Well done.
There is no spoon
Apparently the Faulkland island war stuff they discussed in more is a controversial issue and I've seen a couple comments from people less than satisfied. I hope people don't get mad at them.
why do i always find myself rooting for rhett in these international taste test videos?? sry link🙂
I’m surprised borscht wasn’t in that video