- Is gravy on a pancake a big mistake?
(upbeat music) - Let's talk about that. Good mythical morning. - Today we're pouring everything, including maybe the kitchen sink, over pancakes to find the next best thing to that sweet, sweet syrup
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in bed pancakes and syrup, you come to the right place.
- Yes. - We're gonna find out
if syrup has a sticky and possibly superior substitute, and you and your lover
(laughs) can thank us later. It's time for Next Best Thing,
(classical music) Pancakes and Syrup Addition. - To determine the next
best thing on pancakes after or perhaps before syrup, we're gonna try a bunch of
different liquidy toppings on our hot and fluffy short stacks. I'm talking sweet liquid,
savory liquids, texture liquids, any unique flavor that we thought
may have a fighting chance of becoming the new syrup on the block. - Now first, we need to try
a plate of classic pancakes with maple syrup, so we
can remind our tongues just how high this standard is that we're trying to achieve. All right,
(Link groans) now usually I'll do a
little bit of butter, but listen, this is about the syrup. - You remember pancakes and syrup? It's good.
- Oh, oh. - Fluffy.
- Oh man, that's some good syrup.
- Sweet, sticky. - And some good pancakes. A little (indistinct) in there (laughs). - But maybe we'll
discover something better. (classical music) You think of maple syrup as natural. It comes from trees. So why not spin the
pendulum the other way? How do you, you know spin a pendulum. - You could, if you move it hard enough, it spins.
- Something that comes from a can. Cheese spray.
- Oh, look at that. Our very own
- Mythical cheese spray. - mythical cheese spray. - Available at mythical.com. Not really, but I don't know. - Can you open it?
- It's not easy, here. You want to, should you shake it first? - I believe you do. And I'm just gonna, you know I don't wanna get, whoa, whoa. - [Link] Just shook it up. - That's plenty. - [Link] I feel like it
needed a sound effect. - Yeah.
- What? Why am I not able to get it to come out? Like something about the
way my wrist is angled. - Yeah, it's definitely a wrist problem. - What's wrong here?
- His wrist can't handle the canned cheese spray.
- Look at, what am I doing? What's happening? - Oh. - That's not a natural experience. - No, there's something about that that it takes it away from the pancake.
- It's a canned experience. - It makes it just like
you're eating bread with some cheese on it. - Yeah, I feel like I need, the thing about syrup is that there's a liquidity component to it. This is so solid
- Yeah. - and dry.
- And you don't, and syrup doesn't mess with your wrist. Like you're able to
just serve it just fine. - It just flows out. You don't have to like
push it on a nozzle, - It's not difficult to get syrup.
- and like get carpal tunnel. - But, you know, we can't
have an empty podium. We have to put it in there for now. So right now the next best
thing is cheese spray. - Enjoy it while you can. (classical music) - I love sweet chili sauce, because it's sweet and
spicy just like me (laughs). Let's see how my sauce
tastes on these pancakes. (group laughs) - Gosh. Now, I mean, this is typically just like a dipping sauce, right? - Well, I mean, I do a
lot of stuff with this, and some things I can't tell you about, but the thing I will tell you about is that I put this on wings. I'll deep fry some wings
and put it on there. - Oh yeah. That's a good move. - It's one of the best sauces
in the sauce hall of fame. - [Link] It's very strong. - I just don't like what
it's doing to my breakfast. - I think it, maybe, can you think of it as like breakfast for dinner? Oh.
- No, I tried. And it didn't happen. In fact, I think cheese is better. - It is better.
(Rhett laughs) - I mean, I'm sorry sweet chili sauce. Me and you will just have to be alone together later.
- 'Cause I don't even know what would I drink with this? I don't even know, there's no. - Water?
(group laughs) What would I drink with this? That's a conundrum. (classical music) - Italian food gets a lot of
love at lunch and dinner time, but it's often overlooked
at breakfast time, which hasn't sat right with me. So let's try some pesto on our cake cakes, as my daughter Lily would
call them as a youngster. - Oh, she stopped that though. - She doesn't do that anymore, yeah. - Okay. You might be thinking at this point, guys, I don't understand. Like there's a lot of
really interesting things I've put on my pancakes
before and liked it, like chocolate syrup or strawberry syrup or peanut butter.
- I love peanut butter. - Yeah, we already know
that that tastes good. We've done that. You've done that. We're doing, we're trying
to find a tough one here. We're trying to discover something. And that's why Link's putting
pesto on his pancakes, (group laughs) because we're trying
to discover something, something that might
- Who knows? - not be obvious. That's the name of this
game is to find something that was hiding there in plain sight.
- Well, the name of the game is Next Best Thing, which I would say is peanut butter. - Right. So let's just--
- So maybe let's just say next best thing that you
haven't already tried and probably won't try
- Yeah, yeah. - unless we tell you how awesome it is. - That. - Right?
- Yeah, yeah. There might be something here. - I think what I said doesn't help us when I'm like bringing
Italian food into breakfast. I think we have to bring
the cake cakes into dinner. - This is like if you were traveling, you're in a different
country and you were like, "Oh, before you eat your meal, do you know what they do in this country? They do something that's a lot like American pancakes with pesto on it." And at that point, you're like, "Oh, this is so good." Like you can make yourself
think this is really good. - I mean it's oily
enough to still give you, scratch that syrupy itch. - Okay, now I'm not saying that you're gonna, like Link said, I'm not
saying you're gonna want to do this at breakfast time, necessarily.
- But like in between lunch and dinner,
a little linner action, I think this could work. - Pesto, there it is,
next best thing for now. (classical music) So this is allowed, just bean sauce? - Yes.
- Listen, when I am in a restaurant, and I ask the
waiter for some bean sauce, they just kind of look
at me like I'm stupid, and then my kids yell at me
on the way home for quote, bringing shame to the family.
(group laughs) - Kind of like you want
Parmesan with that? - Yeah, but this is just bean sauce.
- Like is that a new jacket? - So you've got baked
beans, and there's beans, and then you've got the sauce,
and it's just the sauce. - And this has promise, 'cause it's got
- Whoa look. - syrup consistency, It behaves in that way.
- Whoa, look. I got three surprise beans!
(Stevie laughs) - Oh there, I got 1.2,
three, four, five, six beans. - You got surprise beans? - I put a point in there. 1.2, four, five, six beans. - Okay, and this is room
temperature, just so you know. - Dink it.
(group laughs) - And sink it. (group chuckles) Oh my. - I mean.
- There is something to that. It's almost like syrup. - I'm trying to figure out if
people would respond better if you didn't tell them
ahead of time what it was. - I think you got to
strain all the beans out at least for your average user. - Yeah, but then do you keep it from them? I think you have to tell him. - You let him finish. It's like when you're
trying to get somebody to eat something really
nasty, you let them enjoy it, and then you're like, you know, that was spider meat (laughs). - [Stevie] I can't tell if
you guys like it though. - I know, neither can I.
(Rhett laughs) I mean, you said it was really terrible, but it's not really terrible. - I didn't say it was terrible. I think it's great. I think it's great. What are you talking about? I thought it was obvious
that I thought it was great. - I think it's better than pesto. - It's really good. I mean, it's not as good as syrup, but it's the next best thing (laughs). - It's sweet, I like it. (classical music) The last time we had mashed
potatoes in an episode of Next Best Thing was when we
were looking for a substitute for gravy and that got
us thinking could gravy becomes a substitute
in this moment in time? Maybe. This is some dark gravy. - This is dark gravy. It's got the right consistency. - [Link] I feel like I'm
in a dinner situation. - What kind of dinner situation
would you find yourself where they were putting gravy on pancakes? - Like scraping the back of your pantry dinner type situation. - The temperature is nice. - I mean the particular
gravy that we've chosen tastes like dog food.
(Rhett laughs) It's Mythical gravy.
(Stevie laughs) - Yeah, Mythical gravy is not something we're gonna be putting in the
Mythical store any time soon. What kind of gravy?
- Like, Nicole, did you taste this
before serving it to us? - [Nicole] Can I plead the
fifth on this honestly? It's savory beef.
- Yeah. Savory beef.
- Yeah. - It's not like, I feel like, you know what would be really good? - You would think this was chocolate. - Well, first of all,
if you're in the south, and you use basically that white gravy that you put on a biscuit at breakfast, - Yeah, that would work.
- if you put, I mean, I'm sure people have
already done that though, 'cause if you put it on a biscuit, it might get on a pancake just because it might be on your plate. I'm sure people have done that before. - Yeah, if you go with the white gravy with the little bits of sausage, and you get rid of this dog crap, it might work, but, it's (indistinct).
- For now we're gonna stick with bean sauce.
(group laughs) (classical music) Okay, spicy mayo's definitely
a step up from regular mayo, but will it go on pancakes? - [Link] Oh, it will go on them. - In a big clump?
- Yeah, I mean, - It has a cheese sauce, sort of a consistency.
- I like the look of it. - (laughs) That's an
interesting thing to say as you just, it's almost like we're trying to make a cake over here. I mean, look at that. Look at how much stuff we put on there. - A pancake is a canvas for
I thought any type of flavor. Of course, we're discovering
that's not the case. - [Rhett] Okay. - Tangy. Cakey. I'm gonna tell you right now, my initial thing is that it works. - But what if you try
to eat that whole thing? - Pancakes are only beautiful
if they come in a stack, but I can never eat more than one. So I end up eating like
an eighth of a stack. - Well, that's a personal problem. - That's why I don't eat
(Stevie laughs) pancakes a lot, 'cause it's demoralizing how much I leave on my plate. - Well, as a man who
does finish his pancakes, I can say that I think that--
- You hit a wall? - You've got to, the
topping, in order to qualify as a potential pancake syrup substitute, it's gotta be something that
you can enjoy the pancakes in the same manner. I put a lot of this on there, but like even with a little bit, eating that much mayonnaise? - It burns. I like that. It kind of makes you think
you have a medical condition. - It burns now and it burns later. Are you pulling for spicy
mayo to top 'ol bean sauce? - I don't absolutely hate it. If you're big into the
spicy mayo, give it a shot, but no, I'm not gonna
say it's gonna topple-- - Yeah, I mean, it's bean sauce after all. (classical music) - The time has come the
walrus said to try mole on your pancakes. I got that right, didn't I?
- Oh very right, yeah. - Here it goes. - Mole, I'm gonna go easy, 'cause I, you know, - I like to test the spreadability of it. - [Rhett] I want to
really give this a chance, because I don't want people to think-- - What the heck even is mole? Because Mythical mole
doesn't have any ingredients or barcodes or nothing,
because it's not sold. - [Rhett] It's a sauce that consists of both chilies and chocolate. - Okay, give it a shot. There's a darkness to mole.
(group chuckles) - Yeah. A smokiness. - It's kind of like you're exploring a, like a cavern where the Mayans
used to hide or something. - Okay. You judge a man by his mole? - I don't know how to answer that. (Rhett chuckles) I don't like Mole, so
(group laughs) I'm gonna leave this,
- Let me be honest. - I'm gonna leave this to you. I ordered it once at a Mexican restaurant, and I'm like, you know
what, that's the thing I'm never gonna order at a
Mexican restaurant again. - Yeah, the best thing on the menu. - Yeah, right. - I got to say mole
works when you offset it with something savory, like chicken, cheese, or tortilla. That's when it works.
- Lots of cerveza. - When you put this
straight up on something that's kind of just a palette, a canvas? - Okay, good. You don't like it either. - I just don't think it works, which what we're saying is
something that I didn't expect, and I feel like you're gonna judge us for, the next best thing to
putting pancake syrup on your pancakes is
putting bean sauce on them. - Next time you crack
open a can of baked beans, just crack it open a little bit,
- Save your sauce. pour it over your cake cakes, and then you can have the beans separate for later in the day. Win-win. - Thanks for subscribing
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Didn’t enjoy the tension. It felt as if they were not on the same page in an uncomfortable way. I honestly don’t care if they compliment or insult each other, if either one was annoyed and didn’t want to participate in the game, why not scrap it and do something different? Win/win for them and for their audience.
Rhett was... interesting... in GMMore in response to the Smore where they were meant to complement each other.
I refuse to acknowledge bean sauce as a thing.
Anyone know what that "Illaria" thing they talked about in GMMore was about?
The exact moment Rhett realized how good the baked bean sauce on the pancakes was... you can see it in his eyes, haha
Does anybody know what jacket Link is wearing in this episode?