- Today we drive-through the ultimate fried chicken Food Feud. - Let's talk about that. (Good Mythical Morning theme music) Good Mythical Morning. - Hey, now. Tomorrow is election day. Time flies when it comes to weighing in on the future of our society. - Yes, and we know that
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there is no third option. My question is basically the question that we're answering today, because Lil Wayne is from Louisiana, George Clooney is from Kentucky. And Louisiana and
Kentucky also happen to be the birthplaces of two major
fast food chicken franchises, Popeyes and KFC. And just like George and Wayne have been at each others
throats for years, these two chicken behemoths have also been at each others throats. - I don't know if any of that is true, but you know, I think most of it is. - All of it.
- In fact, in 2017, Popeyes Tweeted, "Is the
only difference between "original and extra crispy, "breading and the extra breading? #LetThatMarinate." Oh!
- Well, they opened up the floodgates, because KFC Tweeted, "Well now, that's a great question. "Let me see if I can clarify for you:" And then they added, "My
Original Recipe chicken "is marinated, breaded in my special blend of 11 herbs and spices,
then pressure fried." And then they added,
"My Extra Crispy chicken "is marinated, double-breaded
in its own blend of herbs and spices, then open fried." And then they added, "Now
the big difference here is pressure fried vs. open fried." And then they added, "Might
not seem like a big difference, but any fried chicken
expert will you that it is." And then they went on five more Tweets to add other stuff, ending with, "Thanks for askin'!" - Dang, Popeyes, you got chick-splained! - (laughs) Yeah. - So KFC's Twitter game is stronger, okay, but is their menu? Let's settle this chicken
beef once and for all. It's time for Food Feuds:
KFC versus Popeyes. - Are you hungry?
- Mm-hmm. - I'm hungry, too. We're gonna taste popular items
from each restaurant's menu, and rate them on a scale of one to 10, and the restaurant with the
most points will be crowned the fast and friediest chicken king, and will win the chance to
sponsor a future GMM episode. - Oh, yeah. We sent a Mythical Crew member to each drive-through
to pick up our order. Stevie, are they back yet? - [Stevie] Actually, I'm sorry guys, I just heard, they're both
stuck in their respective lines. I guess traffic is just really bad today, and also, somehow, the
KFC drive-through guy is on the phone, and wants to talk to you. - Okay, hello KFC guy? - [Dirk] Hey, this is Kentucky Fried Dirk. Is this Rut McCacken? - Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, that's close enough. Yeah, that's me.
(Link laughing) - [Dirk] Yeah, I got a
lot of jobs, man. (laughs) I work here, I work everywhere. Listen, I'm saving up to follow Hoobastank when they go on tour again. Anyways, it's neither here nor there. So Rut, there's somebody here who's trying to use your credit card. - Yeah, we have authorized
a Mythical Employee to use my credit card for this, yes. - [Dirk] Oh, yeah,
that's not the question. The question was, can I use it to buy
the Hoobastank tickets? - No, Dirk, you may not. - [Dirk] All right, fair enough. It was worth a shot. Anyways, food is on the way, Rhett. - Okay. - He got rejected, then
he got your name right. - Bye, Dirk. Okay, Stevie, clearly
our food from Popeyes isn't here yet, either,
so let's give them a call. - [Stevie] Okay, beep boop beep boop boop boop boop boop.
- Yes, yes. - Oh, you got one of those new phones. - [Stevie] Bring.
- I can hear it. (Rhett laughs) - [Patty] Thank you for calling Popeyes, this is former Wingstop employee, Patty. What do you want? - Oh, hey, Patty. How ya doing? - [Patty] Who is this? - Oh, this is Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning.
- Hey. - We're waiting on the order, you know, from your restaurant, because we're gonna try it out versus KFC. - [Patty] What, are you
guys, like, stalking me now? - No.
- Do you want us to? - I think it's just a coincidence that you happen to be very
mobile in your employment. - [Dirk] Hey, guys. Dirk here, I'm still here. I forgot to hang up. I don't know how smartphones work. Anyways, can I ask Patty
something real quick? - Sure.
- Yeah, whatever. - [Dirk] All right. Hey, Patty. - [Patty] Oh, hey, Dirk. - [Dirk] (laughs) Will
you go to the virtual homecoming dance with me? - [Patty] I thought you'd never ask. Yes, Dirk, I would love to. - [Dirk] Yay! All right, bye for real now. I am gonna hang up.
- [Patty] All right. - Okay.
- Good luck, guys. All I am is hungry. (rock music)
(ding) - [Stevie] On Rhett's side, we have KFC's creamy mashed potatoes and signature brown gravy. A regular order goes for
1.99, and a large costs 4.49. And on Link's side, we have
Popeyes' mashed potatoes smothered in their flavorful Cajun gravy. - What are you doing?
- [Stevie] A regular side order goes for 2.59, and
a large goes for 4.59. - All right, you just put slaw in there. - I asked for some KFC slaw, because I do not eat KFC mashed potatoes without adding slaw into it. - Well, I do. (laughs) So I'm just judging the mashed potatoes. Which, that gravy's good. It's salty, man.
- Oh, yeah. I just think it's a magical
hot/cold combination. I've never tried it at Popeyes. I'm about to. - [Rhett] Oh, I just got... - Their potatoes are totally different. - There's a whole lot of stuff going on. - They're spicy. - Is that the potatoes that are spicy, or the gravy that's spicy? - I think it's gravy. - [Rhett] This is more classic. - Yeah, let's rate this. I think, classic taste, very nostalgic.
- That's good. I'm giving it a seven. I like these mashed potatoes, man. - I agree, I'm gonna give it a seven, (ding)
and for the Popeyes, I'm giving that, I'm going to give just the
mashed potatoes and gravy a six. It's pretty close. - I like the KFC a teeny bit better, because I actually don't
like the Cajunness that much in my mashed potatoes, but I like it. I'm gonna go with a six, as well. (ding)
- Oh, we totally agree. (rock music)
(ding) - [Stevie] Okay, now
it's time for chicken. On Rhett's side is the world
famous KFC's Original Recipe. A two piece meal costs 6.99,
includes a choice of side, a biscuit, a cookie, and a drink. And on Link's side is
Popeyes Signature Chicken, offered in mild or spicy. We got mild to best match KFC. A two piece meal costs 8.59,
and it includes a side, a biscuit, and drink, but no cookie. - There's a special place
in my heart for this. - I know.
- This is what I would get, as a kid, for my birthday, man. - It's so unique, too. It's like, it's not crunchy.
- It's so original. - I mean, if you want crunchy you got to get the extra crispy, but that, the taste is so unique
to just their chicken, and it's got to do with that pressure fried situation.
- And the 11 herbs and spices, bro. - And then, you got more
of the classic situation. - And the closest thing
for us is Bojangles, like, we know we love Bojangles. - I can't come up with
anything to complain about for either one of them. I mean, oh, man. Watch yourself, now, there's more.
- I love eating chicken, man. - There's more to-- - Just sitting here eating
chicken with my friend. I could die right now, and
if I continue to do this, I may die. - The KFC number that I'm honing in on is a nine. - Ooh!
- I mean, again, it's like, it's a special branch of fried chicken, when you got that pressure fried.
- They've done something really, really special. I'm kind of leaving a little
bit more room in my heart for other fried chicken at
other fried chicken restaurants, that are not fast food. This is incredibly good,
I'm gonna give it an eight. (ding)
- This is so moist. - Again, there's some nostalgia here, but I also just like the taste, but it's so close, I'm
gonna give it a seven. - I am also gonna give this a seven, bringing it down two notches from my KFC, because once you get passed
the, what I call the crunchy, and the skin, the meat
itself is very moist, but it doesn't have quite the magic. (rock music)
(ding) - [Stevie] Okay, this is the
fries and hot sauce round. It's a little unusual, but we
wanted you to try everything. So on Rhett's side we have
KFC's Secret Recipe fries, which KFC claims are crispier
then your average fry, and seasoned with the
secret 11 herbs and spices. A regular order is 1.99,
and the hot sauce packets offered at KFC are proprietary to KFC, and list 'hot sauce' as an ingredient. On Link's side we have
Popeyes' Cajun fries. Popeyes claims, "They may
look like french fries, but our special seasoning
makes them 100% Cajun." A regular order is 2.59. The hot sauce packet at Popeyes is actually the famous
Louisiana brand hot sauce, which can also be purchased
in grocery stores. - That Louisiana hot sauce--
- [Rhett] Wow. - Is the best sauce for fried chicken. Isn't that what we determined? When we were down there in Louisiana? - And there's, like, a
Tabasco sort of hint to it. - Yeah. - On the back end. - I know about these Popeyes fries. - You know about them? Tell me all about them. - I know them to be very good. - [Rhett] I like what KFC's doing. - These are bran-fangled new. I think because of the
pressure from Popeyes fries being so good.
- And so respond. I can't stop eating either side. - They said that there's
11 herbs and spices, I can't taste any herbs and spices. - These are way more well-seasoned, in my mind.
- Yeah. - You can even look at it and tell. - [Link] These are definitely better. - [Rhett] The hot sauce is better. - [Link] It's a bonus. - Good effort from KFC, like, when you just compare it to
fries in the fast food world. I give it a six over here. - I'm gonna give them a four. (ding) You know, they talk a big game. They're below average to me. - I think they're better
then regular fries. - I think that these,
I'm gonna give a six. - I am a big fan of these. - They're good. - I'm going all the way up to an eight (ding)
on the Popeyes fries. - Woo! (rock music)
(ding) - [Stevie] Biscuits and honey sauce. - Sauce. - [Stevie] (laughs) On Rhett's side are KFC's warm, flaky
southern style biscuits. You can order a side of
two biscuits for 1.29, that's 65 cents a piece. And on Link's side are
Popeyes buttermilk biscuits, available for purchase by the
biscuit for 89 cents each. - KFC's very soft. - Fluffy, like a cloud.
- Fluffy and stacked. - It's not super flakey. It's super soft.
- Doughy. These are very standardized. - Like, traditional, like Grandma. - They both smell equally buttery. I'm not going for the honey
sauce, as they call it. - These are flakier, and less doughy. - I've never eaten a biscuit
from anywhere besides KFC that gave me that KFC experience. It's the biscuit version of the chicken experience that you get. - KFC has done something that's
a little bit more original. Like something that,
Grandma couldn't do that, I don't think. - I'm gonna give that KFC biscuit, I'm gonna give it a six. It's not approaching the
best biscuit I've ever had. - I want to give it a
seven, but that flouriness is taking something down for me. I'm gonna go down to a six. (ding) I don't know. These are hitting different for me than I remember them hitting. - Me too.
- In a different way, but almost in the same way. I'm also gonna give them a six. That's exactly what I was thinking. (ding)
They're totally different, but they're equal. - Yeah.
- Six. (rock music)
(ding) - [Stevie] It all comes down
to the chicken sandwich. On Rhett's side we have a Crispy
Colonel Sandwich from KFC, served Nashville Hot style. You can also order it Buffalo, extra crispy, and Honey BBQ style. The sandwich costs 5.49. And on Link's side is Popeyes
Spicy Chicken sandwich, dubbed "the sandwich." This is the culprit for the
wrap around the block lines just about a year ago, and it costs 3.99. - That's a good sandwich, but this is, like, the sandwich
that broke the internet. - And I've finally got my hands on these, and my kids are all the time begging for us to get some more
of these sandwiches. It is a huge sandwich. I mean, it's bigger then the KFC sandwich. This almost feels like a smack. I mean, like you said, this is tasty. - What are you laughing at, Stevie? - This is a friggin' behemoth.
- [Stevie] Because Link is still talking, and you shoved, like, half the sandwich into
your mouth all ready. - There's a lot of breading,
but it's really crunchy, and somehow, unless you
get, like, a really old one, it's always got that crunch. - This is not a run away win for that chicken sandwich, in my mind. I'm still eating it. - It's so much bigger. - [Rhett] This is better then
I thought it was gonna be. - But not as good as this. - No, it's not as good as that. Six. Six. - I'm gonna give that a five.
(ding) I'm gonna walk away from this desk, and I'm gonna forget about that. - Okay. This is not what everybody
thinks that it is. It's a really good chicken sandwich, but I've had better chicken sandwiches. Seven.
- Well, sure. I am gonna give this an eight, (ding)
because, though it's not my favorite chicken sandwich, it certainly is up there. Definitely my top five,
maybe my top three. - [Stevie] Okay, guys. - And we've ignored where that puts us, but let's find out. - [Stevie] With a total of 67, your preferred restaurant is Popeyes. - [Rhett] What, really? - [Link] Versus what? What was the differential? - [Stevie] 64. - [Rhett] Oh.
- [Link] Oh. - [Stevie] I though you
meant versus what restaurant, and I was like, "Link, KFC." - Hold on, what restaurant have we been tasting this whole time? - It's because of the chicken sandwich. I only go to KFC for the bone-in chicken, and I really only go to Popeyes for the fries and the sandwich. - If I had to choose
these, I would choose that, every time.
(indistinct) But it was pretty close.
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I can't be the only one that had a huge smile on my face when I heard "Let's talk about that."
Everybody is talking about Let's talk about that but nobody is mentioning Dirk and Patty? Or how the girl at the end definitely did not take a sip of that shake.
LTAT UPVOTE PARTY!!!!
Most people I know that like Popeyes like it because of the spicy chicken and the rice. The people I know that would rather eat KFC think black pepper is spicy.
Slaw with potato and gravy... yeah no, Link. 😂
Um, NSFW flair?
On another note, an okay episode but the return of Let's Talk About That really sets it apart. :-)
Rhett's face when link put the coleslaw on the potatoes is killing me
I love that Link is bringing back the space-related graphic tees!
Link...no...that's sacrilege...