- Today we squash the
Wendy's and McDonald's beef, once and for all. - Let's talk about that. (pleasant electronic music) "Good Mythical Morning." - Now if Ronald McDonald and Wendy from Wendy's got in a fight, who do you think would win? Well, me, 'cause I mean, forget all that Jake Paul boxing hoopla. - Okay. - I think this is the pay-per-view event that I'd wanna watch. - Okay, well my money is on Ron but my heart will always be with Wendy. But if those restaurant's
foods were to face off, do you think you would
turn out the same way? Well, the battle has actually
already begun on Twitter because McDonald's Tweeted, "Reply to this haiku about McDonald's and maybe I'll make it our Twitter bio." - And then Wendy's did in
fact reply with this haiku. "Frozen beef circle passed
out the drive through window. A disappointment." - Ooh, cold, and one
time random Twitter user and upset McDonald's customer
@RingtailedBat Tweeted, "Leave it to McDonald's to
disappoint me with a promise of spicy nuggets just to give me regular. Cowards. I should've known never to
stray from Wendy's perfection." - And Wendy's quickly hopped in with, "Now you can be disappointed
in regular and spicy flavors." - Yeah, it's pretty clear, when it comes to Twitter, Wendy's doesn't have any competition, but the battle is not with words, it's with taste. So let's discover the
true champion amongst these fast food juggernauts. It's time for food feuds. Wendy's versus McDonald's. - We're gonna taste and
compare popular items from each restaurant's menu and
then rate them independently on a scale of one to 10. The restaurant with the most points will be crowned the fast food feud fiend and will win a chance to
sponsor a future GMM episode. - Okay, as always, we sent
out a Mythical crew member to each place to pick up our order. Stevie, what's the update? We heard back from him yet? - [Stevie] Well, if you can believe it, both restaurants have really upped their communication game in the past year, so we actually have video call technology so we can see the employees
handling the order, and I think a call should be coming in from Wendy's right now. Brring! Brring! - Wow, that ring sounds a lot like Stevie. Oh, you know what? - There's the phone. - [Stevie] Brring! - Oh look, it's Patty. Hey, Patty. - Hey, hey. - Hello, gentlemen. For once there is nothing
wrong with your food order. Although someone from your crew asked for three spicy nuggets
on their Baconator, which is weird but also
sounds really good. Anyway, I have this
thing I need help with. Could you call McDonald's
right now on another phone so I could talk to Dirk? - Oh, at McDonald's. - Okay, uh yeah, you're always wanting. - [Patty] He works there too. - To connect with Dirk, okay. - I have a phone. - [Stevie] Beep, boop, beep,
boop, beep, beep, beep, beep. - And enter. - [Stevie] Brring! - Hey, Dirk. - Oh, hey. - [Link] It's Rhett and Link. - What's crack a lackin',
Link and Rut McKackin? (laughing) - Hey, man. It's good to see you again
and not just hear you. We've got, I want to call her Wendy. Your name's not Wendy, it's Patty. - No, it's Patty, don't disrespect Patty. - [Patty] It's his mom. - We've got Patty at
Wendy's and she's asking us to call you so that you can talk to her? - Oh, that's so sweet. - Okay, uh Dirk, I was wondering. - Do you want to look at him? - [Patty] Oh yeah, could you do me a favor and put up our little phones
so we could see each other? - [Dirk] Ooh, now I can
see your beautiful face. - Oh, thanks so much. Uh Dirk, I was wondering
what you were doing for the rest of your future work tours, because can I come and will you marry me? - Well, this is moving very quick. - Oh my coal chamber, yes! Yes, I will marry you. - I'm so happy. Hey Dirk, I packed your lunch today. Check the Cheetos. - Uh, the yeah, you
packed my favorite lunch of all Cheetos! - All Cheetos. - You got me a butterfly ring. You got me a lip ring for the lip. Look at it. - [Patty] It's so pretty. - It's a butterfly. You gotta look close. The quality is bad. - Yeah, I can't really
tell what's happening. - It's a video chat. - It's there, it's there. Oh, I would like to
respond to my love Patty with a song that I wrote, can I do that? - [Stevie] Oh wow. - Our time is limited. - [Patty] This is the
most important moment. - We've got all the time
in the world for love. - No we don't Dirk, make it quick. ♪ Patricia, I wanna kiss ya ♪ ♪ I wanna live my life
in blissa with Patricia ♪ ♪ Patricia, Patricia, I love you ♪ ♪ Patricia, Patricia, Patricia ♪ - [Dirk] I'm workin' on it still. - It made me very emotional. (laughing) Oh, man. I love you my butterfly sugarbaby. I can't wait to. - [Dirk] I love you too, baby. - Okay, guys. Congratulations. - [Dirk] I love you. - We have a show to do. - [Patty] Sorry about that, okay. - Best wishes Dirk and Patricia. - Good luck with your future. - [Patty] Thank you very much. - Okay. - [Dirk] I love you. - Let's eat some food. (rock music) - [Stevie] Okay, gentlemen. We're going to begin with breakfast. On Rhett's side is Wendy's
Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit, which you can order for $3.29, and on Link's side is McDonald's Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit, which you can order for $4.79. - Yeah, we didn't go with the McGriddles or the McMuffin so that we could do apples to apples comparison or
biscuits to biscuits. - Right. It's a very cakey biscuit. - Yeah, and it all kinda
comes together into one thing. - I mean, it's not bad. - The main flavor that you get is. - Is egg. - Is cheese. - Oh yeah. - And then bacon. - And then egg. - And then egg. Are you now agreeing? - No, I thought it was very eggy. - I just, I'm not very
impressed with that. - No. Oh, but let's see. - [Link] I'm not ready to
give it a score, though. - [Rhett] Speaking of egg. - [Link] A lot more egg on
this and it's a scrambled egg. - Oh my. That's more than twice as good. - Okay, so let's score Wendy's first. - Okay. - I'm gonna give, I'm gonna give it a three.
- Four. - It's not great to me. - I don't want our answers
to influence each other. So I just, as soon as you say it, I'm saying what I got. I'm giving that a four. - And then I'm gonna give this, okay. I'm going to, I think we should score it and then add points for the McGriddles, which is not here because I
just think McDonald's deserves that in their breakfast category. - I don't even think I have to do that because it's just so much better. I said it was about twice as better. I'm saying it is twice as better, eight. - I'm going to give it a six
and add one for McGriddles to make it a seven. - Don't understand, but okay. (rock music) - [Stevie] It's nugget time, boys. On Rhett's side are Wendy's
6 Piece Chicken Nuggets that you can buy for
$1.99 and on Link's side are McDonald's 6 Piece Chicken McNuggets that you can get for $2.50. - This is kind of like a version of what you might get in
the frozen food section. - I think these are very good. You know, there's lots of people
that'll bend over backwards for a Wendy's nugget. A McDonald's nugget on the other hand is its own entity incomparable
to any other thing, including nuggets on the planet. It's got a harder shell. - Yeah, they're just so difficult to go side-by-side because. - In a signature taste. - If you didn't know
these were from McDonald's and you didn't know
McDonald's was a thing, you might think something
was wrong with this nugget. - Right, you'd be like,
this is, this is horrible. This is like alien. But once you get used to it, you again, you either love it or hate it. - You anticipate that taste, which is not bad but it's also not good. - If I'm not three years old, I'm not lovin' this. - I prefer, there's something I prefer. Okay. - Six. - Seven and. - [Both] Four. - [Stevie] Ouch. (rock music) - In support of Pride Month 2021, we're releasing an all
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hours at mythical.com, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the Los Angeles LGBT Center. So please do it for a good cause and for a great T-shirt. Get yours now. - Mythical.com. Fries versus fries. I've been dreading this round, man. - [Stevie] Yes, oh. - [Link] Because I think this is going to be a difficult one. - [Stevie] So the Wendy's
medium sized fries come in at $2.59 and then the
McDonald's medium sized fries come in at $3.19. - Now Wendy's is kind of
going for the natural. You've got the skin still on, kind of trying to do like a
Five Guys kinda thing, you know? Where we already know McDonald's fries will stay good for like 40 years. - Well, they won't turn into anything but after a few minutes, they're not good. You got to eat those suckers fresh. I mean, that's kinda true of most fries. I'm not really gonna hold that against it. I try to eat half of
my fries at McDonald's before I dig in to anything else so that they're not lingering out there and getting cold and nasty. - Again, McDonald's has done something with the specificity of each one of their items and it transcends. - The genre. - All other, yeah, it
transcends the whole genre. - Well, Wendy's has done a
great job with these fries. I think that it's the best fry you can get that's got a little bit of the skin on it. Again, this is almost
like it's other worldly and you may love it. Stevie, I know that you
absolutely obsess over these. - [Stevie] You know it. All the time. - I'm feeling a little pressure, a little of that energy. - [Stevie] Yup. - They do something very different for me and they both do it well. - Yeah, that's why this is tough. Okay, huh. - It's like both of my kids, you know? I mean, they're very different. I love them in different ways. - I know my number. - But I love 'em the, well, I love one a little
bit more than the other. (laughing) So. - I've got three. How do you think I feel? - I've been going with uh. - [Both] Seven, eight. - Whoa! Wow! - I mean, I think it just edges it out because there's just some ubiquity to these that you just
keep coming back to 'em. - Yeah, it's good. - It may be the best thing
McDonald's has to offer. - Oh, okay. Well that's not what
we're judging, though. (rock music) - [Stevie] Burgers! On Rhett's side is Wendy's Dave's Double that you can order for $5.99, and on Link's side is
McDonald's classic Big Mac that could be ordered for $5.59. - Yep, and you can, man, I remember when you can
get a Big Mac meal for $2.99. - I mean, look at that cross-section. This is a classic burger. You've got the square patty, which I can kind of take it or leave it, but it feels like a diner burger. And that really soft bun? - [Stevie] And this is the first round where the Wendy's menu
item is more expensive than the McDonald's. All the rest, Wendy's has been cheaper. - I think you can taste
the difference, man. - Their beef and their cheese. That is a winning combination. - That's a good burger. - When you start to analyze
everything they put around it, it distracts from how
great that one taste is. - Well, what do you mean around it? - The lettuce, the mayo, all that stuff around
it just kinda like blah. It doesn't bring anything to the party but the beef and the cheese together, and especially that beef is very notable. - But none of it's overwhelming. I mean, to me, it's a subtle, and again we're back to the same kind of thing with McDonald's. The food science that goes
into a McDonald's menu item like the Big Mac, it's just so, it's so engineered. You know what I'm saying? - You don't take a bite and you're not thinking about the meat. You're not thinking about any ingredient. You're thinking about the entire entity. That thousand island or secret sauce dressing and the onions, it really brings it all together and it creates a defining culinary moment no matter what your age. - That special sauce really does a lot. But I'm trying to let myself. - That corner of beef, though. - The beef on this, the quality of the meat is something that. - Have we fallen for the marketing? - Nope, it tastes different. Look at it. - [Link] It's real. - [Rhett] Look how thick that is. - It's tough, that's fabulous. - I got a score for over here. Eight.
- Seven. - Seven.
- Eight. - You went bigger with the Wendy's? - I did. - I went slightly bigger
with the the Big Mac and we've canceled each other out. - This square beef, the bigger beef, where's the beef? - This is a tie round. Didn't think that would happen, but. - It did, I'm gonna finish it. (rock music) - [Stevie] On Rhett's side is Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich
that you can get for $5.39, and on Link's side is McDonald's New Spicy Chicken Sandwich
that you can buy for $4.99. - Okay, it's a little cheaper. - All right, something to note about this. This particular spicy chicken sandwich at Wendy's has been around
since the mid-nineties. So it's pre-chicken sandwich
wars that have been happening since Popeyes did their thing, right? And so this is a response to Popeyes. So I have to think, and he's not distracting at all. I have to think that this is going to be a completely different experience than this like mid-nineties
chicken sandwich, you know what I'm saying? - But I've never had
either so let's find out. - This is more like a McChicken. - But from Wendy's. - Mm hm. - I was thinking more like
school lunch but spiced. - It has a school lunch quality to it. Not great. - I really can't say
anything positive about it. - And this is again. - It's spicy. - This is looks a lot like a
Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich. There's no sauce on it. There's just pickles. - There's a stripe on the bun, though. Kinda like that guy from "Gremlins." - You know, Traver can do that. I've seen him do that on a bun. - Oh yeah? He can stripe a bun? - Mm hm. I mean, I can almost
taste like a brine there? - Mm hm. The bun tastes better. Chicken tastes better. Where's the spice? - There's not a lot of spice. - Nope, okay. Three.
- Four. - [Both] Four. - We don't like these. But we both liked. - I said four and four. - Oh, you tied, you tied them exactly? Man, you were pretty tough on McDonald's. It's definitely better in my mind. - It could have done more. Could have done more. (rock music) - [Stevie] Okay, it's time for dessert. On Rhett's side is Wendy's
medium Classic Chocolate Frosty. which comes in at $2.19, and on Link's side is McDonald's
regular size Oreo McFlurry that you can get for $3.49. - All the stuff we've talked about McDonald's creating something
that transcends the genre. - Wendy's did it with this. - Of the item. They did it with the Frosty
and they've never looked back. - But have you ever thought to yourself, I don't know how good a Frosty is? Like, like. - That's a good point. - You enjoy it but then
when you really stop and think about it you're like, it's sort of this mildly
flavored chocolate, completely homogenous. - It's like, it's almost
like a Yoohoo shake. You know? - Yeah. - But I love it, it's great. - I mean, I'm not saying I don't like it but I've never really thought about it. I don't think about food when
I just go out and eat it. I just eat it. - No, but when I go to Wendy's, I go to Wendy's and I'm like, I haven't been here a
while and then I realize. (gasping) - [Both] Frosty. - I get all excited. - But a McFlurry is a different thing. First of all, you have this hollowed out spoon. - It's like the freaking
"Sword in the Stone" here. What's happening? - Gracious. All right, whoever gets it
out first is King McDonald's. - Me. - I mean, you have the addition of whatever you've McFlurred into it. - In this case, Oreo. - And I'm really influenced by things that had been McFlurred. - The consistency of a Frosty. It's more airy than soft serve. I'm gonna add points
because it's so unique. - Yeah, and you can dip your fries in it. That's kind of a thing. - Well, you can do that here too. - But it wouldn't be
good with Oreo, though. - Yeah. - Okay, I gotta say,
I liked both of these. The Frosty when I came back to it, it's growing on me a little bit. And I think these are both
great dessert offerings. I'm going eight.
- Nine. - And eight.
- Seven. - Again, I think that they
end up tying in the end. - Okay, well it seems that I'm the only one moving the needle. What is the result, Stevie? - [Stevie] Well, it looks like by the hair of their chinny chin chins, the winner is McDonald's. - [Link] Congratulations. I Feel good about that. - [Rhett] Yeah, I mean. - [Link] No hate to Wendy. - Both of these are good
fast food establishments with a long storied history, but you know what? I think that McDonald's just edged 'em out just a little bit. Congratulations Mickey D's, you know you won? You're the fast food fiend. - Flew, flew, flew, flew, flew. - And you won a chance
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The absolute disrespect to the Wendy's Spicy chicken sandwich was terrible.
Emily Fleming would make an amazing Wendy cosplay.
Dirk and Patty's ever-growing story is always the best part of these videos.
Big Mac vs double cheeseburger? What? Mcdonalds has a double cheeseburger too.
Should've been big Mac vs baconator
I feel like wendy's overall menu is better than McDonalds for sure. A fresh baconator beats any burger from Mcdonalds.
This is a damn shame. The Spicy Asiago Ranch Chicken Club would like to have a word with these two....
Those frosties looked horrible lol
The way I laughed at Dirk’s song
The love for Big Mac's always confuses me. Its not even the best burger on McDonald's menu IMO. I think maybe back in the day it would be better, but I swear every Big Mac I get, the burger is about a third the size of the buns.