- Will Texas Roadhouse
out-stack The Outback? - Let's talk about that. (groovy electronic music) - Good Mythical Summer. - Our June live shows
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are comin' up quick! Get tickets at RhettAndLinkLive.com now. - Now a little while back
we did a chain restaurant steak taste test and
the best steak came down to Texas Roadhouse and
the Outback Steakhouse. Outback barely eked
out the win but I think that was mostly because and
I said this at the time, that was where I had my
first date with Jessie so I just had to pick one. - Yeah and here's what happened
after that episode aired, we noticed that we had
accidentally tapped into an existing beef, no pun intended, between the Roadhouse and the Steakhouse. It all started back in 2018
when Texas Roadhouse retweeted this meme with them as the
Krusty Krab from Spongebob and Outback as the villainous Chum Bucket. - And then Outback replied with this. - Okay.
- Which I gotta be honest, point Roadhouse. - Then Roadhouse destroyed
Outback with this. - Oh okay so we know that Texas Roadhouse has a better social media team. But we wanna have an honest to goodness, fair and square comparison
between the two restaurants to really figure out
which is better overall and not just steaks. It's time for Food Feuds: Texas Roadhouse versus Outback Steakhouse. - We're gonna taste
various signature dishes from each restaurant head
to head and then Rhett and I will rate each dish
on a scale of one to 10. In the end, whoever has the
most points will be crowned the absolute uncontested
best steak restaurant of all time according to
us and will win a chance to sponsor a GMM episode. - Ha, I like the way that works. Okay so when we did the
restaurant free bread taste test last year, Texas Roadhouse beat Outback but then Outback recently
won the steak taste test so these guys are starting
out on even ground. - Yeah and now both of
their menus are huge and there's lots of good stuff
that we just don't have time to try but feel free to
share in the comments the dishes that you like
but just don't be going, you guys didn't try the
cheesy winger dingers. What's wrong with you? - Sound good.
- We had to draw the line somewhere. (Americana music) Okay first up we're gonna
be tasting a sampling of appetizers from each restaurant. - Hi y'all I'm Roadhouse Rhonda. I've got a Roadhouse
combo appetizer platter. We got your boneless buffalo wings. We got rattlesnake bites, no
they are not real rattlesnake. Please stop asking me that.
- It's like a jalapeno. - Yeah yeah and then
we got some tater skins and you get a choice of dipping sauce but I gave you blue cheese and that's just how we're gonna do it.
- Okay, thank you Rhonda. - Enjoy, buckaroos. - Thank you Rhonda.
- Oh you. - Don't eat that trash. (Rhett laughs) - Hello, good day, mate. My name is Beck Betch and I've got some Aussie-tizers for you. - We got some fries.
- We got Aussie cheese fries, Kookaburra Wings, and we
got volcano pretzel bites. - I've never had these. - You're gonna have all of them. (Rhett and Link chuckle) - Now a couple of things. Bloomin' Onion is not here
because Texas Roadhouse actually has a similar dish and we're gonna put those head
to head in a different round. Second thing is we got
a lot of things to taste and so we're not gonna
be going back and forth. We are tasting, getting an
essence of the whole plate, and then conjuring our score. - We're gonna conjure a score?
- Conjure it. - Like magic? - Can't go wrong with cheese fries. - No those are good. Is the different sauce for the fries or a Kookaburra Wing? - I'm gonna do without the sauce.
- Never had this. - It's a tasty wing.
- Totally unique too in its rub. That's an interesting wing flavor. - Kookaburra. - I like that.
- I thought that was like an endangered species. - And then to round out
our appetizer plate-- - A pretzel bite? Oh this is probably what this is for. - [Link] I put my fries in it by accident but didn't hurt 'em. - Oh man there's more cheese
on the inside of that. - That is an odd thing to put on the menu - That's not the highlight of the plate. - Mm-mm but the wings.
- That's a good plate though. You can't go wrong with cheese fries. - See now over here when
we got the tater skins, these things are huge. You can pretty much compare
these with the loaded fries. Tit for tat. I'd say they're pretty much neck and neck. - Yeah, both very good. - They've done a pretty good job of slathering it with
cheese and bacon bits. - Boneless wings which
not a fan technically. - Dink it and sink it. I don't think we got time
for sinks and sinks, man. - You don't like a boneless wing? - I feel like I'm taking advantage
of the concept of a wing. It's good though, it's a little drier. - I would say it's not bad. - It's not as interesting
as the other one. - [Link] Oh and then
these jalapeno poppers. - That's really good. - Because the jalapeno
is not overpowering, so we just need to give a
score one to 10 for each. - Way better than, okay,
you wanna start over here. - Again I don't know about
the pretzels but the wings are really coming to the fore for me. I'm gonna get it a nice, solid seven. - Okay I was thinking six
because the pretzel bites are a serious misfire for me. What about over here? Six over here, I think I'm
gonna go seven over here. - Oh.
- Because even though I don't typically like the boneless wings, I love these rattlesnake
bites and I actually prefer the tater skins over the fries. - To me these wings are really
knocking out these nuggets. I'm actually favoring the Outback and I'm gonna give that a six. - Okay. So that means we have a
score of 13 for both of them. - Oh we tied. (Americana music) - Okay so when we did
the steak taste test, we did sirloin because
that was the only steak that was available in all those chains but now we got a lot
of other cuts available so we're going with a porterhouse
which is a New York strip and a tenderloin together. - Hello.
- Hello. Good day. So the Outback steak comes
with any potato and any side. I've got here homestyle mashed potatoes and American cheese 'cause it's a beauty. - Oh okay.
- Okay. - Goodbye. - Hey! You come back here. Now you can leave. (Rhett laughs)
- Oh. - It's a power move.
- A little control thing happening here, I see.
- All right. Texas Roadhouse steak with
mashed potatoes, some white gravy and that is chili, AKA Texas honey. (Rhett chuckles)
- Let's prepare our steaks for eating. Can I use a knife? - You know what, under these circumstances because we gotta move quickly-- - It's round at the end.
- Yes. - I mean, oh, oh, nothing's gonna happen. - [Rhett] Cutting into the strip here. - [Link] Okay I'm gonna
cut into the same place. - [Rhett] Okay now I've got
two equal size bites here. - I'm gonna start over here.
- Wanna start over here? - I kinda want a piece with the fat in it. - I'm not blown away. - Add in a little white
gravy and mashed potato. - That's an interesting concept. - Oh that's good. - I kinda feel like I'm
doing something wrong when I put white gravy on
top of mashed potatoes but-- - No I like that.
- I don't wanna be right. - And then--
- You do have a spoon but you can--
- Never had the chili. - You can do it with a fork if you want. - I'm just assuming you're
going to the other side. Dang that's good chili. - That's really good chili.
- It's not hot, it's sweet. - That's what you would expect
from a Texas themed place. You gotta get the chili
right and they did. - All right.
- All pretty solid. - [Link] Now we're diggin' in over here, I'm gonna take a complimentary bite. - The steak's better.
- They put a rub on it. - That's a more tender steak. - I'd say it's--
- They're both good. - I do agree. - It's a better steak though. How 'bout this mac and cheese? - [Link] This mac and cheese
got some sort of spicy on it. - And it's a little swirly
which kinda throws you off a little bit. - I like that spiral. It's an upward spiral just
like the toilets Down Under. - Yep, they go up.
- They spiral up. Now at this point if you've
already had the loaded fries, you've got all this bacon
happenin' on this potato. You might get bacon
overload if that's possible. - I think I prefer the
bacon and the cheese on my potatoes more than the white gravy. - I love the white gravy
and I love that chili. - Very good chili.
- Man, all the sides are great. - I am feeling really, really
good about this whole plate and don't feel like there's anything that really missed at all. I'm gonna give it an eight. - Mm, mm. You know what I agree. I was also thinking eight over here. - Okay.
- Over here, I do agree with your
assessment of the steak but when you bring in the sides, man. I'm gonna go with a seven. I don't think there's
that much of a difference. It's difficult. - I don't know I feel like
the steak was a slight misfire compared just again,
side by side comparison. The white gravy throws me a little bit. Really good chili but not
enough to get it above a six for me.
- I respect that. (Americana music) Now onto dessert. - Hi, what do we got here?
- Okay Rhonda. - This is just a standard big-ass brownie. With a scoop of vanilla ice
cream and chocolate fudge. We don't need a lot of frills-- - Don't oversell it, Rhonda. - Yep, don't need it. - Rhonda's (beep) recently. So she's (beep) her own (beep). Anyways, this is the Chocolate
Thunder from Down Under. - I will be back for you. - She's scary 'cause she's so (beep). - Okay you've got a lot of tax, sir. You're not gonna make
it far in this country. - So it's a pecan brownie
and it's vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, chocolate
shavings and whipped cream. - Okay.
- Enjoy. - So there's a nuttiness to this one. - Mm-hmm, okay. - There's a roundness to this. What do you think about a round brownie? How do you feel about that? - [Link] I like that, ooh
and there's a softness. I'm going for the center, the part that I usually save for last. - [Rhett] I got a really big
bite but I'm just gonna try it. - Mm, that's good.
- That is really, really tasty.
- Mm-hmm. I'm gonna give it a nice wipe. - Yeah, gotta have a clean spoon. Gotta have an unbiased utensil comin' in. - There's a little more to this and that brownie doesn't have any pe-cans or puh-cahns in it. - Oh wow this is super moist too. I thought it was gonna be hard. - [Link] This thing here,
there's a lot more moving parts. - What? Oh my goodness, that's good. Dude, that is so good. - There's a couple of things that bump me. - Oh really? - It's actually, I wouldn't
call this a brownie. It's almost custardy like
it's almost liquified. - Well this is very traditional. And it is what it is and
it is a good brownie. This is something new and
different altogether that I, I'm gonna give this--
- It's like a molten, loose cake, which I don't think I'm
making it sound appetizing. - I wanna give it a 10 but
I just feel like I can't, I'm gonna give it a nine. I can't imagine that being a
better dessert for what it is. - I can imagine it because
that one to me is better. - I'm gonna keep eating it--
- I don't like nuts in my chocolate stuffs and I don't like chocolate
stuff that's that loose. I gotta be kinda brutal, I'm
actually giving this a five. It's just not up my alley. This on the other hand,
it's not gonna blow it out of the water but I'm gonna give it a solid (grunts) seven. - I'm gonna give it a six. It's good, it's not great. (Americana music) And finally the Bloomin' Onion because Texas Roadhouse
also has a version of it. - But not because we eat it last usually. - Good day, mate.
- Good day. - This is our famous Bloomin' Onion. It's an onion that blooms. - And is then fried.
- Yeah it's both. - Hey, you! You may have created this.
- Yes. - Lookin' a little tiny.
- Oh no. - Don't you think? Disappointing. - Let him have it. - Wow, whoa!
- Wow. - All right this is the Texas
Roadhouse Cactus Blossom. No it is not a cactus. - It's still an onion.
- Don't ask me that. And it comes with some horseradish sauce. - And it's, okay so you clearly ripped off the Outback but then you in the Texas fashion made it bigger. - Yep.
- Yeah. - You wanna start over here? - Yeah.
- With what I'll call the original. - Well the funny thing is I
mean, not only is it smaller but it's fried in a different way. - Have they got--
- It's hard fried. - I'm told that Outback
has proprietary machines that they keep secret but then Roadhouse figured it out somehow. - I mean it's not that hard
to figure out I don't think. Just call some engineers. Can we cut an onion to little strips? - That's good stuff.
- Yeah. Movin' on to the Texas Roadhouse. I'm gonna do no sauce first, just-- - I'm going all the way.
- Way different. - Oh wow.
- And not as good. - Mm-mm, the horseradish in that sauce is, it's overbearing.
- Yeah. - And then the breading is kinda blah. - You know, you think
when you steal a machine, you steal a recipe, you do
something to make it better but that did not happen. This is almost the perfect appetizer. - 10. - 10? - I mean well if you're
gonna rank a Bloomin' Onion against other Bloomin'
Onions, this is a 10. This is the standard. - Okay I'll go there brother, 10. (Link chuckles) I wanted to so I will. - Texas Roadhouse, this is the only place, but you have disappointed here. - I'm giving it a five. - Four for me.
- Ooh! That hurts.
- Yeah, that is the death nail for Texas Roadhouse, I'm sorry to say. - And so the final score is
wow, 63 for Outback Steakhouse and 48 for Texas Roadhouse. So there you have it, the
official absolute uncontested best steak restaurant of
all time according to us is the Outback, congratulations, Beck. - Hey, I'm very happy about this. - [Link] Sorry Rhonda,
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Now trying to think of other restaurants and stuff. Like TGI Fridays vs ruby Tuesdays or Applebees vs Chilli's.
That has to be some sort of record for the most bleeps.
Good episode, I am European so I don't really have any say in who I prefer but those dishes look amazing! One thing I don't get though is why they don't do these blind, especially seeing how Rhett admits he has a bias. I think doing it blind would be more fair.
Idk if it's just my city, but in my expirience, Texas Roadhouse is miles above Outback.
I felt so conflicted by this - on 1 hand I was “Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi” on the other hand - they’re not Australian and they’re appropriating my countries brand... 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 😜🙄