Ever since I saw the video "Deconstructing the McRib" on youtube, I've been on a quest to try one. That was 2013 or more probably 2014. I had never had one previously and for years failed to find one afterwards.
Throughout the years, I've at times monitored the McRib map and even found and ordered a McRib on GrubHub once - but they said they were out. I've also tried a few competing knockoff rib sandwiches.
But all that has changed today, there was an ad on DoorDash and the order succeeded. It's like Charlie Bucket finding the Golden Ticket up in here.
So the verdict: it tastes exactly as I expected. Like, I said, I've tried a few knockoffs and it turns out those were very close and so it was pretty much what I expected. It's good and I might get one again but for McDonald's, I prefer the cheeseburger.
The 16 worst candies are set up bracket-style. One by one, the best of the worst are eliminated until the worst of the worst is revealed.
When I think to my days trick-or-treating, I think the candy I dreaded most was Mary Janes. I don't remember what they tasted like so maybe it was just the packaging. But Mary Jane isn't even included here. Maybe it's a regional food? Good & Plenty was quite bad too. With Good & Plenty, I always thought I'd like them because they looked good but then I'd rediscover the reality.
Rhett and Link determine the best widely available burrito.
The fact that Moe's isn't included means this episode is a contest for second place.
I also think there's a flaw in the testing methodology. When taking large bites from a burrito, you're bound to get a pocket of only one or two ingredients. What they should have done is many bites across a cross-section to get a complete sense of the burrito profile.
My own rankings from the tests that I've conducted:
What happens when a youtube channel that I watch, makes a video in which they watch another youtube channel that I watch? I'm watching a video of people watching another video.
It's just good craic, is what it is.
If you're unfamiliar with GMM, check out related posts on this webzone. This is the episode that first got me:
"That's the best voiceover for any commercial I've ever heard."
But what if we played practical jokes on our own tongues? That could be a thing that almost works, how 'bout it? Ok, well the words will continue anyway.
Synsepalum dulcificum is a type of berry that originates in West Africa and one of the common names for it is Miracle Berry. Miracle Berries have a molecule (or several, probably) that binds to the tongue and alters one's sense of taste for a few hours. In particular, they affect the sense of sour and bitter. And I tried them tonight before taste testing a bunch of other food to see what would happen.
The big thing to note is that, going into it, you would hope to get some mind-melding combination where apples taste like rubber, orange juice tastes like carrot or snozberries taste like not-snozberries. I was disappointed to find that there's nothing like that. Everything still tastes basically the same, it just heightens or deadens the various components. And it's only sour and bitter - if you try foods that vary from those two components, they won't taste much different.
So for fruit, the overarching theme is that fruit generally tastes better after eating Miracle Berries. The strawberries taste better, apples taste like really good apples, watermelon is pretty much unchanged. Tomatoes taste different but it's hard to describe... I would say there's a pronounced "ketchup" flavor maybe. The big, bold red letter items that changed dramatically were lemons and limes. Miracle Berries have the effect of converting sour to sweet. If you eat a lemon - and you can just eat straight lemon with no problem - it tastes like sweet, sweet lemon candy... or like sweet lemonade. And a lime isn't that far off.
Another category people talk about is hot sauce. I tried some and it is pretty interesting. Under the influence of the berries, hot sauce is still hot but it's muted and the flavor is (I'd say) better too. It may have been sweet or it might have been flavorless. I don't remember exactly.
I also bought an assortment of sour candy for the occasion. Sour candy is a fun experiment. The Miracle Berry blocks sour receptors so the sour candy just goes back to being regular candy. Skittles Sours taste like sweet Skittles. Mike and Ike Zours: same thing. A Mamba Sour just feels like eating a cube of wax - it's interesting in the sense that it's so boring.
Other than the lemon, which is the #1 thing to try in my opinion, the most fun comes from the "bitter" end of the spectrum. At least it did for me. That's the area that I was most surprised. Drinking Apple Cider Vinegar, I could still register that it was vinegar but it was really close to tasting like just apple cider. Normally straight, pure cinnamon would be inedible but it tasted great. The most bitter thing I could think of was baking chocolate. I ate some when I was a kid, thinking that "chocolate" meant goodness. Of course baking chocolate is one of the worst things in the world, but with the berries, it pretty much tasted like good dark chocolate. That was trippy.
The effects last longer than I would have thought. It's now two hours later and I'm just about back to normal.
This is going to be slightly out of context, if you want the full context you can watch this first. But I thought this mystery of UVB-76 was particularly interesting as it sounds very much like something from "Lost".
A scientific study was recently conducted to determine, scientifically, what type of dancing attracts women. Not knowing how to dance myself - and being a fan of both science and women - this was of utmost interest to me.
Here's what the conclusions of that study look like:
I had previously heard of the results of this study on the radio. And if you can imagine how hard it is to describe dance moves over the radio, you can imagine I didn't get much out of it. But even with this new visual format there are still more questions than answers.
