International McDonald's Taste Test

♪ Bada, ba, ba, ba ♪ ♪ J'adore ca ♪ Let's talk about it. (music plays) Good morning mythical! Thank you for making us part of your daily routine, and as a reward, you'll get to watch me turn into a human tea bag, literally. We'll also play an Olympic face guessing game later. Yes, and the Olympic Games are a time when the whole world comes together for healthy competition. MMM. Nothing can bring the world together like that, except maybe McDonald's. Now, if you travel the world and are a picky eater like Link, there's probably a McD's you can walk right into.

And while most McDonald's have the staples I can count on, they also incorporate some local flavors. on their McDonald's

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menu, so we'll see if we can tell which country a McDonald's menu item comes from. It's time to... Legendary chefs Tess and Josh have painstakingly recreated McD's menu items for us to try, using as many real McDonald's ingredients as possible. In other words, we don't ship them. - Good. - Let's try them and then guess which country they come from - by throwing a dart. - (Chase whining) I'm just touching the dart, Chase. By throwing them at this...

Don't even gesture with the darts, man. The map there. When did you get those practice throws before we went dartless? - How stressful. - Memories. The resident cartographer, Chase, will measure the distance of the dart to the correct answer, that score will become the points you earn. The lowest score at the end wins. Now, since Link has done so poorly in this game in the past, and even he lost when... Oh, yeah? when sometimes we have given him advantages. You'll get two benefits today, Link. You'll get the fart which is throwing four darts, but we'll call it McFart. - Well. - And you'll also get the Quarter Darter with Cheese, where in the last round, you can literally take a burger covered in ketchup and throw it at the dart board, and we'll measure the distance from the closest one. tomato sauce to the correct answer. - Well. - You can't lose this, man! - Link: I don't need to-- - I want you to win!

I don't need your pity disadvantages. - Yes. - And the winner will get to eat a McDonald's item from a fictional place... "West-theros." Westoros. "Game of Thrones," you've heard of it. West. Westeros is where I hang out. Let's do it! (music plays) Let's look at our first item. What is it? Ooh... - It immediately seems... - Rhett: Is that a giant fish fillet? Link: Mm. There is no cheese, and Filet-O-Fish usually has cheese. Hmm. - It's all cheese. - Is complete? This whole damn thing is cheese. It's a Filet-O-Fish, minus the fish, with the cheese that resembles the fish.

It's OK man. Who doesn't love cheese? I'll let you go first because I'm a gentleman; That also gives me an advantage. - MMM. - I need everything I can get. - Man, this is hard, fried cheese. Because fried cheese is typically a European thing. There is the Netherlands. I don't know how I fell in love with this. This cheese looks like that Indian cheese, paneer, you know what I'm saying? - Oh! You might like to get that in Indian restaurants. Go ahead, man. I don't know, I don't feel good about this but I'm going to India.

And I hit Russia, as always. Well, it's a big place, hard not to get to. Um, paneer, I don't think it's fried like that. Ooh, we went to that restaurant though. That restaurant, remember that... Nobody knows what you're talking about. Did you know? I think you are right and I am going straight to India. - Oh! A little low. Rhett: Okay, we have India surrounded. - Link: Are we right? - Stevie: This is the spicy paneer, a burger made with fried paneer cheese found in a country in India where they don't eat meat. - Oh! - You did.

Alright, who was closer? Rhett was 16 and Link was 12. - Yes! - Oh, good start, Link. I take the lead from the beginning. Darren doesn't seem all that surprised there. - (laughs) - He was everything.... (music plays) Let's see what we have here. Oh, fries. - Mm, fries with salsa. - Link: Is it sauce? - Hmm. - I don't know why we don't do this. Link: Now, if I'm not mistaken, this is what they call poutine. - Yes. Link: And this is a Canadian gift. Maybe poutine is big somewhere else? Maybe poutine is popular in Australia. You have to think about these things because...

Oh, yeah. Canadians and Australians have similar

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s. One has vegemite and the other has the other. Did you know? I'm glad you told me that. And you are exactly wrong. Canada, come home to dad. Oh! I arrived in Canada! You actually came to Canada. There's a lot of that, but I did it. Link, this could be your day, because this is definitely Canada, I was just trying to throw you off. Uh, you have to move, I... I... you're a lot closer, you also have an advantage each round because you're closer to the board. Do you mind if I lean on you?

You can't, you have to, you have to... I'm going to get here at Link's distance. Oh, this is so easy. (laughs) Well, your arm is also twice as long as mine. Are we right? Stevie: So your logic was almost correct. But poutines have cheese and these don't have cheese. These are chips loaded with salsa, from Australia. Oh! Damn! Are you serious? Ah! I should have listened to myself, joking. Alright, Link, you were 76 and Rhett, you were 80. Oh, I'm lagging behind. Yes. (music plays) Okay, nice packaging. It's another fish fillet. Link: There's a little spicy mustard, - Mustard sauce? - Link: about this.

Rhett; Wait, it has a pocket, it's like a hot pocket. - Oh, wow. - What's that? Kind of like... I don't know, but it's really good. It's... it's uh... it's slimy and gushy. It's meat, it's another type of meat. Inside something else. It's sauce on fried meat. Is that chicken outside? No, it's just breaded. What's that? What is it? Excuse me while I eat all this. - (laughs) - Do you love it? I don't love this one. It's too rich. Don't you love it? I'm a little afraid that there will be something I don't like and I'll just accidentally like it.

I feel like meat with sauce, creamy meat is not an Asian thing. I don't think they did that there. Again, I feel like this is a European approach to something and my only option for it is the Netherlands. - Oh! - (grunts) - Let's get that over with a little early. - Yes, stop. I think it's a fried hamburger stuffed with mayonnaise. with mustard on top. There is no place on earth where they like mayonnaise more than... - In what? First? Urst. Westoros. Than the Netherlands. You're using all my reasoning. You just go through the same countries that I go through.

But it could be Uruguay. It could be Venezuela and it could be Malaysia, those four options lead me to move forward with my McFart. (laughs) Oh yeah, I forgot. Do you have that. So I'll throw four darts and scatter them all over the board... - Okay, everyone out. - focusing on the Netherlands. - Everybody out. - And I'm going to Malaysia, Netherlands, Uruguay, and then the fourth is just a wild card. Extent to. - Oh! - Yes, good. - Not near Holland or any of them. - But I'm close to Uruguay. - Okay, what is it?

This is the McCroquette. It is a croquette with ragout and pieces of pure beef topped with mustard, and it is offered in Holland. - (laughs) - We had the damn croquettes. - Yeah, we did, man. - I didn't know this was croquet, it was too flat. - It's good. - It's not cool. If I could throw a dart, I'd be making great progress. Okay, Rhett, you were 15 and Link, you were 18. - Oh. - It's so close. (music plays) I will unwrap this gift. There are some sesame seeds in this joint. This one is fried. Why does everyone do the same thing all over the world?

I got some kind of hot mayonnaise, and then this...ooh, my God. This blackness. What's that? You just have to eat it to find out. Because... oh! The middle is the wild card. - That's fish. - Rhett: Yes, that's fish. Link: That's... oh, it's shrimp. - Are they shrimp? - This is a shrimp burger. - This is an amazing idea. - It's pretty good. I was wondering why it

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d...it was fish but it didn't taste bad. It's got whole shrimp in there. Check it out! I don't know what black is. You go up first, Link.

McD's brings that to America. Well, this is clearly... I don't know. Shrimp are everywhere. They are around everything. Shrimp are everywhere. When humans congregate in irrigated areas, shrimp congregate too. This is hard. I don't think this is Japan. It's very Americanized. The fact that I like it surprises me that it's in Japan or Malaysia. I'm going to split the difference, put my dart right between the two. Lots of water out there. Oops. Ho ho ho! So are you in Australia? You can, then you can, if it's Australia, you have that round. It's not Australia. Australia already has been.

We thought it was Canada. So what do you think this is? I think it's Malaysia or Japan, because of the black, um... spicy first of all and it has black sauce. I don't think they would do that anywhere else. It's like a shrimp po-boy, it should be like New Orleans. I'm going to say Malaysia, because I feel like there are more shrimp in Malaysia. Well, there's not that much surface area. Oh! You have really caught Malaysia. Stevie: Okay, guys, this is the EBI Filet-O, ​​which translates to Filet-O-Shrimp, a shrimp burger, breaded and fried, and served hot and fresh in...

Japan. - Japan. - Oh! So how much have you clearly won this round by? This puts you in the lead. I'm ahead going into the last round, buddy. Alright, it was 10 for Rhett and 19 for Link. - MMM. -Ah. (music plays) Okay, moving on to the last round. Uh, how many have they beaten me? Four? - Yes. - Stevie: Four. This is a very close game. - Mm-hmm. - Now just keep in mind that you are going to throw away an entire burger. Yes, I have saved it. And wherever that ketchup goes, - Well, I have my... - Let's measure from there.

My darkest room with cheese. Um, this is ice cream on top of... it's like a McGriddle situation. - Ice cream, caramel. - Mm, that's good - Oh. - That's really good. Wait. Could that be inside this pancake? - Is there peanut butter? - No. Because if it is, this is where I'm moving. - Now... - It's not peanut butter. - What is it? - We learned from Josh that this is candy from... what did you call it? - Caramel sauce? - Caramel sauce? - Josh: Supposedly. -UH Huh. And that, my friends, is in South America. Because we dipped the churro in it, and that's when we learned. - Mm-hmm.

But is it Venezuela or Uruguay? I feel like I have to specify whatever it is. Yes, you do, Rhett. I have to make... I just have to make a decision. Because your burger is going to be so... can you move a little bit? - Here? - Only a little. Let me... I'm going to bet everything on Uruguay. I'm going with everything. Oh. Link: Oh! Hopefully very close to the wrong answer. - (grunts) - Okay. What's happening with my darts today? Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to choose to use my... Both: Quarter Darter with cheese. Where is the Chesse? - There's no cheese. - There's no cheese. - I feel cheated. - There's no cheese.

This is just a quarter dart. - Alright. - This is really good. Now, Chase, you can stay there. The Quarter Darter has no pointed parts. Yes, okay. So are you going to point to the center of the map and hope you're right? I'm going to hit Venezuela and then slowly slide across the map along Uruguay, knocking down your dart and ensuring my victory either way. What if it's Saudi Arabia? They are decadent there. Link: Well, then I'm even closer to it. Because I could just leave the game completely and target Chase directly. (laughs) But of course, if you spill some ketchup and it hits the map, it counts.

The problem is that I want to splash it and slide it. Splash it, swipe it. Venezuela to Uruguay. - Oh really. - Here we go... oh. - Some in my hand now. - Oh, you're missing something. Oh no! You can't... No! Well, I don't know what the rules are for this. Oh, you can't reapply ketchup. Alright, here we go. - (laughs) - (Rhett laughs) The crazy thing is that there is ketchup quite similar to Uruguay, Uru-gai, Uru-guai, or however you say it. Link: Yes, yes, closer than you. Well, what's the answer? Stevie: That was the "Pancake Helado", a pancake filled with Dulce De Leche, topped with ice cream and more Dulce De Leche, served in Uruguay.

Yeah! Oh my God! Oh my God! - Wait! - Wait, Chase. - What is going to happen! - Oh no! Where is my nearest ketchup? He points to my nearest ketchup. - Just above. - I think that's it. But it could also be that little point. Measure them both. You have to get four better than me to win. Take me to Westeros. I want to have dinner at McD's. This is going to be crazy. Rhett, you have four and Link, you have three. Which means that in general, - (laughs) - Rhett... Wow! Yeah! Yeah! The dark Gods once again shine upon me, in the most amazing way possible.

Man, I feel bad. I'm sorry. You know, I feel bad... you know, you can't, you couldn't write it better than this. Oh really. Do you know what would make me feel better? Becoming a human tea bag. (laughs) Well, let's do it. Link: Drink it and drink it. With ear cookie jar available at mitica.tienda.