Extreme Midsummer Food Challenge

can we celebrate mid-summer like true swedes los angeles [Music] good mythical morning and happy mid-summer's eve's eve more on that in a second did you just wish me a happy douche day uh well okay maybe a few months ago we did an episode with agnez mo all about indonesian street food you remember that it was a lot of fun and we got a lot of international attention in fact the in indonesia's official minister of tourism shared clips of the episode on his professional instagram account i'm talking 8.7 million followers y'all and that essentially makes this show a part of indonesia's tourism campaign well done show whoops and that got us thinking i mean what other national tourism campaigns can we scheme or earn our way on to luckily reddit user buttercrotchpie had the answer over on the gmm subreddit buttercrotchpie wrote as a sweden i would just love if they did a mid-summer episode good mythical mid-summer well it's your lucky day madame crotchpie sir because consider this episode not only an obvious attempt to get on sweden's national tourism campaign but more importantly an ikea instruction manual on how to celebrate midsummer like a proper swede day all right yeah i guess that is how you say it is it all right let's get our flower crowns on and create some summer magic it's time for midsummer is here it's the happiest day of our lives as long as the loser isn't put in a bear suit and tragically burned alive welcome to the midsummer meadow zone look at this place very flowery now for the truly uninitiated midsummer is a globally celebrated occasion that coincides with the summer solstice but no one does it like they do in sweden there the holiday began as a means of welcoming the season of fertility fertility and has since evolved into a christmas and summer-like celebration where everyone migrates to the countryside to enjoy the literal magic of nature only found at that time of year this sounds so much fun yeah we're gonna partake in three rounds of games and challenges that will test our completely non-existent knowledge of midsummer and hey maybe we'll learn something about the holiday along the way but i'm not promising that you're going to learn anything i'm not promising this is going to be entertaining but this is not an educational program no but by the looks of all these flowers you might sneeze i told i've been telling my parents all along that i do educational programming and they said that's why we're proud of you they're never going to approve of you right okay we're going to be competing individually each round and the winner will be named man maiden of midsummer and win an official swedish congrats from honorary console of sweden goodwin giddings who we invited to help us along the way hello gudrin thank you so much for having me i'm so excited i'm so excited we gave you your own throne i love this i have never ever had a throne and i feel proud and i just don't ever want this day to end well don't speak too soon because uh i don't know i don't know if we're gonna be jumping off cliffs to our death or i don't know what's gonna happen i well first of all console of sweden this is legit yes it is what does that mean it means we do consular errands on behalf of sweden and los angeles and southern california so this made me nervous so yes so please you know you know yeah don't say anything wrong or that's that's what you're here for yeah it's to correct everything did you just try to hypnotize us don't say anything wrong it's mid-summer tomorrow so listen i saw that movie he's afraid to watch it but i'm a little uneasy right now my daughter uh she's eight she's 19. how old is she she's like she saw the movie and i was like just tell me about it because i don't think i'm ever going to watch it and then she proceeded to tell me every single thing about it and i was sitting on her bed just like creeping out yeah you're weird dad is that what we're about to do yeah i hope not man okay first up we're dealing with what we understand is a very important part of midsummer celebrations the food good one obviously we're talking about swedish fish am i right and the food is one of the most important things but it's all swedish fish right you don't eat that swedish fish on mid-summer i thought everybody had like red tongues and just no going at it okay all right you learn something every day link it's lazy susan's day off but luckily we have swedish lazy today she'll be serving us two authentic swedish dishes they're already under here uh but only one will be a delicious staple of mid-summer cuisine yeah because you know swedish one mid-summer you know how we do the other will be infused with a secret ingredient to make it taste inauthentically gross whoever draws the longest maypole gets to decide who eats what oh a maypole all right which one do you want are you pointing at it that one i want this [Laughter] a one swedish fish on the end i got it only in my dreams but my maple is longer than yours okay so [Laughter] so shall we reveal reveal yeah we're very i didn't tell you guys you look so um you look so pretty today oh thank you yeah thank you uh so this is some sort of fish with onion which is not how they say it in sweden oh yeah that's how they say it in louisiana uh and hold on let go man control freak let go i'm not uh and this is what do you call that a pancake or something like that looks like an egg to me i i i can barely see it egg patty these are just swedish dishes you don't know what they're called but this is probably ligon berries like at ikea [Laughter] spin away if you want to uh so again fish with onion on it which a little bit a little bit nasty already right and then this man it feels like they could have done a lot to that you know what i'm saying so i think i'm gonna make you eat the lincoln berries the lincoln berries link this to lincoln berries i mean is this custard is it eggs i can't even tell if it's supposed to be sweet i'm not gonna be showing these lingonberries [Laughter] oh that's bitter oh me that's pretty nice oh that's not good i mean it's strong strong fishy flavor but other than that it's pretty good how's yours i'd say it's low summer okay so rhett you just had oh oh come on she's right there goodwin's watching you just spit out her country's food turn away sill right sills still and it's still you can do it hearing you know and it's serious at every single table and at every single mid-summer tomorrow in sweden every swede will have what you ate and then link you had krupkka kor see krapkako pretty good i mean your pronunciation you know i just referred to her as supposed to taste like because it's not supposed to be it's really really good it's like potato and it has things in there and then obviously the lingan berries that is very swedish as well it i guess they maybe messed it up for you so yeah in this case it had bile and bittrex the old b and b combo i love it oh god taller cloches oh let's do this first oh you're right you pick whatever one you want i want you to pick whichever one i want what you want me to pick the one for you yeah you pick this one okay there's no way you're going to beat that dang it you lucky dog man hey i you you let you told me to do it man all right let's see what we're working with [Music] oh that was nice okay wow so looks like we got what i would call strawberry shortcake but i'm sure it's not called that and then we've got what i would call some donuts that got a little over pressurized you took them on a took them on a flight yeah because it took them on a spirit airlines flight it looks like they cut a triangle and it just popped out like something just kind of erupted out of it don't do me wrong man come on have pity half pity i'm not touching anything uh you know what except accept your your heartstrings you look like a guy that wants to eat whatever that is i'm really i'm really scared of this and you look like a guy who's going to take a real big healthy bite of it right yeah absolutely yeah like i think you should go for it yeah for those we do eat almost the whole thing all at once yeah yeah yeah yeah you heard her man don't hey don't insult the country yeah it's pretty good [Laughter] oh is that is that malic acid that's just straight up salt oh no oh do you normally put that much salt on them no i'm sorry i'd rather i'd rather get elderly and jump off a cliff oh come on no i don't know the rules of this but that's usually normally really really good and there's no salt in those things yeah there's well i think they overdid it on salt they also did not mix the salt at all it's just it sort of just inserted it must have read the recipe in swedish so rhett you just had oh this couldn't be a bad one gretorte may your goobar this dessert is super popular during mid-summer it's a must and it's a partially responsible i guess for the cost of strawberries skyrocketing in sweden during the lead-up to the holiday really yeah and also because the swedish strawberries are known to be the best in the world and the higher up in sweden you are the sweeter they get because of the climate than all of these things link you had silma and that's usually it is very very swedish and those are fantastic normally yeah they really are we're going to decide if some unfamiliar games are part of a typical mid-summer celebration or if they have nothing to do with sweden at all speaking of games gudrin are you familiar with the very popular game catch the fish with granddad no she no she probably is familiar with catch the swedish fish with granddad allow us to demonstrate huh but this picture me have me having a swedish fish in my hand granddad there you got it there you got it see that was it we do that all summer not just mid-summer i might have to implement that one and put a swedish fish in the hands so we're going to learn and play three different games again one of them is played during mid-summer so this is the first game reading on the card let's see this is slide that dotra yeah each player takes turns using the narrow end of a hammer to hammer a nail into a stump of wood whoever gets their nail flushed to the wood first wins is this thing i think this is the narrow end it's already started so i don't really need to put my other hand here but you could hold it for me uh see you guys i'm gonna give you a three two one but link has to remove all of his appendages from the area okay three two one go done yours isn't all the way in i mean it's flush okay all right you won but i did pretty good i mean mine was in there it was it was it we were very very close that's very close very close i i'm just tasting nasty this one is pronounced cub two teams take turns tossing sticks at each other's five blocks aka cubs in an attempt to knock each one over once a team has knocked over all five of their opponent's cubs they can take aim at the king cub in the middle oh the king cub whichever team knocks over the king cub first wins alternate you know link you would take all the sticks no no taking charge one and then the other alternating so you've had a rough day so you're going to go first right watch what watch those shins yeah good one you're in a real tough spot right now no i mean if i was on that side you'd have nothing to worry i just feel like can you hide behind rhett really let me know i'll just you're not gonna i'm i'm i'm guarding you i'm guarding it wow hey that was good that's too cool actually really good all right all right so now we got to retrieve these retrieving sticks you're up nice nice oh you got two see now i got the i got the split oh nice oh oh oh oh oh cute okay okay okay you guys are good you're moving on to the king card gotta go to the king cub but you but it's europe okay well that was easy right at the end all right so you won the game but that probably wasn't even sweetie yeah probably not even swedish all right listen the goal is to launch the wooden hoop from one player to the other to do so cross your rods put them across our rocks cross your rods put them through the wooden hoop and then put them pull them apart to launch the rod forward the other player catches the loop on one or both of their rides in the repeat so this is just a friendly game of cat this is cool but so who wins i don't think there's a winner i think this is cooperative okay well let's let's cooperate so i didn't see you do that so i went like do whatever you did oh oh like oh oh you would like that this and then check it out okay if it really fires don't go too hard yeah it really it really does it doesn't it this is fun this is fun taking me to sweden let me let me experience the catch [Laughter] so they're just like you just turn on swedish tv and there's just athletes just going now we could be famous man hey we're like the steph curry and klay thompson of uh yeah sweden right now yeah you're klay thompson okay oh my acl okay okay we got it we got i'm ready to guess yeah i feel like that was almost a religious experience uh what's the are most people in sweden atheist what's the dominant religion christianity i don't know how yeah you want to just uh stand behind the game stand behind the game that you believe is real run behind it in three two one well it's gotta be this one because this is so so original [Laughter] all right so do you want to change to try to take the lead no man i want this to be real so bad hammering nails there's there's like there's a bit of danger i mean to be clear link rhett does have the lead uh right now chris yeah do you want to move to take the lead i feel like it could be this one and i got i've got to try but i mean that it just feels like it's it if this isn't a game and y'all invented it here somebody getting a raid no i this is right it's got to be i mean you could have stood behind the stump and you still both would have been incorrect it's the cub correct yeah so the atheists the game the game with the hammers and the nails uh the swedish that we use translates to beat that wood um it's actually a german game named hammerschlagen hommerschlagen and then someone just behind me who goes mm-hmm and then the other game that you liked so much uh we used a swedish phrase that translates to cross swords laughing although yeah oh sorry plus you know i wanted to just like you know maybe mislead you you did and it worked it was pronounced really funny when you said it and that's it funny as incorrect yeah uh so this is the real cub but it is the game that you like so much is a 19th century game from france called graces that i can't make a suggestion actually it's spelled grace's it's called grass girl i like it because you guys were really good and for when i do midsummer game i'm gonna take this one and make it a swedish game we're changing mid-summer you're changing mid-summer i'm actually you have that power steal from france see i don't know if i have that power because you guys were amazing you just show up with these like in a little quill and you're like take off your flower crown and boom i like it and you guys were awesome so you know honoree swedish game from france hey wreck guess who's out of the woods taylor swift nope my dad oh yeah and you know what he's doing mm-hmm you heard about this podcast yeah he's got a brand new podcast called dispatches from myrtle beach where he lives where he tells me all about his shagging adventures yeah yeah he's a very specific thing in south carolina though and the first two episodes are out we're having a great time it's the highlight of my week so i invite you to check out dispatches from myrtle beach wherever you get your podcast to come out every thursday you can email them at ratherbeshaggin 53 aol.com it's not e it's rather letter b shagging without a g got it people are having trouble um okay what are you oh i didn't know you were swedish okay yeah i know what she's doing which is one of my favorite things actually we can all speak she just can't speak because she's picking seven flowers which is a old-time tradition on mid-summer eve and then you sleep on it and sleep on it you put them under your pillow which is why there's a bed i guess and then you dream of your true love so who wouldn't want to do that and it is an all-time tradition so is this a way to find out who you're going to marry because your dreams will tell you things you don't really know in sweden um nature is very important and has always been and during on mid-summer eve all like plants and flowers and you know nature has like magical powers and can predict futures she's asleep she's dreaming is this a swedish style of sweet sleeping no swedish posture very upright it's good for acid reflux posturepedic no no she wasn't so sure she didn't want me to tell about her acid reflux so what do we see what are we doing are we just watching her sleep just watching michaela's sleep that's a good game you're asking yes or no questions to try and figure out who she's dreaming of oh [Laughter] that's the game michaela if you can hear me say yes yeah oh she is sweetie okay that's my question i guess are you dreaming of a celebrity yeah is he um predominantly a movie star yeah is he an action movie star ne is he a he yeah is he known for his acting chops yeah is he already taken though nay is he in something that people are talking about right now nay does he have facial hair usually yes does he frequent superhero movies nay i don't mean to make this about race but is he asian nah so now what's going to go through i mean you've kind of set me up is he caucasian yeah facial hair acting white man in movies that really narrows it down yeah right is he funny yeah and by saying funny are you saying he is primarily a comedic actor yeah but did you ask what is he from sweden is have you asked that question no should i is he from sweden yeah oh i don't know who she's dreaming about i'm just swedish is jim carrey swedish that's your question is his last name skarsgard nay oh yeah but that's a good one because there's two of them and one of them has to be funny there's like seven of them oh really yeah i feel like actor is an interesting definition of the someone that you're thinking of michaela perhaps perhaps think about that definition loosely he's a loose actor [Laughter] is he more of a host nay i mean let me help you a lot we'll say an on-camera personality would be a broad definition is is he in non-scripted content nay can i ask a question yes does it have like a speci a special gift or skill or whatever in this profession yeah oh is he real is he human [Music] is he the swedish chef that's what you were getting at wasn't it when you guys hook up if you want to share how that goes i am all ears i'm not giving you those details all right you won you are the man made in the midsummer go over there and and get your reward gudren the console of sweden allah you are truly the man maiden of mid-summer [Applause] i'm feeling every bit of it we want to thank the honorary console of sweden gudrin giddings for holding our hands through today's festivities thank you so much for being here my pleasure thank you and thank you for liking commenting and subscribing now you say you know what time it name is and we're from stockholm sweden and now it's time to spin the wheel of mythicality look at that we talk about sweden we got swedish mythical beasts chances click top link to learn some scandinavian slang and get mythical where the willow mythicality is gonna land email my dad a dirty joke to read on dispatches from myrtle beach rather be shagging 53 aol.com it's the letter b and no g on shagging you

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