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Today we're making your struggle meals.

[Funky intro music]

Welcome back to Mythical Kitchen where we all gotta eat

and sometimes it's hard, man.

It is.

Which is exactly why we asked you for your

favorite struggle meals.

And all three of us today, we are going to cook from

breakfast to lunch to dinner, your struggle meals.

And that's all we get to eat today.

Okay.

And to bring you even more into the fold,

we'll be wearing hats with GoPros on them.

Shout out to the Rocket City Trash Pandas.

Wow.

Who Mobile at Mobile?

Alabama?

No, not mobile.

They're somewhere in Alabama.

They're a minor league baseball team.

Yeah.

But a fan sent me a hat with a trash panda to

A-K-A raccoon on it.

Because--

Cool.

Pretty sick.

So we are going to find out if any of these struggle

meals are some things we are going to want to fold into

our own lives when we, um, you know, get like a case

of the SADS or something.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I feel like you're gonna ram you get the sad sometimes.

Yeah.

It's like a weapon.

We all get sad sometimes.

I know.

Hold on.

There we go.

Y'all ready to get cooking?

Yeah, let's do it.

I'd like to acknowledge my hat change.

I was once wearing a Rocket City trash pandas hat.

Also, I said they were from Mobile, Alabama.

They were from Madison, Alabama.

They're the minor league affiliate of the Angels.

Also, the hat was too loose and the camera kept falling

off and it's dangerous 'cause we have a knife.

Uh, I'm making struggle breakfast, which is great

because that's when I often struggle the most,

mostly now from hangovers.

Um, I don't have a problem.

I can stop anytime I want.

This right here from at Wizkahailey.

It's a, I believe, a Wiz Khalifa based pun.

When I was a kid, I used to make instant white rice and

mix in cream of chicken soup.

That was the meal.

We never had food in the house, but always had

some random ingredient.

If I'd gone a few days without eating.

Rough.

This was a gift from the Heavens lol.

I'm gonna get this going.

Let's get our minute rice.

Do what I do with it.

But if you're really struggling to make a minute

rice, you're not measuring stuff out, but you're gonna

try and hit a one-to-one.

So I'm gonna go like.

That's about what I think a cup to be.

Now I'm gonna get a cup of water straight from the sink.

There you go, baby.

It's what you do.

This is cooking.

Put a lid on there.

Boom.

But when you hear the pan start to get angry, then

you just turn it off and then boom, you got rice.

Here we go.

In college, my wife and I would take a

tube of Jimmy Deans

Sausage, that is the appropriate measurement for

a sausage, a tube, a bag of potatoes, a dozen eggs,

a ton of American cheese, and cook that into a big

slop and then put it in the fridge and wrap a burrito.

Whenever we were hungry, it had last us a good

week for not much money.

I feel very spiritually connected to this because

every person in this room.

You have, you have, you have, you have seen me make

my own struggle meals, and it is simply called slop.

It is a half pound of a lean animal protein mixed with

some sort of curry powder, a jar salsa into a paste that

I then slap into a burrito.

See, it's angry.

Now you can turn it off.

I'm gonna start getting this going.

Grab a big pot.

You get a tube of sausage.

Don't need any excess oil in there.

'cause the sausage that's gonna take care of it.

Sausage, grab some cheese.

Oh, wrong cheese, dude.

No, they do American cheese, not Mexican

cheese supermarket.

Sweet ass.

Found it.

All right, dude.

This stuff's great, man.

Buy yourself a sack of frozen potatoes.

Favorite part about a tube of sausage is that

you just take scissors.

You can use your wife's office scissors too.

You can just snip over the top and then you

sort of just like

squeeze it out like a toothpaste tube though.

You gotta fold it up and really ring out

all the sausage meat.

Yeah, you can see this is about 80% fat, and

so that's actually gonna give you all the lube

that you need in that pan.

But when I'm, when I'm making a struggle meal, those eggs

are going whole in the pot and I'm mashing 'em around.

You know what, I'm actually gonna throw in

the potatoes right now too.

This said a whole bag of potatoes.

This is too big of a bag of potatoes.

How would I put a bag like this away?

Let me show you.

Check on this rice.

So it's not perfectly steamed rice, but here's

my thought process.

The cream of chicken soup, when you mix this into the

rice, it's gonna basically be like a congee, right?

And so you actually want a fair amount of water in

that rice to uncondense the chicken soup, and then

always, always, always run the can under the sink,

get all the excess can.

Flip it outta there.

Now what you want to do is actually stir this around to

extract the starch and rice.

This is a traditional mil nise style risotto.

I don't think their intention was to make a congee, but my

intention was to make a congee.

'cause that's a delightful breakfast item.

Shut that off.

I forgot people were looking.

This pan's burning dude, why is this pan burning so hard?

I'm gonna switch pans.

I'm not satisfied with that pan.

There we go.

Sausage is almost cooked up.

Hold on.

You can take that off your counter and just

put it back into the pan.

We have one more breakfast back when eggs

were at their cheapest.

RIP to the past.

Nostalgia is a bittersweet surrender.

Scrambled dog, scrambled eggs, chopped up hot dogs.

I'd brown them first, then add the eggs and

shredded cheese at the end.

This is at not really bitter.

I'm glad that you're not bitter 'cause

neither am I. Yeah.

And, uh, pack of hot dogs.

This is the correct way to chop hot dogs outta the pack.

By the way.

You cut straight through the plastic and you get

those out, and then you squeeze the hot dogs.

Listen.

I grew up just eating hot dogs and mashed potatoes.

'cause my grandma like kind of thought she was

British, but she wasn't.

She just loved Princess Diana a lot.

But anyways, she would just serve me what she

called bangers n mash.

But it was Hebrew national hotdog on a thing of, uh,

instant mashed potatoes.

So I think it was good.

Also, if you grew up in Southern California and

have sleepover at friend's house one day you're

eventually gonna wake up huevos con weenie or

huevos con salchicha.

Which I did a lot.

It just, hot dogs, eggs serve with tortillas.

It's a delight, man.

Shout out to the huevos con Weenies household.

Have you ever crack all my eggs into this?

Now, sausage is a nice medium.

Rare.

He said a dozen eggs, nine works eggs on there.

This is like prime camp cafeteria cooking.

You know what I mean?

I don't, I never went to camp.

Alright.

The eggs and the sausage have cooked.

The potatoes are looking a little bit pale, but

again, this is all going to be cooked into a slop.

I've unwrapped all my American cheeses, which honestly.

Might be prohibitive if this is actually a struggle meal

because I thought I was gonna have a mental breakdown on

wrapping all the cheese.

He said a ton of American cheese.

This is a ton of American cheese.

I'm worried that it's too much.

Bury that cheese under a mountain of warm potato

and egg slop and then that should help it melt

for the huevos con weenie.

Guys, I'm using up all the eggs in the fridge.

Also.

Fun fact, there's a great Johnny Harris video about

how um, the bird flu did not actually drop egg

production that much.

And all the egg prices were literally just a way to milk

the American people who were already struggling for more

profits for the egg monopoly.

It's actually really, really sad, which is why you saw

relatively inelastic prices with smaller egg producers

because they weren't engaged in price fixing.

Everything's a nightmare.

Welcome to 2025.

Okay, gonna get my weenie pan going.

Throw in yo dogs.

Let's got the eggy eggs.

Guys. Are you hungry?

No. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, cheese.

Oops, I dropped it....

and snap. Winnie's the pervert, dude.

She's the one with the camera.

Why you always watching me, bro.

We get some foil out for my burritos, guys.

We each want a burrito for ourselves, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Whole burrito.

I'm want my own.

Perfect.

But we're eating the huevos con weenies straight

out the damn pan.

It's divorce dad Sunday.

So I ain't got time to wash dishes.

Uh, I gotta go to a meeting.

All right.

I'm gonna fold in a little bit of cheese while the

eggs are still slightly wet.

And we're not going for the Gordon Ramey

soft scramble here.

Little bit of fresh cheese on top.

Should cook with steam.

I'm gonna put this on.

Yeah,

that's gonna melt the cheese.

You gotta put the lid on top.

The great scene.

Melt the cheese.

Now I'm gonna make some breakfast burritos.

I'm dead serious.

Like guys, if I'm at home, this is how I'm cooking.

Always griddle off your tortillas.

This, this, to me, is a non-negotiable.

Yeah.

See this is kinda like solidified now a little bit.

It's not a super runny congee.

It's good.

My birthday every year, my birthday meal

every year it was.

Minute rice mixed with cream of chicken soup,

some shredded rotisserie chicken, canned peas.

And then if we had the money and the time, and my

mom was like, you're doing okay enough, then she'd

bake off these puff pastry shells that they had in the

freezer aisle, and then fill that with the rice cream

and mushroom soup slop.

That was really good.

That would be on my last meal, just to like reckon

with my own sad emotions.

Boom.

Cheese. Perfectly melted.

Huevos con weenie.

This is done.

Look at that.

I'll meet it with chopsticks.

Breakfast burrito.

That might be too much.

No, we can close it.

We can close it.

You can do it.

It's all up to you.

Okay.

You can do it.

You can change your life today.

Perfect.

All right, burrito, foil wrap.

Burrito's done.

It's very hot.

It's burning my hands.

I don't know what to do.

How much longer do I have to hold it here, please.

We have our beautiful congee.

Ready to go.

Look at that.

Just sliding off the spoon.

They call this nape and French cuisine.

I think we're ready to eat.

Pew.

Chefs welcome to breakfast.

Yay, my favorite.

The official continental Breakfast of the

Mythical Kitchen.

What we have for you today here is a form of congee.

This is cream of chicken soup mixed with minute rice.

And then we have huevos con weenies,

a very exotic dish from Mexico.

And then we have our slop burritos.

This is a whole tube of Jimmy Dean sausage with nine eggs.

A ton of American cheese, whole bag of frozen

potatoes inside tortillas, bone, apple teeth.

That's a lot of food right there.

Thank you.

Starting with a congee?

Can I dish you up some porridge?

Yeah. Yes, please.

This is like, it's nice porridge.

Yeah, it's gonna taste good.

It's not dissimilar to like eating grits with breakfast.

You know what I mean?

You eat that with the huevos con weenies.

I think I just like wet rice.

That's so good.

Is that not like really comforting to you?

Whole chili crisp.

Yeah.

I, I need to be all bring our condiments.

It's not that.

I didn't bring any..

Yo.

You can have some of my ketchup and hot sauce.

I have my--.

Yeah.

Chili crisp.

I kind of like it.

I do feel like with like struggle meals though, it

is fine what you have in your fridge and use the

condiments that you have.

Like that's what.

Amps everything up if you start building

out your spices.

I wanna ketchup on my weenies.

Can I get a little ketchup on my weenies?

Yeah. This just throws me back.

Thank you.

You wanna ketchup up to every morning?

My first year of mythic cow.

It's just sexy and delicious.

We've genuinely made a lot of struggle meals together.

Yeah, we have.

What do you think of the, theoOf the congee?

I like it.

Can of soup mixed with rice?

No. Why not?

Can of soup over rice is also a great struggle meal.

Mm-hmm.

Ketchup makes this so much better.

Yep.

I love condiments.

I could eat this every single day.

Yeah.

Especially you use Hebrew national fat

free hotdog or whatever.

Mm-hmm.

They've got like 12 grams of protein per hot dog.

Okay.

We should start doing it in the, the kitchen I'm in ma'am.

Alright, God.

Break open the, break

open the burrito.

I was watching you make the paste.

It was making me pretty hungry.

I'm not gonna lie.

Mm. That just tastes like a damn good McDonald's

burrito it know is there are like three eggs, four

slices of cheese, and over a third a pound of

sausage in each burrito.

This is, that's pretty good.

This is like, I mean, it makes sense to me.

I got a hot sauce.

It.

Yeah. Well let's try it without it.

Well, yeah, it kind of hot sauce deserves everybody.

It's really good.

There was no salt, no pepper added this, but

it's perfectly seasoned because of all the American

cheese and the sausage.

Mm-hmm.

Are we ranking these?

I think we rank 'em.

Okay.

I give this one a solid nine.

10 outta 10 for me.

I give this an 8.7.

No, I'm giving it the lowest score.

That's crazy.

'cause this seems like something outta the, but what?

Yeah. You see this seems very you.

I plus it up a little bit.

Throw some veg in there.

Yeah.

Because you can even get like the bag of

potatoes that got the, the peppers onion in there.

Mm-hmm.

I don't even normally love peppers and onion

and breakfast burrito, but if you're doing a

slopper burrito, yeah.

You know, it makes sense.

A little extra sense.

What I wanna do though is take a hot dog, put that on top.

You're a genius.

That gives you much I, I'm Mc.

That's awesome.

Is he a genius or can he just eat a lot of hot dogs?

Find out.

What do you guys rank the way about called Weenie Shoot 10.

Obviously, um, I think an eight for me.

Least amount.

It's easy.

It was fast.

It was rough.

It was fast. So maybe 8.1.

I'm gonna give it an extra point.

One point 10.

Still, I'm give this a 9.2.

As far as struggle meals go.

Yeah, it's fast.

You eat it directly outta the pan.

Mm-hmm.

Great. For divorce, that's a choice.

Dads a choice.

Great for dad's, you know, in, in separation agreements.

Great for dads who need to pay alimony.

Like it's great for dads who are not happy in their

relationship in some way.

I love that.

Those are some sad dads.

You know, rice.

Mm. Um, I like it being like congee.

It needs like some sort of condiment, I think,

to bring it all together.

Yeah. So a little seven for me.

This is more of a five for me.

I feel like it needs a lot of seasoning.

I want there to be a lot more flavor or even just maybe

some pieces of chicken in it, and I think that would help.

Mm-hmm.

This is a great base, right?

Mm-hmm. This is a great base.

I don't know that I'd call it a meal again, so I give

this like a seven, but yeah.

Eat me out.

Hot dogs.

Hot dogs.

She knows. I know.

She's been trained in the classical ways

of mythical kitchen.

She understands it needs hot dogs.

Yeah.

Well, what a satisfying breakfast.

Yes, I'm satisfied.

You know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna start prepping the lunch, so get hungry again.

I will.

I am Lily.

It's lunchtime about 12:00 PM and I'm struggling, so I'm

gonna make some lunch here.

The first one is from fetchinsmit, whole

can of pinto beans.

If you got salt, pepper, and Mexican seasoning, add it.

Bake as many chicken nuggets as you want.

Cover in sauces or sour cream.

Eat with tortilla chips.

Okay, so I'm gonna find chicken nuggets 'cause

that's gonna take a second.

Hash browns are so neatly, it's in the freezer there.

Just throw these on the tray here.

I love a struggle meal.

I'm eating struggle meals.

I could have struggle meals every night for dinner.

I just call that girl dinner, just like little

nibbles of things.

I do like a minute rice too.

I got the little packs though.

And then I just do some like chili oil and an

egg and yeah, that's it.

I have that like once, once a week probably.

Beans right here.

Mexican seasoning.

Perfect Titos chips.

Do you ever like come home drunk and you are really

hungry and you put something in the microwave and you try

to like beat the microwave?

Get ready really fast.

Like I like take off all my makeup.

I'm like running and I'm going to the bathroom and I

put on my pajamas and it's like the best feeling ever.

I'm just gonna drain the bean juice in here.

Add a little bean juice.

You want like a moist chicken at the end.

Get some taco seasoning.

I love taco seasoning.

I grew up with a lot of white people tacos, so

sour cream comes later.

Let me go to this one.

Grilled peanut butter.

This is from.

sigourneybeaver, grilled peanut butter and bologna sandwich

with wavy chips inside.

That's pretty, pretty simple.

I'm gonna grab some bread, peanut butter, bologna,

wavy chips and the bread.

Oh yeah. I would've never seen that.

I'm so short.

That was like with the MK Live to make sure that

all the ingredients were in my eye level 'cause I

wouldn't be able to see them.

Okay, we have some Skippy peanut butter here.

Just gonna add a nice little layer.

When I was growing up, the only time I would really

eat peanut butter is like, I would eat like a giant

spoonful of it, which would might make you think, damn,

that girl likes peanut butter.

I just never really liked it otherwise.

Okay, bologna.

Josh told me that I need to score the bologna at the top.

I don't know if you guys are doing that at home.

Probably not.

Didn't learn that in culinary school, did you?

I didn't learn that in culinary school.

Um, this is not edible, so you're gonna take

off this little plastic.

Why don't we do two?

We're not struggling too hard.

We've got it.

So we'll do two bologna slices.

Treat yourself, girl.

I'm gonna treat myself.

I'm gonna treat you too 'cause I'm making

lunch for all of you.

Thank you, daddy.

Yay.

I'm gonna just add this to the pan here,

like a, a duck breast.

We just let it.

Come up to temp in a cold pan.

Maybe use a spoon as he would to flip your bologna.

Oh, look at that.

No, you gotta score.

You gotta score it through the end.

What do you mean?

Like cut it?

Yeah, you gotta cut from like the middle up.

Oh yeah.

Because it's still puffing up because it curls.

Okay, I see that.

But it's gonna go into a sandwich.

A cro? Yeah, like this.

If you want to get a my yard crust on every side like this?

Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay.

Well, now it's just a fun design.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. There you go.

Are you happy?

Thank you. Thank you, chef.

You're welcome.

It would've tasted much different.

I am gonna do it this one too.

Make Josh happy, all about Make Josh happy.

And we would've definitely tasted the curl and

the sandwich later on.

I ate a lot of like TV dinners.

I would get really excited if there was like Lean Cuisine

discounts, happy store, and my mom would let me get like

four for $5 or something.

I guess I struggled a lot growing up that

I'm thinking about.

I was reading through all of your guys' struggle

meals and I've had a lot of them, so this looks great.

I mean, this is, this is a great time.

Sweet, salty.

Oh, we have to grill it now.

Okay. You want the bologna juice?

That's flavor.

We're gonna add this back to the pan.

What else do we got in here?

Okay.

Ghostlove

said Easy Mac and imitation crab.

Topped with bagged crispy onions and hot sauce.

I can see the vision like lobster, mac and cheese.

Going back to my Maine roots.

Okay.

Imitation Crab,

easy Mac.

Is that it?

Easy Mac, crispy onions.

Okay, we're gonna speed run this one.

We did a really fun episode, um, where we made 50 types

of Easy Mac, and it's one of Josh's favorite episodes.

I love it.

It was so easy.

It was so easy.

There was like people in the kitchen with all, like

every single microwave going in the other

kitchen, and like everyone was, it was too watery.

In some of them.

It was a lot.

Add the sink water to the line.

It comes with that like

starch in it.

You want the starch.

We'll just cook this.

So three, three and a half minutes and then

we have some surimi leg.

I think it's always surimi fish.

It's not real crab.

And then the red in it is actually food dye.

Did you know that?

It's just for color to make you think.

It's crab, but it's not crab.

Just a rough chop.

We don't need to, we don't need to get crazy

with the knife cuts here.

How are my chicken nuggets?

They're cold.

We have a deep fryer on.

I might just put 'em in the deep fryer.

Just pop 'em in.

If you got it, use it, you know.

I am gonna take this out so I can make, oh gosh,

there's water everywhere.

The Easy Mac episode.

It's not, it wasn't us.

It's the like science of the Easy Mac.

It just explodes.

I'm gonna add the cheese and then I'm just

gonna add the crab in.

We're gonna add the crispy onions.

Of course, as one does.

I mean, this looks pretty good.

I would eat this.

Easy Mac imitation, crab, mac and cheese.

Let's check on our chicken nuggets.

I'm gonna put them back on the tray.

This is hot, but if you go really fast it's fine.

Ow.

Ow.

Okay, and then you're just gonna add the bean mixture.

Oh, oh hell yes.

Yeah.

This is fusion to me.

And then you can't forget the dollop daisy.

What's the, the white chunkies?

Uh, oops.

A dollop daisy.

And you say, oops, a dollop daisy.

I probably shouldn't have put it in there.

So we're gonna add the sour cream.

Oh God, it's the juice.

The sour cream juice, don't get that.

I didn't shake it.

That was a rookie move.

I mean, this is art right here, and then you just do

this Tositos tortilla chips.

If you're not happy with this, I don't know what

you can be happy about.

This is the chicken nugget bean toed Mexican

seasoning salt pepper.

If you got it.

We have our sandwich.

Did you see a sandwich?

I mean, that's nice.

Come on.

Okay, the last one, I want it to be open-minded, but the

last one makes me not wanna do this episode ever again.

Banana tuna salad, two pouches of sweet Thai chili tuna with

one cold overly rip banana.

I keep my tuna in the fridge.

Mix it with ketchup and all of oil mayo or Miracle Whip.

Let I just, I don't understand.

Like you could eat them separately.

That's fine.

Why?

You gotta put the banana with the tuna.

Let's go get it though.

Come on.

Okay.

We got our banana in the fridge.

I didn't know that Bumblebee had a spicy tide.

Chili.

I eat a lot of jarred tuna for my girl dinners.

I usually get the plain one and then add things

to it, you know, because I'm a chef, I'm gonna mash

this together and then.

I don't wanna do this one.

It puts the banana in the tuna.

I don't wanna, it puts the banana in the tuna or else

it gets the hose again.

What is that?

A quote from something?

Oh, I forgot the ketchup and the miracle whip.

Come back over.

Ketchup.

Miracle whip.

We're just gonna just a little bit, you knows the miracle.

No, it's the whole thing.

It's the whole thing.

Just eat the banana separately.

So this person didn't say there was any bread in it,

but since it's banana tuna salad, we're gonna put it in

between two slices of bread.

The like, it's so like chewy almost.

I don't know how to explain the texture of this.

It's not pleasant.

I'm gonna do a favor and wait to share this with Josh

and V, so I'm not gonna try it yet 'cause I wanna make

sure that they have enough.

You're welcome guys.

The color.

Oh, come on, come on.

No, this is, this is the food crime.

There you have it.

Your banana tuna classic miracle whip ketchup,

things inside of it.

Did you save room for lunch?

Because I made it.

I'm hungry.

Okay.

Well man, I got you first.

We have banana, tuna salad.

I'm sorry, miracle whip.

It's not your fault, but what, there's something

interesting happening where Yeah, the banana's moisture

is being drawn out by the salt in the condiments.

Yeah.

And it is leaking all over the bread.

Should we start with that?

Yeah. I don't, I wanna get it done.

It, I wanna get it done with I, I agreed with what you

said when you said that.

Why not eat the banana separately?

Maybe they don't like banana and they're trying

to hide the banana.

That could be it.

Yeah.

Maybe that a parent made it for a kid like, Hey,

I need you to eat fruit, but I'm gonna hide it

in this tuna sandwich.

It's, I mean, if I was a kid, I would be sad.

Some people like me, like I, I'll eat some gross

stuff just 'cause I want to.

I want the outside of me to feel as gross as

the inside of me does.

You know what I mean?

You can't relate.

I'm a woman.

I, oh no, Josh, I'm so sorry.

You really, I really, I have like a really bad gag reflex.

I'm like so scared of throwing up

I, I don't know if I could do it though, Sheila.

I can't do it.

I can't, I can't.

This is for you, Jesus.

Um, I was about to say, it's not bad.

The Thai Sweet Chili does tie the banana together.

But some of the sugar from the big miracle Whip.

I don't like that it's falling out in your hand.

Um, but I will say the banana texture in here

does not get lost.

It will never leave my mind.

It is stuck on the roof of my palate, like a

curse that's been put on me by an old witch.

I don't think I could see.

It is forever clinging to my psyche.

Um, and I would like to go home.

Okay, so what are we scoring this one?

A two.

I gotta give it a one.

I'm sorry.

Ethically, I can't give it anything over a three.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, let's move on real quick.

Okay, so this is the Easy Mac.

Um, this looks good.

Imitation crab, crispy onions.

You have texture in here.

You have some protein.

You want more?

What are reaching for?

He wants the whole thing.

He wants to eat it out of that.

Oh, okay.

You have burning hot macaronis on me.

Look, I found an eye ring thing.

Nipples.

This isn't bad.

I like imitation crab.

I do too. I think it hits the spot.

This is great.

Well this is fantastic.

A little bit of seafood flavor.

The onions look really compliment the crab.

The onions are really good in it.

Yeah.

It completes it.

If it didn't have onions, I'd be like, okay, but

it just makes it hold.

Mm-hmm.

We're talking about lobster, mac and cheese.

It's not lobster mac and cheese.

No.

It's something completely different.

But also like Easy Mac is not really mac and cheese, right?

No, it's like a powder.

Yeah.

That tastes like sugar, chemicals and salt.

It's great.

But like imitation crab is also just like sugar,

chemicals and fish.

Uh, exactly.

Yeah.

It's like marry's really well together.

I like it.

This is an 8.40.

This is.

Nine.

I like this one a lot.

I'm gonna give it a nine as well.

I do like.

Can I hot sauce this whole dish?

Yeah.

Because it said, oh gosh, this is a valid, oh, I've

seen, did I get you cricket?

No. It,

this is a valid concept.

I've seen a lot of people use nuggets as nachos

and it just makes sense.

But having nachos.

On the side.

I have, I have lots.

I have lots from like a real chef's perspective.

You're right.

The fried chicken and the nacho chips,

they're substitute goods for each other.

Mm-hmm.

I don't think you need both.

I think for me, this dish is more successful simply

as chicken nuggets covered in bean wet and cream.

Mm-hmm.

I like the chips because I, I think it adds a

nice little crunch.

This one is a solid eight.

I like it.

I'd say 8.1.

I think it does need some work, but I'm

excited for the next one.

6.8. You guys, we should have just did this and

crushed the chips on top.

Oh yeah.

Oh, there we go.

Now we're chefing.

Now we're cooking with sweat palm chips, some nuggets.

Sorry, I heard something deep.

Yeah. What with viscera?

It like came from my uterus or something.

What's going on with your No, I think you

need to get that checked.

The smell I find very enticing.

You know, I think it n if it didn't have peanut

butter in it, I would like it a lot more.

You want hotdog in it or what?

Jelly.

Jelly.

Jelly.

A little bit of jelly on this.

Yeah, it would've balanced it out a lot.

Come on, don't it?

Sweetness.

You got jelly.

Don, throw me some jelly.

We ain't got no jelly.

We got Hershey's.

Strawberry syrup.

We'll it, yeah, bring it.

Bring it, bring it.

Let's try it.

No.

What kind of man now, now we're doing our

own strawberry bowl.

Are we okay?

We're also having a good time though.

I'm so, oh no.

You have to.

No, dude.

Oh, it makes you better.

You're good.

Oh.

Lily Cousins Burrola.

That's not.

Liar.

Yeah, that's good.

I just wanna eat baloney bite.

I like that.

Oh, Josh.

No, it's not better.

All right.

Well, you ruined my day.

What do rate this one?

So what do we rate this one solid 6.75 for me.

'cause I, I agree with the grape jelly.

I think it's kind of a perfectly architected

sandwich, especially with a little bit of

Hershey strawberry syrup.

Of course you do.

I think the toast on the bread, the peanut

butter melting into it, salty, squishy bologna.

The crunch of the chips, ties it all together.

It's a 9.1 without the syrup.

9.15 with the syrup embarrassing at the table.

I think it's time to move to dinner guys.

What about nap time?

Can we do a struggle nap.

A struggle nap.

When you can't fall asleep knowing you

fall asleep sitting up.

You try to fall asleep and your cat starts trying

to pot at your feet.

Oh yeah. And you, God damnit.

People get, get hell people, God dammit.

Get a goddamn job pivot.

Goddammit.

Hello, my name is Vianai and I am a D1 meal struggle maker.

If you don't know what D one means, I

feel bad for you, son.

Just kidding.

I'm making a struggle meal dinner time.

Oh, wow.

This actually should be Josh's new Twitter name.

It says, uh, ranch Low.

That should be his rapper name.

Ranch Low.

How do you know it's not?

Mix of hot dogs and a can of mixed veggies.

A packet of brown gravy, and then the cheap

pack of instant Garlic

mashed potatoes, mix the first three ingredients,

put potatoes on top and throw it in oven, and

slice of cheese on top.

Okay, I'm gonna grab all these things 'cause I feel

like this is a lot of steps.

I'm gonna run like Lily, okay.

Okay, I see.

I see gravy.

I see this, there's a lot of like, I feel like little

steps to these things.

Um, I never really have garlic mashed potatoes in my house.

I think they're so gross, the fact that they're just

like dehydrated and powdered.

But I ate these in college a lot and I would

put this in a tortilla.

And then I would fry it up like a little potato taco.

Grab a lot of Burbank sink water 'cause it's

the best in the game.

Burbank's known for their water and for,

uh, butt sniffers.

They're somebody who just got arrested for

chronic butt sniffing.

Everybody should google that.

The headline says serial butt sniffer, arrested

again in Burbank?

Yeah. Oh, again.

Okay. Did he escape?

He hot dogs.

Uh, okay.

I run with my hands up if anybody cares.

Lily runs like this, Josh runs like this, and then

I just run like this.

This is gonna be for gravy, so I'm just gonna heat that up.

Statistically, you're probably less likely to get your butt

sniffed in Nordstrom Rack now because they're on high alert.

This is hot.

This is getting mixed with this.

Um, Lily was making fun of me the other day 'cause

I was telling her what my favorite struggle meal is.

I like to just make quesadillas like, um, with

tomato sauce on top of it.

The, can I just pour it all over the top and that's it.

I don't know if it's really like a. Struggle meal,

but it just tastes good.

Weenies are the best thing you can keep in your fridge.

They just go with everything.

Josh was making weenies and eggs earlier.

I used to make that when I first started working here.

That's all I made for breakfast for like

two weeks straight.

Good veggie juice coming out.

Drain this 'cause I like using my hand as a strainer instead.

'cause we're struggling out here.

Not a lot of people have strainers in their house.

We're gonna add this gravy in here.

All right.

I'm gonna add my vegetables to this pan.

They're nice Del Monte.

Mixed veggies.

We're gonna go veggies.

We're gonna go hot dogs.

Line our weenies up in here.

This might be, this might be something.

Yeah.

You like that color, don't you?

Ooh.

I feel like all, most people's struggle meals

happen in college, right?

I used to steal frozen chicken from my roommate

'cause she never ate 'em.

She would just let the bag sit in there and it was just

getting frostbite on the bag.

So I would steal pieces of chicken secretly just

so I can make tacos.

And I don't know till this day if she knows

that I used to do that.

But shout out Molly.

She was a real one.

She never said nothing.

It's okay if it doesn't look too crazy.

Prouty. 'cause guess what?

We're covering it with craft cheese.

All right, I'm gonna pop this in the oven

just for a little bit.

Probably just a melt of cheese and that's gonna be one.

And done, yuh, goodnight.

Okay, now we have our kimchi dogs.

From Moikmoikmoik.

Okay.

Kimchi dogs, hot dogs in a pan with oil,

Kimchi in, and cook until dogs done.

And kimchi is stinky.

Oh, stanky is how they spelled it.

Whole dogs, drop in some American cheese with

kimchi chopped together.

Assemble in a dog bun.

With kewpie mayo and some togarashi, that sounds pretty good.

Okay.

I'm definitely a kimchi person is like obviously hit or

miss depending on the brand or like where it's from.

Oh, and then the last one, 'cause I'm gonna try to do

this together, is the, the bulldog sweetened spicy

chicken and it's prepped with all it's content

mixed with egg yolk.

Lay it on a wrap, chuck on some of that pre shredded

mozzarella bag cheese, some hand crushed Doritos.

And then wrap it up and toast it in a pan.

I can do that.

I can make a burrito at the same time.

Okay.

This is gonna be a challenge for me.

I'm a bad multitasker.

Sometimes I start running my mouth and then I can't think.

Do, do, do hot dog?

Oh no.

You got a hot dog there, buddy.

Okay, I'm gonna grab these.

Let's grab this.

Got a lot of components over here.

Got some ramen, some hot dog buns.

Cheese.

Ooh, banana.

That's just for me for later.

Uh, cui ma

uh, tortilla.

All right.

I'm gonna add this computer pen.

Yeah.

Hey, hold up.

This might be something.

All right.

Let me not burn this.

I'm gonna take it off.

We call it little.

It got, we're gonna leave the kimchi in there

and we're gonna mount some American cheese.

Oh.

Oh shoot.

I forgot my pie.

Ooh, American.

That's kind of nice.

It's so tiny.

I know how to act.

We're gonna do one of these.

Woo.

Josh, you gotta add this to your slop list.

Let's actually make it look a little nice 'cause

I know how to make food.

We are gonna add some cutey to this one.

Ooh, sexy.

And here we go with the kimchi dog.

The dowg is with a W one, the ramen burrito.

The person on Twitter, they had the, the sweet and spicy

version of this.

We couldn't find that.

I was struggling again.

I couldn't find it.

I think it's an East coast thing and not really

like a West Coast thing.

West Coast.

Um, so I just got a regular one and I got some sweet

chili sauce that I'm just going to mix together.

I'm gonna take my news out.

I'm dumping this out.

It's hot. As hot as shiz.

I went to Shiz University.

What state is that in?

Is it Oz? Is that a state?

Sexy, take this off.

Okay.

Keep mixing that.

Let's add some match cheese to our noods.

Kind of let that melt over a little bit while

I heat up my tortilla.

Bam.

Oh, oh boy.

This is gonna be the kicker right here.

These are actually really good.

Oh.

You want one?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I know.

Oh, heck yeah.

I'm gonna add some chips 'cause my hands

are so clean right now.

Right in. Link would love this.

All right.

Josh help.

I got you.

Help.

Honey, you're burning my friend.

Ah, thanks buddy.

Dorito tax.

I'm gonna just pour a little bit on top.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You want one on your Dorito?

Yeah. Yeah.

Good.

Good.

All right, honey Burrito Puerto Rico.

That was a lot.

That was a lot of sauce.

Sorry about it.

Fold fold.

Okay, this is our buldak, sweet and spicy

chicken burrito with ramen.

Hola mi Amigos.

This is dinner time.

I'm hungry.

How hungry?

Very, I've been waiting.

You've been cooking forever.

Sometimes I have to do things one at a time.

Okay.

My burps tastes weird.

That's your fault.

This is the kimchi dog.

It's a hot dog with kimchi, American cheese.

Some kewpie mayo and it looks great.

This is gonna be the best.

This is a cheap shepherd's pie.

It has some mixed vegetables from a can, some hot dogs,

some mashed potatoes, gravy, and then there's

American cheese all over it.

A little bubble.

And then that is the buldak

Spicy and sweet chicken wrap

Wow.

That's gonna be a good time.

We ain't struggling anymore.

No, we are not.

'cause it's dinner time baby.

Woo.

Which, which, which one was made by ranch low?

It was one of these two.

It was one of these tiny ranch, though you mentioned.

It would be my rapper.

It was the rapper that said to make this, oh,

his name is Ranch Low.

He spits the illest flow.

Okay. With your fans.

We are eating struggle meals.

Uhhuh, like jellied eels.

Oops.

That's British.

Sometimes I cry when I finish.

Okay.

Okay. Um, you gotta finish.

No, that was it.

You're about to go off, hold on.

No, I start building and then I just start crying.

Sometimes at the end.

Had to see a tear shed.

This is gonna be the, this is gonna be the

best thing I've ever eaten.

I can tell already. Ever? Uhhuh.

Yeah, it just, it works way too.

It's done.

Put Sourkraut on a dog.

It's Sourkraut, but it's like more yeah, right.

It's little spicy.

It's so good.

It has so much flavor in it.

This could be on a restaurant menu right now.

Yeah.

That's 10.

That is 10 outta 10.

Yeah, I'm 10.

100%. I'm actually gonna take inspiration from that.

I give it a 9.9.

Nothing is a 10.

Oh, okay.

This is the shepards pie.

Wow, Josh.

Its your lucky day.

More hot dog.

More hot dog.

It's a hot dog day.

It's a hot fog day.

I'll say the, the, the potatoes, when you bake 'em,

they lose some moisture, but they should rehydrate from the

hot dog, water and the gravy.

Hmm. Hold up now.

That's what I call slop volume four.

Buy the DVD now. What would we rate this one first?

Six, five for me.

Six. Five.

Solid.

Seven.

I give. Really give seven one.

I give it a seven one.

It's not bad.

It's not bad.

It needs some, needs some adjustment on it.

Yeah. Salt level's tough to eat.

A full portion of this is gonna be crazy.

This is the one I'm excited for.

Have you guys had the Buldak Ramen?

It's so spicy.

It's, I have that once a week too.

Good though.

I get the filet mignon.

Cheers.

This is nuts.

Okay.

Hmm.

Well, it's a little dry.

Where's that sweet chili sauce at?

Where at?

Oh, I got you.

I know that's, no, that's not what I wanted.

One thing that I like about Noodles is that you

like eat them as noodles.

So I think you're right.

No, you're right.

Like this is better than, I don't think they

belong it in a tortilla.

I've like, one thing I don't agree with, I've

had noodle filled burritos before and they just

never hit quite right.

'cause I think you're right.

The point of the noodle is to like to slurp

it, to chew it is nice.

Mm-hmm.

Guys, the sauce helps, it gives it some moisture.

It might give your mouth some moisture.

Yes, there's a noodle on my lip and it won't move.

I kind of like it.

It's the right amount of spicy.

Just kidding.

I'm sweating on my whole back and boobs now.

I don't like it as much as I thought I would.

My boobs been sweating since breakfast.

Your boob?

Yeah.

I said my boobs are sweating now that

I ate the ramen.

I can't do that.

What are you gonna give it?

I give it a two.

Um, I'll give it a five.

I'll give it some love.

Lily's....

Lily's hating.

I think as far as expectation versus reality, I'm gonna

give it like a solid 5.8.

Yeah.

But it was disappointing.

But this a hot dog

on the other hand, I think this is the

official winner.

Of struggle.

Of our struggle meals today.

Right.

Are you dipping that in chili?

Okay.

I like the hot dog.

I think I learned that I need to keep better things in my

cabinets to struggle with eventually.

Throughout history, necessity has often been the mother of

invention, and I think that's what we've seen here today.

Many dishes, whether it's casule, or in

Vietnam, came from times of hardship, and that's

what we're seeing today.

A modern hardship, albeit through a varied lens.

Kimchi, American cheese, hotdog, God bless you, Vee.

Ramen burrito, shepherd's pie with hot dogs.

I think it's incredible.

This is how ideas migrate, you know, from one chef

to another, and who knows?

In 10 years we might see this Buldak Ramen burrito

on a Michelin starred menu.

We won't.

We will not.

Please clap.

Thank y'all so much for watching Mythical Kitchen.

Remember like we always say, we all gotta eat and

sometimes it's really hard man, but you can still use

hot dogs to solve the problem.

You can use hot dogs to solve the most problems.

In fact, got a flat tire, quick little hot dog.

Patch that right up.

That's what we always say.

Always keep hot dogs.

Hot dog, dog.

You got hot dog there buddy.

Don't look up that TikTok.

We'll see y'all.

Next item, comment below what your favorite

struggle meal is.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
struggle /ˈstrʌɡəl/ B1	noun - a difficult situation or problem verb - to make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction
cook /kʊk/ A2	verb - to prepare food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients
eat /iːt/ A1	verb - to put food into the mouth and chew and swallow it
hat /hæt/ A1	noun - a covering for the head
team /tiːm/ A2	noun - a group of people working together
rice /raɪs/ A1	noun - a cereal grain that is the staple food for a large part of the world's population
soup /suːp/ A2	noun - a liquid dish typically made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables in stock or water
potato /pəˈteɪtoʊ/ A2	noun - a starchy tuberous crop
cheese /tʃiːz/ A2	noun - a food made from milk
sausage /ˈsɒsɪdʒ/ A2	noun - a cylindrical food product made of ground meat and spices
eggs /ɛɡz/ A1	noun - oval or round objects laid by a female bird, reptile, fish, or amphibian, and from which a young animal hatches
hotdog /ˈhɒtdɒɡ/ A2	noun - a cooked sausage served in a sliced bun
flavor /ˈfleɪvər/ B1	noun - the taste and smell of food
ingredient /ɪnˈɡriːdiənt/ B1	noun - a component part or essential element of a mixture or compound
burn /bɜːrn/ A2	verb - to be damaged or destroyed by fire