He has said in the past he'll try just about anything, and this show has proven it. He's grunted and groaned through some shit, but I'd say about 8 out of 10 times he genuinely gives it a chance. Him taking the smallest possible bite and _instantly_ going to the trash can and saying "don't" is horrifying. I cannot imagine what horrors were in that bowl.
I grew up in West Allist, theres not much to do in Wisconsin that isn't bar hopping, Packer games and for the women, making horrible cool whip witch potions to punish your husband for spending all of the weekend at bars.
Well they kinda are. Yt will not monetize a show unless it's kid friendly thats why they can't swear. So if yt targets only children doesn't that make yt a child predator? It's not sexual but it is to gain something from children.
Yeah. I've never been a fan of Ambrosia but its pretty common. My family is mostly from Texas, but we don't do a lot of Coolwhip style desserts... My mother makes an excellent "Fruit Pizza" and its still my favorite. Its basically a giant cookie with fruit chunks of your choice You could put coolwhip on it... but we've always substituted with Marshmallow fluff, and it actually blends well, I think. It doesn't fight the other flavors of the fruit. Strawberry, Kiwi, Pineapple etc.
I love how Ally used to try to keep them under control for the 10mph and Vanessa watches them with Pandora's Box like "YOU AREN'T OPENING IT FAST ENOUGH."
As a man that’s been to a lot of Mormon funerals, I’ve had all of these dishes at least once. It’s as if they are trying to kill someone else off as well.
@@DiscoChixify Half a banana stuck upright in a couple rings of pineapple with a maraschino cherry affixed to the top. Whipped cream may be involved as well. It looks vaguely dirty
I love Vanessa's scream of "Slob on these nuts" cos it sounds like a little sister who finally, FINALLY, got one over on her brothers and she's going to never let them forget it. Which is weird, cos if anything Vanessa is the one they can't get one over on given she's a sadistic show runner. :P
Yeah flipping through my mums old cookbooks and seeing shit like this in it and going "wow...people really just made this stuff huh?" thankfully she never made it but what she did make was Apple and raisin Curry and I fucking hated it, the only thing she's ever made that even as a very unpicky kid would go "oh...yay..." and make any excuse not to eat it.
I have NEVER seen arin tell dan NOT to suffer with him out of pure concern. The type of shit that could be used to scare children into listening to their parents.
I thought she said "slaw bunnies" as in something made from coleslaw, which actually totally sounds like something they would be trying during this episode.
@@rat_poison_drinker I know, I know. One of my favorites is "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard" 😄. But nevertheless, if I have to come up with one... I'd choose one that sounds catchy 😄
POV it's an Iowa family reunion thanksgiving potluck and every old lady brought the same dish but slightly different and they all want you to enjoy it and you try backing out like "thats too much dessert" and they're like "Whaaat no it's a ~side~ because it has ~fruits~ and ~nuts~ in it!" and so you suffer silently and nod politely so as not to break their hearts or be disowned
@@Itmustbe_bunnies you can be allergic to ORANGES? every day im more and more grateful im only allergic to penicillin. just gotta make sure i don't get Syphilis.
@@charleswisconsin9196 You can be allergic to *anything!* I also have a (thankfully still mild) allergy to styrofoam and some plastics. Unfortunately, allergies can develop at any stage in life - I am in my 40s, and have just started having a reaction to bell peppers. Some possibly good news however, I am also allergic to penicillin - but many people who have a reaction to penicillin as kids, outgrow that allergy as adults - so there is a possibility that either you or I are actually no longer allergic to it, and just haven't had reason to test it!
you guys have gone above and beyond with implementing the crew into these vids. it really feels like watching a group of friends just laugh and have fun. super refreshing.
The midwest is responsible for some truly gnarly recipes. When you spend all day mining or farming, you want something you can just toss together in a bowl
An unintended side effect of being subscribed to the grumps is getting notified every monday and realizing that i have in fact dissociated through another full week and forgotten most of it. Thanks i think! (?) Great episode. I think watergate salad is alright and i hate ambrosia!
Ok, you can’t get mad at ambrosia salad though. Your Southern great-aunt brought that and she’s like 200 years old and she really wants you to like it and you’re like 5 and Arin’s totally right, it tastes like cute. It’s just a good time.
I think my favorite part about Vanessa’s slobonese bit is the fact that she really didn’t technically get Arin with it, as he should’ve said “what’s slobonese” for the joke to properly land, but she just was so excited that he didn’t clock it right away that she jumped right to the gotcha 😭
Arin's white woman gross TikTok recipe impression had me dying. It reminded me of that disgusting recipe where that woman boiled Pringles for some ungodly recipe.
Reminds me of my Nanas "pink fluff", something we have literally every holiday. It's like, cool whip, strawberry jello mix, marshmellows, strawberries, and like. Idk whatever fruit she decides. There's orange fluff too. Orange jello mix, marshmellows, mandarin oranges, whatever other fruit. I mean it's delicious cause in the end it's just pure sweetness. No weird shit like pecans or sour cream lmao.
I remember Arin immediately said "That's disgusting." followed by Dan: "You know what, you're probably right." It was mentioned in their OoT playthrough, during the Jabba's Belly dungeon.
11:47 as soon as that container was brought out I immediately recognized the label (even though they peeled the brand off, I work with this stuff every day orz), then I saw the bundt cake bottom, and then Dan turned it just enough for me to identify exactly what it was. Someone used a Private Selection White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake container to make this monstrosity in (✿◡‿◡)
@@skadiyoko Assuming that means you work at Kroger? I've never tried that Bundt cake, but I bet it's delicious. Kroger brand foods - especially under the Private Selection line - tend to be really good. I'd pick Private Selection ice cream over Breyers any day!
@@Itmustbe_bunnies lol, perhaps I do =w= but yeah, the bundt cakes are a solid /fine/ imo. The pudding cakes are better. Also the bundt cakes just sit on the table til we have to mark them down bc they're WAY too expensive. Like, they even recently got a $7 price reduction, and people still aren't buying them :') also I agree, Private Selection stuff is usually pretty dang good. I have 0 respect for that company, so I have no problem telling customers if something is not worth it, but PS stuff is pretty dang good ouo
ive never had it and it looks suspicious but i respect you and your appreciation for niche american recipes. the haters cannot ever take our weird salads from us.
I once picked out a random book about gardening from the library. It was written by two Mormon grandmothers who proposed grouping vegetables in your garden bed with a particular recipe in mind, such as a "salsa garden" with tomatoes, jalapenos, onions, etc. There was also a template for a "green jello salad" garden, in which you would grow carrots, celery, and cabbage. They kindly provided their recipe for green jello salad, which is made with lime jello, cottage cheese, the previously stated vegetables, and probably a couple other ingredients that I don't remember. My favorite part of the recipe is at the end, where they confess that it's not actually very good with the cabbage (their justification for including it at all boiled down to "YOLO"). They recommended you replace the cabbage with canned pineapple.
Dan, im proud of you. You went from a picky eater that would nearly throw up at the sight of Arin touching food to a gloriously experimental eater that isnt even remotely bothered by the sight of Arin eating food
The way my family, my whole life, has made a version of all these we call "Green Stuff" that is just whipped cream, pineapple, plain yogurt and pistachio pudding mix and its the most hyped thing for holiday dinners.
Aw man, I love ambrosia salad! Ours is made slightly different tho. Doesn't have nuts or pineapples, just whipped cream, tiny marshmallows, can of mixed fruit and mandarin oranges.
^ agreed. think of it as like a thicker, sweeter whipped cream. extremely good with pie or on a bit of fruit. as for *these* recipes... they hail from the forlorn depths of the Midwest..
Cool whip is good, its just used in some -war crimes- really unfortunate food experiments You can think of it kinda like a halfway point between whipped cream and ice cream, it’s pretty good if you freeze it and eat like ice cream. It doesn’t get icy like regular whipped cream, it freezes like ice cream while maintaining a lighter, airier texture. Flavor wise is somewhere between whipped cream and vanilla ice cream. The midwest just really is out here treating food like a series of highly inadvisable mad science experiments.
These all look like recipes of someone who forgot to make something for Thanksgiving dinner and had to pick out random shit from their pantry to make something that they invented on the spot
seeing arin explode the green glop made me cry my mom makes something very similar (pistachio pudding, nuts, cwhip, marshmellows, pineapple) its one of the only desserts ill enjoy on thankysmass whoevers in charge of the pineapples CLEARLY DOESNT KNOW HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE
The Pink Salad is actually a tradition in my family, except we've always called it "Pink Stuff" and we make it a little different. For us it's condensed milk and cool whip like in the video, canned cherries or strawberries (depending on which you prefer, my mom and I prefer strawberries), and either the pineapple or pecans (I like the pineapple, but my mom prefers pecans). Apparently we used to use the coconut as well, but it's since been omitted. I swear it's so good the way we make it. My bf is actually spending his first Christmas with us this year and we were just telling him about Pink Stuff the other day, so when it appeared in this video and Dan and Arin had such visceral reactions to it, I had to assure him it's not that bad lmao
Ambrosia is super good when made right. Its one of my favorite things ever. Fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges, cherries, marshmallows, and sour cream (there are other ingredients, but I dont remember them off-hand). Make it the day before and let it marry overnight, and it tastes divine, honest. Same with fruit soup. Some of my favorite dishes to come from the holidays.
growing up in the midwest most of these were at family events or holidays and they always hit. you guys should do more midwest food for the power hour!!
I have been watching Game Grumps from the beginning and loved when yall started the 10 min Power Hour. I have a daughter who would look over my shoulder while I watched it and now as a 5 yr old she asks to watch yall all the time! She loves Dan because I have similar hair to his and she used to ask to watch power hour by saying "the guy with your hair mommy". Yall are the best and I'm so glad I can share this with my daughter and hopefully my son who hears this via my phone speaker next to my pregnant belly!
@@saltwatersquidI’ve never made it myself, but family heritage recipes has one that looks similar. Basically, a lemon jello/pineapple/banana base topped with a marshmallow layer and sprinkled with crushed pecans.
As someone that married into an Iowa family with a deep love for snickers salad, they did the snickers salad dirty, what the hell was THAT?! These salads were missing the MOST important ingredient.... LOVE. 😢
Ambrosia is interesting because there are loads of things you can tweak with it. The version I’m used to doesn’t have walnuts, Cool Whip, or sour cream, but does have banana slices and vanilla yogurt.
Arin telling Dan _not_ to eat something is one of the most genuinely shocking things I've seen on this show.
And then Dan actually trying it! There used to be normal foods he wouldn't try
@@FaeMasquerade The dynamic between them really has shifted a bit huh? Glad to see Dan getting more comfortable with being uncomfortable 🤣
He has said in the past he'll try just about anything, and this show has proven it. He's grunted and groaned through some shit, but I'd say about 8 out of 10 times he genuinely gives it a chance. Him taking the smallest possible bite and _instantly_ going to the trash can and saying "don't" is horrifying. I cannot imagine what horrors were in that bowl.
It's part of their contractually obligated friendship
It's gotta be REAL bad if the Video Game Boy himself detests it
the fact that all of these are midwest classics is so funny. arin and dan would NOT survive a wisconsin woman’s potluck
They’re from Florida and New Jersey, the least Midwest places you could be 😂
Wisconsin Woman needs to learn that there's more to life and dessert than cool whip and marshmallows 😂
I was gonna say that green stuff and the stuff with the pineapples and marshmallows are dishes I saw every year
I grew up in West Allist, theres not much to do in Wisconsin that isn't bar hopping, Packer games and for the women, making horrible cool whip witch potions to punish your husband for spending all of the weekend at bars.
@@FinalDragoon63 What happens in families where the husband doesn't spend all weekend at the bar?
I love that they ask “What did we learn?” at the end of every episode as if it’s a kids show now
Hey if its educational the YT gods wont smite the video or channel xD
South Park did it first. hmm, possibly not first, but over 20 years before this.
Dan most times: "Oh, I didn't learn anything, I'm already actively locking these memories in the deepest, darkest recesses of my mind."
Well they kinda are. Yt will not monetize a show unless it's kid friendly thats why they can't swear. So if yt targets only children doesn't that make yt a child predator? It's not sexual but it is to gain something from children.
What did we learn? Cool Whip is the devil and the lowest common denominator for most of these things being bad
The secret to making these Midwestern "delicacies" is to put as many diffrent textures as possible in a bowl with no regard for what the flavors are
Bonus points for adding in pure jello powder
Yeah. I've never been a fan of Ambrosia but its pretty common. My family is mostly from Texas, but we don't do a lot of Coolwhip style desserts... My mother makes an excellent "Fruit Pizza" and its still my favorite. Its basically a giant cookie with fruit chunks of your choice You could put coolwhip on it... but we've always substituted with Marshmallow fluff, and it actually blends well, I think. It doesn't fight the other flavors of the fruit. Strawberry, Kiwi, Pineapple etc.
Mix all of your leftovers with a tub of cool whip, and voila! Five stars lol
@@Local_acquaintance More bonus points for calling it ✨ _Salad_ ✨
That is my nightmare.
"She would be upset if you liked it" has me convinced that whoever that guy is has a genuinely well balanced relationship
I love how Ally used to try to keep them under control for the 10mph and Vanessa watches them with Pandora's Box like "YOU AREN'T OPENING IT FAST ENOUGH."
Vaness said "It's time to let chaos reign"
Allie: "No bitchin' in my fucking kitchen!"
Vanessa: 'This kitchen was _made_ for bitchin' now HURRY UP AND OPEN IT.'
That's not how big they're supposed to be. No it's, gi-giant!
Vanessa has weaponized their collective stupidity
Vanessa: *Creator Of Chaos*
As a man that’s been to a lot of Mormon funerals, I’ve had all of these dishes at least once. It’s as if they are trying to kill someone else off as well.
You ever encounter candlestick salad, the most USA food in the world?
@@Lucifersfursona I had to look that up and... it is very upsetting.
@@Lucifersfursonawhat? What’s candlestick salad?
That put me in the mood for some funeral potatoes
@@DiscoChixify Half a banana stuck upright in a couple rings of pineapple with a maraschino cherry affixed to the top. Whipped cream may be involved as well. It looks vaguely dirty
I love Vanessa's scream of "Slob on these nuts" cos it sounds like a little sister who finally, FINALLY, got one over on her brothers and she's going to never let them forget it.
Which is weird, cos if anything Vanessa is the one they can't get one over on given she's a sadistic show runner. :P
She's a TRUE Grump now!
I'm so proud of her! She's the best!🥰
Am a youngest sister, can confirm.
“Got one over…”
The point of the game is to get the victim to repeat back the words. Arin said “The what?”
Vanessa jumped the gun.
absolutely feral and unrestrained, and we love that for her
Arin being fruity, nutty, creamy, and sweet actually checks out
Underrated truthfully
6:20 Dan: is that one of the seven dwarves?
Me: ah yes. Doc, Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey, and Orzo, the mysterious eighth dwarf.
Orzo wasnt legally allowed to be within 100 yards of Snow White
And I thought he was the one with the braincell 😂
at 1:00 dan has a sadness in his eyes that you can only see in eastern european gay pornography
Oh my God, this is my favorite new sentence
This is a fantastic self report
I cannot believe how accurate this statement is.
so specific lmfao
This is oddly specific.
Fun fact: a lot of these recipes are from the 60s-70s when gelatin was the new hot thing so they put it in everything to varying degrees of success.
"Aspic". You can tell how much you'll like it because the word starts with the name of a deadly snake.
@@Adreitz7 lots of words are like that. doesn't mean much.
Yeah flipping through my mums old cookbooks and seeing shit like this in it and going "wow...people really just made this stuff huh?" thankfully she never made it but what she did make was Apple and raisin Curry and I fucking hated it, the only thing she's ever made that even as a very unpicky kid would go "oh...yay..." and make any excuse not to eat it.
@@Adreitz7 I hope everyone looks for youtube videos instructing them how to make aspic right now. My favorite is ANTI-CHEF.
That doesn't surprise me.
Not that we didn’t love Vanessa before, but she’s truly one of the family now that perfectly executed that deez nuts joke.
I believe she also immediately threw Noah right under the bus when they asked who made that horrific tomato thing.
I don't know why everyone seems to say this is well executed. No one said "what's slobonese?" which is like the whole point of a deez nuts joke!
@@Darksfollower Arin f*cked up his worse and its still one of the best GG moments of all time, Vanessa gets thr pass
I'm convinced a bunch of housewives got together in the 50s and said "Everybody likes mashed potatoes. Let's make mashed potatoes, but _DESSERT!!!"_
I have NEVER seen arin tell dan NOT to suffer with him out of pure concern. The type of shit that could be used to scare children into listening to their parents.
Slobonese and Dan learning 👉👈 less than a minute in. This is gonna be a good one folks.
I thought Slobonese was Arin’s new nickname and didn’t question it at all lol
@@Flygonyu LMAOOOOO
I will never see 👉👈 without thinking of Alphys from Undertale.
Vanessa's an absolute menace for dropping that one as a part of the intro
I thought she said "slaw bunnies" as in something made from coleslaw, which actually totally sounds like something they would be trying during this episode.
"Interesting Cherry Distribution" got a name for my new band
and every member's just disguised as a cherry and they're displayed differently every concert
I think "Interesting" is too long, not catchy enough. "Secret Cherry Distribution" (SCD) would be better, in my opinion
@fostena well lots of metal bands have weird, long, and/or gross names so 'Interesting Cherry Distribution' isn't too bad lol
@@rat_poison_drinker I know, I know. One of my favorites is "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard" 😄. But nevertheless, if I have to come up with one... I'd choose one that sounds catchy 😄
@@rat_poison_drinker and what makes you think Interesting Cherry Distribution would be a metal band?
POV it's an Iowa family reunion thanksgiving potluck and every old lady brought the same dish but slightly different and they all want you to enjoy it and you try backing out like "thats too much dessert" and they're like "Whaaat no it's a ~side~ because it has ~fruits~ and ~nuts~ in it!" and so you suffer silently and nod politely so as not to break their hearts or be disowned
I am lucky in that so many of these recipes include oranges, which I am allergic to, so I often had a very valid excuse!
@@Itmustbe_bunnies you can be allergic to ORANGES? every day im more and more grateful im only allergic to penicillin. just gotta make sure i don't get Syphilis.
@@charleswisconsin9196 You can be allergic to every fruit at once. I've got one friend who unfortunately is.
@@charleswisconsin9196 You can be allergic to *anything!* I also have a (thankfully still mild) allergy to styrofoam and some plastics. Unfortunately, allergies can develop at any stage in life - I am in my 40s, and have just started having a reaction to bell peppers. Some possibly good news however, I am also allergic to penicillin - but many people who have a reaction to penicillin as kids, outgrow that allergy as adults - so there is a possibility that either you or I are actually no longer allergic to it, and just haven't had reason to test it!
Grinch moment
Dan's reaction to ambrosia salad is exactly the kind of validation I needed because I've been saying the same thing FOR YEARS
Dan's pure joy at the Slobonese line has renewed my hope for at least one more day
The succulent Chinese meal joke in the captions was everything
Thank you for mentioning it, cause it made me turn on CCs JUST IN TIME for it
The standing ovation for a nuts joke had me crying😂
i read this as standing ovulation and i really had to /look/ at this sentence again 😂
@@ArgentoNatsu lol same
Slobonese. Sensational. All the goodboy coins should be melted down into one giant medallion with Vanessa's face on it for such an achievement
As cool as Drew P Bahls
you guys have gone above and beyond with implementing the crew into these vids. it really feels like watching a group of friends just laugh and have fun. super refreshing.
Arin telling Dan to NOT eat something was an experience for ME my eyes blew right open
Vanessa's Slobonese joke had enormous 'What is Updog?' energy and I am here for it
The midwest is responsible for some truly gnarly recipes. When you spend all day mining or farming, you want something you can just toss together in a bowl
The best part of this is knowing that Danny is learning emojis.
12:48 they sound like a couple who have no reason to be together anymore but still do 🤣
An unintended side effect of being subscribed to the grumps is getting notified every monday and realizing that i have in fact dissociated through another full week and forgotten most of it. Thanks i think! (?)
Great episode. I think watergate salad is alright and i hate ambrosia!
Sour Cream is VERY often used as an ingredient in desserts. People will associate it more with savory things, but it's truly so common
they put it in cake batter to make it moist. if done properly, you wouldn't able to taste it once it's been cooked.
i like using it in frosting!!
I like sour cream donuts, but that’s about it
@ have you ever tried potato donuts? fuckin SCRUMPTIOUS
Some cheesecake recipes use it. Personally, not me bruh.
Ok, you can’t get mad at ambrosia salad though. Your Southern great-aunt brought that and she’s like 200 years old and she really wants you to like it and you’re like 5 and Arin’s totally right, it tastes like cute. It’s just a good time.
Stop yappin bro
"and she's like 200 years old" idk that took me out but it did
@@iJosiah naw, bro can keep cookin
keep cookin rwaitwhat bro
How about, she just makes food instead of throwing candies in a pan ?
@@iJosiah grow up.
You know it's bad when Arin is telling Dan to not eat it, and Dan says he has to with a mixture of resignation and determination
He knows a good bit when he sees one
I think my favorite part about Vanessa’s slobonese bit is the fact that she really didn’t technically get Arin with it, as he should’ve said “what’s slobonese” for the joke to properly land, but she just was so excited that he didn’t clock it right away that she jumped right to the gotcha 😭
kinda like when arin actually got dan to say "what's updog" and arin got so excited he didn't even finish the joke 💀
@@vierots YES exactly!!!
The faster you commit to the bit, the better. Trust me. 😂
Arin's white woman gross TikTok recipe impression had me dying. It reminded me of that disgusting recipe where that woman boiled Pringles for some ungodly recipe.
I was like "why are we doing a Thanksgiving episode now?" and then I remembered I'm not american and I don't know exactly when Thanksgiving is
I'm European and the extent of my knowledge is that it's somewhere between Halloween and Christmas, because it's the fallen Mariah Carey buffer
My American friends told me to just consider "November" to be Thanksgiving and it's worked out for me so far
American here, it's the fourth Thursday of November
to be fair, i Am american and don't know exactly when thanksgiving is, so at least you're not alone
National turkey day 🎉
damn this man put surstromming in his mouth but the try and guess salad being worse is really something XD
I like how more and more it feels like Dan is being held at gunpoint for the beginning of the power hour
Dan is disturbed while Arin is intregued, fascinated, and excited
Welcome to the Midwest. Growing up I hated these types of salad, but they were at every gathering.
Reminds me of my Nanas "pink fluff", something we have literally every holiday. It's like, cool whip, strawberry jello mix, marshmellows, strawberries, and like. Idk whatever fruit she decides. There's orange fluff too. Orange jello mix, marshmellows, mandarin oranges, whatever other fruit. I mean it's delicious cause in the end it's just pure sweetness. No weird shit like pecans or sour cream lmao.
Dan's face and tone when he said "Who made this?😑" 2:01 had me dying 😂
I cackled and had to replay it twice
5:32 Arin's fight or flight kicking in the moment what he said got challenged slayed me
Dan, sir, you clowned ambrosia whilst referencing M&Ms mixed into cottage cheese…which is practically a war crime 😂😂
tbf he was a child
I remember Arin immediately said "That's disgusting." followed by Dan: "You know what, you're probably right." It was mentioned in their OoT playthrough, during the Jabba's Belly dungeon.
Petition for the Grumps to collab with That Midwestern Mom so she can make them try the most horrid Minnesota Salads that Aren't Really Salads
YES
Dan ACTUALLY trying the dish that Arin describes as, "the worst food experience of his life," is the DEFINITION of progress. We stan
11:47 as soon as that container was brought out I immediately recognized the label (even though they peeled the brand off, I work with this stuff every day orz), then I saw the bundt cake bottom, and then Dan turned it just enough for me to identify exactly what it was. Someone used a Private Selection White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake container to make this monstrosity in (✿◡‿◡)
@@skadiyoko Assuming that means you work at Kroger? I've never tried that Bundt cake, but I bet it's delicious. Kroger brand foods - especially under the Private Selection line - tend to be really good. I'd pick Private Selection ice cream over Breyers any day!
@@Itmustbe_bunnies lol, perhaps I do =w= but yeah, the bundt cakes are a solid /fine/ imo. The pudding cakes are better. Also the bundt cakes just sit on the table til we have to mark them down bc they're WAY too expensive. Like, they even recently got a $7 price reduction, and people still aren't buying them :')
also I agree, Private Selection stuff is usually pretty dang good. I have 0 respect for that company, so I have no problem telling customers if something is not worth it, but PS stuff is pretty dang good ouo
Zoom in. Zoom in. Enhance.
Arin has the spirit of a Midwestern grandma, liking all the classic weird salads
14:40 please spell my name right on the check 😂😂😂😂
6:03 Frog Eye Salad is a Fourth of July staple in my Coloradan household and I’m so sad Dan and Arin hate it
ive never had it and it looks suspicious but i respect you and your appreciation for niche american recipes. the haters cannot ever take our weird salads from us.
I once picked out a random book about gardening from the library. It was written by two Mormon grandmothers who proposed grouping vegetables in your garden bed with a particular recipe in mind, such as a "salsa garden" with tomatoes, jalapenos, onions, etc. There was also a template for a "green jello salad" garden, in which you would grow carrots, celery, and cabbage. They kindly provided their recipe for green jello salad, which is made with lime jello, cottage cheese, the previously stated vegetables, and probably a couple other ingredients that I don't remember. My favorite part of the recipe is at the end, where they confess that it's not actually very good with the cabbage (their justification for including it at all boiled down to "YOLO"). They recommended you replace the cabbage with canned pineapple.
Dan, im proud of you. You went from a picky eater that would nearly throw up at the sight of Arin touching food to a gloriously experimental eater that isnt even remotely bothered by the sight of Arin eating food
Where's the Thanksgiving Wolf Job?
He died
@@SailHatinSoapWolfjob? Oh, he died.
@@Sintagon lol I read it as the Thanksgiving wolf named job"
I just woke up
@SailHatinSoap if you're good this Thanksgiving, Job the wolf won't hunt you down and rip your throat out! So eat your green peas, little timmy!
@@Sintagonoh that guy dieeeeed
Another year of reviewing thanksgiving sides without Funeral potatoes. Utahns will remember this.
Funeral potatoes are too sacred lol
Sign me up for my favorite LDS desserts: green jello, and being 15 minutes late.
6:40 Not trying to nitpick ("then why are you pointing it out?" ZIP IT) but ">1" means greater than 1.
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING I WAS LIKE "The alligator is eating in the wrong direction!!"
pretty sure it’s a continuation of the grammatical errors in the captions joke lol (in the video, not the youtube ones)
for some reason arin really gives deranged grandfather at thanksgiving energy at 13:43
NOT EVEN A MINUTE IN AND VANESSA 😭😭 FUCKING GLORIOUS
My thoughts exactly!
i audibly went “FUCK YEAH VANESSAAAAAA!!!”
I am So Glad they had the whole clip in the episode
7:50 "a bunch of stupid fruit"!!! i cant believe arin's talking about me and my friends!
Leave it to the boys to eat the most unappetizing food imaginable and forget all about it the next day like some lab animal
Bruh this episode is like 90% of why I love the holidays, every nostalgic salad I LOVE
Arin with the ambrosia salad is giving me Joey Tribiani vibes when Rachel messed up the trifle. "Jam? Good! Custard? Good! Meat? GOOD!"
1:48 that “woah” reaction was amazing
The way my family, my whole life, has made a version of all these we call "Green Stuff" that is just whipped cream, pineapple, plain yogurt and pistachio pudding mix and its the most hyped thing for holiday dinners.
My family refers to it as pink stuff ! 😂
@@lizchumley3346 We have a pink stuff too but it's not the same stuff in it. Haha
Green Stuff goes hard, I was thinking about it all through this video lol.
YES!!
Christ the Ambrosia and "green stuff" had me nostalgi-ing so fucking hard.
Basically mine but with the frog eye salad
Aw man, I love ambrosia salad! Ours is made slightly different tho. Doesn't have nuts or pineapples, just whipped cream, tiny marshmallows, can of mixed fruit and mandarin oranges.
The ambrosia I'm familiar with is marshmallows, nuts, berries, and yoghurt
That sounds delightful
The "can of mixed fruit" may or may not contain pineapples. It's like a treasure chest in an RPG or Zelda, or a gacha roll in a mobile game.
4:29 it’s scary how accurate his impression is
can we PLEASE get content starring the crew. i would pay so much for office shenanigans
This episode really brought back memories of my late grandmother. She would make these every year at Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
4:54 “He’s smiling!!!”
They said it like he's a baby, smiling for the first time 😂😂
A lot of these recipes remind me of how kids make weird food combinations bc they think it would taste good
This describes Midwest "cooking" perfectly.
Me mixing brown sugar and cream cheese into this disgusting carrot cake yogurt when I was 8, Immediately hating it and throwing it away
i like the episode of 10mph where they eat cool whip for a loooong time
As an Australian, I keep hearing about this mysterious "Cool Whip" substance and dread the moment I ever actually might encounter it in person.
It's actually quite delightful in moderation. I like to put a dollop on my pies.
^ agreed. think of it as like a thicker, sweeter whipped cream. extremely good with pie or on a bit of fruit.
as for *these* recipes... they hail from the forlorn depths of the Midwest..
Cool whip is good, its just used in some -war crimes- really unfortunate food experiments
You can think of it kinda like a halfway point between whipped cream and ice cream, it’s pretty good if you freeze it and eat like ice cream. It doesn’t get icy like regular whipped cream, it freezes like ice cream while maintaining a lighter, airier texture. Flavor wise is somewhere between whipped cream and vanilla ice cream.
The midwest just really is out here treating food like a series of highly inadvisable mad science experiments.
As a warning though, there is a noticeable chemical taste to it
7:02 This might be my new favorite moment on the Power Hour.
These all look like recipes of someone who forgot to make something for Thanksgiving dinner and had to pick out random shit from their pantry to make something that they invented on the spot
And all they have is fruit and cool whip.
I love that when Dan dropped that lasagna tin and it shot up in the sky he got cool whip in his hair and it just stayed there the rest of the video XD
Vanessa's commitment to "Slob on these nuts" is one that definitely deserves the applause 🤣
As an Australian it is terrifying that yall make buckets of slop and call it a salad
12:04 the boys look so proud of Vanessa
11:59 Timestamped it because I didn't see it already :)
seeing arin explode the green glop made me cry
my mom makes something very similar (pistachio pudding, nuts, cwhip, marshmellows, pineapple)
its one of the only desserts ill enjoy on thankysmass
whoevers in charge of the pineapples CLEARLY DOESNT KNOW HOW ITS SUPPOSED TO BE
I already adored Vanessa but after that joke, I can't imagine the Ten Minute Power Hour without her, that joke made my whole day
I love Dan's "I'm just being paid to be here" bit and I hope it never stops
This is the earliest I’ve ever been for a power hour episode and my heart is full 🥹
Same ☺️
of cholesterol?
@@charleswisconsin9196 Of cool whip 😎🍦
Arin was 1000% correct, the ingredients lists sound the exact same each time. This is hellish to watch but I can't look away
4:20
That splash is crazy, I had to repeat it a few times 😂
The Pink Salad is actually a tradition in my family, except we've always called it "Pink Stuff" and we make it a little different. For us it's condensed milk and cool whip like in the video, canned cherries or strawberries (depending on which you prefer, my mom and I prefer strawberries), and either the pineapple or pecans (I like the pineapple, but my mom prefers pecans). Apparently we used to use the coconut as well, but it's since been omitted.
I swear it's so good the way we make it. My bf is actually spending his first Christmas with us this year and we were just telling him about Pink Stuff the other day, so when it appeared in this video and Dan and Arin had such visceral reactions to it, I had to assure him it's not that bad lmao
Ambrosia is super good when made right. Its one of my favorite things ever. Fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges, cherries, marshmallows, and sour cream (there are other ingredients, but I dont remember them off-hand). Make it the day before and let it marry overnight, and it tastes divine, honest.
Same with fruit soup. Some of my favorite dishes to come from the holidays.
The amount of times I’ve rewatched them cheering for Vanessa has single-handedly restored my faith in humanity
Because of the amounts of cool whip that's in these dishes, they're likely gonna have terrible gas and diarrhea
growing up in the midwest most of these were at family events or holidays and they always hit. you guys should do more midwest food for the power hour!!
I neeeed them to try a scotcharoo
i need to see them take weird family recipes from fans because i know some of us have some strange ones
11:08 Dan being so pssed off about how that tastes is hilarious
Aron’s impression of those weird food tiktoks is perfect
So just take cool whip and throw in whatever and call it a "salad".
Awesome
RIP all the tubs of cool whip that died to make this episode 😢
How else would all those Southern and Midwestern homes get their collection of cool whip containers which they use as Tupperware?
I have been watching Game Grumps from the beginning and loved when yall started the 10 min Power Hour. I have a daughter who would look over my shoulder while I watched it and now as a 5 yr old she asks to watch yall all the time! She loves Dan because I have similar hair to his and she used to ask to watch power hour by saying "the guy with your hair mommy". Yall are the best and I'm so glad I can share this with my daughter and hopefully my son who hears this via my phone speaker next to my pregnant belly!
your kids are going to be the funniest people in their generation i hope youre prepared
10:33 Why did this salad make Arin turn into Dan for a minute? XD
i love seeing vanessa in these, shes so funny
i clapped alone in my house for her slobbonese joke
We have 7-Up Salad at every special holiday. You have to eat it up in a day or so before it returns back to its liquid form.
you cant just say that and not tell me how to make it. i need to know
@@saltwatersquidI’ve never made it myself, but family heritage recipes has one that looks similar. Basically, a lemon jello/pineapple/banana base topped with a marshmallow layer and sprinkled with crushed pecans.
@@socalmetaldetecting that sounds awesome tbh
As someone that married into an Iowa family with a deep love for snickers salad, they did the snickers salad dirty, what the hell was THAT?! These salads were missing the MOST important ingredient.... LOVE. 😢
In case anyone didn’t catch on… “salad” means a container of cool whip and marshmallows
Ambrosia is interesting because there are loads of things you can tweak with it. The version I’m used to doesn’t have walnuts, Cool Whip, or sour cream, but does have banana slices and vanilla yogurt.
Same with pink salad, my family does it differently and its a fan favorite at every gathering.
I love Watergate Salad (pistachio pudding, whipped cream, colorful Marshmellos, and pineapple), so I would probably love some of these lmao
I love Vanessa so much, I hope she stays with the grumps forever