We sat six Californians down and served them up their first-ever tastes of some beloved
Michigan cuisine. Their reactions to pasties, pannukakku, and other Great Lake State favorites are surprising to say the least—and will definitely be the most hilarious thing you see all day.
Video Transcript:
Alison: Hey, it's kind of like I can make it Michigan shaped. This is the little part up top.
Willie: This is what she thinks Michigan looks like.
Manny: Ooh.
Adam: Oh, my God. You give me pastries filled with anything and I'm your man.
Maggie: There's definitely root vegetables. I'm imagining-
Chris: It's Michigan. It's got to be a potato. They don't have any other root vegetables in Michigan, right? They don't grow in the sun.
Adam: I like this crust on the outside, right there.
Manny: Mm-hmm.
Adam: See that right there?
Manny: Mm-hmm.
Adam: It's good shit.
Chris: Imagine you were trying to grow something in the tundra.
Maggie: I actually don't need to know the history of root vegetables.
Adam: It kind of looks like an American version of an empanada.
Manny: Two.
Adam: I just love that word, though, empanada.
Maggie: This is not Siberia, this is Michigan and nothing grows in the ground.
Alison: This is grandma's dinner to go.
Willie: Minus flavor.
Chris: Except for potatoes.
Maggie: Okay. You're right. You win.
Manny: Someone finally gets it right. You should put it all together and wrap it around, give it to them.
Chris: I've never had a Hot Pocket.
Maggie: Have I had a Hot Pocket? I think I went through a Hot Pocket phase in sixth grade but I was also going through a sad phase where I needed to learn a little bit more about self-love.
Willie: Ooh.
Alison: All right.
Willie: Drinks. Kind of looks like blood.
Manny: Almost like cherry cream soda.
Adam: Yeah.
Manny: Cheers.Adam: With a little mint in the end.
Maggie: Tastes like someone took a couple of Jelly Bellies, left them in cream soda for a science experiment, [00:02:00] died and then we tasted it ten years later, something like that. It tastes infused with Jelly Belly.
Chris: I thought it was just like a cherry cream soda.
Willie: Do you want your kids to fall asleep before dinner's over? Nyquil.
Maggie: Yeah, you might be right on the cherry cream.
Alison: Maybe if I swirl it, it will cause a reaction that will make it taste more like I want it to taste. Cool. Those are long.
Chris: You think they serve this in the thumb or the mitten or the-
Maggie: I thought you meant what was in the meat and I didn't like that.
Adam: Mmm, good.
Manny: Mm.
Adam: Mm-hmm.
Alison: Looks like a toe. Can you see this?
Willie: Don't tell me it looks like a toe and then make me eat it.
Alison: Look at it.
Maggie: That might be mustard. Here, let me-
Chris: You can't put your finger in it.
Maggie: It was for you, dude. It's mustard.
Chris: Don't eat from that side because you just put your finger in it.
Maggie: But it's my finger and it's going in my body.
Chris: No, but it's still ... It's not okay.
Maggie: Keep your politics to yourself, man.
Alison: I can eat hot dogs with the bros, watch the baseball game-
Maggie: It's an interesting combination.
Alison: ... Fart the national anthem. What?
Willie: Is that what you think men do?
Alison: Probably.
Willie: Who let you into our secret club where we eat hot dogs and fart the national anthem?
Alison: Yeah, you will be well equipped to fart the national anthem after eating this.
Chris: I'm going to rip this off. You should try that some time. When you're all alone it's really nice.
Maggie: You must be a lot of fun at baseball games.
Willie: Wait, what hearts? Hearts in it?
Alison: It still, it still looks like a toe.
Willie: What hearts? You didn't hear the heart part.
Alison: Wait, what?
Willie: Hearts of what?
Maggie: Ooh.
Chris: Ground beef and heart?
Maggie: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. You didn't-
Willie: Did you say at heart at heart?
Maggie: Did we just eat corazon?
Willie: Did I just eat a heart?
Maggie: Did I just eat- I feel [00:04:00] infinitely stronger now.
Alison: Since we ate the heart we have theoretically now absorbed its power.
Willie: Wait. Are we now part cow?
Alison: Yes.
Manny: And heart?
Adam: Well-
Manny: What kind of heart?
Adam: ... It's got my heart.
Manny: Beef heart? I got my heart, too.
Alison: The next full moon you're going to turn into a cow-tar. Don't be surprised if that's what happens.
Willie: May God have mercy on our souls. And he did.
Adam: It looks like a lemon pie that just got flattened and it cuts like a shoe.
Chris: I'm going for the middle.
Maggie: You just got the best part of the pie but ... no, no, go ahead.
Alison: Are you done? Okay. Cool. This is mine now.
Chris: Can we just be quite, have a moment of silence so that I can take in the flavors with my ... Mmm. Close your eyes. Stop moving. Stop laughing. Serious.
Alison: I want a moment with this last bite alone, please. Please close your eyes.
Chris: Now close your eyes, get very still and just appreciate it.
Adam: It smells warm, lemony.
Manny: What is that warm smell, again?
Adam: I don't know. It smells like ooh, warm.
Manny: Can you get that in a candle?
Chris: On Facebook my religion is processed carbohydrates. This is Jesus.
Maggie: It's Jesus.
Chris: There's these Belgian waffles in San Francisco that I always considered God.
Maggie: Yeah.
Chris: And this is his right-hand man.
Willie: If this was a food truck it would be Custard's Last Stand.
Alison: Oh, my gosh. You can move to Michigan.
Willie: And start a food truck? I'm coming, Michigan.
Chris: I want to have that on my birthday, I want to have it the day after my birthday, every day between that and my birthday and on my birthday again.
