We asked these Californians who'd just finished their morning gluten-free-quinoa-avocado-paleo-yoga smoothies to give five famous
Minnesota foods a try. We knew there would be mixed reviews, but we didn't expect them to be quite so extreme—or half as hilarious.
Video Transcript:
Adam: (laughter) There’s no [bleeping] way I’m eating this [bleeping]
Alison: Oh, I know what this is. My grandma makes this.
Adam: Is this like the one thing that everyone puts on their Thanksgiving table and no one eats it but they all kind of take a little piece because they don't want to hurt grandma's feeling? Because that's exactly what it looks like but in our family it's green, which is ten times worse.
Phil: It looks like that stuff like you see online. It's like this is what chicken nuggets are really made of.
Sam: It's like a recipe passed down through the grandma guild.
Alison: Mm-hmm. The grandma guild.
Sam: Don't mess with the grandma guild.
Sam: This is like what they eat on space ships.
Adam: This reminds me of my childhood. So many bad memories. "Adam, you are not leaving the table until you finish your ..." I don't even know if my mom knows what to call it.
Alison: I feel like in the Midwest they're a little loose with the word salad.
Adam: I'm sorry to all the Minnesotan grandmothers out there but just do your grandchildren a favor. This is not food.
Manny: This is food. This is really good food.
Alison: Ooh, what? It looks like ...
Willie: It looks like jellyfish.
Maggie: Don't die. I don't want to be left alone with this stuff.
Willie: Kind of ...
Alison: Why is it sticking like that?
Willie: Ooh.
Maggie: I would-
Sam: What is this?
Maggie: ... Rather 127 hours myself-
Sam: I want-
Maggie: ... Than eat this.
Willie: Oh, the taste is still stuck in my mouth. I didn't think it was that bad. Ooh. You okay?
Alison: It's good. It's good.
Adam: I don't know what it's called but cheers, buddy.
Manny: How do you know what that is? [00:02:00] That makes it appetizing, let me tell you.
Adam: Oh, my God.
Manny: So I shouldn't take my bite?
Sam: Here, train. Choo-choo train. Here you go.
Matt: Whoa. Oh, my god.
Phil: Huh-uh.
Matt: Ah.
Phil: Oh.
Adam: Give me a shot of alcohol.
Manny: It tastes like fish.
Alison: It's like a bunch of Minnesotans got sunburned and cooked their peeling skin.
Adam: I know it's this whole Swedish tradition, let's celebrate our culture, but this is a travesty.
Adam: That's a big two thumbs down.
Alison: That's good. Even the third time vomited and swallowed it's just as good.
Matt: Oh, what?
Phil: Ooh. See, now this is a paste that looks immediately better.Matt: This looks kind of delicious.
Alison: I think my mistake last time was thinking about it too much and I'm just going to just stick it in.
Maggie: This tastes like the Star Spangled Banner to me.
Willie: This is what they serve people after they eat that fish.
Alison: Yeah.
Willie: So then you can't tell what is vomit and what is the food you're getting.
Sam: This is some much-needed comfort food.
Maggie: There's no comfort in the world that will make me forget lutefisk.
Manny: Throw some of that fish on here. That would be pretty good.
Willie: I don't understand how they get salads so right and everything else so wrong.
Matt: I think this is my favorite dish so far so-
Phil: Oh, high praise.
Manny: You're out there, you're skating with your friends, slapshot here, slapshot there. You come in, Mom's like, "Here, son, have some of this."
Adam: Here's a plate of ...
Manny: Tater tots.
Adam: No, no, no. Let's name it.
Manny: Tater tot surprise?
Adam: No, no, no. Let's do it skadoodle.
Manny: Skadoodle.
Adam: Here's a plate of skadoodle.
Manny: Here's some skadoodle.
Matt: All right. Oh, it's like a burger, cool.
Phil: A burger.
Adam: You guys are right next to Wisconsin. Why is there no cheese? [00:04:00]
Maggie: So it's definitely meat. This was definitely alive at one point.
Sam: Survey says, meat.
Manny: There's cheese in here. This is so good!
Adam: Oh, my god, wow. Hello.
Sam: It's like a marvelous cavern of cheese.
Maggie: It's a meat pocket, filled with-
Sam: Hi. Eat me.
Maggie: Oh, God.
Willie: I like the idea of putting stuff inside it. More places should do stuff like that.
Alison: Mm-hmm.
Sam: I would definitely like to kick back on a summer's day, eat this, drink some brews, definitely.
Maggie: With friends, with people around.
Sam: Give or take friends. I don't need friends. Who needs friends?
Alison: Yay.
Willie: Yay.
Adam: Hey.
Adam: (singing). This is like the- Oh, my God, yes.
Alison: Did you just go Lion King on me?
Adam: I did.
Willie: Chocolate-peanut hot dish. It's a Minnesota moose pie.
Sam: Moose pookie, sorry.
Maggie: Moose pookie, no, no, no. That sounds like what Mr. Moose wants from Mrs. Moose.
Matt: There's a lot of nougat here.
Phil: What do you mean, nougat?
Matt: That's the filling inside.
Alison: It's kind of like butter. It's just like a slab of butter.
Phil: I like it all.
Matt: Yeah, we could tell
Phil: Two thumbs.
Sam: The people who give this out at Halloween every year-
Maggie: They probably put razors in it like all the other creeps.
Adam: Oh, my god, yes.
Manny: Mmm, mmm. Yep.
Adam: This has made it all worth it.
