I Ate Every Famous Video Game Food

[00:00] There's so many video games I played years ago  that somehow had food that I so desperately   wanted to smell, see come to life in front of my  very eyes, and more importantly, taste. I know   I'm not alone in this. Things like the cake from  Portal, and the mana strudel from World of Warcraft,  

[00:14] the Pac-Man melon. So, today I'm making and  tasting every famous video game food voted by you,   which video game has the best food. Starting with  our first dish, the famous sweet rolls from Elder  

[00:29] Scrolls Skyrim. If you can't feast on the souls  of dragons, your third place vote getter may be   the next best thing. You know, if you can't do  all the cool things that you can do in Skyrim in   real life, well then the closest thing you can  do is a sweet roll and actually make it. These  

[00:42] are all about height and the icing. Just make  sure no one steals these from you. But before   I taste and rank this, two legendary gaming  figures will occasionally drop in to judge the   accuracy of the toughest recreations. Ninja,  arguably the OG streamer, and Jake Baldino,  

[00:56] one of the most prolific reviewers of Gamer Ranks.  Oh my goodness. Oh, the break apart. What are you   doing to me? What are you doing to me, man? Oh, it  looks perfect. Look at that. Oh man, look at that   icing. Sorry. Too weird. Dip that in a cup of  coffee, bro. If I was in like a White Run tavern  

[01:13] and one of these was just sitting there glistening  on the table like that, I would take one. I'd say   this is probably an A-lister. It's simple,  elegant. It's not a question. I have to put   it in the S tier. It's going in there. We'll see  those two later. But joining me now is Chef PK,  

[01:27] a master of recreating popular anime and gaming  dishes. Our game experts gave their predictions,   but we're here to taste and render the final  judgment. So, as it turns out, someone did steal   their sweet roll. It was me. This appears multiple  times in Elder Scrolls and in Fallout, believe it  

[01:41] that inauthentic. So, we worked really hard to get  these to look as close to the game as physically   possible. I think we did a pretty good job.  The frosting looks great. Oh, it smells really   good. Oh, it does smell delicious. Give it a rip.  Cheers. That's so good. That's actually very good.  

[01:57] It's like crumbly, but also soft and it's not dry.  Yeasty. I think we can go into mass production and   sell these across taverns everywhere. Do we teeter  into S territory? I don't know. I think this is   A tier. Yeah, my mind isn't exploding, but it is  absolutely delicious. It's a strong and powerful  

[02:12] A tier. Moving on. Next up, Minecraft cake. Might  be the most famous cake in all of gaming. I don't   know. I feel like the portal cake is pretty close.  Might even be cooler, but whatever. This got the  

[02:24] second most votes of all in the video game foods  poll. It's also one of the hardest things to make   in the game. Thankfully, we didn't have to grow  wheat or milk cows for this. So, let's just get   our hunger points and taste this. Minecraft coming  in with a beautiful cake. Only four ingredients:  

[02:36] wheat, egg, milk, and sugar. No leavenning agent  apparently. Did you lemon this? Yes. Hey man,   that's a good cake. This is just a basic vanilla  cake. That's all it is. Like, this reminds me of  

[02:48] growing up. My mom would make this. She'd make  something exactly like this in a bunt pan. That's   all this reminds me of. This flavor. It's good.  It's a basic vanilla cake. There's not much going   on in my opinion. The vanilla buttercream on  top is really nice. I think it's mid. I think  

[03:00] it deserves either a C or a B. I feel like I'm  leaning towards C. For nostalgia sake, I would   give this a B tier. But also, yeah, it's just  a basic vanilla cake. If it's in front of you,   know, I only fall in love with things that are A's  and S's like me. On to the next. Moving on to the  

[03:18] pizza from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Thanks to  your votes, Zelda food is the only game with two   food items in this video. A lot of people love  Zelda. Cook it. You only need three ingredients.   Tobant wheat for the dough, high in tomatoes,  and hotino cheese, which supposedly makes it  

[03:32] irresistible. Who knows? By the way, none of those  things exist, so we got what was adjacent to that.   of things. So, we threw that on there, too. Let's  be real. Fighting Ganondorf is hard work. So,  

[03:44] let's taste. So, in Legend of Zelda, Tears of the  Kingdom specifically, this highin pizza will give   you about six hearts. It's not a huge recovery,  but it's also the most appetizing food I've seen   out of the newer Legend of Zelda series. It's  not like a mind-blowing pizza. You know, out of  

[03:59] all the pizzas in the world that there are, this  stands to me like certainly not a Chuck-E-Cheese   pizza. It's not a Lindustry pizza either. To me,  this is like a very average pizza. How do you feel   about agreeing on a B? I was going to say mid.  Ctier. Ctier. Moving on. Fortnite slurp juice.  

[04:13] It is one of the most iconic items in one of  the most famous video games in the world. If it   got Peter Griffin jacked, we had to try it. Look,  there's no real recipe out there. Unfortunately,   all we know is that Lego Fortnite says it's  made of raspberries and uh whatever the hell  

[04:26] a slurp mushroom is. This is at least what  was suggested to me, which was to combine   a bunch of different things into one. Baja Blast,  Mountain Dew, Blue Hawaiian Punch, Blue Kool-Aid,   Blue Red Bull. For extra boost, we topped it off  with more Mountain Dew. God, this is tough. Now,  

[04:41] in a separate jar, there was some cooked down  thickened blue Gatorade along with blue edible   looks okay. What did Jake and Ninja think? Ooh,  dude. Mountain Dew Baja. What are we high sea? I  

[04:56] haven't seen a high sea in years. It's perfect.  Where's the vodka? Also, how did you guys get it   all swirly like that? I think you're drinking  about 100 different blue dyes. Put a gun to my   head. You put this in front of me. I mean, I'm  drinking this whole thing, bro. Even the jar is  

[05:10] close to accurate. Look at the attention to detail  here. I love this. I'm going to put this S tier.   That one took me by surprise for the video. Man,  I would fly there and drink that live. S tier,   not even a question. 10 out of 10. High praise,  but how does it taste? I do love the swirl. That's  

[05:26] kind of cool. The swirl is fun. Let's just dive  in. Cheers. Mother of God, that is sweet. But that   is exactly what I would expect a child to enjoy.  Yeah, I I would expect this to absolutely be sold  

[05:38] picks out. Yeah, super sweet. It's really fun.  There's no way I could drink this. This feels like   the essence of blue raspberry flavoring and that  is all I'm picking up. The rest is just sugar. F  

[05:51] tier. I can also go down to an F. This feels like  something you would use like as an inclusion to   something like syrup over pancakes. Not drinkable.  I can't drink more than a sip of that. This is   just sweet. It's an F. Unfortunately, even though  this has S tier looks, turns out a random myriage  

[06:04] of different blue drinks. Tastes not good. On  to the next. Moving on to Harry Potter Hogwarts   Legacy Butterbeer. In the game, you can travel to  Hogsme and drink it at Throomsticks Tavern. The   it. For the hot version, we started by heating  cream soda in a pot, stirring in butterscotch  

[06:21] syrup till dissolved. Then, we poured it into a  glass mug, mix it a splash of butter extract and   vanilla extract. I don't love the extracts, but  this is what we saw from a few recipes online.   ingredients except we did not heat anything at  all. Simply mixed it together in a glass mug,  

[06:37] top with whipped cream and serve. Did you know  that Universal Studios has made over $500 million   selling butter beer? Imagine they're like 12 bucks  a pop. We have a frozen one and we have a hot one.   that's actually insane. Honestly, certain simple  things put together truly are just perfect.  

[06:56] nice whipped cream. I'm giving it an S. S tier.  It also looks really cool. The chilled one looks   crazy. Did you know the average human cannot get  drunk on butterbeer? And only house elves can cuz  

[07:09] if you trace amounts of alcohol. All right, moving  on to the next round. Wow, this one I know. Well,   it is cake from Portal. This is like a little bit  of my childhood here. Is it real? Is it not? Today   it becomes real. According to the info we have,  it is a Black Forest cake that's inspired by a  

[07:24] real bakery near Valve, the game design studio in  Washington that made Portal. But since we're out   of the test lab, the tease is over and we finally  get to eat it. I just hope that we survive. This   is a scary one. But first, that's a pretty good  chocolate cake. That's a very good chocolate  

[07:40] cake. It's moist. The icing is refreshing. It's  not too sweet. There's not too much of it. Has a   nice texture to it with the chocolate shavings.  It's nice. This is nice. I think this is an easy   A. I agree. Anything that would elevate the flavor  would bring it to an S. True. It's a good basic  

[07:54] chocolate cake and it deserves an A. I wish people  from Portal could have had it. Moving on from   Persona 5, Leblanc Curry, which surprisingly you  voted for by a wide margin over Persona cake. It's   a pretty traditional western style Japanese curry,  which is served at Leblanc Cafe. We found the  

[08:08] official recipe translated on the site Wilto Makes  Food. It's similar to One Piece Sanji's Curry,   which I made in the cartoon food video. The key to  the Lebanon curry is using all eight ingredients.   Let me explain. First, some chocolate. Then,  a little instant coffee, some worster sauce,  

[08:23] yogurt, honey, beef banan. Stir to combine.  Season a taste with kosher salt. And finally,   stir in some unsalted butter. Coffee in this is  a little weird. I'm not going to lie. I don't   what this video is about. Hopefully, we make  Sojiro proud. Holy crap. That's a banger, dude.  

[08:41] I'm sure that some of the secret ingredients in  this did leverage it. I think probably what makes   this is the slow cooking. At the end of the day,  you slow cook tender pieces of meat and properly   season it, it's going to be good almost no matter  what. There is a little bit of tartness that's  

[08:53] adding some depth of flavor that I like. It's  rich. It's anxious. It's meaty. I can taste the   spices. It's fatty. It falls apart in your mouth.  I mean, this is phenomenal. Easy S tier. Yeah,   S tier. This is something I could eat multiple  times throughout the week. After taking that  

[09:06] last bite and just letting it linger, my mouth  is still salivating. And another S tier joins the   list. Now, at the end, we are going to be having  an S tier showdown to determine which is truly the   cream of the crop. The very best of the S tiers,  but I'm more curious to see if any more items join  

[09:20] the top rank before that. Moving on to grilled  slowpoke tail curry from Pokémon Sleep made with   a whole alligator tail. I thought to myself, what  is similar to a slowpoke tail? What is an animal   tail we can eat? And although Slowpoke might not  be a reptile, the best representation felt like  

[09:33] gator. So, the dish like Slowpoke itself has  slight variations across the universe. But in   Pokémon Sleep, it's just two ingredients: tail  and fiery herb. That can't be right. What about   the curry? What about the rice? So, first you have  a whole gator tail. Going to remove the loins from  

[09:45] the tail. Trim all of the fat off. Next, season  it generously with a nice red spice rub. Then we   grilled it over charcoal. Based it with a garlicky  spiced compound butter. Plated a top yellow rice   and drizzle with a Japanese style curry and some  fresh herbs. I mean, this feels like it could be a  

[09:59] and Ninja approve. Wa! Holy sh! Oh my gosh, it's a  tail of a crocodile. I didn't even know you could   do this. I didn't expect that. Can you put that  on YouTube? I mean, we flavor it, we season it,  

[10:13] we grill it over a beautiful little bed of rice,  tastefully grilled, just right. I'm going to put   it in the A tier. This is something that I would  eat. I would eat I would eat tail. That's how it   should be if you think about it. Because in the  world of Pokémon, like a slowpoke tail, as sad as  

[10:27] that is, that should be like a delicacy. And here  in real life, how often do you have a alligator   crocodile thing? Not often. I think you guys did  this justice. The preparation, the choice, the   cut of meat. I'm giving this an A. Big scores from  our game experts. But how does it taste? I think  

[10:43] it looks like something I would get at the Pokemon  cafe. The story goes is that slowpokes lose their   tails randomly and then they're harvested and used  for dishes. Then Team Rocket started harvesting   slowpokes to sell their tails on the black market.  Pokémon is not that soft. I don't even want to eat  

[10:57] this. We're going to. It's not bad. Tastes like  chicken. The spices help a lot though. It's not   as muddy or fishy as I normally would attribute  to Gator Tail. I mean, it's heavily spiced. This   is spiced, grilled, glazed with a butter sauce,  and then top with curry if tast. Realistically,  

[11:11] the Japanese curry is very forward, right? It's  curry, spiced, fragrant. You could taste the sweet   fennel and the turmeric and the ginger and all of  those sort of things working with each other. And   then obviously there's the gator itself. I don't  think it belongs any higher than B tier, though.  

[11:27] it a C. But I'll give it a B just based off the  fact that I'm tasting something tastes good. This   is a B. It's fine, but I could pass on it. Moving  on. Next up, Fallout's Nucacca. One of the most  

[11:39] popular on our audience voted famous games list.  And not just one variety, but three. Of course, we   have the classic Nucacca. Then there's the Quantum  Cola, which we acquired by making recipes from the   quote unquote Vault Dwellers official Fallout  cookbook, and not from an overturn truck. But  

[11:55] there were also two special release sodas made by  Jones Soda Company, Victory Cola, and then another   version of Nucacca Quantum. The question is, which  one is the best? and can take any sort of a lead   here. Only one way to find out and yes, we're  saving the bottle caps. Don't ask if we actually  

[12:08] we did throw them away if I'm being honest. These  two are homemade from the Fallout cookbook. And   these two are like commercially approved. I will  say thank you guys for voting for this one because   the other option was iguana on a stick. This is  a homemade one. That was pretty bad. Here's our  

[12:24] homemade quantum. Better. That one's fun. I like  that one. The acidity is really nice in that. The   blue in this is crazy. This looks unnatural. Not  as good as the homemade. This one has a little bit  

[12:36] more of a blue raspberry flavor though. It doesn't  have that kick though. I really like the kick in   the homemade one. Our last one. Whichever one  is the best will be our entry to the list. Now,   it doesn't taste like anything. It's supposed  to have a refreshingly patriotic flavor. What  

[12:51] does that even mean? A taste as sweet as freedom.  If that's what freedom tastes like, send it back.   My favorite was the homemade quantum. We kind of  nailed that. I would just drink that. It's really   refreshing. I'm putting this in B tier. I'll  follow that up cuz I wanted to put it in Btier,  

[13:05] but I I was afraid. Btier, especially because  the Nucacola company is not a good company.   Moving on. What I've been waiting to taste for  a very long time. World of Warcraft's Conjured   Mana Strudel. You know, a lot of people don't know  this. I don't know if I've ever even said this on  

[13:19] the channel or even in public. A much younger me  played this game way more often than I'd like to   admit. And I definitely would have crushed 20 mana  strudel. Possibly in real life if we're thinking   about Big Jay here. Now I get to eat it finally.  It's just too bad that I don't play WoW anymore,  

[13:32] we nailed this dish. We made it exactly to spec.  Now, let's taste. This is the one that the mages   the free food." This looks primo. The only reason  why I'm pushing it away is so I don't swallow it  

[13:50] whole. Everything about this is great. From the  crisp crunch on the outside to the sort of like   oohy gushy almost like Queen Aman croissant  interior. It's sweet but it's not too sweet   tier. Of all the video game food I think I've had.  This is one I would probably make regularly. Yeah,  

[14:08] can go start a group. I can't get back into that.  It's too much. One of us. No, we have another big   S tier joining me S tier list, but that means we  have something even bigger. We're going to have  

[14:22] an S tier showdown coming up very soon. But first,  moving on to the rest. Next up, League of Legends   with porro snacks. Pearls may look cute, but if  you don't feed them, they have a sinister response   you might not expect. So, to keep them happy, you  feed them snacks. Essentially, doggy biscuits made  

[14:35] of wild hen and herbs. So, we piped that mixture  into spirals, seared them until crisp, and cooked   through. Then, many people think of poro snacks  as sweet Danish-like treats, but that's only in   the card game, not the main fighting video game.  So, turn on all random, all mid mode, and I guess  

[14:48] taste at your own risk. Smells great. You know  what that kind of reminds me of? A little bit like   kefta. That's a great comparison. You know, like  almost like if you mix shawarma and kefta, the   flavors are kind of reminiscent. Like it's like  garlicky. There are spices in there. It's meaty.  

[15:02] It's like look at the mayard. This would be fire  on a sandwich. I would eat this all day. Fire. At   the end of the day, this is just a meat patty. And  notice how the first thing we said was, "Oh, if   this was on a sandwich, but it's not." I feel like  B is fair and also generous. I'm good with that.  

[15:15] B tier. Moving on. Kirby's Super Spicy Curry,  which first appears in Kirby's Dreamland on Game   Boy in 1992. I wasn't even born then, but you all  called for it in the Super Smash Brothers series.   Since there's no actual recipe, which honestly  there were not a lot for a lot of these things,  

[15:30] and it is on fire in the game. We made fall curry,  the hottest curry on Earth. It's loaded with six   whole ghost peppers, three Carolina Reapers, and  four ty red chilies. It's a lot of Scoville in one   dish. Hot enough to make you spit flames from at  least one hole in your body. I know a few of you  

[15:44] wanted me to inhale this in one bite, but I'm not  going to do that. I am going to taste it, though.   This might be a game almost everybody has played  at least once, most likely at a party. Super   Smash Bros. The curry that they eat in the game,  specifically Kirby, makes Kirby spit fire. So,  

[15:59] we're like, what's the hottest curry that exists?  And unfortunately, it is fall curry. It does look   delicious. Little rice, little meat. Here we go.  Cheers. Immediately. Oh my god. I love curry and   I'm going to stop. That's That's really spicy. I'm  not a huge spice fan. I love spicy. This is too  

[16:18] goddamn much. This is a lot. Despite the fact that  it's so spicy, there is flavor in it. So, I think   I am willing to give it maybe a C or a D. And  I'll let you decide which that is. As is D tier.   My tongue hurt. Moving on. Kingdom Heart 2 with  sea salt ice cream popsicles. Apparently inspired  

[16:35] by a real item at Tokyo Disney Sea. We made our  own by adding sea salt and food coloring to our   ice cream base and piping it into popsicle trays,  making sure to give them a little extra sprinkle   of sea salt at the end. You guys kind of got deep  when voting. You were telling us things like the  

[16:48] salty sweet flavor is a metaphor for life. Now,  while this is a game about Disney characters   and what looks like a boy band, I'm kind of into  that metaphor. It's beautiful. But does it taste   beautiful? It's a little soft cuz the freezer  couldn't get cold enough. Cool, though. Dude,  

[17:01] that's good. Oh, I'm a fan of that. It's like  salty, sweet, kind of everything that I want in an   ice cream. What flavor is that? It's vanilla salt.  A little bit of extra salt on top. Yeah, that's   fire. Oh, that's so good. I really like this one.  I love a good salty sweet. I think it contrasts  

[17:14] really well. When I think of salt, I think like  caramel and salt. I think like something spicy,   sweet like mango and salt. There's not that  many just straight vanilla and salt and it goes   splendid. I'm a huge fan of this one. I'm going  to give it an A because it's not my first pick,  

[17:27] but if it was given to me, I would be happy.  Absolutely. If this had the caramel ribbon,   S tier as it is, A tier for sure. A tier. Moving  on. Next up, a big one. Cup of noodles from Final   Fantasy 15. God, how many of these do they have?  Not one, but all three from the perfect cup side  

[17:43] quest to find the best toppings. A steak top  version from The Behemoth, a shrimp top version   from Carlos, and an egg top version to represent  a glimmering zoo egg. This may be the best in-game   advertisement I have ever seen. Now, let's taste  test. If you haven't played Final Fantasy 15,  

[17:58] a large majority of the game is cooking, and the  food looks amazing. They probably put like 20%   or 30% of the budget in those images. So, these  look spot off. I thought I was going to rate this   higher. I'm now realizing I don't really like Cup  of Noodles that much. I understand the importance  

[18:13] of Cupa Noodle. People survived off this. That  said, I'm going to have to give it I feel a C   tier. Ooh, I say it's mid. I I give it I'll give  it a C tier. Remember, this is a competition about   finding the best. We have a lot of things to taste  here and there's a lot coming. So, I think this  

[18:26] deserves the spot it got. Moving on. Next up from  Red Dead Redemption 2, Pearson's Stew. We remember   no bear out in the plains of Austin today. But we  start by cutting our meat with a hunting knife, of  

[18:40] course. Season the taste with salt and pepper and  sear in a cast iron pot. Once brown, remove the   meat from the pot. Add some diced onions. Season  with salt to cook. Add in tomato paste. Caramelize   for a few minutes. Stir in the beeftock. Bring to  a boil. Then reduce to a simmer. Then you're going  

[18:52] to add potatoes, mushrooms, carrots, followed by  your meat. Cover and cook until tender. Serve in   a metal bowl and enjoy. As Pearson would say,  nothing like good honest labor. Back to work.   We have elk and venison in here. It does look very  nice. Oh boy, it smells gamey. That is very gamey.  

[19:09] a stew, but then there's like that deep grassy  almost ironike gameiness that is definitely   gnawing away at a positive experience. This is  very much survival food. You're going to make  

[19:23] I want another bite. We could have made it with  beef, but we wanted to make it lower accurate,   right? So, we used wild game. And it is gamey. I  don't know. I just I don't love it. I think a C   teacher solid. Moving on. Next up, another  Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with  

[19:38] hearty simmerred durian. Ah, durian. It is a fruit  that's known for a very strong and pungent scent,   to say the least. It's not one of my personal  favorites if I'm being flatout honest with you.   but you all voted for this. Thanks, I guess. I  don't know. I don't know why you did this to me,  

[19:56] but hey, Breath of the Wild. So, you cook durian  properly and you'll get breath of the well,   something else. We blended the durian into the  broth of this fruit stew. I get it. This is the   fastest and easiest way to get extra hearts. But  what did Chicken Ninja think of this recreation?  

[20:09] It looks too nice while looking delicious and  something I would order at a Michelin star   restaurant. It doesn't look like it was cooked in  a pot in the woods in Hyrule. You know, in terms   of it just giving me the video game vibes, I' i'd  put it more on like the C tier. I can see myself  

[20:25] eating this at a fivestar restaurant. Man, I'm  going to give this an A. I feel like this would   just absolutely start off the meal with a very  light and delicious way. Surprising to hear that   they would see this at a restaurant. How does  it actually stack up? This is way more stinky  

[20:39] than I thought it was going to be. I've actually  never had it. I've had it around me and whenever   I smell it, I'm like, I'm noting eating that.  It is very ripe and not in a lot of good ways.   It has spikes on it for a reason. It's meant as  a weapon. We just got to do this. It's not bad.

[20:56] It's not that bad, right? It's just like a fruity  flavor and then you're you're expelling like BO   and gasoline out your nose. F F tier. Would you  eat more bites of it? I would not have another   bite. I will then agree with F tier cuz I  would not have another bite of that. It's  

[21:10] Breath of the Wild. It wasn't that bad, but I  literally never want to eat that again. I know   people love it and I respect if you do love it. I  just don't. Moving on. Next up from Overcooked 2,  

[21:23] sushi. Basic sushi to be clear. This is the only  cooking game you gave enough votes to make it to   the top 25. Shout out to Cooking Mama and Dave  the Diver. But while sushi making may seem zen,   it's not an overcooked. You know, it's kind of  like working the line, working in a restaurant,  

[21:36] chopping, rolling, plating in controlled  chaos. You know, if you think about it,   this be enough to get us three stars and make the  onion king dance? I implore you, if you play this,  

[21:48] do not be on the same team with your significant  other or you may or may not have problems. It's   a basic sushi roll. It's not too crazy. I'm  not hating it. I'm not like in love. Yeah,   I'm going to put it at a B. It's not as impressive  as some of the other things we've had. So,  

[22:03] B tier. B tier. Moving on. From Halo Universe. You  wouldn't think there's food in here, but there's   rations aka MREs or meals ready to eat. You know,  you crashed your Pelican, you need a bite. Inside   the pouch is a single meal of pre-cooked food  that has been vacuum sealed so it doesn't spoil.  

[22:17] Obviously inspired from real military culinary,  I suppose. So we have real MREs here and we're   going to make them and taste them. My choice of  MRE for today will be the cheese tortillini and   tomato sauce. I'm going to go for the beef stew  because the other ones sound like I may or may  

[22:31] not vomit. Oh, what is going on in here? This  looks like a lunchable. Comes with a spoon. The   thing is with MREs though is they have to be super  high calorie. You're out there fighting the flood.   This is worse than IKEA. Look at this. Look, look,  look. It literally says to perch this up on a rock  

[22:45] or something. I [ __ ] you not. Rock or something.  This is technology, baby. We'll be back in 10 to   15 minutes. All right, we're removing from our  rock or something. It is hot, which is cool.   But the bottom part of mine is hot and the top is  cold. Yeah, mine's a little cold up top, too. Oh,  

[23:00] look, look, look. You just You could eat it right  out of the thing, right? Oh. Oh. Honestly, not as   bad as I thought it would be. Mine is not good. I  hate to say it cuz I know people are surviving off   of this. Like the potatoes actually taste like the  beef and the beef tastes like the potatoes. Like  

[23:13] it's the same texture. Yours is not half bad. A  step below Chef Boyardd. Do you want to vote on   this one then instead of that one? Cuz that's  obviously an F. This is F tier. I think this   deserves a D. If I had to eat this, I honestly  wouldn't be like terribly bummed. It obviously  

[23:25] needs salt. The pasta is terribly overcooked. But  honestly, for an M like this prepackaged thing,   I mean it is a tortillini. It's stuffed with  something. It's got a tomatoey flavor. You   can make it hot anywhere you want. Like that's  actually not bad. That is a D tier. Moving on.  

[23:39] Sims. This game is a personal favorite of my wife,  but we are doing the Sims grilled cheese. This may   be a secret aspiration in the game, but don't  worry, you're safe here. I mean, it's a grilled   as many grilled cheeses as you want. Just don't  burn them. Butter, America cheese, melted. It's  

[23:55] great. So, in the Sims, your goal as an aspiration  is eat 200 grilled cheeses in the lifetime of your   character. Easy. I've eaten thousand. Going to  eat 200 grilled cheese in a video game I feel   like would have me questioning what I'm doing  with my life. That's fair. Good grilled cheese.  

[24:10] It's the typical grilled cheese you would expect.  American cheese, white bread, toasted with butter.   A. I agree 100%. I'd eat that whole plate, but  my aspiration has already been accomplished, so I  

[24:22] don't need any more of those. Moving on. Next up,  Delicious Adeptus Temptation from Genchin Impact.   This might be the craziest recipe in the entire  video. The game calls it a rare and exquisite mix   of both land and sea, combining countless and  delicious delicacies. What the hell does that  

[24:37] mean? By countless, they weren't kidding. The game  calls for crab, shrimp, ham, mushrooms. But the   image shows a lot more happening. We follow the  YouTuber Chef Mar whose video on this is honestly   pretty incredible. Cabbage, crab, matake mushroom,  jinseng, Chinese gininoa ham, pork belly, shrimp,  

[24:51] crab meat, abalone, scallop, quail eggs. Covered  all with a broth made of duck, pork, and chicken.   foil. And this is the part that blows my mind.  Place in a steamer basket and cook for 3 to 4  

[25:05] hours. What? Why? Anyway, when it's done, garnish  with a few leaves of parsley. And there you have   it. You know, this could go many directions,  but there's only one way to find out. Let's   taste. This next dish is based on a real life  dish called Buddhist Temptation. And it is also  

[25:18] very smelly. Smells like a fish tank. I mean,  it looks really pretty. Smelly. Broth is good.   Nice and salty. It doesn't taste like seafood at  all. And it's not overpowering in one way or the   other. That's really nice. I'm going to try some  of the ham, too. I thought this was going to be  

[25:32] completely overcooked. Everything is like soft and  nice. This is honestly pretty great. The shrimp is   a little overcooked and dry, but the rest of it  really good. I want nothing to do with that quail   egg. Honestly, this is really good. I'm going  to give this I think a I was going to say it's  

[25:44] not quite S tier. The ham is tender. The pork  belly is tender. The flavor is, I would argue,   possibly perfect. Yeah, strong A tier. Moving on  from the original Pac-Man, the melon. The most   high value fruit Pac-Man can get. So, we went  with the most high-V value melon that we could  

[26:00] find. A $150 premium Japanese musk melon imported  from Japan. It is the finest melon in the world,   or at least considered to be. They get more  care than honestly the average person. Farmers   handpollinate the flowers with brushes. They even  massage the exterior of the melons to promote even  

[26:17] sweetness and a beautiful appearance. I'd say  this makes a 1,000 point melon at least. So,   let's taste. Everybody talks about the cherries.  The highest value you can get is the melon. So,   we have the one and only crown melon. This  is the most expensive treated better than  

[26:33] humans melon in human existence. They literally  put this on like a red velvet pillow. Oh man,   I just flung juice all over the table. Worth it.  100% worth it. We were talking about how we've   never had the really expensive fruit before and  we didn't think it would be an experience. This is  

[26:49] great. Honestly, this is the most flavorful melon  I've ever had. It's almost like candy level sweet,   but it's balanced. It's super juicy. This is the  juiciest piece of fruit I've ever had in my life.   This has to be way up there on the tier list. This  with taheen, I would probably take my pants off  

[27:03] if I'm being flat out. I feel crazy saying this  for a piece of fruit. I feel like this deserves   an S. That's S tier for me. This is the best melon  I've ever had. What do you want me to say? That's   an S. Moving on. Moving on to Spicy Eel from  Stardew Valley. For a game where food is so big,  

[27:16] these 8-bit images are not really doing it. I  honestly thought seafoam pudding or pink cake   would win, but you all voted for the spicy eel,  which actually only calls for two ingredients,   eel and hot pepper, which wow, that's what  does that mean? Hot pepper what? So, we took  

[27:30] inspiration from Allison's Wonderland recipes  and glazed our grilled eel with a spicy goch jang   sauce so we can earn plenty of speed and luck, but  also so it tasted good because that's really what   more recipes to become a true gourmet chef. That's  a That's a joke. We are actually almost done.  

[27:47] Stardew Valley is one of the bestselling games  of all time. Fun fact, here we have the spicy eel   with go junk sauce. One of our most highest voted  on the entire list. So, let's give it a rip. This  

[28:00] is another situation. Uhhuh. Where if it was with  rice, I want it on rice. Yeah. But if you've never   had unagi or eel, it's almost like a perfect fish  in a way, right? Like it's super tender. It's not   fishy at all. Fatty in a nice moisturizing way.  Melts in your mouth is the best way to put this.  

[28:14] Flaminana fish. And then the spicy sweet sauce.  Yeah, the gojong is perfect on it, but again   on its own. B tier. Strong be would eat again.  Moving on. Next up, Monster Hunter Chef's Choice   Platter. This got far and wide the most votes. And  I get it. If you're about to fight some monsters,  

[28:31] is chef's choice. But since Meowscular couldn't  be here to make those decisions, we recreated one   of his masterpieces, which is this. A whole ham  sliced. A stew with lobster tail. A big hunk of  

[28:45] cheese. Who knows what kind. Three massive grilled  skewers stuck into a pineapple. I don't know   why that is what was done. But shrimp, sausage,  pana, a massive pan of paella topped with prawns,   and of course a flag and a whatever we can eat,  we bring on the airship. But before we dig in,  

[29:00] what do Jake and Ninja think? Oh my goodness.  What a replica, though. Wow. Damn. I mean,   this is a feast and a half. You got the big old  bowl of rice with the muscles on top. Like you  

[29:12] really went the extra mile with this one, but  it was the skewers. That's what I was looking   to see. I do like lobster. I'm not a shrimp guy,  though. So, unfortunately, this dish isn't for me.   Looking at this, it looks delicious, but because  of all the shrimp, I have to give it a B. Look,  

[29:26] even though Josh didn't dress up as a cat and  do the big reveal, would love to see that. I   still definitely give this an S. Nailed it. A bit  divisive, but let's see what we think. This is   nuts. I guess we just dig in. We're just eating.  This is that Monster Hunter experience. Oh yeah,  

[29:41] that's a nice sweet shrimp. I like the char on it,  too. Mhm. The ham is super salty, but I don't mind   it. As long as you get a little rice. I'm pretty  happy with this. I'm kind of vibing with this.   town on. Honestly, for the amount of food that you  get for this dish, this is pretty high up here.  

[29:57] This is a straight beer. This is straight beer.  I'm not drinking that right now. And it's warm. Is   this really an S tier meal? Everything on here fun  to eat, exciting, having a good time, but really   it's just meat, meat, and more meat with a couple  of things, but it's just kind of random. It's not  

[30:11] exactly that cohesive. If a restaurant handed this  to you, most people would be like, "This is good,   being eaten? If I'm looking at the reality of the  culinary of this, I don't think it's an S tier cuz   there were other things in this that were S tiers  that were incredible on their own, and I wasn't  

[30:26] thinking of a damn thing. In coolness, it's an S  tier. To actually sit down and eat, it's an A. A   tier is good. But that being said, this is not the  end. We have something special for you. You see,   we have four S tiers, and that's a problem for  me. We want a number one. And the only way to  

[30:39] have that is with the one and only S tier showdown  to find our final S tier god. Let's find it. Wow.   The final countdown has arrived. What is in front  of me makes me feel sad because I don't want to  

[30:52] pick a winner. They're all really good. Why did  we do this to ourselves? We actually have to pick   a favorite. Let's do this. We're going to go down  the line one by one by one by one and we're going   to rate each one out of 10. Up first, butterbeer.  Now, remember, these are all good. In the world of  

[31:07] S tier, a one is like teetering on the verge. It's  basically almost an A. A 10 is on the highest end   of S. 3 2 1. Wow. Unanimous. We're in the right  headsp space. This one is hard cuz this is tied  

[31:20] to nostalgia. Wow. So good. It's also so balanced.  I wonder if we'll get the same one again. Oh no.   3 2 1. Yo, two double. Yellow. Let's go. Dude,  that's how I know that these are good. We are  

[31:33] on the right path here. Okay, these last two  are very hard though. I'm going straight in. H,   you know, after tasting that, I know the sweetness  is actually lost because those were a little bit   sweeter, if that makes sense. If I were to choose  between these three, which ones am I going back to  

[31:47] first? Is it going to be unanimous again? 3 2 1.  Oh, okay. Close enough. Close enough. We got one   for years. I'm not voting for it because I wanted  to win. This is truly how I feel about the taste  

[32:00] of it. So, this is going to need a 14 or higher  to win. Now, I'm going to eat this properly.   All right. So, I think you get a little bit of  meat, a little bit of rice, and then just go in.

[32:12] pretty close. Let's just do it. 3 2 1 Yes, we have  a winner. It is damn good. I might even round mine   up to a nine, honestly. It's just balanced. It's  nice. It's spicy. Like, the rice is good. Like,  

[32:26] everything about this is just really good. LeBlanc  Curry, our ultimate winner. Congratulations. But   playing a few just to celebrate. Let's go. I'll  send you my gamer tags. Subscribe. Love you  

[32:38] so much. And also, don't forget to check chef PK  out. He's been in our comment section for multiple   years and now he's here. You know, he even has  a food game of his own, Cooking with Chaos. So,   definitely give that a look. I know there are many  more video game foods out there. And after today,  

[32:51] I know they're all likely pretty dang good.  But especially a big thank you to the audience,   for everyone who watches, and helping us identify  all the most famous video game foods for us to   try. We love you. We appreciate you. This has been  fantastic. You killed it. It was great. Subscribe.