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Does Expensive Packaging Taste Better

2025-11-26 Entertainment
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Packaging Appeal Versus Product Taste: Soda, Chili Crisp, and Coffee Experiments

Discover whether products with cool, trendy designs actually taste better, or if slick marketing leads to flavor disappointment across common grocery items.

Short Summary

  • Outcome 1: Trendy packaging influenced initial visual preference across all tested categories (Soda, Chili Crisp, Lattes, Spreads).
  • Outcome 2: Taste preference frequently decoupled sharply from visual appeal, especially with specialized items like chili crisp and coffee.
  • Outcome 3: Price often increased significantly for the "trendy" options, yet taste quality did not consistently justify the premium.

This episode pits visual marketing against gustatory reality. Rhett and Link test four product categories—cola, chili crisp, canned lattes, and low-sugar chocolate spreads—purely based on packaging aesthetics before blindly tasting them to check for flavor correlation.

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Today, we see if packaging really makes things taste better. Thank you to Bombas for sponsoring this video! Head to https://bombas.yt.link/9w21FG9 and use code GMM20 at checkout for 20% off your first purchase. Watch today's GMMORE: https://youtu.be/UT5v1ZcVMJc Subscribe and click the bell icon so you'll know when we add a new episode! Want more GMM? This Season - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ49NV73ttrtx_-teWre_eYXdnIfnvFLU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ49NV73ttrsUefw67wH_pnEJ5KwJZ7lN https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ49NV73ttrt5-S0zrY0gAOUwZTywp1lJ Check Out Our Other Mythical Channels: Mythical Kitchen: https://youtube.com/mythicalkitchen Rhett & Link’s Wonderhole: https://youtube.com/rhettandlink Good Mythical MORE: https://youtube.com/goodmythicalmore Sporked: https://www.youtube.com/@sporked/ Don’t miss our weekly podcast, Ear Biscuits: https://applepodcasts.com/earbiscuits Join the Mythical Society: https://www.mythicalsociety.com Pick up official GMM and Mythical merch at https://mythical.com and https://www.amazon.com/mythical Submit your Wheel of Mythicality video here: https://mythic.al/GMMWheelVideo Tune in every Monday-Friday for a daily dose of fun and laughter. Watch two best friends eat truly unbelievable foods, explore surprising new products and trends, compete in original games with celebrity guests, try serious experiments in hilarious ways, and more. In the spirit of minimizing food waste associated with the filming of this series, Mythical is donating to the Hollywood Food Coalition who provide daily, nourishing meals to underserved communities in the Los Angeles area. Intro Motion Graphics by Fantoons https://www.fantoons.shop/ GMM #2933

Top Comments (10)

@GoodMythicalMORE 2025-11-26

We try to identify cereal by the sound it makes when you shake it on Good Mythical More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5v1ZcVMJc

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@itsmikeloll 2025-11-26

“give all the kids coke, it’s a party” - Rhett McLaughlin

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@gabiluch87 2025-11-26

The impromptu optometry tests are sending me... Rhett needs props and side quests in every chill episode

810 2 replies
@nuclearhazardzz5187 2025-11-26

Rhett calling link weird whilst amidst a random completely unrelated eye test during a taste test portion of the show 😂

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@clingycross3763 2025-11-26

Rhett asking link to do weird eye tricks and then getting mad and calling link weird is perfect for today 😂

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@kelslyn 2025-11-26

I love when Rhett asks if he can take things as if he doesn’t own part of the company.🤣🤣

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@bubbledoubletrouble 2025-11-26

14:29 "I'm trying to figure out what A2 milk is, but I'm just gonna say this is A2 dairy and that's probably gonna make my tummy happy because it says that at the top" Link is the perfect consumer and a marketer's dream

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@Mika-yn9mj 2025-11-26

Why hello Sean. Didn't realize you were on the episode today 😂 4:45

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@rexxx_13 2025-11-26

i know stevie meant $0.71 per ounce but no one reacting to her saying the Good Good was 71$ an ounce surprised me lmao

659 9 replies
@ilikecherries3866 2025-11-26

laoganma is the og chili crisp that started it all and you can't tell me otherwise

198 6 replies

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