5 Foods that Changed Fast Food Forever (ft. @mythicalkitchen)

Speaking of the history of fast food, does anyone else remember $1 menus?

I got to hear Dave Thomas speak several years ago at a business conference. He was telling about growing Wendy's. His VP's were saying they need to do a study on the best place to put their restaurants. Dave said "McDonald's already did that for us. Put a store across the street from them."

Josh seems to be the chef version of "They were so busy trying to see if they could, they didn't stop to think if they should", and I'm in love with the foodie chaos that has ensued.

The great thing about this video is we get to see Max just being Max "hanging out with a friend." We normally see him doing a great job as a professional presenter. Now we see him in a more spontaneous way, just being himself. And both Maxes are fun to watch!

Maybe Max should do a mini series: Cleaning Out the Pantry, in which he uses up leftovers from previous cooking adventures.

Dave Thomas was a good man. Orphan who dropped out of high school. Finally got a GED after his successes and philanthropic work with foster children.

One of my recent happy moments was discovering the mini fridge/freezer I have is the perfect temperature for the Frosty. Put a Frosty in a fridge, it melts. Put it in a freezer, it turns to a block of ice. Put it in that mini fridge's freezer... it stays the same consistency. This was a fun collab.

Honestly Max seems like one of the most genuinely personable YouTube personalities that I’ve ever come across. He seems absolutely born to be a show host. Quick witted with funny yet polite jokes, very G rated. It’s perfect.

Man it makes me happy how popular Max is. Been watching for years and finally he gets the recognition he deserves

You underestimate how much your audience loves you, we'd watch malt week

In the 90s, McD’s had 29c hamburger Tuesdays and 39c cheeseburger Wednesdays… my dad would come home with 20 hamburgers and drop the bag on the kitchen counter like he was dropping a mic.

I love their interaction. It's just si natural, just two guys having fun and nerding about food

17:00 I watched the Food That Built America episode on Dave Thomas and the guy was a genius. He invented the KFC bucket and the drive-through window. But my favorite story is how he had a problem with people not eating his two-patty burgers because they were bigger than the other burgers on the market. Everyone was eating his single patty burgers. So he added a three-patty burger to the menu, not so people would order it but because the two-patty burgers became the 'medium' option. This got everyone eating the two-patty burgers. That was a 300 IQ move right there.

5:36 That reaction to Henry Kissinger’s name by Max was absolute gold

Wait.... his flying starchman idea, animal fries in a bun, actually sounds bomb. Josh is a genius.

Chicken Parmigiana is a derivative of Veal Parmigiana, itself a derivative of the Italian Melanzane Alla Parmigiana. Veal was mostly used in the begining as it was essentially a waste product of the dairy industry in upstate New York combined with the fact that emerging Italian American restaurants in the early 20th century New York also had to compete with a sizeable German population and thus had to expand their repertoire. This can also be seen in the dish Veal Francese, which does not exist in Italy at all, but uses a very similar sauce to how cutlets are prepared in Germany. Before the cutlet was introduced, American Italians were already getting used to beef and tomato sauce together with Steak Alla Pizzaiola, an evolution of the Neapolitan pork based "Carne Alla Pizzaiola", which began to fall out of fashion when the Veal Parm started it's ascendency. Chicken gradually began to replace Veal during the late 1930s and then became the dominant meat after WW2, I'd imagine due to the spread and supply chain changes away from veal, but that's just my conjecture.

9:04 "I also ate some of the paper." Congratulations, Max. You've found the only carbohydrate present that doesn't have added salt or sugar.

HOLY SMOKES the happiness I felt seeing this. I hope Max gets to go on ‘Last Meals’ ❤

I would totally watch a Malt Week where Max just got weirder and weirder with each recipie as he slowly lost his mind in the malty madness.

I'm so glad you've come this far, Max! I was one of your first thousand subs, and now here you are at 2.2 million and eating burgers with Josh from Mythical. You deserve all of your success.