Honest Try: Aunt Myrna's "Strings and Pegs"

[@angusmctwangstick4079]

Maybe this is just aunt Myrna's way of trying to stop Jack from returning to her house.

[@Mi_mcmuffin]

Aunt Myrna strikes again, her wrath bountiful, and indiscriminate. Woe upon ye, O haver of taste buds, who art to be destroyed.

[@xxparentaladvisoryx]

Aye! Thus, t’was fairly writ.

[@panqueque445]

Aunt Myrna really has a talent for getting whatever the hell she has in her pantry, throwing it together and calling it a recipe.

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Maybe that's how salt and pepper popcorn was invented.

[@jean-claude1350]

I'm sorry but your knife skills are amazing. Single handedly just cutting up the onion like that and into pretty dang even cubes has me shocked and amazed.

[@florianlassnig9769]

Wow, aunt myrna cooks up worse slop than king cobra!

[@emerybryant]

probably depression era weirdness.

[@lukeroyawesome]

I was not expecting a Joshua Graham reference as soon as I clicked on the video but I am not displeased in the slightest.

[@dayzeed]

aunt myrna is uninvited to the cookout

[@vikeif]

Every time he declares mouth mode, I hear Fox yell "All Range Mode!"

[@dennisscott1304]

So I cook recipes primarily from the 1940s, and I can probably shed some light on where this sort of thing comes from. Many recipes in the 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook involve making a white sauce out of butter, flour and milk. The recipes often call for miniscule quantities of spice, and rarely anything beyond salt and pepper, so I tend to add whatever smells good out of my moderately expansive spice rack (curry powder and rice go quite well with this sort of thing). Meats like chicken, tuna, crab, eggs (hard-boiled and mixed with the sauce on toast) or chipped beef are added, along with occasional vegetables like celery, peppers, etc. One recipe does include almonds and pimento. When everything has stewed in the sauce for around twenty minutes, the whole thing is placed in a 9×13 with breadcrumbs on top and baked for ~half an hour. The problem I see with Jack's interpretation of these types of recipes lies mostly in the fact that he relies on canned meat/vegetables/sauces like sour cream, and he doesn't get creative with adding complementary spices or other ingredients.

[@ExtraKawaii]

Are you insulting the gourmet cooking of our lord and savior jack scalfani?

[@Edax_Royeaux]

@@ExtraKawaii Has Jack started getting into gourmet now? Good for him!

[@akshatjain2775]

The somber background music really fits well with the kind of recipe it is.

[@kayaa5359]

Before you took a bite I immediately said "it's a bland underseasoned green bean casserole"

[@Keshlynne]

Sir, you are my hero for being able to chop so well one handed.

[@jukeproject]

"I guess mine is the lazier man's Strings and Pegs" - that was gold, thank you!!

[@Rabooie]

That Gerudo Valley transition when you got ready to crush Ritz crackers was WILD

[@cheer90099]

this is some really classic southern grandma stuff taken up to 11 lol

[@ExtraKawaii]

I love how you use old video game music in all your vids, and all the zelda music in this video made this a very pleasant internet pitstop

[@toffeejc]

How tf did you dice that onion better than me with only one hand😭

[@HonestTries]

chop hand stronk from jackposting

[@davidp2888]

I'd like to think that Aunt Myrna is just a character that Jack invented. These recipes are so bad, one can't help but think he just threw random stuff together and is trolling us. I guess we'll never really know.

[@sh4dowchas3r]

Jack doesn't get close to cooking his chicken but he bakes a thing, that maybe just needs warming up, for a hour.

[@Sololop]

You're a brave man. Hope you keep going and grow your channel.

[@jamesbezecny7745]

A bit late on the comment, but the deep fried butter at the state faire you mentioned (at least, assuming it's the one in the midwest I am from and that there aren't multiple state fairs with the same food options. You didn't mention it being on a stick, so I'm not 100% certain) was alright. It tasted like salted butter and batter as you would expect and I had to share it with friends to avoid an instant heart attack. At least they didn't put a bunch of powdered sugar on it like the deep fried candy bars.

[@LurasaPomya]

I could see this as one of those weird like 70's 80's takes on a casserole. I could also see this as a poor person's food. This is a lot like the stuff we ate when I was young and it was basically whatever we had to eat.

[@UHavABadConnection]

Recipes from the great depression is what this sounds like

[@vikramkrishnan6414]

Aunt Myrna's idea of cooking seems to involve mixing everything in her pantry with nary a care for man nor God.

[@dabanjo]

I get where she is going with this. I grew up with dishes like this. Green bean casserole is of this ilk. To improve the dish I would: mix the beans, corn, pimentos, and cream soup. Season to taste, probably seasoning salt or something. Spread into the pan. Cover with the crushed crackers, or fried onions. Bake it.

[@samuelsulavik6526]

We can't expect God to expose all of Aunt Myrnas attrocities

[@taylormah92]

Deep fried butter on a stick is the most American thing I've ever heard of

[@jillianmackay1290]

I hate... HATE green bean casserole, which this effectively is but is somehow worse. So much worse.

[@SCBusiness]

Aunt Myrna must own stock in canned pimentos.

[@Damnation2man]

Whole stick of butter for this small *** dish. ...I assume Aunt Myrna is dead, but it's truly a miracle that Jack is not. Edit: use half the butter, low sodium cream soup, replace the halved butter with maybe two-three tablespoons of olive oil, liberally season, add maybe half a pound ground turkey, and use ya know actual panko and not crackers and this could be okay.

[@benjaminbouyant2675]

this is made ten times as funny with the inclusion of Joshua Graham from Fallout New Vegas, which is an amazing game.

[@HonestTries]

I've been replaying it lately because of all the Joshua Graham memes I've been seeing. Truly was the best Fallout of the newer generations.

[@benjaminbouyant2675]

@@HonestTries please use Ai voices for intros

[@sarawilcox8122]

@@HonestTries I fall asleep most nights to the Fallout soundtrack stream.

[@HonestTries]

@@sarawilcox8122 love it. I love how NV used ambient tracks from past fallout games.

[@sarawilcox8122]

@@HonestTries yes!!!

[@taurbaby]

I actually went and bought a can of that corn…pretty good.

[@lauracrespo541]

The Gerudo Valley music while the pack of crackers is getting pulverized made me lose it for some reason lmfao Loved the video!

[@Hazel776FE]

so glad i found this channel very early on and im happy at how much its grown super fun to watch but i couldnt tell you why that is haha

[@starhk4719]

Ngl I watch your videos to sleep your voice and music is a perfect match

[@bradthunderpants3283]

Love ur channel man, so question, was aunt Myrna the one who made the fried rice without realizing youre supoosed to boil the rice first? Anyways that's my reccomendation Oh and also the intro surprised me and was fucking hilarious.

[@sleepythemis]

I'm late, but I think you're thinking of Kay's Cooking, another bad cooking content creator here on KZbin.

[@julieblair7472]

Green beans from your garden are called string beans. When they are mature, there is a tough string you have to pull out as you snap the bean in half before you cook them. So that's where the name comes from.

[@HonestTries]

Sometimes I'm so dry with my sarcasm that people don't understand I'm being sarcastic.

[@soHatey]

I can never get used to you yanks greasing your pans with some spray, gets me every time

[@yissssss]

We have something similar here. Deep fried snickerrs is fucking amazing.

[@HonestTries]

Snickers is best bar!

[@rcteg]

I was not expecting Joshua graham but that was hilarious

[@kimberlybaillargeon2575]

Aunt Myrna has to be an alcoholic right? She just throws these drunk as hell right?

[@verndogs]

I'm not sure if you've watched Chef Brian Tsao's reaction to different Cooking with Jack videos, but one of the common themes he has noticed is that Jack doesn't season at all

[@HonestTries]

I haven't, but yeah- I'm definitely noticing that.

[@russellchaney1397]

Man I was just playing ocrarina of time and this is the first video I watched after opening KZbin

[@samaleks4390]

If that’s all the stuff I had to work with, I’d probably just go to the store…

[@knocknockify]

Are you in Iowa? Because I'm in Iowa and only Iowa, as far as I know, have deep fried butter as a fair food at Iowa State Fair lol. And from sightings of Hyvee groceries channel, I'm willing to bet you're in Iowa lol

[@HonestTries]

Yep! Dsm!

[@Rue21341]

Oh god that intro was fire!

[@dall2341]

You could send this stuff to Ethiopia, and they would label it as an act of terrorism.

[@ThePixelated_kris]

The ocarina of time music at the intro hit different also you should try to make ratatouille the way they make it in the movie (assuming it’s possible)

[@formbi]

I did not expect to see Joshua Graham here xD

[@encarn]

I appreciate the mercy mutes. Think I commented that before. Enjoy everything you make. Keep it up dude, and thank you.

[@cardboard4929]

It's green bean casserole without entirely few green beans and no seasoning.

[@hoosierflatty6435]

lol your face when trying it out is always amusing. Fo sho some salt and pepper would've helped.

[@dariuslane6226]

I love that your so dedicated to your fans that you won’t put that camera down for anything, if the one ☝🏾 hand don’t work you’ll squat and turn lol. Not to mention willing to die trying these recipes 😂… Good shit my dude 💪🏾🦾

[@hoosierflatty6435]

The one-armed man returns. Always a bright spot of my day. Thanks man.

[@HonestTries]

🙏

[@yeahnahmate1611]

Yo can you try ' Whicken and Chaffels'? It would be great to get your reaction. Thanks you're doing gods work! 👍

[@madirose5019]

I can tell you have the same taste in games as me based on your video soundtracks 😅

[@DKizzle00]

If you smack the ‘popper’ on the lid of pimentos with the blunt end of your knife handle, hard enough to break that seal, you could’ve opened it single handed.

[@HonestTries]

I'll try this lifehack next time.

[@praisethesun69]

the name "strings and pegs" is just ugh it does not make me think of food

[@ItsEeeen]

A Link to the Past is my favourite game of all time.

[@captainsasquatch824]

Ok man, there is a new cooking with jack recipe.... Chicken Fries!!!!

[@lisatheboywonder6744]

He needs to find a random guy to do the recipe with so the whole video is one long uncomfortable interaction like the original video lol

[@Simnanigans]

Someone please send this man a tripod 🤣🤣

[@julianfischer6404]

Do Lazy Mans Meatball Enchillada next.

[@SpinalChamp]

Aunt Myrnas don't seezun dey food

[@necrogenesis1981]

August said this could almost be a recipe, and I can see it working with some changes and a lot of additions, get rid of the almonds, add seasoning of course, and I’d add meat or maybe potatoes to make it more substantial, and technically that would make it marginally healthier because you’re diluting the sodium in all of the processed shit.

[@harveymitchell2893]

Underrated channel. Keep it up

[@thesaintcroxx203]

Top tier game reference right there

[@mikel6989]

Are you talking about pimento cheese dip or a frito pie? Actually i found one that is 16oz sour cream, ranch dip mix, 1c cheddar and 1/4c bacon bits. that one sounds the best, and says to serve with frito scoops.

[@AtamanRuslanRFS]

Aunt Myrna strung up and pegged TWU

[@natchd]

toppest tier intro keep up the necessary work

[@bryanchan8888]

Hahah just get a phone stand my guy, im sure you can find those in any gadget store?

[@GhostofGriever]

Was Aunt Myrna maybe in construction? I feel like her recipes would be like a passable poor man's plaster or maybe if it's used to reseal a driveway...?

[@wacotablet1055]

Hearing you scoop the butter with the spoon made awful scratching noises. Listening to it was basically torture. Needed a mercy mute definitely.

[@skylar4335]

😂I got the fair reference! I’m a fellow Iowan myself

[@HonestTries]

@@skylar4335 Welcome!

[@Its_emily1995]

Please try something by Iron Wrath 444 like his garlic and eggs or his extreme tomato and garlic "spite" soup 😂

[@HonestTries]

Added it to the list, thanks!

[@HonestTries]

Holy shit, I just watched the garlic and eggs. That looks insane!

[@ehcmier]

Worst 7-layer [green]bean dip!

[@captainsasquatch824]

Oh I can't wait!!!!! This is going to be bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heck yeah more honest tries!!!!!!

[@JustAGroundhog]

Im just suprised that this recipe didnt call for a 2 pound bag of cheese and three sticks of butter

[@MichellePondueCruz]

Biggest state fair and butter on a stick? Minnesota?

[@HonestTries]

Should have said "one of the biggest". Iowa.

[@AdamS-nv5oo]

Must be in Minnesota

[@kfin45]

Can you check out his new chicken fries? Looks interesting and different.

[@dave4real]

Someone give this man a tripod please lol

[@ImAlwaysHere1]

This is a real recipe. It is Shoepeg Corn Casserole.

[@omgwtf999965]

stringbeans and shoepeg corn

[@AfterDark33]

I would honestly say this sounds like a recipe that was developed by someone or something as a “classier” 1970/80s version green bean casserole. I’d bet Aunt Myrna got this from the back of a magazine and forgot to include salt and pepper or whatever in the various components. The whole composition, as well as the name just feels a bit too corporately developed to be independently developed by Aunt Myrna.

[@HonestTries]

That's a great point. It could possibly be a cousin of magazine aspic culture.

[@porridge301]

@@HonestTries It's actually a recipe called shoepeg corn and green bean casserole and can be found on the internet. The recipes I looked at didn't have any pimentos though.

[@HonestTries]

@@porridge301 what is it with this woman and pimentos?

[@kingconcerto5860]

@@porridge301 Yes, because those recipes on the internet would have certainly been around before whatever recipe she stumbled across in the 1970's.

[@porridge301]

@@kingconcerto5860 It reminds me of something that was thought of during the depression and then more things (like sour cream) got added along the way. You know "fancy it up".

[@MrGallonath44]

A fellow Iowan I see.

[@bigdaddydons6241]

Call me a dead horse because im following Joshua on this one

[@karenconklin6372]

Another great video about a not-so-great recipe! If I didn't know better I'd think you've been making KZbin videos for a long time. They're very well put together. You are brave to try them 🤢😕🤮. Could you tell me the brand of knife you use? It's impressive that it cuts and chops food easily even when you're only using one hand.

[@mikel6989]

Uh how is this an honest try if you didn't mix the corn and green beans in a bowl first. But, because skipping steps is a cornerstone of jacks cooking, i'lll allow it. 🤣

[@slow_dancer45]

"I pray for the safety of all good people who come to Zion, even Gentiles, but we can’t expect God to do all the work."

[@UHavABadConnection]

So now I know you live in Texas. Our good old fry it and call it a recipe state fair

[@HonestTries]

Haha, should have said one of the biggest. Iowa.

[@RealSiViX]

I don't think I'd eat a deep-fried stick of butter even if I was starving... The thought of biting into a stick of butter is nausea-inducing for me...

[@scholbe]

The butter just melts into the batter. Still gross though.

[@dancing_odie]

He puts the phone in his mouth to open the pimentos and then still edits in a cut. Just put the phone down and use two hand and edit it all put. You don't have to show yourself opening a jar. I believe you did it

[@HonestTries]

B-but... the Phil Collins joke... 😢

[@emulaplayz6818]

This is not my aunt who is she

[@timcarroll1033]

Can we get this man a go pro so he can use both hands? Or actually breath when he needs to use both lol

[@emilyvanmoslfak2295]

Is it really that hard to mount the camera top down above your work surface?

[@SwissMarksman]

This guy risks his integrity and life to eat those food & people bitch about Camera mounting.

[@HonestTries]

It is definitely more annoying to watch now because I got a new phone and put the pop socket in a different spot so it's not central. I'll try and figure it out.

[@dancing_odie]

Do u live in Iowa?

[@HonestTries]

Ye

[@startrooper2345]

@@HonestTries I was thinking texas

[@v-kunmakesstuff]

here i was thinking minnesota

[@flygirl6048]

​@@v-kunmakesstuff MN has the largest state fair, competing with Texas

[@imcarlabee]

Don't eat it! Noooo

[@MrCobalt]

If you really wanted to honor Masaokis (Cooking with Hoarders), you should have held the camera with your mouth while two-handing that pimento jar, all while speaking muffled and incoherently.

[@KaseyWynne]

Strings and pegs=string beans and shoepeg corn. Strings and pegs.

[@daneen2fabulous]

I have but 3 observations: 1-you cut onions like Amberlynn Reid; 2-I'm convinced Aunt Myrna hates Jack and 3-Someone please buy this man a tripod 🤣

[@HonestTries]

Amberlynn Reid also cuts one handed?

[@daneen2fabulous]

@@HonestTries She looks like she cuts them with her feet to be honest lol