Honestly props for the Megalo-Mart employee straight-up admitting that their organic line was bs.

the guy who hooked hank up was one of the recovering alcoholics from the halfway house episode

"Maybe you cooked them wrong." "You don't know me, so I'll pretend I didn't hear that." Lmao!

I love how Hank's instinct is to take low-key offence to the idea that tomatoes have flavor

“If this is food, what have we been eating?!” Peggy out here asking the real questions.

I fear people don't appreciate the fact Hank said it was the best steak he had EVER eaten.

This scene is, like, the essence of what makes KoTH such a good show. Hank encounters a problem, has to interact with something or someone he's unfamiliar with and dislikes, but finds something he genuinely admires in spite of himself, before the process repeats. Like, it never feels mean-spirited without reason. Depicting characters as stereotypes, yes, but always with humanity.

Love how the episode ends with Mega-Lo Mart buying the co-op and switching it to their "mega-lo organic" brand. This episode is the perfect social commentary about big grocery chains.

I can attest, homegrown tomatoes taste infinitely better than any bought at the store.

As a kid, I thought KotH was kinda boring. As an adult, this is amazing.

I once grew tomatoes when I lived in Texas. The dirt there was hard baked clay. The tomato flavor was so intense that it overpowered everything else in the soup we used it in. I had no idea that tomatoes could have that much flavor. It was incredibly sharp and acidic, sweet, and very savory as well. Heaven forbid if we decided to dry them, they would be too strong to eat.

Hank pulled out of that parking lot like he was trying to score some bait.

"Sir, if it wasn't covered in blood, I'd shake your hand!" Such a good line!

"peggy, i think we need to say grace again."

Probably Peggy's best line. The delivery is so genuine LMAO

I love episodes where Hank gets exposed to hippie culture and ends up enjoying it somewhat

Hanks acting like it was a drug deal 😂

I like how both Appleseed and Lucky were the kinda guys Hank initially couldn't stand and then later became friends with greats bonds almost at a Dale, Bill, Boomhauer level. 😂❤

As a chef of 15 years, and having worked in food for 26, and having raised my own meat for almost a decade, I can definitely say the non-factory farmed foods are so much better that it's like comparing a penny to a diamond. Sadly, too many people are so far removed from where their food came from, that I've legit had customers in tears wondering why I have to butcher the goats we raise here, when I could just buy my meat at the store, and let them live. Like seriously, where in the 90 fucks do you think the store gets its meat from? If you've only ever had store bought food from the local chain grocery, then you really haven't tasted real food.

Since I saw this episode I’ve always wondered the reason why this guy knew about this place and still shopping at a regular grocery store

"Its the best steak I have ever eaten." I love the line delivery.

Man how I miss this show. Just simple pleasures like this, no outlandish gags. The ability to highlight the humor in such things takes so much talent

"Tomatoes don't have any flavor." Hank, I don't know what kind of tomatoes you've been eating, but they're definitely NOT tomatoes 😂

Yeah, I do wander what have they been eating if Hank thinks Tomatoes don't have flavor.

The funny thing is, ideally the members SHOULD be sharing their food with non-members. That's how you spread the word that having a membership really is worth it. Plus, you're buying for more people and that means more money.

Hank is lucky to have a co-op grocery story in his neighborhood

This episode was so far ahead of its time.

How does hank not have a hook up with a butcher already?

you go to a place where the food isn't industrial, such as Albania, and everything tastes like a gift from the heavens. Not to mention: usually very cheap, too.

"You could try our organic line, but I'm pretty sure that's just the same stuff with a different label." 🤣🤣🤣

Appleseed a real one for helping Hank

There’s nothing like a homegrown tomato.

Some people will do anything for high quality king of the hill clips.

This is why farmers should open up their own small town businesses because the food would always taste better because they take care of business like pros

Love how emotionlessly Hank says "this is the best steak I have ever eaten"

Hank is spot on. After buying locally raised beef, I knew I could never return to any store-bought meat.

I wish I lived in a world of Hank Hills.

the most self aware stuff hits you years later esp in comedy

It's amazing where having a tiny plot with a few tomato plants has taken me on my eating journey. I eventually graduated to bigger stuff like chickens. That's the gateway animal to the food conspiracy theories. Now I even have a few cows and their meat is hands down the best I can imagine...the milk too!

You know, its been so long since I've seen this episode and not just the clips, I completely forgot that Hank's first bag was bought for him by someone else. That explains why he had potatoes and tomatoes as well, when all he wanted was meat.

The phrase “minimally palatable product” comes to mind.

favorite episode cus Hank takes a huge leap of faith and is rewarded for it

The existential crisis Peggy was having when she asked that question is hilarious

Most co-ops are for profit, they just share the profit equally between shareholders (who are also workers at the co-op). Membership tends to get you discounts, but typically isn’t required to buy things. The real distinction between a co-op and a regular store is that a co-op pays out to the people doing the actual instead of some CEO somewhere.

I grew up country in North Carolina, so as a kid, this show was more relatable than most. Despite this show focusing so much on conservative rural America, it had no issue with ignoring political and social divides and focusing on right and wrong. As uncomfortable as some hippy coop would make an old school southerner, KOTH showed that yeah it’s weird and strange to your classic American conservative dad, but those organic coops approach to food was right and the places he’s most comfortable shopping at was wrong. If I remember the episode right, it touched on how profiteering by businesses can have a negative impact on the quality of our food. In a show designed to favor a right leaning audience, it’s tough to tell that message without it slapping you in the face and screaming of virtue signaling. They did stuff like that a lot throughout the show. That level of storytelling is rare to find.

Farmers should start counter-suing Monsanto for contaminating their farms with their weird genetically altered crap.

Hank didn't even thank Appleseed. That's out of character for him.

My stepdad grows his own heirloom tomatoes so all their reactions to tomatoes having flavor always make me laugh. I have never liked tomatoes in their normal form, only as ketchup or BBQ sauce. But recently I had a BLT made with my stepdad's homegrown tomatoes and I was amazed at how good it was. Maybe this explains why I have never liked steak. It has always seemed tough and flavorless to me.

Peggy poses a VERY GOOD question that I've been wondering more and more over the past few years...

Man, the amount of sacrifice that needs to be made in one's life to get quality food. Or you could just have a father who's a consultant and knows where to get the goods.

This is how it felt when I finally learned how to cook for myself.. god damn game changer.

The best representation of texas life in tv history

This is probably my favorite King of the Hill episode.

This clip is so true to society. people are used to being fed the same slop that they don't realize that there is a better version of what they're eating elsewhere. Either they don't know or they're not brave enough to try better quality food or don't care enough and are content with the style they have even if it's unhealthy. Indeed, the grass is greener on the other side and that grass keeps cows fed which in turn keeps us fed by eating the meat of said cow. Damn, now I want some steak. 🤤

I bought an old farm house in the city, it has a large lot so I have a garden in back. I started leaving my extras at the end of my driveway for the neighborhood. Covid hit and I decided to in the size of my garden and started leaving more and More. At the end of the fall people left me all kinds of notes and gifts thanking me.

I help organize a local farmers' market and one of the great perks is getting weekly access to stuff of this quality.

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This store episode proves how dedicated he is to steak.

Watermelon, that's homegrown, is heaven as well.

Okay but fr tho, once you shop at a co-op it makes it reeeaally hard to shop anywhere else. Co-ops are the best.

2:36 Mega-lo garbage.

omg that was good! I never really got into king of the hill back in the late 90's early 2000's. Sometimes I see some clips, just so funny. Maybe I was to young back then to get it.

King of the hill came out when I was a kid back in 1997. And it's still just as relevant today as it ever was. (and the fact it was cancelled to clear up the time-slot for the Cleveland Show makes me so mad)

I've never liked tomatoes (sue me) but when I was a teenager I grew some cherry tomato plants in pots on the back deck. They grew like crazy, I was harvesting tomatoes daily, a couple of times twice in one day, and while I didn't have any (again, I'm not a fan) my parents says they were some of the best tomatoes they'd ever had and just kept putting them on stuff

Hank out here stealing groceries and doing handoffs like drug deals

1:24 hank trying to comp is awesome never felt more like hank hill then this

Hank acting like a teenager asking an adult to buy him beer lmao

The elderly gentleman who runs a local gas station in my town will set out the harvest from his garden for patrons to take. You gotta watch out for worms, but damn if it isn't the best corn and tomatoes.

Hank bought steak like a drug deal 😂

“The suspense is killing me!” Lol

A while back, I cut snacks and alcohol off from my grocery list. And the money I saved from it, I applied it to buying better meat cuts, vegetables and fruits. I can say, my meals have never been so satisfying to eat. Never gone back from my decision.

From a country where all food is organic i found this clip hilarious, yes tomatoes have flavour to them

Hank treated it like a drug deal lol

Having lived on a farm, and having mostly eaten tomatoes from the grocery store as an adult, I can sympathize with both the "tomatoes don't have any flavor" line, and the line about tomatoes being heavenly. The difference between a fresh tomato and a tomato that's been sitting in storage for a while is insane. Fresh tomatoes are exquisite. Stored tomatoes are borderline cardboard.

Hard to believe this show is by the same man that brought us Beavis & Butthead.

Support your local butchers folks!❤

My buddy grew 60 years old heirloom tomatoes out of a patch of dirt blessed with his grandfather's ashes. Biggest tastiest tomatoes I've ever had the privilege to experience.

And then Hank discovered dry aging.

Living in western Pennsylvania i have the luxury of being able to go to various local butcher shops that get their meat from the farms in their respective areas. But i still go to the chains and just buy what they have, cause living pay to pay is a pain.

The animated television series King of the Hill was a well-received program. I eagerly anticipate the upcoming remake of the show.

Love how throughout the series Hank, while a traditional conservative, learns to appreciate the other ideologies. He realizes how mega corporations like Mega-Lo Mart make food an assembly line of blandness, and while there are sacrifices to be made, that a co-op can provide better quality, possibly more ethically. Ironically the other members outside of Appleseed end up becoming uncaring and materialistic when they learn of profit 😂

To answer Peggy, I’d say: steroids, pesticides, chemicals, hormones…..

Fun fact, tomatoes grown with fertilizer with phosphate in it are generally bigger, but don’t taste as good.

Really important message here. America has very poor food quality. Other countries literally have higher standards and at one point had a huge uproar in refusing to allow our meat from being sold there

My family has grown tomatoes as long as i can remember in our garden, so i genuinely didn't know store-bought tomatoes apparently aren't very good in comparison until I started reading the comments of this video. Those fuckers are easy to grow and will breed with anything so you gotta be careful. We had our breed with our green peppers (that was... not a fun surprise) and crossbreed with our cherry tomatoes for some weird medium tomato.

There is a reason Wagyu beef is so high quality. They treat their cows like royalty and you can caste it.

Hank: This had better be the best steak I've ever had in my life. *Takes bite* You got lucky

I remember when I bought apples at the farmers market in town and the first thing I said after eating one was “what kind of apples have I been eating this whole time?”

I like Hank, he's what a republican should be, more then that he's what people in general should be more like, he's firm in his beliefs but if he's proven wrong he's willing to change and accept that rather then stubbornly refusing.

As a Brit the tomato comment hits hard - they're flavourless when bought in the supermarket - when eaten fresh abroad they're amazing.

this episode ends with Hank fixing up the co-op. It becomes more popular as a result, and because of that popularity it’s purchased by Megalow Mart. They then sell the same bad meet as at bigger stores, just with a co-op label. King of the Hill is a great show

After seeing the version where they integrate the commercial, it's strange seeing the actual version again.

americans when they realize there are more than two types of cheese other than cheddar and swiss

With the acceleration of soil depletion, pretty soon most fruits and vegetables you buy at the regular grocery store will have less nutritional value than current iceberg lettuce. And now they are starting to sell chicken that has stringy tissue that does not even resemble meat anymore.

"Tomatoes don't have any flavour." Pretty sure thats one of those phrases that if you say it an Italian Grandmother drops dead somewhere in the world.

Food is like half cellulose now (wood pulp).

my boss straight up told me that our stores vinegar brand is just White House Brand with our label on it💀

2:07 you can see the happiness in his eyes

Wait until Hank finds out about lab grown meat replacing real meat.

I really detest how a lot of shows depict people who work in these kinds of places. Make them sound crazy and disconnected. I've worked with these people and they're often the only genuine people you ever interact with. Actually caring and giving a shit about themselves and other people and the community. not just trying to make a buck and survive.