US vs UK Food Wars Season 1 Marathon | Food Wars | Food Insider
We compared all the items from the same fast food chain in the US and UK to find out the big differences. As a bonus, Joe Avella and Harry Kersh recount some behind the scenes hiccups and favorite moments.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:20 McDonald’s
00:11:39 KFC
00:21:26 Domino’s
00:32:40 Subway
00:44:48 Burger King
00:57:00 Starbucks
01:10:53 Papa John’s
01:22:03 Taco Bell
01:37:11 Five Guys
01:52:06 Chipotle
2:07:45 Pizza Hut
2:24:13 Shake Shack
02:38:39 Dunkin’
02:59:02 Krispy Kreme
03:13:16 Wingstop
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US vs UK Food Wars Season 1 | Food Wars | Food Insider
can we get a behind the scene of you guys ordering these? lol
Would be hella cool lol
Look on Joe’s account
@@gibsonms oh damn
@@gibsonms Yeah do this
@@JoeAvella Hahaha what were the chances of you seeing this!!
This 3-hour video has more chemicals than our chemistry lessons that we take in FULL YEAR.
xd
not me :-)
Well any matter is techinaclly a chemical so
I didn’t know this video was 3hrs long oops I won’t watch the full thing now
@@opheliaelesse no one asked
Watching Harry and Joe, how Joe tries to prove US is better while Harry is just there listen attentively to the criticism honestly one of the most entertaining things on youtube
What I love about these videos is that there are people like me that when seeing the uk stuff just see that as the normal menu but then you’ve got Americans who see their menu as normal
yeah both of them are normal for the country there in
“Scones are actually eaten with cream or jam during an afternoon tea” The most British thing ever
Wait did you guys forget the raised pinkies and a fine lady to accompany maybe like insert your own (for this example just gonna plug Keira K)
@Rook the pinkie thing is like a fancy thing, you probably know that already. Zero clue about the other thing
"...CLOTTED cream..." ...mmmMMMmmm... I make a fool -- ok, a pig -- of myself when breakfast is served on the plane over to LHR. "Anyone doesn't want theirs?"
Both. Both is good
Im from the uk too, Scones with cream and jam and bagels with salmon and any cheese in existence, for lunch on a sunday is just perfect, and thats a cold hard fact.
2 factors in the UK that dictates fast food regulations; 1) UK has implemented portion control to control obesity, 2) UK/EU does not allow certain ingredients in their foods because it is not deemed fit for human consumption.
Indeed
US also has more freedom
@@meganf129 the freedom to become very obese that is
@@meganf129 No. America has fewer responsible and healthy limits set on it. America is like a child without a parent.
@@meganf129 Freedom to eat potentially dangerous chemicals, sure.
The hotdogs are easy to explain Joe. They cook on a flat top grill (the meat and presumably the bun is toasted there too), or in a fryer. Cooking them in water would add another cooking station (taking up more space and requiring another employee). Grilling them just adds a job for the existing grill cook, and spitting them gets them cooked more quickly than leaving them whole (roughly half the time). The other option, a rolling grill (like you'd see at convenience stores amongst other places) requires there to be constantly cooking dogs, and restaurant margins tend to be too close to potentially throw away food that way. Make it to order as quickly as possible while using the fewest number of employees, and cooking stations and the result is a grill fried split dog.
It's also a common DC thing, which is where 5 Guys originated.
Petting hotdigs on a Grill is toxic. They contain nitrite curing salt,which reacts very badly when you heat it up. Heartattack food
Half of the stuff when I worked at McDonald’s from July 2021-March 2022 is not there anymore from the US; like the parfait, the tenders, a butter chicken sandwich, the salads, the doughnuts, etc. they still have all the breakfast items though lol
People in the UK are always saving their calories for the pub and Cadbury chocolates.
I save mine for morning dunkin donuts lol - American
@Rook im not from the UK but i loveeee cadbury chocolates🙈
@Rook Cadbury chocolate is a real gem, everybody loves herein India
@Rook we even have stores that are just for Cadbury chocolate I went to one in Swindon a couple of years ago and it was awesome
@Rook we have this dookie heeshey and its always rasting off
The best part of this series is the exclusives section.
Agree 100%
Sure
@@JoeAvella It is cool to know that you started off as an Intern, now you run one of the most popular food shows on KZhead!
Totally agree
@@bwbuske Thanks. Uh, feels good that people like the show. As for its popularity, I've moved up to 'strangers point at my face and say 'do I know you?'' level of fame and it's pretty funny. A guy at my local grocery store said food wars is his favorite buzzfeed show, so that's something.
I like when they actually eat the food. It made me so sad when Joe said the wings smelled so good and he wanted to eat one but didn’t.
I remember when McDonalds milkshakes used to have different sizes and the large was like a big slurped size! It came in the same size as their large cup when they were styrofoam (and much better since it didn’t melt your ice in 10 mins like the plastic ones do). But boy, a large milkshake from McDonald’s back then was SO MUCH ice cream.
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Joe and Harry are the perfect pair for this
Harry Potter and draco malfoy
@@SHADOW_F_A_X omg
Lol... even their names sound native
@@SHADOW_F_A_X lmao literally what I was thinking
They are both absolutely what you picture when you think an 25-40ish year old man from their countries.
You can interpret the whole season in 2 ways : The UK Scams you or the US eats too much :)
This can be an and statement. The UK is more expensive for less product and the US eats too much.
@@alyssa5784 Cannot agree more
Also, USA food is made from an entire chemistry lab, not necessarily a bad thing though lmao.
@@josephmacklin2773 LOL
@@bratindasgupta9946 its because most of the chemicals are banned in EU, more fees and taxes, people in Europe eat less than in US and more. But these are the main reasons
Idk i just love listening to harry talk its so satisfying and joe is absolutely halarious
I’ve binged watched all of these, and I’m still rewatching this series
Their personalities are perfect
Really? I find the American dudes attitude and personality absolutely insufferable. Trying too hard to be cynical. Edit: Actually I think it’s just that he’s trying too hard in general... and it feels very fake and forced.
@@eukaryote-prime there’s always that one guy 😐
@@eukaryote-prime nah
@@eukaryote-prime And I think the British guy is uptight and would be horrible to hang around, don’t you agree? Absolutely horrible personality.
@@suhana8516 YUP
"IT'S MY SLEEPOVER AND I GET TO CHOOSE THE MOVIE"
I just realized I'd rather watch this than most movies.
@@mg0020 yep
@@spontexfans2700 yep
@@anujsingh79 yep
@@nbaeditz3968 yep
love love LURV you guys... omg got through that soooo quick and loved it..... subbed :o) much love and a very merry christmas to you all from Scotland xoxox
Oh boy, time to BINGE ANOTHER ONE!
The British guy is so metric-y And the American guy is so farenhiet-y You guys got the perfect people!👍
Thanks?
@@JoeAvella Yea, you look Farenhiety
Lol it is a compliment to both of you😂 I’m just saying you to are so different and it’s cool
The British guy is boring 😴.. the American guy is way more charismatic
@@essbenita nah, false
The only series I watched from Food Insider. Nothing less, nothing more.
Have you considered doing a USA vs AUS version of these. I think the differences would be just as surprising as the USA vs UK ones. Would also be hilarious comparing the prices.
This series is actually entertaining
You are first
What a relief!
i know
@@JoeAvella hello American person in this show
Because of food
That phrase "oh well" to the tumor chemical in pepperoni is basically the entire US not giving a carp
But… are they giving a bluegill?
Maybe they would give a salmon instead?
Perhaps a trout?
might give tuna tho
@@isaacchan8798 I canned with you rn 🤣
This is fascinating. I couldn't get away form it so I sat through the whole lot. It kept me up all night.
Thank for your comment,you must really love cooking very much ,I find your comment very nice ,I hope I can get to know you more ,what is your name and where are you from
I love watching ads every 10 minutes. Really helps fill out my day...
Joe naming all the chemicals every time is so amusing to watch XD
@Ur Mom it's just his reaction to all of them that cracks me up But it's also the give the message of how MANY chemicals are out in fast food....
@@RetroDestroyer ‘ oh if you don’t do any tomorrow that means three the next day near me not even ready well get me ready get ready you’re getting ready what is that what’s my hip what is it do you know yeah yeah yeah yeah castaways ahoy there what
@@toneverland1775 my brain died somewhere in those words
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Not to mention his ongoing hatred of banana peppers
I'M ABOUT TO HAVE THE BEST THREE HOURS OF MY LIFE
Ye
Let’s go🏁🏁
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@@JoeAvella I was worried abbt h fiu
The amount of willpower you guys have is incredible
I do not understand why, but those videos are very entertaining. thank you
this is one of the only accepted ways to spend your time watching a 3 hour video
Agreed!
This, and D&D streams
*if you think I’m about to sit here and watch three hours of two men break down some of my favourite fast food joints and make me feel bad for my overindulge then you certainly know me cause that’s exactly what I’m going to do*
i found this yesterday its addicting-
@@lbm5052 you should try the food ...
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thats what im doing
I actually work at an American Pizza Hut and to answer the uk’s wing street container question. It’s mix of efficiency for storage, both in store and the wings in the container, but primarily it allows for even distribution of sauce when tossing the wings in the container. Essentially we just close the lid after we put on the sauce and shake it around in a way that coats them evenly. The more you know
Time to binge watch!!
I love how he hyped up Domino's American only pizza and immediately spat it out 😂
Domino's is gross, it always tastes stale and the crust tastes like cardboard. I get it if you're on a budget 5$ for a large is solid, but other than that if you eat chain pizza in the states what are you doing? (This is based on the 10 or so states I have lived in in my life time, having never lived in a major city/metropolitan area for more than a few months), Most everywhere has local pizza places that are better and reasionably priced compared to chain food. Same can be said for all fast food imo.
Pizza hut is best for chain restaurants imo. But local pizzerias definitely have some of the best pizza you can get. Where I live the best pizza comes from a gas station lol.
@@kevinquinn7110 My favorite local pizza chain is hunt brothers Pizza
@@kevinquinn7110 pizza hut is the best if you like your pizza without sauce
If Domino’s is the best you’ve tasted, you must not have had Sbarro’s by the slice. It’s delicious.
I didn't even know we had half of these places in the UK.
Ye same, but they arent many and only in cities I think
Joe and Harry very easily and (without any hate) fully show the differences in our food portions and such.
Totally in love with Harry ❤ Love this show! Makes me hungry though 😂
I love food wars. I hope it goes on forever.
@Rook well.... I mean ....... Yeah.....
@Rook bruh that’s really rude for you to say that and you can’t just go hating another country. It’s like if I called your country too skinny.
@Rook alright dude I guess I’ll hate the uk for being so rude. Your not really setting a good example for the uk. And who said I was insulting you. No one is and you can hate whatever but does that mean you can just express them to other people?
@Rook “Your politics bore me. You have the demeanor of a pouty child, and apparently, you alienated my favorite daughter Gamora.”
Y’all need to take a chill pill istg
Everyone reading this, I’m British but I’ve worked in America, biscuits are like salty scones, so they’re bloody lovely with meat and gravy! It’s exactly the same recipe as making a scone but replace sugar with salt! Soooo good!
Sounds like American biscuits. We also have those with sausage gravy. :)
@@syndra5038 that’s… what he was saying…
@@FGxBeaver ok
@@syndra5038 💀
I thought biscuits were a synonym for cookies
As for the sizes of hamburgers, UK ones are similar to Japanese ones. However, we can’t get HP sauce to put on them. In addition, we can’t get malt vinegar to put on chips in Japanese MacDonald’s.
It is funny, when looking at the oil for the fries. Both of them used a oil blend. However they counted the oil as one thing on the UK said and a number of things on the US side
It's interesting watching this as an aussie, We have a seemingly random smattering taken from both it seems
But we do have chicken salt on KFC chips which other countries don't.
I think the most I learnt from this was that these places exist in the UK: wingstop, dunkin donuts, shake shack, chipotle. I was at least vaguely aware that taco bell and five guys was here, but I've never been to either. They just haven't been here that long!
The video is an excellent source of information.
3:14:16 "Not enough you say? I agree." 🤣
Within the last year, I've noticed the portions have gotten bigger for the US McDonalds. I would normally order a medium but one day I realized how big the medium fries and drink looked. So, I began ordering a small which looked exactly like a medium.
I read somewhere that most places (not necessarily fast food places, but like local restaurants) give you a large drink by default. Is that true?
@@toomessy the default is a medium which actually is the size of what a large was just a few years ago.
@@CinemaDoll137 Ah...thanks! Makes sense.
I still miss supersize. I also miss the “bucket of fries”
They do that because the burgers are smaller than original
You just saved me so much time switching between videos!
“Gonna die doing what I love: eating banned chemicals. Mmm!”😭 This sent me into orbit 😂😂😂
How they hold themselves back from sampling everything is impressive.
Did they though, did they? Lol
Not gonna lie. I tried a mcgriddle recently. It was freaking awesome. The bread alone awesome. I wished pancakes were made like this.
The bread is unreal cause it’s not bread it’s a pancake lol
it’s even better with the folded egg
@@asherwilliams in the shape of an English muffin
@@numbernine3436 no... in the shape of a pancake bro
@@SumtinSTINKS you're eating some weird ass pancakes
Well done guys! You blew up food insider, made a popular series, and displayed info for people who need it!
Love the editing
so much info since the dawn of internet and yet content creators and viewers enjoy watching/making comparisons between burgers.
Joe cracks me up, these guys are perfect for each other
This series is the most amazing of all the videos here, can't wait for season 2 if possible
Soon !
The best three hours in my life :)
Harry: I had fun shooting this- Joe: SAME! Harry: -one
Harry and Joe are the best when it comes to Food Wars. LONG LIVE UK AND USA! From Lithuania 🇱🇹🤝🇬🇧🤝🇺🇲 🍟🍔🍕🌭🥪🌮🥤
Great food war! Probably the Mcdonald’s episode was the best 🍟🍔
Yeah, by the way your DNA 🧬🧬🧬 videos are awesome man
@@temlee7865 thanks
Ok I don’t know for the people who want to know this but to put it simply in a Big Mac we put: - Big Mac sauce - pickles - onions - shredded lettuce - cheese - the buns Those are basically what we add in the meal tbh (of course excluding the meat patty)
Me watching this at 3 in the morning this makes me hungry continues to watch the full 3 hours
Welp I needed something to help keep me distracted from house work today, so I found this at the perfect time, 😂
Oh baby, lemme get the snacks ready for this 🍿
How dare they say the chicken legend can stay in the uk it’s godly
im always complete when i come back to this video and see harry as a 'biscuit'/scone
I will never stop laughing at how ridiculously huge our portion sizes are. God I love this country. Cheers from across the pond friends ✌
@Rook both, but I'm a proud American :)
You should be more concerned about all the gmos and additives in our food than the sizes. The US doesn't even use real sugar anymore, only high fructose corn syrup which is a genetically modified corn syrup, every other country including UK and Europe use sugar in their pop and sweets. It's very concerning
@@Willowtree82 I'm not concerned, I find it funny. People can eat what they want idgaf. If you're scared of GMO's don't eat em. Plenty of stuff uses real sugar, but sugar is also super bad for you. This is a feel good comment section. Buh bye
@Rook ok fortnite kid
@@PurestIcicle i’ve never seen a normal american like you before lol
Papa John and the day of reckoning 😂
Joe naming all of those chemicals every time they talk about it I crack up laughing :D lol I have some of these things in my country.
I think I'm vicariously gaining weight, but you guys are so fun that it's totally worth it! 😁👍
OMG!! When they showed the exclusives from the U.K...... Halloumi was one of the veggie options, so I paused the video to check what Halloumi was. After I was done I unpaused it and found Joe doing the exact same thing! I literally fell off my bed laughing! I guess I'm not the only one who had never heard of it!! Lmao 😂💖🤣
Imo halloumi when grilled tastes like chicken wrapped in bacon and it makes an excellent addition to all burgers
It is literally one of the best things you can taste
Thank for your comment,you must really love cooking very much ,I find your comment very nice ,I hope I can get to know you more ,what is your name and where are you from
Veggie, but def not vegan!
Give a clap for the editor because he has to type all of that
This was worth all 3 hours of my life
This is such a fascinating series, as a UKish person I'd always assumed that American portions were much larger, but it's actually quite hit and miss with a fair number seeming roughly equivalent, though you always have the larger drinks. Our BK did do a extra large drink for a couple of years at my local branch at the time. You could pay an add on charge to supersize your meal, and you got a 1.2 litre drink if I recall correctly. I used to hit BK on the way home and the drink would last me until sleep time lol. It was worth the extra, particularly with the mixing drink dispensers. Grape Fanta and Coke, or grape and Dr pepper. Man, I miss those big boi drinks! Can't believe all the instances of fry gate tho! Especially BK with the small and medium being identical, that's really naughty! No surprise that you can't put them in food when the butylate part is chemically similar to what coats tool handles as butyl rubber, and the end part is toluene, a heavily restricted solvent that's known to be carcinogenic. I'm not sure about the middle part, but the beginning and ending make me want to steer clear of it in my food.
I take it British people don’t like to eat much lol
@@Prettylama284they're just not fat asses. Their life doesn't revolve around food
I was never really interested in these videos when they came up in my recs, but for some reason, seeing them all compiled into a 3.5 hour video compelled me to watch...
I'm surprised you didn't mention Five Guys' main draw: you can get unlimited toppings at no extra charge, which might go a *little* way toward rationalizing the price. List of fresh ingreds = tomatoes, lettuce, raw and grilled onions, grilled mushrooms, green peppers and jalapenos.
Watching these videos make me so hungry
Harry is one of those guys who grows more and more handsome the more you look at him. Gorgeous smile!
This is way more entertaining than any movie on Netflix
Just if some of y’all were wondering about why there are no prices I have some guesses: One issue with adding prices and factoring in currency differences is that costs can be different depending on where you live within that country. Alaska, Hawaii, Utah and New York have different prices for the same food at whatever fast food place. Also currency exchange rates do fluctuate because that’s just how the economy works. Therefore it would not be reliable. I don’t know if this is why they didn’t add pricing and what not but this may be part of the reason why. Also it’s just an extra thing and takes more time and effort and the prices are all cheap and probably change often as well.
I’m a big fan of this channel
even though i just had dinner this video is making me hungry
I need more content from both these guys!
This is cool! Love your vids!
I used to work at Pizza Hut in the US in '02 and '03. The pan crust used to be made in the stores now it's all frozen. It may have had less ingredients than now.
Don’t be dissuaded from the famous bowl yall. It’s great! I just ordered two for delivery right now.
Harry&Joe honestly make my day Such selfless people which is what I love
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When they're comparing prices, are they even factoring in currency differences? Why don't they also say what the cost is in both currencies?
That’s actually a really good idea
I think it would take too much time
@@YT-revennX I mean they do take like 4 mins to read out every little ingredient so I think I'd be pretty easy
They do though like wat, they say the exchange price constantly in this video
Good idea, but they also already provide so much info. It'd be cool if they did it, but it's also fine if they don't. If you're really curious though, you can just research it yourself.
Amazing!!
this is a good way to make me hungry
Had no idea I needed this until now
I could listen to the UK guys voice forever without getting bothered.
Y'all need to try a famous bowl, they don't look great but they taste great. Also I remember getting corn on the cob in the US.
My favorite is the large iced latte, no sugar/flavoring, whole milk. The chicken tenders were not bad either.
Live in the U.S but that “Chicken Legend” that is an exclusive in the UK actually sounds and looks like something I would really enjoy, or at least I just want to try it to see how it tastes myself.
it is good, it comes with a choice of 3 sauces in the UK: Spicy Mayo, Cool Mayo (normal mayonnaise) or BBQ sauce. I usually get the BBQ one and ask for extra BBQ since the one they use in the kitchen (Smokey BBQ) is better than the sauce we use for the Selects (tenders for you guys I think in the US), the Spicy Mayo was my first legend and I had a Raspberry Ripple iced drink with it to cool my mouth down 😂
Amazing, a large drink in UK at Burger King is less than a small size drink in US...it is easy to spot where all the extra calories come from. And, yes, the fries are larger too.
N. R. Actually if you take the ice out of the u.s. drinks for fast food restaurants you will find it it is the same amount if not less then the amount in the UK drink cups. Fast food restaurants in the US when you go through the drive-thru put more ice in than soda to make it seem like you're getting more soda but you're not you actually getting less soda in the end.
Why does everyone think that drinks in the UK have no ice in... Whenever I go anywhere there is loads so I'm guessing its similar in the US, so stop trying to claim it's even. Just face that the US is fat
“Afternoon Tea” is the most British thing I’ve ever heard
After watching this I think I’m gonna be on a diet
Me too:)
Thanks to you guys, I learned mcdonalds fries are not gluten and dairy free (even though their allergen menu says they are). I just figured out why im broke out in hives on my face. So THANK YOU!!! ❤