Our food has MORE CALORIES than Europe's?
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The UK is certainly not a benchmark for good eating. If you had compared it with, say, Spain or Italy, it would have been even more devastating.
Italy is high in carbs,why do woman suddenly balloon in size.
@@michaelayling8855 I don't think so honestly, I'm from Italy and very few women are balloon/like cause of carbs, instead is a biological thing, please check it out with more attention the next time you'll visit Italy, you'll probably change your idea about it...
That’s not true. We live on mostly local fresh food. We grow our own vegetables and fruit. Buy local meat etc.
True its just compairing fatland n1 and 2..
I'm a Portuguese living in Spain and though you are right, I don't think Spain is even healthy since everything is fried xp
Ryan...forget the calories.....the most frightening thing in your food is the NON FOOD ingredients! You should check out your chemicals!
Your USA McDonald's French Fries have 27 ingredients!
They're just fried potatoes....or should be!
Ours have 3 ingredients potatoes, vegetable oil and a bit of salt.
And do Americans even know what 'good' cheese should taste like? (And NOT those 'plastic' squares that get thrown on burgers or hot dogs in the US)... Just saying! lol 😎
like yoga mat material in bread ...
@@stewedfishproductions7959 no one in the US ,but cheese on hotdogs and We do have imported cheeses in the US, all travelers got to the wrong section to look for cheese, Hint, it is not in the fridge section here, where all visits see it, it is at the stores Deli, and it is sliced to order, I never buy it in grocer store myself, as I live 4 miles from the Crowley Cheese factory and I get all my cheese there.
@@marydavis5234 did you know cheddar is a British cheese? And proper cheddar is a creamy white colour not orange, the British orange cheddar is called coloured cheddar, but the normal one is more popular.
Whilst their McDonald's fries do have a longer ingredients list (it isn't close to 27 ingredients long though, and the US list is inflated because they use several types of vegetable oil, but in the US they list each type of vegetable oil individually, rather than in the UK where they just put "Vegetable oil" so they can claim three ingredients)... They also taste so much better than our McDonald's fries.
Anybody old enough to remember what McDonald's fries in the UK tasted like in the 1970s and/or 80s, back when McDonald's used to fry in a beef tallow, will understand what I'm talking about. And that is the primary difference in the ingredients, to create that beef flavour that you don't get from plain vegetable oil.
Personally, given the choice, I'd like to see them go back to frying in beef tallow, but that just will not happen in the UK. Frankly, the US fries don't have anything in them that should scare you... That isn't true of all food in the US, or the UK. I'm just fed up of people spreading food fears by spreading the endless lies that still circulate on the Internet about McDonald's fries in the US.
Mind you that this is comparing the US with the UK, which is one of the fattest country in Europe, if compared with other countries, the differences are even bigger
i dont think brittens weight problem its their mc donalds or other fastfood chainsi think its the overall britisch traditional foods
indian butter chicken english breakfeast they eat like its an ice age
@@YukiTheOkami You should visit and learn the language.
Yes, well, the typical British breakfast is basically flavored fat. I'll never understand how people can stuff beans and sausages away in the morning.
@@jbird4478 no worse than fried chicken covered in sugar I suppose
@@101steel4 lol...ya...or do it the american way...grew those chickens on a high fat and antibiotics dietput the cadavers in a vacume chamber and inject a bunch of chemicals so thay look lovly an juicy...roll them in sugar and fry...
"Don't eat a whole pizza".
Dude, when I was still working out i sometimes ate 2. And i was skinny.
I'm from italy and people always eat the whole pizza. However a good italian pizza tends to be big in diameter, but slim with way less dough compared to those from most other places..
I just looked it up. A normal italian pizza starts at around 800 calories. That explains a lot. It even explains why it tastes better in my opinion.
The easiest way to ruin a pizza is by putting too much stuff on it, yet everybody does it..
Yeah but you can't compare real Italian pizza to the garbage at these fast food places.
You should know by now that the only thing the US american pizza shares with the real italian pizza is the name. 😄
@@Mindcrawler23 It's not just the amount of stuff on it. It's also the quality of the stuff that's on it. These fast food type pizza are just packed with highly processed junk.
A world without pizza would not be worth living. Great and everlasting thanks to the great Italy! 🍕❤
It's always funny when they compare the US with the UK, of all places. The most similar in Europe; it's like they don't wanna give them a heart-attack, so they ease them in with easy mode 😂
So true. UK is known for a rather high obesity rate. Imagine they would compare the USA to the one in EU with the lowest rate (don't know which of the countries would be that but there must be a statistic out there) ;-)
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@@nothingTVatYT lowest obesity rates in Europe; Italy with 10,7%, Romania 10,8% and Bulgaria 11,9% (compared to UK with 25,9%)
Yes, everything that is bad with American food is imported from the UK from the start. It's just that Americans have managed to make in even more unhealthier.
I`m from Romania and the first time Starbucks opened shop here, in 2007-2008, one of my best friends, who used to work on cruise ships all over the Caribbean, convinced me to go and try a Venti Caramel Frappuccino, which was not cheap considering where Romania was economically back in 2008. I think I could have had a whole lunch meal for the price of that concoction. I had no idea that fraps are actually a form of liquid cake, certainly not a type of coffee. I had maybe half of it, I could not see myself finishing it, not even 4-5 hours later, it was simply too sweet. So sweet I could actually feel cavities forming in my teeth. Needless to say, I never bought another one again. Why do these things exist? Just have a nice cake instead AND an espresso.
100% agree. I’m from the Netherlands and after hearing about the craze years ago, I ordered a Frappuccino and the only thing I’ve ordered since is a plain black coffee. I don’t even like sugar in my coffee, so I don’t know what I was thinking.
People complain about red bulls being unhealthy, but in comparison to Starbucks it’s basically a salad. People over here generally drink water or tea during the day, with maybe a soft drink with lunch or whatever. I can imagine getting obese if four drinks put you at the recommended intake per day.
I went to Starbucks once, didn't finish my coffee and never went back.....
@@AnagramGinger I'm Dutch too and love my coffee strong and black without anything in it. Usually all places you can get coffee here the coffee isn't strong enough to my taste anyway I always prefer my own homemade coffee.
Starbucks capuccino is actualy just sugar and cream.... I don t like it. I love coffee but black...
you can have my espresso, I want a small cold mocha please 😁😁 (I LOOOOVE Starbucks)
One proper pizza margherita in Italy has around 750 kcal. That is less than half the calories of Domino's pizza. That's why one eats the entire pizza himself over here. Ans it's healthy too!
White flour (high in rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, low in fibers) and cheese (high in saturated fat) isn't exactly healthy though. That little bit of tomato and a leaf of basil won't save the day. It sure won't kill you (as opposed to the Pappa Joes), but you should consider throwing in a pizza quattro stagioni every once in a while to get some vitamins ;-)
@@berndbrotify hate to break this to you, but cheese is hardly the main ingredient of a decent Italian pizza (hey, many of us don't even eat cheese on pizza, but prefer it in its tomatesque glory as a marinara). I'm sorry for whatever surrogate you were made to eat.
@@berndbrotify 😂😂😂 We don't feed uniquely on pizza, you know
@@berndbrotify carbs are essential to a healthy diet and it’s not like a pizza is made only of carbs and fat. It’s made of around 750-800 kcal with plenty of other possibilities of integrating the rest of nutrients via the rest of the daily calories intake.
@@setsukasakurazuka414 I'm pretty sure the Pizza I had in Naples and Rome last year was pretty decent, even though my host in Naples told me that Pizza Romana is cazzo ;-)
As I said, eating a pizza once in a while (as opposed to the stuff they showed in the video) won't kill you. But that doesn't make it exactly healthy either.
Many Americans eat a takeaway practically every day, rather than as a treat once in a while.
I saw a video these days from a German vlogger living in San Diego. He said, one of the things he misses is walking to and visiting a random restaurant with friends, because the food quality in some restaurants in the USA isn't that good. So the people prefer visiting big fast food chains, because the food quality is better there. Getting too many calories is a side effect of this.
Additionally many fast food restaurants are not in walkable distance, so they have to use the car.
The vlogger himself cooks a lot for himself at home.
🖐👴
@@OpaSpielt so sad
Yes. As a non American I very rarely eat out. I prefer to cook.
They don't know how to use a Stove, the first question they ask on, House Hunters, And house Hunters International. Where is the Closest reataurant..
The Toyota Camry Sold in America, is Sold With Fat Seats, compared to the rest of the world..
@@graemejohnson9025 true, my cousin lives on one of those gated communities in florida. They run a cafe and also deliver food to the residents.
Many go in every day, if not get it delivered.
He did say their ovens look brand new 🤣
Every European eating 1 pizza each
As a French, I've never seen a pizza cut in 10
true, I can't imagine sharing a pizza :D
I cut them in 4 but more for the convenience of eating it.
It's not a problem. Italian pizza is just as big, but American pizza has a much thicker crust, except for the tons of "cheese" (or what they think it is). I wouldn't be able to make half of one.
In Europe, we all eat a whole one person pizza. In the US, the one person pizza is enough for two adults used to European food portions. A friend of mine went on vacation in Florida with three of his friends. They were super hungry one day, and ordered a big pig pizz. They couldn't believe the size of the thing! The medium size pizza would have been more than enough for those four extremely hungry and food loving young men.
@@mordador2702 I cut them in 8 pieces, partly beause it is easy cut the 4rd into 8ths. but also it's a very easier way to eat. Änd you get more pieces in your ref for the second däy (we Europeans, and Finland is also a European country, we are in NATO now, for fuck's sake, don't like to eat the whole pizza at once). We save some of it to "Dagen efter or kankkuseen or in American (English) Hangover".
1:52 it's not the fat that's the problem. it's the sugar in drinks those make hungry very soon and spike blood sugar / insulin
There is sugar in everything even meat meals. Thats's the reason I cook for myself I want to know what's inside.
I think the amount of trans fats / saturated fats are a big part of the problem though, together with sugar, corn starch/syrup and too many additives.
@@aichohvee no, fat saturates. keto couldn't work without a big part of calory intake via fat and you lose weight with keto.
fat is necessary to solve crucial vitamins which you couldn't absorb otherwise.
sugar is completely unnecessary and just a treat .. untill taken in too high amounts (pretty much everyone eats too much of it) then it becomes a serious problem for the body
If it was sugar it was a lesser problem, but it is corn sirup
@@kasper2970 yes it's worse (fructose) because it's metabolized in the liver (leading to fatty liver disease 1:1 as if you're a strong alcoholic) but it's still sugar and that alone is already enough of a problem.
i.e. i ate 95% of the days in the last 26 months low carb .. and lost 22 kilo weight .. started to eat carbs on the regular again 2 months ago and gained 6 kilo
You can put on the pack of sugar "contains no fat". You're not saying anything wrong with that. But when you eat it, it turns into fat. That's where the problem arises.
HARIBO. Fat free pork gelatin snacks since 1920!
There are also gelantin from fishs and beefs. But mostly from pork here in Germany.
I'll never understand that Starbucks hype, it's horrible sugar drinks. As a teenager I thought Starbucks was cool but now I'm like, why the f would you drink that? There's plenty of good cafes in Germany with better coffee for less money - no sugar and still tastes so good.
Even the cappuccino in McCaffees or in any train station tastes significantly better than this stuff. In our case, there are also only young people in there who love sweet stuff.
I also had the worst iced coffee I have ever tasted. It was so full of ice I felt I was drinking coffee flavoured water.
Like this uggly Bubble teas, my daughters where addicted for 2 years, new shops. Shugarwater with chemical Bubbles🤦
I bought one Starbucks drink, it was huge and I couldn't drink all of it, it was so sweet I thought I was going to have a seizure or something.. 👎🏻
It is by definition not even coffee.....
A pasta with sauce has less calories than an American milkshake!!
100 gr. of pasta al pomodoro are just 380 calories.
Almost all Italian food has less calories than that milk shake... Probably even our pizza.
Maybe kerosene too...
hey a half gallon of ice cream and a cream and extra sugar is the taste of freedom! XD
....all that fat and sugar will probably put you in a wheelchair ......now that's freedom , isn't it 😂😂😂😂😂
Often times the calories count is not the worst part. Comparing the actual ingredients is where it gets super scary.
Also to be fair, Europeans can get away with fast food etc more often as we tend to walk more (my daily average is 7-8 kilometers and that's just going to/from work, to a supermarket etc. Just the everyday things). In US you are way too dependent on your cars (
due to poor city planning mainly and absent public transport) so the extra calories have no way to be burned off and start to pile up.
In the US at one point it was revealed that the ground "meat" at Taco Bell had a large percentage of sand as a filler. The "chicken" in one of the Subway chicken sandwiches (the one that was formed to look like a flat chicken breast) contained only about 1/2 real chicken. You really have troubles trusting the contents of USA foods, in general. When available, make sure you check the labels.
"Often times the calories count is not the worst part. Comparing the actual ingredients is where it gets super scary."
McDo wouldn't be allowed to sell their US fries in the EU. Skittles are different in the EU and US due to the colouring ingredients. If I'm not mistaken, the US still has 1 colour that European simply do not have. American bread must be labelled as cake in the EU due to the amount of sugar.
While not a perfect institution by any means, I'm happy the EU exists.
In the US cities are made to be car convenient (don't know a better word) while where I live for example (Netherlands) cities are made to deter car driving (meaning you get somewhere quicker with a bicycle than a car) and you end up with more people walking, less traffic and alot of people on bikes. And also public transport is alot quicker because there are less cars on the roads in cities and ofcourse you have the metros and trams.
We also tend to eat fast food less often in europe.
As for the cup difference of the milkshake: at least here in Germany we try to go plastic free. Ordered 4 McDonalds meals a little ago and was able to throw everything in the paperbin afterwards (wrappers, cups, straws, bags) which feels great. :)
Yeeaaahhhh... The cups definitely have plastic in them. Don't throw them in the paper trash.
Sorry, I messed up things while being partically asleep while writing (we get the Mehrweg-cup option to go). Thank you for the correction!
The newer cups from mc donalds come with descreased plastic compared to the US and only 1 thin lining (mostly "bio-plastic") inside to make recycling a lot easier (mc donalds normally takes the used cups back and turns them into books and things with their internal system to reuse most of them).
My brain was stuck on the paper lids ours offer at the moment which can go into the blue bin, brainfart. ^^"
You need to be carefull with paper packages, when it comes to liquids or aromas. The have to have a metal or plastic lining inside, to contain the liquid / aroma. If its organic plastic it might, be better (not sure about that) but the recycling of thes compostit materials is much more difficult than is simple plastic one. Imprints ( colors) are often problematic as well.
While I totally agree on saving on plastic, there are things that were are from plastic for a reason. Ever tried to drink a milkshake through a paper straw?
I also still have plastic shopping bags. For the simple reason that they are reusable. And can get wet without disintegrating.
You guys drink more Starbucks coffee than Europeans. We either make it at home or buy an espresso or a regular from a coffee shop. And you also tend to eat more often fast food meals. In the city where I live in Germany, we have just regular MC Donalds, no drive thru.
Yep. Coffee maker at home, no milk, no sugar. Though I do use coffee cream sometimes.
Starbucks coffee is just brown water compared to what Europeans drink
@@UltraCasualPenguin I make it Turkish style with sugar at home
@@kmeanxneth For real... 12 years ago, when Starbucks was fresh in Romania, I went with some friends to test it... omg, such a garbage taste. I couldn't drink it, I just threw it away. I used to drink Illy when I lived there. Strong real coffee...
oh yeah, my espresso maker is OP, dont know how I could live without it.. 2 cups in the morning into my to go cup and I am ready..
In japan the biggest menu size at McDonald's is the same size as the smallest size in the US.
If you live in Japan, why the fuck do you go to a McDonald ?
You picked up a point about the cups in McDonalds. Here in the UK we are trying to move away from single use plastic cups, hence the old cardboard type cups.
stop calling Starbucks coffee its just cream and sugar i drink my coffee black 1 cup is 2 cal
A big cup contains two espresso shots, it's just diluted with cream and sugar, but it still has the coffee and the caffeine.
Speaking about who gets the better deal solely on food-to-money-ratio, when that deal includes being fat, getting diabetes while you have to pay for your own insulin, and in the end die earlier, sort of reflects the difference between American "All you can eat"-buffets and European "All you want to eat"-buffets.
Worth mentioning here: Even when they still were members of the EU.
They were allowed to use stuff in their food that is banned in the EU.
Best example for that I can think of is McDonald's.
EU patty = minced 100% beef
UK patty = minced meat scraps glued together with meat glue...same as in the U.S.
That and the additives is why you feel sick after McDo.
You won't feel that way in France or Germany after McDo...
As others have said, it's not the calories itself that are the most important here, it's that every 1 additive that a food has in Europe there's like 10+ for the US variant
It was a comparison between US and UK, not US - Europe. The reality is much more bad since UK is basically one of the unhealthiest countries in Europe when it comes to diet.
The thing is I wouldn’t say the UK represents Europe.
Yes, the UK was part of the EU, yes the UK is in Europe but that’s about it. Their food and their people are not comparable with continental Europe, the UK is often referred to as „little USA“ since the mindset and also food standards are kind of closer to the US than to continental Europe. You’d have to compare items from France, Spain, Germany, Austria and so on with the US to get a better picture
Our food standards are much higher than America with much tighter controls and lots of banned ingredients that are no banned in America
The difference between US and Europe is not only bigger portions, but also the ingredients. American food is usually more processed, contains more sugar, salt, and other things. I mean, your bread is really too sweet for my taste!
I remember visiting US and using a lot of salt on the bread during hotel breakfast. One day they pulled a joke on us and hid all the salt.
Phew... I think, I just gained a kilo from watching the video. 🤣 I'll stare at some photos of veggies for at least 30 minutes now for compensation.😜
After two days in the US my body and mind demanded veggies and fruit!
Fresh stuff! Not the juice from green oranges with six table spoons of sugar to mask the sour taste.
I eat an apple in between, or a pear, they eat candy bars!
it always amaze me how coffe has like 500 cals, in Polnad most popular coffe has 0 calories (bcs its just dark coffe with water)
In USA you do not pay employees fair amount of money. You do not have payed vacations, free medicare or anything else. In Finland we have free education, free healthcare, but you have gun
violence instead. In Finland a 7 years old can safely travel to school. One can walk alone safely to school (up to 1 mile) , or go to school-taxi, or go to public buss.
By the way - tourists/visitors to ITALY - FYI: In Italy (and also Sicily) it's the 'NORM' for Italians to eat pizza with a KNIFE and FORK, in the house, at the table. It is GENERALLY expected in a formal restaurant and you would ONLY eat 'street pizza' (“al taglio”) from a stall, with your hands... Americans especially, often get it WRONG (but hey! Italians don't expect anything LESS - lol!). 😎
I am English and I’m horrified that you eat it with a knife and fork. I was teaching young Italian students English in the summer holidays in the 70s. I had been eating pizza with a knife and fork, and then felt very embarrassed when I saw them eating it by the slice . I just think of it is as Italian finger food. I’m also appalled to have just found out that chips are often served on top of pizzas in Italy. In Italy. !!! Crime against Italian foid.
I live in Veneto, near Venice, and we all eat pizzas with the hands (especially if at home), there are only a few who uses the knife and the fork only because they don't want to dirt their hands. I agree that in restaurants it may be different but even then, I mostly just saw people eat with their hands.
When I was in the US I was shocked about the amount of large milkshake/coffee/soda cups people carry while walking on the street: soooooo much sugar and soooooooo many needless calories 😅
Hey, burger king is actually my favourite burger place over here! Also, EU is banning single used plastics one at a time, so that's why we still use the cardboard drink cups.
Try the crunch burger
The go to drink for me is water… from the faucet. I almost never drink soda
The worst thing is people feed this over-processed junk food to their children, giving them a sweet tooth, and not introducing them to healthy options. Then they wonder why they grow up fat and unhealthy. Sadly, some parents in the UK are going down that path too.
Let's be real processed food is often easier to get and also often cheaper then their healthier counterparts. You can see it too the poor and lower middle class is more overweight then those having lots of money. It's a vicious cycle too because the more overweight you become the less energy and motivation you have to spent time and energy to look for healthy food that you can afford. Another big factor imho is that if you start to get overweight that usually makes people a bit sad making them more depressed, depressed people start to eat more. Sugar and fat foods enhances your mood. Making you more fat and sad. Luring you to eat more to look for comfort... You get the picture. It's not easy to break out of that cycle and certainly easier said then done.
@@randar1969 I dont understand where the notion comes from that unhealthy food Was cheap??? As a Single Student living in Germany, the only food I can afford are selfmade meals, cooked from fresh or canned vegetables with Rice, bread, potatoes or Pasta, sometimes with cheese, sometimes with tuna, often with eggs.
I pay 1,60€ on average per meal. That's cheaper than a frozen Pizza and has more calories. Also, I can save on energy and money by not even buying a freezer in the first place.
In the US, eating fast food is often cheaper than cooking a healthy meal at home, hence why so many people eat fast food. I lived there for over 11 years. 20 years ago, I would pay $4 for 3 large organic tomatoes, as an example (Florida). I made my own bread every day from the beginning, and went to an organic bulk store for most things. There are many who could not afford it. Also, many people are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet and they just do not have the time. They have 'food deserts' over there in some places, where there are ZERO supermarkets, only fast food places.
In the USA sugar is replaced by corn syrup because it’s cheaper.
Read the ingredients in Big Mac sauce which is made in The USA and the one I Europe... the difference is huge .....
UK is not quite representative regarding food.
Btw. in Germany BK is quite popular! Nearly as strong as McD.
Due to the roasty (?) grilled/BBQ taste and some stuff McD doesn't have. Like the Chili Cheese!! It's _heaven!_
And about "Who eats a whole Pizza?"
In Europe everybody, I guess!..
It's normal/common here, 1 person - 1 Pizza..
(But normal/medium size; around 30cm)
Yesss exactly I love the smokey taste of the BK patties that you don't get in maccas. The UK is like the America of Europe.
Sadly, but it's true. However, UK isn't the best example 😕 compared to the rest of the European countries where these numbers are even lower. When I was in France on holidays with my friends we met people from the US and one thing that sticked to my mind was when they said that they liked the food but they were always hungry. That was weird, but later on, I found out why. The portions here are much smaller and relatively lower on calories and amounts of added sugar, so basically, that wasn't enough for them. Someone actually mentioned here that your list of ingredients is toilet paper long compared to the same products made in Europe or any other country.
Single use non degradable plastic are not allowed so unless they find lots of degradable plastic cups they use cardboard.
Comparing US and UK is like comparing cousins... should try france witch is way more regulated on food quality !
What's more shocking is that the American after all these years of knowing what's in their food is turning his nose UK to it. Food generally is more expensive in America, even after conversation to the pound.
The real expense is what it does to bodies. Low income people have to depend on the highly processed foods for their diets, since they are the only things they can afford. That, in turn, shortens their life expectancy due to poor health and limited access to affordable medical care. A vicious cycle, all to support corporate America.
If you could look at the ingredients list for those American-version fast food meals, is there maybe a "calorie enhancer" on it?
aka sugar? or corn syrup in that case.
No that dont exist. You only get fat if eat to much kcal in form of macros (carbs, fat, Protein). And esspecialy Short carbs raise the Insulin level Quick, like sugar/pasta/syrup/etc.
But all in all get only fat if eat to much kcal, how matter if it's to much Pizza oder to much fruits like bannana/Avocado/etc
I finally tried Five Guys today in Cologne and now I get the hype. French fries with skin on, yes! Fried in peanut oil, that's interesting. Free unlimited mayo and ketchup!!!!! Made-to order burgers everything custom. And alongside IKEA, the only place I've been in Germany with free drink refills. They also have no straws, but a to-go coffee cup-type lid you can sip thru the hole. Both McDonalds and Burger King are offering drinks in Pfand cups you can return for 2Euros or keep for reuse. Also, when I moved to Germany Wuppertal had 2 Starbucks. Now there are NONE.
I have a question! Who can drink these large cups? I mean, who needs a galon of Coke by one Burger
Me, i Can. But i'm a 190cm and 120kg man
Look up what a 'Big Gulp' is.
In Sweden a Big Mac, Large fries/Coke comes in at 1168 calories. Milkshake roughly the same as in UK.
In Poland 1173 calories vs 1400 calories in UK. I think the UK have the biggest portions in Europe.
Who eats a whole pizza?
Italians. Here in Italy you eat a whole pizza, even the one with extra rich toppings. And sometimes you need something else to round it up properly.
But it's quite a different meal, when I tried american-made take away pizza it was like cardboard with stringy grease and burnt stuff on top.
But that's a proper pizza. Not the rubbish America serves up.
Here in Greece you can get both types. I just can't eat the American style pizza. My stomach can't process that stuff. It's so heavy!!!
I easily eat a whole Italian pizza funghi e prosciutto, but with the American style "Margherita" I can't even eat half and I'm stuffed. So much fat!!!
This is not what we really eat in Southern Europe (and probably anywhere besides the UK). Those American chains are oddities, the vast majority still goes for "tapas" and traditional Mediterranean food (that would be an embarrassing comparison if they make one).
Isn’t there a big difference between Italian style pizza’s, and the American style?
there isnt a italian style, there are italians regions styles and yeah, they are different
@@gabrieledna7609 You’re right, but ‘my’ pizzeria sells either American or Italian, with your own choice of toppings, and there’s no way the Italian crust with some mozzarella ground meat, fresh tomatoes, pine nuts and fresh herbs gets to an intake of calories that could sustain me for two days….
I’m actually watching this sitting in my local bar/pizzeria (al forno) in Calabria Italy and I’m wondering what crap they are putting on your pizzas .
Here it’s fresh handmade dough , fresh tomato passata , mozzarella with toppings of your choice .
For a pizza margarita is less than $5
@@margreetanceaux3906 nah italian food it's not that fat like the americans, it's a lot healthier and nothing Is ogm
@@steveosborne2297 Ma infatti, tutto quello che toccano loro diventa uno schifo dio buono.
It's not just portion sizes it's what is in the food
I recently learned that the biggest drink size at McDonalds in Australia is smaller than the smallest in the US. I had to verify that, they were right 😮. I looked up our large Whopper meal as it was one easy to compare apples with apples. Ours is 1,357, so not great but less. On the other hand, a large pepperoni lovers from Pizza Hut (the best match I could find) was only 1,952. The slices were only about 50 cal lighter each and so I’m guessing your pizzas much just actually come down to huge sizes.
It depends how often you eat takeaway food.. My kids have never wanted to eat at McDonald's because, even at 10, they considered the food unhealthy!
Yeah, we have it once or twice a month.
@@ivylasangrienta6093 in Europe once, twice a month.. In the Usa 5 times a week!
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I live in Greece and my kids don't like MC Donalds. They'll eat it if they have to, but if they get to choose their take away fast food they will go for souvlaki or a burger from a small local burger place.
Haha reminds me of me when I was a kid and shopping with my mom. Usually she'd go to McDonalds after with my brothers but I always asked if we could just go home and make some burgers there or go to a snackbar which is cheaper, tastier and more healthy and fresh. My oldest brother also hated McDonalds and called it plastic garbage.
We Europeans have a 36 degree angle measurement unit implanted at birth so we can easily cut 10 slices later in life.
I think it is the culture around the food. I am from Denmark and i eat fast food 0-3 times a month
I have not eaten fast food for over 15 years.
5:45 the american one might "look" better but the other one is mainly made out of paper, so better for the environment xD
I´ve never in my live not eaten a whole pizza myself and I´m German and think this is the only way to eat pizza.
*Though I east self-made pizza or from an actual pizzeria - so probably different amount of calories.
As people are saying, the UK isn't very good comparison. Other foods tend to be healthier outside of the US because we typically eat less processed foods. This includes cheese, milk, dough, oils, much less processed meat, etc.
Also, for most countries outside of the US, chain fast food is maybe a once a week/twice a month max luxury.
This is why Aussies hate Starbucks - we love coffee, but Starbucks sells desserts!
Australia had McCafe long before anyone else, because Macca’s used us as their trial for great coffee and set McCafe up here first. Macca’s coffee from the food counter was terrible, but we loved the good coffee from McCafe!
It's not only Australia, every country that has a strong coffee culture laughs at Starbucks.
We don’t have high fructose corn syrup outside North America. It can’t be metabolized well so is turned to fat in the liver
6:03 I used to work at McDonald's here in the UK, and if we filled the fry boxes more than that we were told off. I usually filled them up a bit more anyway, because that looks ridiculous.
Regardless of weight anyone ordering that 2000-4000 something meals you litterally eating a heartattack.
I moved from Germany to Austria last year and I was surprised that BK's "large" drinks are 0.75l instead of the german "large" with 0.5l - and the price is almost the same...
oh hell yes, i was bingewatching the food insider videos when i started my diet (didnt help with my cravings tbh), so excited to see a reaction!
5:45 Cause its plastic, we try to reduce the use of it over here ;)
Some of the calories will come from that weird stuff you call cheese. Especially with pizza. That's just fat, dyes and chemicals in America.
And in the pizza dough are also things in it, which originally do not belong in it, but you prefer a thick fluffy dough, and not the thin with the thick edge, which there is at the original Italian. Apart from the tons of sugar everywhere in it.
Lol. Let’s defend American drinks with “the cup’s better looking.” Worth the double amount of calories in anyone’s book. 😅
12:00 You're acutally paying less. I remember back in the 90's (Yes, it's been a while) I went to Florida and got McD mean for $2 or something like that. The same meal in Scandinavia was around $6. The prices have gone up of course but the ratio from US:EU prices have for the most part stayed the same.
Cups and packages looks different because they have to be made of paper (even the drinking straw). Environmental laws in Europe...
We have McCafes in Croatia, and our shakes have the same plastic cups as the US ones. Maybe it's different in the UK, or maybe it's just that one branch they ordered from. Our cup sizes are almost 3 times smaller though, large chocolate shake here has 338 kcal.
If you think of an authentic Pizza Margherita as a good pizza, then all of those look like a nightmare. It's a night and day difference.
It's not the calories, people just cook at home much more. Many people go to fast food restaurants once every few months or less. And when I do go personally, a meal that has 1600 cal is enough for the entire day. A plate of pasta with sauce (maybe some ground meat in it) and Parmigiano is not more than 500-600 cal.
i avoid sugar for years now. diet pop and sweeteners is the way to go
I think the bigger difference to europe is what you eat, not if the same food has more calories. In Germany, in my City the Starbucks closed, because people here prefere Italian coffee. McDonald's, Burger King and only a few KFCs are the only chains you see here. If you eat italian you usually go to a local family run restaurant.
corn syrup and industrial oils for food are prohibited in the EU and trans fats are also very limited, max 2%
I'm from Poland and I always eat whole pizza. Most often there is no choice and pizza is in just one standard size, if you can choose size then small is 30cm and big 40cm. The dough in pizzerias is much more thin than in pizza from dominos which is puffy, I eated pizza from there maybe 2-3 times and it's shitty af. When it comes to McDonalds, it's expensive in comparision to normal food and after eating you feel hungry in moment, stomach is hurting and you destroying a toilet afterall. I can go to "Bar Mleczny", eat a normal lunch, two times cheaper than mcdonald, two times less calories and i'm not hungry to the evening.
The calories are not the worst in this, but look active sugar content and all the stuff that’s not allowed in the EU.
And as far as I know, McCafe was invented in Europe. Me when you drink at the McCafe in Europe (I think Europe, at least in Germany) you don’t get paper and plastic, but China cups and metal silverware.
You should compare what we consider in Europe as Fast Food with american fast food. It would be even more devastating. For Example barely anyone goes to Starbucks here (at least in Germany), if we want a coffee to go we usually drink a filter coffee, often black. McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subways, Dominos, Pizza Hut etc. are considered by most here in Germany as a novelty, basically no one eats there regularly. The most popular Fast Food here is Döner Kebap. We have more Kebap Stands then McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Starbucks, Dominos and Subways combines. We even have less Gas Stations then Döner Stands.
Considering the ingredients in a Frappuccino, it would be eaten as a desert in Europe, not drank as a coffee in the morning. It is basically iced coffee poured over ice cream. Add some chocolate and cream, and you have a frappe. Some add some mint to the mix which goes well together. Except for iced coffee, all of those things would be eaten as desert or a treat.
9:51 After what you described how pizzas are cut in the US you end up with 10 pieces as well, it seems to be the same cutting. Horizontally, vertically and after that two more cuts, and you end up with 10 slices of pizza as well.
Im british and ive never seen a pizza cut in 10, we also have it in 8 slices from my area in the uk
And keep in mind that the typical recommended daily intake is 2000-2400 calories. Some of these menues are so thick, your breakfast and dinner would have to be water.
And with things like that Five Guys menu, it is not only your food for the entire day, but already includes the next day's breakfast.
Well, you've paid a lot for it, so you better get good use out of it! lol
Actually i’m from Italy and when i studied abroad in the UK I couldn’t believe my eyes cause i’d never seen so many fat people there. Can’t imagine what is like in the US…
If this video would’ve compared US and a Mediterranean country like Italy or Spain the difference would be huge, let alone we hardly never eat fast food
I had the reverse reaction. Never seen so many fat women as I did in Italy.
I think it's more of a gene thing. They get to about 30 and balloon up.
@@101steel4 in Italy?!
This video explained the meaning of the saying "Food to die for" to me
Ate small pizza yesderday, sadly due to strong meds not allowed to eat most what's in a pizza (it was a cheat day after several months with no pizza) usually i ate atleast 1(sometimes every other day) lare pizza every week and still had 6pack and perfect body (no jim and did not go to exersise or anything). I just walked and used public trantsportation to go everywhere, 15 to 30 000 steps a day and offered to do/carry/bring in the cargo/sellable/products every work day (i actually was a mid level worker and nothing to do with cargo/products) but i got a 30 min physical(all by hand to a second floor on stairs) and got few minimum hour work hours added to my normal wage.
So yeah overall my lifestyle, the lower calory and cleaner foor (even more than the rest of Europe) was enought for me to help me get good fit body and keep it.
My country has strict food quality laws and even stricer food preparation/making laws (aka cafees, restaurants and pubs and sutch).
It also contains a shitload of things banned in the EU.
Preservatives, aromas, food colouring, et cetera...
You also add refined sugar and fructose to almost everything in large amounts.
Don't confuse fructose for something good, because it sounds nice. ;-)
the fact that papa john's has dipping sauce is crazy to me. good vid like always, i like your energy.
When I was in the US for just two weeks I actually gained almost 5 pounds :( Granted, I didn't really hold back with the calories and just tried every food that I could because I wanted to get the full experience, but still. One thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was that there was no "respect" for my calories/health lol. Food was drenched in fat and stuffed with cheese. Keep in mind that all of these venues are American fast food chains who made it over to Europe. If I eat a fish bun at Anker or a chicken sandwich at der Mann in Vienna, it's a tiny fraction of the calories you'll find in this video for "one meal". A pizza from my favourite pizzaria has like 1200 kcal and already makes me feel bad about myself! I can't imagine eating one with almost 4000 kcal. That's actually insane. That shouldn't be a thing. It should be banned on both continents.
Hi Ryan, you asked who would eat a complete Pizza. I do, but it depends what size it's a normal size for you/me.
I don't know the normal size in US. But in germany a regular pizza size from our Pizza deliverer in the city is 28cm (~11.02"), a small one has 26cm (~10.24 inch) and a Family-Pizza has 36cm (~14.17 inch). If you think 2cm are not much, imagine about more topping on bigger square.
If you a curios about prizes. I checked my flyer, so the small pizza 26cm pizza salami costs 5€, 28cm costs 6€ and the family one with 36cm costs 8,50€
But they have a lunch sale between 12 pm and 2 pm (except weekends) where the regular size of 28cm just costs 5€ if you pick up the pizza by yourself, instead of delivering.
Do you remember how Top Gear went to the North Pole? And how they were told that you need 5000 Cal a day to trek across the Arctic? Turns out you only need one Papa Jones pizza and a milkshake to be fully fed in order make that journey ON FOOT! :D czcams.com/video/WNkvASxfEWQ/video.html
In my country only fast food we have is mcdonald , burger king , subway and in other half of our country will soon open KFC but from those 3 fast foods burger king cost less and taste way better + are bigger than in mcdonalds so yeah for us its way better .
The video was comparing fast food chains available in both the UK and the US. No other European country has as many of the same chains, hence why they picked the UK for comparison.
Another difference is that the fast food in the UK is more expensive so while the calorie content might be similar we tend to eat it less often. The ingredients used are also better due to regulation and higher food standards. The obesity problem here is quite complex but has more to do with cheap junk food, alcohol and microwave/frozen meals in the supermarkets. Brits are certainly less insistent about home cooked meals than much of the rest of Europe. And then there’s the fact that many people live sedentary lifestyles.
74 grams of sugar of the first American Starbucks' thing are 1.5 grams more than the maximum safe dose of all sugars (sucrose, lactose, fructose, cabs in general) per day and 49 grams more than the reccomended dose (for an average man, for women and child the doses are smaller).
Hardly anyone I know drinks soft drinks like that including me. Most of us Gernans drink tab or sparkling water on a daily basis. Sometimes a fruit juce half mixed with sparkling water. Sometimes a Friday afternoon bier (alcohol free for me). But Coke, Fanta or any of the liquid sugar are for special occations only. Ad coffee or tea in the morning (without sogar, sweetener honey ect.) and these are our daily drinks.
I'm French and we do 8 slices for the pizza. And i eat all the pizza myself even the large.
during that video i eat a huge meal : 2 porc chop + a full secondary plate of tomato sauce celery oignon garlic , to go with it , i almost hard time to finish it and it was 750 calorie total i took a big glass of coke +110 cal , and i'm already ashame of myself ^^
In italy everybody eats a whole pizza or even two of them, if we are hungry but we always pay attention on what we are eating . Most italians just eat out once a week and that’s the reason why we don’t get fat as the americans and we also eat mostly healty food
my girlfriend and me where always confused by those American TV shows where people usually share one pizza, that is so uncommon to us, at least in Germany i don't know anyone NOT eating a whole pizza by themself, this kinda explains a bit of it tho
I couldnt agree more! One pizza for a whole family? Like, what the f.... :D
three of the main differences between US and european food are:
1. Quality of ingredients: US relies heavily on GMOs (mostly banned in europe) and artificial ingredients, which have to be "sugarcoated" to taste like the original stuff. (so Potatoes need loads of stuff to taste like potatoes)
2. the quantity: US has larger sized portions
3. the preference: in europe there is more emphasis on local and regional cuisine, not just big international junk food chains.
The difference is about ingredients and mainly sugar content. Europian meals are smaller too.
"Who eats a whole pizza" I do, and I'm slim, but that's mostly because I burn around 3000kcal a day for multiple reasons so I have higher need for calory intake
Hi Ryan. There's a lot of ingredients that shouldn't be in certain products there's no need for it. I've been cooking since I was 5 with my mum. God rest her soul. I cook steak and kidney pie. bread. Biscuits. cakes. all the traditional home cooked goodies. I make my own sauces to. home made Chinese. chicken chow mein is my favourite dish. followed by home made apple pie with custard. all the ingredients are fresh. no frozen foods like pies. Burgers. ect ect. I don't care what anybody says home made cooking is the best. at least I know what goes into the things I make. all these numbers they put on packets at super markets. the experts. exspect you to know what these all means. from 🇬🇧 an old cockney gal 👍😄