@@HEARTDARKNESS1 Neither do Italians. We may eat a croissant when we have breakfast at a bar, but at home we go for bread with a bit of jam or honey, or plain bread in a bowl of milk and coffee (which is not a cappuccino, as cappuccino is a bar drink).
For Americans, who literally eat cake at breakfast, I guess it seems healthy. It is not though. In what this girl would be eating (82 g), there's already 9 g of white sugar (plus caramel colouring... for some reason). But let's face it. What she's eating is about 82 g of cinnamon toasts crunch, not 82 g of cornflakes. Those would contain 24 g of pure sugar (and 4 poor grams of protein). With 340 hollow calories. Which is the equivalent of two glazed doughnut... She's basically eating two glazed doughnuts for breakfast. Altough, if you eat two doughtnuts, you will at least get more protein.
Fantastic episode of Tasting History by Max Miller up this week discussing how the original "health food" Corn Flakes were developed and how Kellogg's brother added sugar and other ingredients to increase sales because the original were meant to be a bland health food. Of course, that was before we figured out how un-nixtamalized corn is nutritionally inert, and bred corn to have even more sugar, and also admitted that corn in and of itself is pretty shit nutrtionally in general as well (especially as a grain), while simultaneously being subsidized into oblivion, becoming literal "plebian feed", making the poor fat and unhealthy in just a few generations. "Yay Corn!"
Australian here - in winter I like a bowl of porridge with a banana, I get the quick oats packets because it’s the perfect amount for me. In summer, toast or cereal
I would be very interested to see a Food Wars episode with Australia vs Canada, being two Commonwealth realms with a lot of common ground between the two.
Canada is just the US's 51 state when it comes to culture and food. We aussies are much more in line with British culture especially when it comes to food. Please don't pair us together
Yeah I’d agree. Canada adopts way more US related stuff, especially food. I’d say AUS has more in common with the UK in terms of food, by watching some of these videos.
As a British person (not from London), I personally wouldn’t have chips on a full English breakfast. My ideal full English would be - Sausage, Egg, Beans, Tomato, Bacon, Hash Brown, Black Pudding and Fried Bread with some brown sauce on the side. Perfection.
Me either. Having chips as a standard on a breakfast is the restaurant or cafe way of just bumping it up to make it look like you have more food. Not my cup of tea.
Agreed, should be hash browns though mash is an acceptable alternate. Chips shouldnt be used and I have only ever seen it done abroad where foreign hotels are trying and failing to do an English Breakfast. Props to a hotel I stayed in Japan for effort though, they had home made baked beans in their English Breakfast.
@@watcherzero5256 I typically associate mash and chips more with dinner. But Hash Browns at breakfast is great. I have also seen places add hash browns to burgers, which I do also like. But primarily I would eat Hash Browns at Breakfast or Brunch (late breakfast/early lunch).
Mash on a full English is just as unacceptable as chips, more so even. In fact I'd go further and say in all my years I don't think I've ever even seen actual mash on a full English, possibly only if it was used as an ingredient and turned into a dodgy hash brown or bubble & squeak. I've seen chips of course, but usually where the cafe is trying to pad out their monster breakfast option with cheap calories, like Liz said above. For a "full" full English I'd want bacon, sausages (not the crap Richmond/chip shop type like in the video either thanks!), eggs, tomato (prefer grilled halves but I don't hate plum either), mushrooms (sliced or button but a big field one is just as good), hash browns (but only if bubble isn't available!), black pudding, beans, fried bread. Side plate with toast, a decent mug of tea and possibly even a glass of orange juice! Then preferably not too much else to do for the rest of the day!
I'd love to see a regional episode - in Scotland, tattie scones (also known as potato scones) are an iconic part of a cooked Breakfast. Haggis is also sometimes served but I think that may be more of a Glasgow/Edinburgh thing. I am from North East Scotland, and I have to mention butteries (also known as rowies). They are an iconic breakfast food out here. Not served as part of a Scottish breakfast. Usually just it's own thing that you can add butter or jam too.
As a South African, I'm more familiar with the UK breakfast options than the US and I prefer Apricot Jam on toast/fried bread as it's a popular option here. Also, beans on toast aren't quite a popular breakfast option but I usually have it with an over-easy egg. And yes, we do love Marmite here but how it's spread on toast is the divisive part of it😂!!!
I'm British and the beans on toast thing I agree with you. Usually I'll put cheese on top the beans but if it's for dinner I'll but eggs and bacon on the toast as well.
Im American, from upstate NY and we most DEFINITELY do eat jam more than jelly. I hate jelly. And my whole family likes toast with butter & jam. Strawberry & or raspberry, also orange marmalade
As a Brit my ideal breakfast is balanced and fairly healthy: berries and natural yoghurt or Skyr with some unsweetened muesli or bran flakes. I get protein and calcium from the yoghurt and vitamins from the fruit plus slow release carbs from the cereal. I find it filling enough to get me through a long day and the fruit gives sweetness.
As an Australian, I have to rebut. Never seen/ known “steak & eggs” to be a thing here in my 33 breakfast eating years. Though Australians typically love thick cut steak it wouldn’t ever be a breakfast option. Full English is very common cafe breakfast option though here
They did say that it was pre WW two. I'm 66 year old Australian and steak'n eggs was a pretty common option in hotels/motels when I was young. Also was popular with rural/farm workers
As somebody born in the 1960s, just some 40 years after cornflakes were invented (and probably 10 years before they arrived in the UK), I can kinda understand how my parents (in their 20s) could be convinced that they were the modern healthy option. I ate cereals from the late 1960s into the 1990s before I decided they were crap. Haven't eaten them since (but if I saw a box of 'grape nuts', another American import, I might be tempted).
In the UK, Jelly is made from fruit boiled to a puree and then strained and the juice then boiled with sugar. (Not just from taking fruit juice produced cold.) This is a great series - keep it up.
I would love to see a version with Italy compare to either the UK or the US. With the Italian presenter popping up with a cup of espresso and sipping it through the video, without talking. Many of us drink a coffee for breakfast. All of the breakfast. Those of us who also eat, eat a smallish croissant, or maybe 4-5 tea biscuits. That's the breakfast.
I really appreciate you clarifying for accuracy on things, such as jelly being from fruit juices. Born and raised in the UK, back in London now but I will always remember my time in the US!
So many things went mentioned here. Porridge, egg and soldiers, bacon sarnie, sausage sarnie, frosties, poached egg and salmon, kippers, blueberry muffins, omelette, eggy bread, french toast. So many breakfasts
Those UK scrambled eggs are similar and additional way we cook eggs here in the USA: country scrambled. That’s an egg that was cracked directly into the hot pan and scrambled while cooking, resulting in an egg that has easily identifiable bits of white and yolk.
Oh! The Crunchy Nut flakes they have in the UK were my fav as a kid. In the US they used to be called Honey Nut Cornflakes. They don’t sell them here anymore but in the UK, I guess they never left. I want them back here in the States.
I don't know why they only counted the American adult population for their coffee-per-day, when Harry used the entire UK population. If you use the entire US population (~333.3 million in 2022), you get ~1.2 cups of coffee per day, and if you use only the UK adult population (~45.2 million in 2022) you get ~2.2 cups of tea per day. Some other fun data, according to a fact sheet from the "Tea Association of the USA", Americans drank 85 billion cups of tea in 2021, which is about ~232 million per day (~0.7 per person), but 75% of that was as iced tea. And according to the British Coffee Association, the UK drank ~98 million cups of coffee per day in 2021, which ends up at about ~1.5 cups per capita, or about ~2.2 cups per adult. So it would seem the UK is more addicted to caffine, rather worrying.
@@DjathEnglish Walmart used to own Asda and introduced some Walmart stuff into their logos and marketing. Apparently Walmart retains some say in the company but not as much as they used to. What Food Wars could do which would be even better IMO is compare Aldi in the UK and US.
Suggestion UK vs US hospital food. Can I recommend for the UK you use the food from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Vs whatever US supplied in a public health medicaid hospital or VA hospital. Another option would be UK state school vs a US public High School And obviously US Military Rations against UK Military Rations chair force vs chair force, navy vs navy, marines vs marines, costguard vs costguard, army vs arm Keep up the wonderful work
As a Dutchie my breakfast is: 3 slices of whole wheat bread that we store in the freezer with cheese. Or in my case Nutella. Now for Lunch though... it's actually the same
I think for American adults, the primary breakfast consists of eggs, bacon and toast. Cereal is more for children and young adults. Americans generally don't have pancakes that often. That was probably more common when most households had a stay at home mom making breakfast for everyone. A lot of Americans these days are in too much of a hurry to even have breakfast.
I'm curious how so many people leave enough time in the morning to go out for breakfast before work, etc. It feels like a retired person's pastime. I skip breakfast entirely
they wake up earlier. they leave the house and go to the nearby café and have breakfast before leaving for work. my parents had a café when i was a kid and i always had breakfast there before school, and tons of people would come in in the morning before work. some were having a 2nd breakfast, as people often like to have a coffee from a café since it tends to be stronger than coffee at home. maybe a pastry as well. also pretty common for men to have a small glass of brandy alongside their coffee
it really differs from person to person and tbh ive always found it interesting, ive always made time for a decent brekkie otherwise I feel low energy and get prone to headaches.
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog do you sleep 8hrs or less? Up at 5 would require sleeping by 9, wich is definitly way to early and losing socialating as a result. I go to bed at 4am, wake up at 12pm and go straight to work wich starts at 12:30pm. 8 divine hours.
I’m British but when it comes to bacon I’m definitely team streaky, especially from the butchers in the village where I live cos they cut it think and keep the rind on.
I’m surprised that you don’t compare fast food in Brazil as well. As a Brazilian, please, you need that! KFC in Brazil is completely different, we have a meal with rice, beans, salad and chicken. Also, Mc Donald’s has special ones (as everywhere), you need compare our fast food as well ahhaha
Breakfast found in Canada ( Qc) but not in the U.S and U.K... Breakfast poutine...Yeah we also have a version of poutine for breakfast! They mostly came with a different graivy...with vegetables, choice of meat(s) like sausage, bacon, steak etc... and top with a sunny egg!
Oh and our typical restaurent breakfeast is: 2 toasts ( you can choose trough many different type of bread, egg ( you can choose any type of preparation including poche eggs), beans, meat ( on or more type including bacon, ham, saussage etc...), fresh cut fruits and creton. ( creton is from our country search on the internet! but very fews peoples don't like it! Inckluding visitors) Sometimes, cut tomatoes, cucumber etc... and condiments!
Harry, I have to correct you, a fried slice can be deep fried, but it is usually overly oily on the plate and can be easily overcooked leading to having the same tenderness and flexibility as a drain cover... deep fried is rarely "delicious" What you want is shallow fried - I've *never* had a bad shallow fried slice, it's never dripping with oil or grease (the best is made with beef dripping), and can be easily cut without spalling shards of crumbs in every direction
@@helvete983 I've been to a few cafes and burger bars that think it's acceptable to chuck a slice in the chip pan (they're usually the ones that have dry black pudding and bland sausages with chunks of gristle in them)
15:28 yes mate, Branston all the way! I felt as though Heinz went downhill over the years, the flavour just isn't there anymore. Branston gives it another level, definitely worth a go.
For all the Brits that watch this show… home fries are fantastic both crispy and fudge-like on the inside. It is a perfect accompaniment to both a British and American breakfast. Edit: Also yes please on the regional dishes!!
Diners in the U.S. also have another kind of egg: basted. It is like sunny side up but they put a lid over it and squirt some water under it to create some steam so the white on top cooks lightly. It is the best kind of egg.
When I was a kid they put PC games on CD-ROMs in the Cereal box. Got hours of entertainment from cheaply made PC games from Cereal companies. The world is so much more less magical then it used to be.
I feel like as a Canadian we get the best of both worlds. We have pretty much all of what was listed. Think the only thing is blood sausage is not big here. But we do get beans at breakfast. We have jams AND jelly + marmalades.
As an Spaniard I feel like none of this food is actually healthy for breakfast and also maybe Is because of my habits but I feel that no food can beat the Spanish one not only in flavor but the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest in the world. I hope to see Spain against USA or Uk the portions are going to be wild.
Both regions have good and bad food aspects. I'm an American married to Brit, lived in both England and USA and enjoyed some of your regional foods very much. 20 plus years ago we had terrible choices there (no decent coffee for example). Now things seem much more different from what I watch on CZcams, and hear from friends in England. We mainly shop in Germans supermarkets here in the USA so we enjoy multi-national foods--PS Grape jelly is vile....it's the worst. Anyone who is American and only eats grape or strawberry, try some new flavors.
The "Old Adage" that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, is also one of those things created by Kellogg's; in order to try to increase sales. It succeeded, and succeeded so well that it's now universally repeated. FWIU, dieticians disagree.
My breakfast is iced tea with lemon and lime slices, NO sugar, a banana and some yogurt, preferably a greek style yogurt with fruit or honey flavor. Bagel, everything bagel, cream cheese and chives.
I won't lie, every morning after I get incredibly drunk I will get a fryup to soak up the alcohol - saw Humphrey from Death in Paradise do it and thought it was genius lol
I grew up in Ireland and the US. I 100% remember Honey Nut Cheerios having nut bits on them. I know they use almond because of peanut allergies but I don’t know if I hallucinated the nut bits.
On the Honey Nut Cheerios your getting confused with Kellogs Honey Nut Loops "Lets loop together" which did have nut in the name despite not including any nuts because they looked like the nuts you would put on a bolt. They eventually dropped the nut and were just Honey Loops probably to avoid the confusion that they contained nuts.
Worked in a well known blackcurrant drinks company years ago, the currants that were too far gone and mouldy got picked up by well known jam and pie companies- vile!
I think a shout out to the bacon Butty/Bap/Roll is needed as a breakfast staple, on the go it's common to order a bacon butty or sausage butty. (A butty is essentially bacon or sausage in a soft fluffy bread roll usually with ketchup or brown sauce) Another thing is condiments, it can be divisive whether you put brown sauce or red sauce (Heinz Ketchup) on your plate or butty. I think it could be a regional thing but I'd be pretty upset if I ordered a full English breakfast and it didn't come with tomatoes (Tinned are my preference) or mushrooms. But often you get a choice of beans or tomatoes. Black Pudding is common throughout Europe, often called Blood Pudding or Blood sausage. I've never understood why some people (my wife included) won't at least try it, If you put any thought into how most of the protein we eat is processed it's equally gross. Finally if you put chips onto a full English breakfast then you are a monster.
Bacon and egg butty with HP wins hands down so....Not much else to say. And for all of you that will try it, you're welcome! Also if you are an american living in the UK (Why!?) and you want authentic US style bacon, just buy 'Streaky' bacon, because that's literally what US bacon is and its also readily available here.
Cheerios suck, the proper British ones are Honey Loops, they used to be Honey nut loops, but they removed the nuts to avoid allergies and try and get more of the market (I think some time in the 90's if memory serves).
You can tell how unhealthy the cereal is by its recommended portion size. For example, lots of porridge can range from 40g to 60g per portion, but 30g of Corn Flakes clearly demonstrates it's quite unhealthy due to its macros, namely sugar.
Not totally accurate about the coffee thing--here in the Southern US, we drink gallons of heavily sweetened iced tea and usually prefer it to coffee at all meals and in all seasons.
Where is the french toast and (american) biscuits? It's always fun to watch the British be apprehensive of eating a "scone" for breakfast. They're not the same, but look similar.
This seems inaccurate, the US has rebranded the UK Frosties cereal in the US as "Frosted Flakes" they even have the same tony tiger mascot on them as the UK version and even has his iconic slogan on the box they're great
I feel like what Harry has here is more representative of an English person's idea of breakfast. We'd never have bubble and squeak or chips with a full Scottish breakfast. We also love porridge!
American breakfast all the way. Egg, bacon, cheese between 2 slices of bread/brioche with a cup of coffee. Best moment of the day. I like the British one but beans and mushrooms in the morning are a bit too strange for me.
Surprised that smoked fish was missing from UK options, come on Kippers, or maybe Kedgeree or smoke salmon with bagels or on scrambled eggs. Speaking of Egg, boiled egg with soldiers.
Loving how much longer the Food Wars videos have gotten and how much more information and and more of the host's personalities are shown.
Italians and french are watching you eating a croissant and smoking a cigarette.
I think the French might be eating cigarettes and smoking croissants
Italians yes , but French NO they only eat breads with different names
@@HEARTDARKNESS1 Neither do Italians. We may eat a croissant when we have breakfast at a bar, but at home we go for bread with a bit of jam or honey, or plain bread in a bowl of milk and coffee (which is not a cappuccino, as cappuccino is a bar drink).
Kellogg’s cornflakes healthy?
absolutely no.
For Americans, who literally eat cake at breakfast, I guess it seems healthy. It is not though. In what this girl would be eating (82 g), there's already 9 g of white sugar (plus caramel colouring... for some reason). But let's face it. What she's eating is about 82 g of cinnamon toasts crunch, not 82 g of cornflakes. Those would contain 24 g of pure sugar (and 4 poor grams of protein). With 340 hollow calories. Which is the equivalent of two glazed doughnut... She's basically eating two glazed doughnuts for breakfast. Altough, if you eat two doughtnuts, you will at least get more protein.
Fantastic episode of Tasting History by Max Miller up this week discussing how the original "health food" Corn Flakes were developed and how Kellogg's brother added sugar and other ingredients to increase sales because the original were meant to be a bland health food. Of course, that was before we figured out how un-nixtamalized corn is nutritionally inert, and bred corn to have even more sugar, and also admitted that corn in and of itself is pretty shit nutrtionally in general as well (especially as a grain), while simultaneously being subsidized into oblivion, becoming literal "plebian feed", making the poor fat and unhealthy in just a few generations. "Yay Corn!"
@@LindseyLouWho Tasting history is great
@@LindseyLouWho very interesting I’ll have to check that out
Most cereal is ultra processed trash
Australian here - in winter I like a bowl of porridge with a banana, I get the quick oats packets because it’s the perfect amount for me. In summer, toast or cereal
Uk still has honey cheerios, and we have frosted flakes (we call them Frosties).
Our cereal has definitely gotten worse
I wish they'd bring back all the mascot commericals and collectible toys!
Ricicles were too good . .
Honey 'Nut' Cheerios is what he said the UK doesn't have
@@raoulthedutch I didn’t think there was any difference
I enjoyed this but where was the Porridge, Bacon Butty, Dip Dip Egg, Kippers or Kedgeree for the UK? Also for the US: Eggs Benedict?
Eggs benedict is a uk thing no?
Dip dip egg is the most rotten thing I’ve ever heard someone call boiled eggs and soldiers.
I would be very interested to see a Food Wars episode with Australia vs Canada, being two Commonwealth realms with a lot of common ground between the two.
Canada is just the US's 51 state when it comes to culture and food. We aussies are much more in line with British culture especially when it comes to food. Please don't pair us together
Yeah I’d agree. Canada adopts way more US related stuff, especially food. I’d say AUS has more in common with the UK in terms of food, by watching some of these videos.
Tbh I kinda prefer her over Joe cause she's more open minded and doesn't hate vegetables 💀
As a British person (not from London), I personally wouldn’t have chips on a full English breakfast.
My ideal full English would be - Sausage, Egg, Beans, Tomato, Bacon, Hash Brown, Black Pudding and Fried Bread with some brown sauce on the side. Perfection.
Me either. Having chips as a standard on a breakfast is the restaurant or cafe way of just bumping it up to make it look like you have more food. Not my cup of tea.
Agreed, should be hash browns though mash is an acceptable alternate. Chips shouldnt be used and I have only ever seen it done abroad where foreign hotels are trying and failing to do an English Breakfast. Props to a hotel I stayed in Japan for effort though, they had home made baked beans in their English Breakfast.
@@watcherzero5256 I typically associate mash and chips more with dinner. But Hash Browns at breakfast is great. I have also seen places add hash browns to burgers, which I do also like. But primarily I would eat Hash Browns at Breakfast or Brunch (late breakfast/early lunch).
Mash on a full English is just as unacceptable as chips, more so even. In fact I'd go further and say in all my years I don't think I've ever even seen actual mash on a full English, possibly only if it was used as an ingredient and turned into a dodgy hash brown or bubble & squeak. I've seen chips of course, but usually where the cafe is trying to pad out their monster breakfast option with cheap calories, like Liz said above.
For a "full" full English I'd want bacon, sausages (not the crap Richmond/chip shop type like in the video either thanks!), eggs, tomato (prefer grilled halves but I don't hate plum either), mushrooms (sliced or button but a big field one is just as good), hash browns (but only if bubble isn't available!), black pudding, beans, fried bread. Side plate with toast, a decent mug of tea and possibly even a glass of orange juice! Then preferably not too much else to do for the rest of the day!
Yuck
I'd love to see a regional episode - in Scotland, tattie scones (also known as potato scones) are an iconic part of a cooked Breakfast. Haggis is also sometimes served but I think that may be more of a Glasgow/Edinburgh thing.
I am from North East Scotland, and I have to mention butteries (also known as rowies). They are an iconic breakfast food out here. Not served as part of a Scottish breakfast. Usually just it's own thing that you can add butter or jam too.
Love me a rowie!!! (Also toonser through and through 😎)
As a South African, I'm more familiar with the UK breakfast options than the US and I prefer Apricot Jam on toast/fried bread as it's a popular option here. Also, beans on toast aren't quite a popular breakfast option but I usually have it with an over-easy egg.
And yes, we do love Marmite here but how it's spread on toast is the divisive part of it😂!!!
I'm British and the beans on toast thing I agree with you. Usually I'll put cheese on top the beans but if it's for dinner I'll but eggs and bacon on the toast as well.
Im American, from upstate NY and we most DEFINITELY do eat jam more than jelly. I hate jelly. And my whole family likes toast with butter & jam. Strawberry & or raspberry, also orange marmalade
As a Brit my ideal breakfast is balanced and fairly healthy: berries and natural yoghurt or Skyr with some unsweetened muesli or bran flakes. I get protein and calcium from the yoghurt and vitamins from the fruit plus slow release carbs from the cereal. I find it filling enough to get me through a long day and the fruit gives sweetness.
As an Australian, I have to rebut. Never seen/ known “steak & eggs” to be a thing here in my 33 breakfast eating years. Though Australians typically love thick cut steak it wouldn’t ever be a breakfast option. Full English is very common cafe breakfast option though here
They did say that it was pre WW two. I'm 66 year old Australian and steak'n eggs was a pretty common option in hotels/motels when I was young. Also was popular with rural/farm workers
Calling Kellogg's "healthy" is madness
As somebody born in the 1960s, just some 40 years after cornflakes were invented (and probably 10 years before they arrived in the UK), I can kinda understand how my parents (in their 20s) could be convinced that they were the modern healthy option.
I ate cereals from the late 1960s into the 1990s before I decided they were crap. Haven't eaten them since (but if I saw a box of 'grape nuts', another American import, I might be tempted).
You speaking facts 😁
TBF corn flakes is reasonably healthy, now if it was Frosties or Crunchy Nut then I’d agree
@Jack-cq9pv As a kid my 40s born mom would never agree to buy Frosties,but regular Corn flakes was as much of a treat.
Healthy by "Western Standard"I guess
Now all I want is India vs UK breakfast food, 'cause India's breakfast hits amazingly. *As a Pakistani saying this:)*
Idli and Sambar has to be the best breakfast dish in the history of breakfasts
They eat the shit off the sidewalk
@@michaela7100 lmfaoo
Aw is that your experience, hope you get your life together soon.@@michaela7100
@@michaela7100 Aw I hope you get back on your feet, and are able to afford to eat a proper Punjabi breakfast.
15:10 that's not toast! That's bread with a sun tan
In the UK, Jelly is made from fruit boiled to a puree and then strained and the juice then boiled with sugar. (Not just from taking fruit juice produced cold.)
This is a great series - keep it up.
I would love to see a version with Italy compare to either the UK or the US. With the Italian presenter popping up with a cup of espresso and sipping it through the video, without talking. Many of us drink a coffee for breakfast. All of the breakfast. Those of us who also eat, eat a smallish croissant, or maybe 4-5 tea biscuits. That's the breakfast.
I really appreciate you clarifying for accuracy on things, such as jelly being from fruit juices.
Born and raised in the UK, back in London now but I will always remember my time in the US!
So many things went mentioned here. Porridge, egg and soldiers, bacon sarnie, sausage sarnie, frosties, poached egg and salmon, kippers, blueberry muffins, omelette, eggy bread, french toast. So many breakfasts
Those UK scrambled eggs are similar and additional way we cook eggs here in the USA: country scrambled. That’s an egg that was cracked directly into the hot pan and scrambled while cooking, resulting in an egg that has easily identifiable bits of white and yolk.
Oh! The Crunchy Nut flakes they have in the UK were my fav as a kid. In the US they used to be called Honey Nut Cornflakes. They don’t sell them here anymore but in the UK, I guess they never left. I want them back here in the States.
I don't know why they only counted the American adult population for their coffee-per-day, when Harry used the entire UK population. If you use the entire US population (~333.3 million in 2022), you get ~1.2 cups of coffee per day, and if you use only the UK adult population (~45.2 million in 2022) you get ~2.2 cups of tea per day.
Some other fun data, according to a fact sheet from the "Tea Association of the USA", Americans drank 85 billion cups of tea in 2021, which is about ~232 million per day (~0.7 per person), but 75% of that was as iced tea. And according to the British Coffee Association, the UK drank ~98 million cups of coffee per day in 2021, which ends up at about ~1.5 cups per capita, or about ~2.2 cups per adult. So it would seem the UK is more addicted to caffine, rather worrying.
That 85 million must be per day. No way America only drinks 232k cups of tea a day.
@@kuebby Yep, made a mistake, its 85 billion not million =P derp. So its actually 232 million "servings" a day, or ~0.7 per person per day. Apologies.
You should do a comparison between Walmart in the US and Asda in the UK
I don't think Walmart owns much of Asda any more, they were bought out.
@@orientalmoons maybe I am confusing Asda with Tesco
@@DjathEnglish Walmart used to own Asda and introduced some Walmart stuff into their logos and marketing. Apparently Walmart retains some say in the company but not as much as they used to.
What Food Wars could do which would be even better IMO is compare Aldi in the UK and US.
Suggestion UK vs US hospital food. Can I recommend for the UK you use the food from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Vs whatever US supplied in a public health medicaid hospital or VA hospital.
Another option would be UK state school vs a US public High School
And obviously US Military Rations against UK Military Rations chair force vs chair force, navy vs navy, marines vs marines, costguard vs costguard, army vs arm
Keep up the wonderful work
Hey
Would this comparison be a fair one with the good old privatized health care 😮
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes! 😋 created in Manchester 😃
32:44 Good news: "Breakfast is the most important meal in the day" was just a marketing scam by breakfast companies. It's not true.
It is beneficial in some aspects though
Who in the UK remembers Shreddies and the included "toy" called Shrinky Dinks. That's my childhood 😊
As a Dutchie my breakfast is: 3 slices of whole wheat bread that we store in the freezer with cheese. Or in my case Nutella. Now for Lunch though... it's actually the same
Chips aren’t breakfast but if you wanna lob a potato waffle on there, I wouldn’t say no.
Chips, like that terrible sausage are a hallmark of a bad greasy spoon. Also what's the deal with only 1 sausage?
I think for American adults, the primary breakfast consists of eggs, bacon and toast. Cereal is more for children and young adults. Americans generally don't have pancakes that often. That was probably more common when most households had a stay at home mom making breakfast for everyone. A lot of Americans these days are in too much of a hurry to even have breakfast.
Idk what ur talking about cuz I'm 30 and I love cereal. So do a lot of adults.
@@emilybrown3288 30 = young adult to me. LOL
@norwegianblue2017 are you even American? Or just giving a random opinion 😂
@@cianmartin7185 Yes, I am American.
How often do you and your family eat cereal? Found this:
5+ times per week 12%
3 or 4 times per week 18%
1 or 2 times per week 23%
A couple times per month / every 17%
couple weeks
I / we rarely or never eat cereal 30%
Gen-Z (kids and young adults) eat the most cereal.
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@@norwegianblue2017 incredible work
I'm curious how so many people leave enough time in the morning to go out for breakfast before work, etc. It feels like a retired person's pastime. I skip breakfast entirely
they wake up earlier. they leave the house and go to the nearby café and have breakfast before leaving for work.
my parents had a café when i was a kid and i always had breakfast there before school, and tons of people would come in in the morning before work. some were having a 2nd breakfast, as people often like to have a coffee from a café since it tends to be stronger than coffee at home. maybe a pastry as well. also pretty common for men to have a small glass of brandy alongside their coffee
it really differs from person to person and tbh ive always found it interesting, ive always made time for a decent brekkie otherwise I feel low energy and get prone to headaches.
Only on my day off. Other wise I prefer sleep or exercise etc 😂
I'm up at 5 and eating breakfast at 6 and start work most of the time at 7, plenty of time. Don't waste your life sleeping.
@@TheTwoFingeredBulldog do you sleep 8hrs or less? Up at 5 would require sleeping by 9, wich is definitly way to early and losing socialating as a result.
I go to bed at 4am, wake up at 12pm and go straight to work wich starts at 12:30pm. 8 divine hours.
I’m British but when it comes to bacon I’m definitely team streaky, especially from the butchers in the village where I live cos they cut it think and keep the rind on.
You need to switch to Branston Beans - they are so much better.
This!
Brangang 😎🤙
I think tesco brand is better than heinz
Him eating a dry weetabix just makes me think of nature valley bars
I live in the US and I find that home fries are major alternative to pancakes(along with eggs and bacon). I live close to NY C.
I’m surprised that you don’t compare fast food in Brazil as well. As a Brazilian, please, you need that! KFC in Brazil is completely different, we have a meal with rice, beans, salad and chicken. Also, Mc Donald’s has special ones (as everywhere), you need compare our fast food as well ahhaha
Breakfast found in Canada ( Qc) but not in the U.S and U.K... Breakfast poutine...Yeah we also have a version of poutine for breakfast! They mostly came with a different graivy...with vegetables, choice of meat(s) like sausage, bacon, steak etc... and top with a sunny egg!
Oh and our typical restaurent breakfeast is: 2 toasts ( you can choose trough many different type of bread, egg ( you can choose any type of preparation including poche eggs), beans, meat ( on or more type including bacon, ham, saussage etc...), fresh cut fruits and creton. ( creton is from our country search on the internet! but very fews peoples don't like it! Inckluding visitors) Sometimes, cut tomatoes, cucumber etc... and condiments!
Harry, I have to correct you, a fried slice can be deep fried, but it is usually overly oily on the plate and can be easily overcooked leading to having the same tenderness and flexibility as a drain cover... deep fried is rarely "delicious"
What you want is shallow fried - I've *never* had a bad shallow fried slice, it's never dripping with oil or grease (the best is made with beef dripping), and can be easily cut without spalling shards of crumbs in every direction
This! I've never seen anyone deep fry a fried slice.
@@helvete983 I've been to a few cafes and burger bars that think it's acceptable to chuck a slice in the chip pan (they're usually the ones that have dry black pudding and bland sausages with chunks of gristle in them)
15:28 yes mate, Branston all the way! I felt as though Heinz went downhill over the years, the flavour just isn't there anymore. Branston gives it another level, definitely worth a go.
I like how they weighed the eggs as if they would somehow not be different weights anyway
For all the Brits that watch this show… home fries are fantastic both crispy and fudge-like on the inside. It is a perfect accompaniment to both a British and American breakfast. Edit: Also yes please on the regional dishes!!
Diners in the U.S. also have another kind of egg: basted. It is like sunny side up but they put a lid over it and squirt some water under it to create some steam so the white on top cooks lightly. It is the best kind of egg.
Chips, no. But as I'm scottish, Potato scones: Yes.
I _lost it_ when Joe said he Fs with the bubble & squeak
Porridge! Where is the porridge? or did i miss it
My Finnish a** was screaming this aswell 😂
The scrambled eggs makes me giggle!!!!!!
When I was a kid they put PC games on CD-ROMs in the Cereal box. Got hours of entertainment from cheaply made PC games from Cereal companies. The world is so much more less magical then it used to be.
US breakfast sausages are ground pork and spices w/o casings...served either as links or patties. and there are ground turkey sausages as well.
They did contain ground almonds until about 2006, but that’s been replaced with “natural almond flavor.”
Harry should have included potato scones, they are a staple in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We butter our toast in the US. How else are we going to guarantee which side hits the floor if we drop it before we put on the jam?
I feel like as a Canadian we get the best of both worlds. We have pretty much all of what was listed. Think the only thing is blood sausage is not big here. But we do get beans at breakfast. We have jams AND jelly + marmalades.
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Dry toast with just jam? Nope I wouldn’t do that, toast has to have butter and jam,jelly or preserves.
As an Spaniard I feel like none of this food is actually healthy for breakfast and also maybe Is because of my habits but I feel that no food can beat the Spanish one not only in flavor but the Mediterranean diet is the healthiest in the world. I hope to see Spain against USA or Uk the portions are going to be wild.
Both regions have good and bad food aspects. I'm an American married to Brit, lived in both England and USA and enjoyed some of your regional foods very much. 20 plus years ago we had terrible choices there (no decent coffee for example). Now things seem much more different from what I watch on CZcams, and hear from friends in England. We mainly shop in Germans supermarkets here in the USA so we enjoy multi-national foods--PS Grape jelly is vile....it's the worst. Anyone who is American and only eats grape or strawberry, try some new flavors.
Careful there- slagging off PB&J on white bread is an attack on our childhoods and everyone we thought loved us!
The "Old Adage" that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, is also one of those things created by Kellogg's; in order to try to increase sales. It succeeded, and succeeded so well that it's now universally repeated. FWIU, dieticians disagree.
My breakfast is iced tea with lemon and lime slices, NO sugar, a banana and some yogurt, preferably a greek style yogurt with fruit or honey flavor. Bagel, everything bagel, cream cheese and chives.
As a Brit I’ve never had bubble and squeak and never seen them on a breakfast
I won't lie, every morning after I get incredibly drunk I will get a fryup to soak up the alcohol - saw Humphrey from Death in Paradise do it and thought it was genius lol
I grew up in Ireland and the US.
I 100% remember Honey Nut Cheerios having nut bits on them.
I know they use almond because of peanut allergies but I don’t know if I hallucinated the nut bits.
On the Honey Nut Cheerios your getting confused with Kellogs Honey Nut Loops "Lets loop together" which did have nut in the name despite not including any nuts because they looked like the nuts you would put on a bolt. They eventually dropped the nut and were just Honey Loops probably to avoid the confusion that they contained nuts.
Sunny side up eggs should have both yolk and white cooked if you put a lid on the pan for the last minute of cooking.
Is hartleys jam actually cheap though?? 16:42
Worked in a well known blackcurrant drinks company years ago, the currants that were too far gone and mouldy got picked up by well known jam and pie companies- vile!
I think a shout out to the bacon Butty/Bap/Roll is needed as a breakfast staple, on the go it's common to order a bacon butty or sausage butty. (A butty is essentially bacon or sausage in a soft fluffy bread roll usually with ketchup or brown sauce)
Another thing is condiments, it can be divisive whether you put brown sauce or red sauce (Heinz Ketchup) on your plate or butty.
I think it could be a regional thing but I'd be pretty upset if I ordered a full English breakfast and it didn't come with tomatoes (Tinned are my preference) or mushrooms. But often you get a choice of beans or tomatoes.
Black Pudding is common throughout Europe, often called Blood Pudding or Blood sausage. I've never understood why some people (my wife included) won't at least try it, If you put any thought into how most of the protein we eat is processed it's equally gross.
Finally if you put chips onto a full English breakfast then you are a monster.
Chips are a great addition to any meal. Probably the most versatile food! 😂
Portion size versus box size.
I never use jelly unless it’s the only thing available. It’s either jam or preserves
We have Frosties in the UK similar to what American call Frosted Flakes XD
No Grits.... Sista? Might need to call Dr. Umar.
As a Brit, my go to cereal is still Frosties (Frosted Flakes)
Bacon and egg butty with HP wins hands down so....Not much else to say.
And for all of you that will try it, you're welcome!
Also if you are an american living in the UK (Why!?) and you want authentic US style bacon, just buy 'Streaky' bacon, because that's literally what US bacon is and its also readily available here.
Much prefer white pudding over black pudding. White pudding is pork and bacon but no blood. Highly recommend.
Cheerios suck, the proper British ones are Honey Loops, they used to be Honey nut loops, but they removed the nuts to avoid allergies and try and get more of the market (I think some time in the 90's if memory serves).
I love to see regional foods too
You can tell how unhealthy the cereal is by its recommended portion size. For example, lots of porridge can range from 40g to 60g per portion, but 30g of Corn Flakes clearly demonstrates it's quite unhealthy due to its macros, namely sugar.
You gotta go watch" the road to wellville....."... great movie about kellog
If it's after like... 11am then sure, put some chips on the breakfast instead of hash browns (Some places don't even do hash browns anyway ahaha)
Never been a breakfast person but all this stuff looks pretty good.
Not totally accurate about the coffee thing--here in the Southern US, we drink gallons of heavily sweetened iced tea and usually prefer it to coffee at all meals and in all seasons.
mighty boosh fans will know when he says the line
Where is the french toast and (american) biscuits? It's always fun to watch the British be apprehensive of eating a "scone" for breakfast. They're not the same, but look similar.
Bring back Joe. Or someone that actually seems to enjoy food
This seems inaccurate, the US has rebranded the UK Frosties cereal in the US as "Frosted Flakes" they even have the same tony tiger mascot on them as the UK version and even has his iconic slogan on the box they're great
Love Crumpets, English muffins and toast. As long as I have butter and jam. Either Strawberry, blueberry and marmalade or peach.
Both is great ! ⭐
Do India vs UK due to similarities and differences
Did he really just call Heartlys Jam cheap?
It is cheap. Glucose fructose syrup instead of sugar reduces cost and quality
Good to see joe in this harry and joe the A team
But Joe: there’s a difference between McDonald’s bacon & real bacon
I feel like what Harry has here is more representative of an English person's idea of breakfast. We'd never have bubble and squeak or chips with a full Scottish breakfast. We also love porridge!
When steak and eggs came up I immediately thought about that song the weightlifters from Family Guy sang to Peter in a gym
American breakfast all the way. Egg, bacon, cheese between 2 slices of bread/brioche with a cup of coffee. Best moment of the day. I like the British one but beans and mushrooms in the morning are a bit too strange for me.
What are great and informative video I love these series😊
Full english is best, mushrooms and baby spinach inclusive! 🇬🇧🎉❤🤩
Yea nah. We Australians are not eating steak and eggs for breakfast
UK’s largest corn flakes is the 1.2 Kg box. Clearly not looking hard enough!
I live in the US and i have NEVER seen anybody put jelly on toast. Only ever Jam. When i go out to eat I always see jam packets never jelly…
Surprised that smoked fish was missing from UK options, come on Kippers, or maybe Kedgeree or smoke salmon with bagels or on scrambled eggs.
Speaking of Egg, boiled egg with soldiers.
Fish for breakfast? Yuck.
@@alex31245 Without fish for breakfast, it might be quite limited on Fridays.🤔🤔