American reacts to American food that's Illegal in other countries

[@loke2534]

Some American foods and drinks (like Skittles) are still sold in EU countries. The ingredients have just been "Europe-ified" to make them.. You know.. Safe to consume. On another note, most people from Europe agree that American food has a really odd chemical taste to it. One that genuinely makes a lot of it inedible taste-wise.

Yep... I was like: "But I bought skittles like yesterday"... (Sweden) I guess they don't taste like the original American ones. Just like Mtn Dew...

[@irasan77]

True, you can buy skittles and Mountain Dew in Austria. But there were even protests here against the chlorine chicken when people were afraid there could be a deal during the Trump aera. It was in the newspapers and everything, including photos of horrible chicken😂

[@releasethekraken5039]

Good example of that is Fanta, over here in the netherlands, and probably in the rest of the EU countries, the drink has a yellow colour, while outside of the EU, it's orange.

[@c99kfm]

Hershey's chocolate is made with spoiled (sour) milk and as a result contains butyric acid, a natural preservative. Unfortunately, most Europeans encounter that taste in, well, spoiled milk and vomit, so tasting a Hershey bar for the first time they are likely to make a face and possibly spit it out.

[@carlipicco]

To be fair here in italy I never saw skittles, I just assumed they were like m&m or smarties, kinda like chocolate confetti, I never thought they were some sort of chewing-gum

[@AleaumeAnders]

EU: until proven beyond reasonable doubt that it's not killing you, it's unfit for human consumption. USA: until proven beyond reasonable doubt that it's killing you, it's fit for human consumption. See, not so different after all. One set of laws made for humans, one set of laws made for profit.

[@ChokyoDK]

The best description of the rules I've seen 👌

[@tsurutom]

Like glyphosate. Wait, shit...

[@beldin2987]

And since all humans benefit from profit, its no real difference and totally ok, isn't it ? 😅 And don't say that not everyone benefits from profit, thats evil communist think and not a good capitalist mindset.

[@rast]

FREEEEDOOOOM!!!!111

[@AleaumeAnders]

@@tsurutom "Americans are more likely than Europeans to be exposed to Monsanto’s glyphosate weed killer. That’s in large part because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s calculations to determine allowable levels of glyphosate use are much more lax than the European Union’s. "

[@destroyalty]

You know we're living in a dystopia when you have to watch ads in order to get to the reaction video where someone else is also watching ads.

[@Jebu911]

Also i think that one add was for medicine. Shouldnt your doctor give you recommendations for what medicine to use and not some youtube add. That just seems so weird to me.

[@janbo8331]

@@Jebu911 This is where the US and Europe differ. In the US "medicine" is just like anything else. Sell it, promote it, lie about it, whatever you want.

[@Jeferic]

Inception

[@OtagesBringthemhome_NOW]

And the reason adblockers were invented 😉😜

[@unemployed_clown]

10 dollars a month is too much for you?

[@miguelyanezlorenzo5037]

As a European, I have to say that most candy products like Skittles, Kit-Kat or Mountain Dew are avaliable here, the thing is that they just take out the harmful/prohibited chemicals for the EU version in most cases, and also reduce the amount of sugar in them. It's just shows that it wouldn't be too costly for companies to take out that crap from US food and make it less hamful, they clearly can afford it here. It's just a matter of maximizing profits whenever possible, and US regulations lets them get away with potentially poisoning people for money. It's just that simple.

[@Knusper-Knoppers]

Never seen Mountain Dew anywhere in the EU to be honest.

[@ludouniversalis]

@@Knusper-Knoppers They were available for a while. The bright yellow was made with beta-carotene rather than Yellow-5.

[@friendlyneighborhoodmemer18]

@@Knusper-Knoppers Literally here in germany...

[@bigdubyuh7901]

you realize almost all of Europe can fit into Texas right? and Texas has more GDP than like 8 countries combined there right?. If they had to do that in the US guess what they might go bankrupt. Just food for thought.

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

Kit-Kat yes. Skittles or Mountain dew? Don't remember ever seeing it in a European store.

[@daxidol1447]

"Well we do have local bakeries, but all they sell is cake".. that's such an American thing to say and it made me giggle.

[@trelala789]

Actually in my country (Czech Republic) those are different shops with different names. There are bakeries, which sell bread, pastries and savory baked goods and then there are "sugaries" which sell cakes and ice cream during summer.

[@okularnik125]

in Poland a local baked bread and pastry is sold in stores

[@anniemac7545]

How are the cakes made? Using pre-made sacks of bread/cake mixes - what's in the mixes?

[@lisamichel6548]

This summer I purchased a boule of rye sourdough bread from a local farmer’s market for $9.00. Not very economical if it is a daily staple and it was so sweet I just at it like a pastry with butter and fruit preserves.

[@manuelkumli5393]

In U.S. Hotels u get muffins and sirup for breakfast.

[@7thlittleleopard7]

It probably needs saying that Coca Cola elsewhere in the world is not the same as Coca Cola in America. A lot of countries don't use corn syrup to sweeten everything, including their beverages, and thus the taste and texture is different (as is the unhealthiness, though sugar is still sugar even if it's sourced from beets or sugar cane).

[@jasonhuxley674]

high fructose corn syrup is ~80% fructose which can't be metabolised by humans without converting it to fat first. 20% of sucrose is metabolized by muscles and brain directly. Sugar is 50/50 sucrose and fructose

[@hundvd_7]

Including Mexico. Which is why many American people swear on Mexican Coke. (No, not that kind. Or maybe that one, too, who knows).

[@kristoffer3000]

I've tried a few American things and the corn syrup and chemicals taste is very off-putting.

[@ravensshade]

not that kind? you're saying they don't have the original coke recipe?@@hundvd_7

[@aarettikoski1172]

The ones sweetened by sugar taste way more fresh than those syrup ones. Some restaurant had them shippes from the US to here so I tasted it and immediately thought that it was not as good as what I usually get from the store.

[@nickflowthefirst]

Did you know that subway had to cancel their bread in some European countries?? Because it contains so much sugar, it’s basically cake

[@giulianopisciottano8302]

I mean, they can just start advertising it as cake bread or something like that

[@jimmynewf]

that was my take on it too when it was a thing a few years ago lol@@giulianopisciottano8302

[@KingKayn-kh8qi]

For example as my country bulgaria, no1 would eat it. Most ppl switched from coke to soda, cus before 3-5 years they started putting so much more sugar in it. So... Sugary bread, subway sandwich? Would die...

[@Sniperboy5551]

I don’t think that’s true. I think Ireland or Scotland had a court ruling that simply taxed Subway bread as something other than bread due to the sugar content, but it didn’t ban their bread outright. Maybe Subway did reformulate their bread, I don’t know, but I do remember reading about the court ruling.

[@nickflowthefirst]

@@Sniperboy5551 well if you don’t think that’s true, you could’ve just googled it. Would have taken the same amount of time and you would learn something as well. You’d see that it is in fact true and everything would be fine

[@HarleyHerbert]

In Europe we tend to use food colourings derived from natural sources like fruit and vegetables rather than artificial colouring. For example, orange can often come from carrots, purple or red can often come from beetroot. Sweeteners also often come from natural sources, commonly from fruit juice.

[@nwerd7584]

yeah but its not that simple. most colors have several different shades that can only be acquired from things like bug carcasses. Hell to get the real "prussian blue" you have to actual use zyklon B. Thats why many were changed to synthetics that theoretically could be created forever. People don't even understand why GMOs were started as we have eaten several foods to the point of natural extinction.

[@Fuzz82]

Sometimes bugs too. But hey, it is better than some dangerous chemical.

[@KxNOxUTA]

@@Fuzz82 As far as I last heart, it DID come from bugs but that one isn't really used any more?

[@WM-gf8zm]

nothing wrong with bugs, its some proteins or some miniscule amount of whatever biomass@@Fuzz82

[@metballetjes]

Its not bugs but lice we use, more specifically its blood for red coloring. I You might be freaked out about that but when looking into red 40 I prefer my lice blood colored Belgian food. (its banned here but not by the EU) Almost the whole original video is just untrue btw, we have most of these products but in a European specific version with natural coloring. Special K, skittles, m&m’s … are all available here but no yellow 5, red 40, … in it. our food is objectively healthier because of that. :)

[@nickwhite6717]

Keep in mind, a lot of these things are available in lots of countries by name, but the contents can be drastically different (better for you) for various markets

[@samstevens7888]

The question usa citizens should ask is, why do American companies change to healthier recipes for Europe and the rest of the world, showing that they can. But continue to make and sell unhealthy chemical ridden foods to the US people.

[@laurenC91.]

Because it's cheaper than the healthier options.

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@laurenC91. _We_ know that...

[@marcmathes]

If you were to ask one of the crazier people in the US I bet you'd get an answer like 'Thats because we have to subsidize the better food for Europe.' There are people unironically saying stuff like that... that's what worries me.

[@mehallica666]

Because the U.S healthcare industry makes a fortune from illness and obesity.

[@Jus7aguy]

Because if they use the high fructose corn sure in the states it's cheaper to manufacture, so more profit. Because the corn industry is heavily subsidised.

[@abbenylund]

As a swede, I can confirm that we do have skittles, they just need to revise the recipe to be allowed to sell them here.

[@mammamiia08]

Exactly what I was wondering as I've seen them in the shops👍

[@Ciiran]

Also, we have M&M's.

[@elainelindsey1306]

EU should adjust it to suit there taste like they did with Fanta. I'm not sure if you get Rascals der but it's tastes better than skittles and not has sweet, the berry flavored pack is the best

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

Marabou isn't Norwegian, and was never located in Norway, though it was merged with the Norwegian company Freia in 1990. It was founded in in Sundbyberg, Sweden, in 1916 by a Norwegian, but it's now owned by the Swedish company Mondelez Sverige AB, which is again owned by American company Mondelez International (former Kraft Foods). They bought it in 1993. And their milk chocolate does NOT resemble Kit Kat, since it's pure chocolate with no crunchy biscuit-ish stuff in it. Btw, as a Norwegian, I'm glad we are not hesitating to ban stuff that is, or might be, unsafe for consumption.

[@marting.8538]

Many Americans naturally believe that their food sets the gold standard. They also perceive their country as the best, most beautiful, and with the highest quality of life. Some might even describe other nations as "shitholes," borrowing the words of a former president. I was in America last month and heard many derogatory and inaccurate comments and opinions about my country (Germany). It's just sad.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I’m from the UK and was watching an American reactor on KZbin. She was watching a video about Britain. At one point she saw a tractor on a farm. She paused the video and said “huh, they have industry in Britain? ok”. For starters the Industrial Revolution started in Britain. But I wasn’t sure if she was surprised we had farms in the UK, or that she was surprised we had tractors. I had the feeling she thought we still used horse drawn vehicles, instead of combustion engines. A lot of Americans are very insular and know nothing of the rest of the world.

[@JeroenJA]

Lol, not a person to keep following longer 😅. To stupifying, unless she was under 15 or so...

[@JarlGrimmToys]

@@JeroenJA Yeah I stopped subscribing to them after that. Then years later I saw her being made fun of on the internet. After she reacted to Eurovision and thought the country of Montenegro was making fun of black people for calling themselves that.

[@jillmortlock8439]

That's because the American education system is set to produce drones not thinkers.

[@PAULOSOUSADIAS]

@@JarlGrimmToys OK, I know who that is. She's beyond stupid, or maybe it's an act to get reactions on her videos.

[@TheSilentScreamX]

I remember the first time I ate American bread. I thought they'd put my sandwich in cake by mistake.

[@NetMoverSitan]

That's the corn syrup. (e.g. diabetes in a bottle)

[@KeyClavis]

Pretty awful, isn't it? Canned tomato soup is even worse. A lot of it is candy sweet.

[@riccardozanoni2531]

and pizza.... like, american pizza is just sugar with some added condiments

[@tumultoustortellini]

@@riccardozanoni2531 Sweet pizza? Some restaurants have sweet marinara sauce. As an american, I hate it. It depends on the chain and location though

[@riccardozanoni2531]

@@tumultoustortellini trust me, your pizza is ten times sweeter than a pizza should be. The dough itself tastes sugary, i don't know why... i'm sure there's better and worse ones, like everywhere, this is just a tendency i noticed 😅

[@Arlington_Menendez]

The orange tic tak flavor was banned in Australia due to the food colour that it had was carciogenic, but was changed to be un-banned by removing the colouring then colour the container to a similar colour the original had (a safer version).

[@Virtualblueart]

Same here in Europe.

[@Tudvari]

Whaaat, Orange flavoured Tic-Tacs aren't white in the US???

[@Aghul]

As a German, I will always stand at full attention when the bread discussion comes up. And ngl, Europeans are right imo when they say that most bread outside of Europe can't really be considered bread - what America and Japan describe as 'bread' is flat-out just cake to us, from how spongy and sugary it is. PS: We do have Mountain Dew here in Germany but it is an entirely different color. Also, Tartar - if done right - is amazing! The meat has to be super fresh from your local butcher tho (and also keep in mind that in Germany, meat products usually have a really short transport from the butcher to the supermarkets. Like, a single day kind of short).

[@Levenhaupt]

Totally agree with bread, Mountain Dew and tartare. In Poland we have both mdew and tartare, but the quality and health demands for the meat sold to tartare is so high that there’s no doubt it can be eaten raw. And tartare is really a meat that can be made, delivered, sold and used in 48 to 72hrs. As for Mountain Dew it tastes different in Europe than in us but it still tastes like cancer. And bread is too holy to consider American bread a bread 🤣

[@DenverStarkey]

you obviously never had american bread and just go by what you hear. our bread is not "spongy" and the vast majority of it is NOT sugary. that is myth prepentrated from a court case about Subway , one specific fast food company that had alot of sugar in their bread. so stop talking sidways out your ass when you haven't actually had american bread.

[@D.e.v.i.n]

@@DenverStarkeyBut had you ever German bread?

[@DenverStarkey]

@@D.e.v.i.n no. but i'm not the one making false claims about something i never had. That was my point. i'm not making any claims about german bread. you ARE making claims about american bread based off a myth that was started becasue ONE god damn fast food company loaded their breads with too much sugar. you can't make any claims on somethign you enver had , and you certainly can't base your reality of Every american bread , off of one company's dishonest effort to make their breadmore addictive. when they aren not even a bread company for the most part , theya re asubway sandwhich company. theior bread standards do not apply to every american bread on the market.

[@Aghul]

@@DenverStarkey I've been to the US several times and did have bread several times. Can't say I was impressed with the taste at any point

[@atie3218]

I once tried American chocolate that my friend brought me from her trip. It’s the most disgusting chocolate I’ve ever tried. It was overly sweet and tasted just remotely similar to chocolate I’m used to. Since then if I see American food, I don’t buy it.

[@SuzieSimSG]

Tried Hershey, Ben & Jerry, Dunkin Donuts, Amos cookies and gave up. Too sweet.

[@randomdude4669]

Try their licorice if you think the chocolate is bad, its chewy chemical plastic

[@Herr-K-Aus-B-An-Der-W]

I buyed once a Bar of Hersheys Chocolate, a Gasstation nearby had this and iam totaly excited. They taste exactly like these cheap chocosantaclausees on sticks that you can buy at christmas time, if youre german, you now what i mean.😅 Another time id buy Twinkies, i would have them since i watched Zombieland😅 No, there aren't any good, to🙈

[@Coulterculture]

America. Chocolate like hersheys use an ingredient found in vomit to replace the two cups of spoiled milk the original recipe called for. American chocolate tastes like puke and sugar.

[@LumeyBloon34]

It absolutely taste like puke..I thought i was the only one lol @@Coulterculture

[@mrhenk007]

"Why does it need dye, it's chocolate?" At this point you should understand that it's American chocolate.

[@gulyasnefarkasrita2917]

It's not even contains chocholate. These products are made almost entirely from arteficial components, then dyed to look edible. The taste proves it. If you ever tasted a real, home-made chocholate cake - you will know the difference immediately forever. 😊

[@Nikioko]

What Americans call "bread" isn't bread. It's cake.

[@Philemaphobia]

I call it raw toast.

[@exvex5108]

Lets call it Yoga mat

[@Saufkopp1989]

In Germany we call that Toast and even the cheapest one from a discounter has a better quality than so called American "bread".

[@martijnspruit]

And it's sweet from all the sugar. It has nothing to do with actual bread.

[@osososd]

​@@Saufkopp1989well atleast in USA its not a nazi bread lol

[@kazz3956]

Your Coke is different than what we have in Australia. USA uses high-fructose corn syrup in their product. That is banned here due to links to inflammation, with risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease. We use cane sugar here in Australia.

[@LMB222]

That. Thanks, Australia for speaking up, as this is *not* a US vs EU problem, but US is just poisoning their citizens.

[@marydavis5234]

You can get soda in the US that has cane sugar.

[@samstevens7888]

@@marydavis5234 from my knowledge the coke cola that has cane sugar, is brought over the border in Mexico and imported. So even Mexico has better Coke cola lol

[@tomeng9520]

Cuba Cola is a soft drink that was launched in 1953 and is thus Sweden's oldest cola brand. The recipe for Cuba Cola is owned by Spendrups in Vårby. Previously it was owned by Nordarom who licensed the right for production to four Swedish breweries. Wikipedia Manufacturer: Spendrups Year: 1953 Drink: Soft drink Taste: Coke Origin: Sweden

[@tusker4954]

Fructose is very dangerous and should be treated as poison

[@aurelienduval-arnould4583]

Hi, I'm french and about steak tartare it's not just a raw steak well cut, most a of the flavor came from the sauce which is directly mixt with the steak when preparing it. It's quite nice to eat once in a while. There also is carpaccio which is very thin slice of raw beef with some olive oil and lemon juice and parmesan. If one day you go in a meet restaurant in europe try it, carpaccio might be less shocking for the eye, but both taste great.

[@karlbmiles]

Odd that a Frenchman talks of Carpaccio as though it's French! Well, no wonder you like it.

[@aurelienduval-arnould4583]

@@karlbmiles Never said it was french, but it more than well received like pizzas

[@tagadaki]

As a French, yessss I love Carpaccios and Tartare but I only eat them in really good restaurants. Because of the risk with raw food you have to eat it in some places where they are really good on hygiene and how to prepare it.

[@thisismetoday]

5:10 “Strengthen dough”? Our German bread is perfectly strong without any additives. That’s just a bizarre thing to even say

[@irmotomassen8942]

Make an educated guess…….money

[@hayleysahara496]

and bleach the flour. mmmmm who doesnt like a nice blond flour.

[@Witzwo1]

I am from Germany, too, Our Bread has a huge difference. After a week on the Shelf it is as white and fluffy as on the first day. It is just what the market wants. While German bread tastes nice, American bread looks nice. While German bread is made for consumption, American bread is made for Exhibition, so they dont need to restock that often.

[@CyberChrist]

Stronk.

[@thisismetoday]

@@Witzwo1 German bread looks (and tastes) amazing. What are you talking about? You sure you’re German? 😅

[@lilliangibson3072]

The problem in the USA is that as soon as a bakery becomes successful and grows, one of the two companies that hold the "bread monopoly" in the USA buys up this bakery and the good, healthy bread immediately disappears from the market!

[@HubiKoshi]

So the American Capitalism isn't Capitalism at all, it's Oligarchy.

[@user-xu3bg7zh9c]

not even a problem in the USA alone, but they try to set this economic models in other countries by force, invading them or even setting coups in order to shape other countries in something that benefits the USA on expenses of the rest of the world.

[@nydaarius6845]

i agree. As soon as Ryan had said that, i thought "as soon as they are making profit they get devoured by a big corpo". I'm from Germany and we used to have bakeries on every street corner. 50 years ago most of them were still private bakeries. Nowadays most of the bakeries you see are big companies chain stores. They make their products in a factory and finish/bake them locally. the overall number of bakeries seem to decline over the years though. Well. Capitalism is going hard everywhere. Think the US just happens to be ground zero.

[@BrandonDenny-we1rw]

​@@nydaarius6845 I must be lucky, theres a load of bakeries in Montana that arent owned by a company but the person behind the counter.

[@iamcerealman102]

Damn maybe US should straight up stop them from doing that? Let the people enforce it if they have to.

[@cordy6890]

Friend of me, german doctor, was working in the us for a while and she recognised that the dead bodys in the area didnt decay in a normal speed because of all the chemicals in the food. Might be unimportant for the dead bodys but important for the living ones? She also recognized that the puberty of her daughters started way too early, made some tests, and found way too many hormones. Stopped letting them eat anything outside the house and the disease stopped luckily. What are you doing to your bodies Americans?

[@kristoffer3000]

You can tell what Americans eat a lot of meat by their neck size, after I got told that I can't unsee it.

[@WooShell]

Although some of these foods may be banned in the EU, they're still available - but only if you read the fine print, you'll notice that the recipe has been adjusted. Skittles have different colorants, Coke has real sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup and also had some of its other ingredients swapped out. Same goes for big brands like McDonalds.. since they have to conform with rather strict restaurant and nutrition laws in the EU, their products taste a lot different here, and generally are a lot healthier than their American originals.

[@ManuelSteiner]

With all due respect. I’m German. I study nutritional sciences. „Healthier“ is the wrong word. It should be „less unhealthy“. The foods you mentioned are very unhealthy here in Germany as well. Also the laws have actually become less strict. Also some additives can be used that are bad for your health (companies use it to bind, preserve, give texture…). So it’s not quite as good as you think here in Europe

[@spugelo359]

@@ManuelSteiner And studying sciences doesn't automatically make you better at English or literature in general. less unhealthy means exactly same as healthier, it merely changes what part of it is emphasized more. Healthy is the opposite of unhealthy, surely you don't need to be told that. If something is less unhealthy than something else, then it means it's healthier. Just because something is healthier than something else doesn't meant it's healthy though, just healthier. Saying shit smells better than a burn corpse is perfectly fine, although saying that shit doesn't smell as bad as a burn corpses isn't inaccurate either, just different way to saying the exact same thing. Ops I accidentally even said the correct way to phrase it rather than that mess you're trying to offer. "Isn't as unhealthy as" > "less unhealthy". Saying that something is less slow wouldn't make much sense to you either now would it? You'd either say that it's faster, even if still slow. Or not as slow.

[@ManuelSteiner]

In German we have „langsamer“ which literally means slower. And „ungesünder“ which literally means „less healthy“ - „gesünder“ means healthier…. so I’m very sorry I don’t master the English language as much as you do. And btw: I wasn’t as wrong as you say. Because in German the difference between „gesünder“ and „weniger ungesund“ is: gesünder is like comparing two healthy foods (one is healthier), the second one is you comparing 2 unhealthy foods

[@njordholm]

@@ManuelSteiner Es mag ja sein, dass Du das stilistisch so handhabst, aber das zu generalisieren halte ich für falsch. Für mich ist es logisch richtig wenn man sagt, "Man lebt gesünder, wenn man nur eine Schachtel Zigaretten am Tag raucht anstatt zwei." Am gesündesten ist natürlich überhaupt nicht zu rauchen. Menschen die weniger ungesunde Zigaretten rauchen, leben gesünder, bzw. sind/werden halt weniger krank.

[@Flirkann]

Similar when Burger King launched here - had to change ingredients for local food regulations, and taxes on imported beef forced them to go local, much to the improvement of their product. And then a meek little lawyer with an iron clad case informed them that the business name was already in use, so after proforma rejection and subsequent attempts to negotiate usage they rebranded and took over as the primary competitor to that place with the lanky clown mascot...

[@molybdomancer195]

The difference between food safety in the US and other places is that you guys allow additives unless they are proven to be dangerous whereas everywhere else they can only be added if they have been proven safe

[@ManuelSteiner]

Not true but ok. I’m German btw, not American and study nutritional science. Companies can add unsafe additives but there’s an upper limit. Also look up ALTERNARIOL in (Heinz) Ketchup. It’s an ingredient in the German version. Experts say don’t eat it

[@Randleray]

@@ManuelSteiner Curious, do you have quotes from experts or any other source?

[@ManuelSteiner]

Sure. Unfortunately I can’t post L inks on KZbin. Do you speak German, then I can tell you what to search

[@ManuelSteiner]

@Randleray

[@karlbmiles]

There must have been a BBC expose on American bread recently, because all you guys are saying the same thing. That's called effective propaganda when you can align the masses thoughts.

[@rotciv1492]

Mi limited add-on as a Spaniard. We do have skittles here, traditionally renamed as "lacasitos". However, they were never nearly as shiny as those I'm seeing in American videos(try and google lacasitos). And now I know why... Thing is. A lot of American brands products have been modified for European standards. Like the orange Fanta using actual orange juice in Europe. Or the McDonalds fries having like 14 ingredients in the USA, while in Europe they are made of potatoe, dextrose and salt.

[@jokanaan2486]

As a European I remember being hyped about Hershey's bar after multiple viewings of Empire of the Sun. When I finally got one, it was absolutely horrible. Still not giving up on Twinkies though and hoping to find some one day.

[@nickryan3417]

Don't rush for twinkies either. I made a point of finding some and bringing them home for others to try. I swear after the first bit my dentist rang up to say that I need an urgent check up. Twinkies are something else entirely... mostly a mix of sugar and (other) preservatives with a bit of dye thrown in for good measure. Once you've tried one, you'll know...

[@sunnie734]

We have a shop in Norwich that sells Twinkies and ...Moon Pies, I think they're called (?). I tried one once, and they're disgusting. They have literally no flavour at all, and are so dry. They also make your mouth gluey. They're gross.

[@jokanaan2486]

Damn, crushing my culinary dreams one reply at a time 😅

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Twinkies are disgusting. The outside is 80% sugar, and i dont know what they put on the inside but the fact it doesnt spoil in 10 years says enough. Never again.

[@JenniferKitchens123]

I personally don’t care for Twinkies, but I’ve seen a few English people who have liked them 🤷‍♀️ I say try them anyway. Taste is very subjective. Best wishes from Alabama, USA

[@JWaldmeister]

We normally use plant based coloring (like beet root for red for example) in our food here in eu. Yellow 5 and red 40 are petroleum based so yeah might not be that healthy 😅

[@BrandonDenny-we1rw]

Well thats not true, RED 40 is mashed up bugs. I dont recall the bug name but its the main and possibly only source of the true vibrant red dye

[@JWaldmeister]

@@BrandonDenny-we1rw Red Dye 40 is a synthetic food dye made from petroleum. While the consensus from health organizations is that Red Dye 40 poses little health risk, the dye has been implicated in allergies and worsened behavior in children with ADHD.12 Jun 2023. Just google it bro

[@kittyr6534]

@@BrandonDenny-we1rwcochineal bugs. The red colouring made from them is called carmine. It’s red 4 tho, not red 40, which is a petroleum derivative.

[@BrandonDenny-we1rw]

@@kittyr6534 Well. I was a 0 off lmao

[@LeSarthois]

About the Mountain Dew thing, Coca-Cola is now also tasting like the old one in Europe : because the European one is still made with sugar instead of corn syrup. So according to Americans (old enough to remember) it taste like the old recipe. I never saw Little Debbie's products in France, even in the "international" part of supermarkets, so I can't tell if they come with specific warnings. For the Coca-cola, there are testimonies of enough travelers to say that Coca-Cola is available in both Cuba and North Korea... At least in tourist hotels.

[@kevak1236]

I worked in America in the early 2000s for a few years. The only bread I could stomach were the french baguettes or similar from Publix or the like. We ended up buying a breadmaker machine so we could get something that tasted like proper bread and not cake.

[@ddilley83]

Been eating American bread my whole life. Started having some health issues with diabetes, cholesterol, and pancreatitis. Doctor told me stop eating refined bread, as it’s empty calories filled with sugar. Started eating a whole wheat, zero sugar bread from Publix, and will never go back to what I now refer to as cake bread. The American diet is truly atrocious. Going grocery shopping and trying to find foods without a metric ton of added sugars is an almost impossible mission. Combine that with our packaging sizes, and I hate going to the grocery store. I go a local farmers market for my produce, because you don’t even want to know what the grocery stores do to preserve their produce to last longer. It’s really is no wonder why we’re all obese with health problems.

[@stadoblech]

In our country (Czech Rep) tartare is super common. You can order it practically in any restaurant which serve meat. Often its served as appetizer. Also its often served with raw yolk. You spread it on fried bread, often seasoned with raw garlic. Its super delicious

[@nikolaasdigi]

Same here in Belgium, we call it steak-tartaar 😊 it’s good but we get warned by the goverment’s food safety that we have to be careful due to cross-contemination or salmonella (as it is raw meat) same goes for raw fish.

[@dzordzous2511]

In Poland tartare in 90s was served nearly on every wedding in my region. Now its often an apetizer in restaurants served with raw egg yolk, choped: onion, pickled cucumber and pickled mushroms, salt and pepper. But now there are a lot of different addons for tartare so it can vary.

[@ancus8551]

yeah as the part with it started i just finished eating mine xd

[@ChefGoreb]

Its soo funny to me when americans go nuts when something is fresh. Tiramisu: Salmonellaaaa! Raw meat: Ahhhh. Whats ur problem Murica. Its safe if its fresh. ...if u bought them in the EU.

[@mateuszzych9087]

@@dzordzous2511 another Polish person here to confirme it. I love tartar( or "tatar" in polish language) i ussualy add capers (kapary) instead of mushrooms. Great stuff. Would reccomend it.

[@Zabzoubi]

The meat in a steak tartar actually cooks in the seasonings (sort of vinegar sauce and spices), you only need to let it sit for a while. It's pretty safe to eat, at least in France.

[@godvana1017]

Man I remember when a couple years back a new transatlantic trade agreement almost came through a lot of people here in Germany were extremely worried about unsafe and/or unhealthy food being sold for dirt cheap. It was almost like a small panic attack for a lot of people, but thankfully I did not go through. It’s such a shame to hear, that bakeries that offer freshly baked bread aren’t a thing in the states. Here in Germany you could throw a rock up in the air and it would land in front of some bakery, wether chain or family owned with the smell of dozen of glutinous variations coming from its door

[@beurksman]

Thankfully, Germans would NEVER prioritize cost over quality when it comes 1€/kg chicken at Lidl 🤓

[@CalmoOmlac]

And as someone with gluten intolerance here in Germany i still can't eat any of it

[@finkreghgrimfrost3010]

Same in Poland, bakeries with good bread everywhere. Btw, hello neighbor!

[@paul1337x]

I think the agreement was called ACTA

[@Celediev]

The threat of ACTA was one of those glorious instances when germans used the internet in all the right ways. Gosh KZbin was awesome back in the days.

[@hydraian]

To be fair, flour dust can also act as an irritant and may give rise to short-term respiratory, nasal and eye symptoms, or it may provoke an asthma attack in individuals with pre-existing disease. So protecting yourself when working with those quantities is important.

[@QveenRex]

People used to die all the time in the Victorian days from something called baker’s lung. It’s gnarly.

[@yngvekristoffersen7403]

Yeah, bakers lung is almost on par with smoking with all the tiny particles clogging your lungs and preventing the oxygen-uptake, even if the dust itself isn`t toxic.

[@nwerd7584]

Anything in a fine enough powder can also be flammable to explosive in large quantities.

[@Elba.Ginon93]

The dust that papers leave in the office is worse and everyone loves it.

[@m.p.2534]

About bread and sweets, even as a Canadian, there are no greater joy than going to my local artisanal bakery, smelling the fresh products which just got out from the oven, then buying their nordic bread and loaves with whole sprouted grains to heal my body and soul. (N.B. It's been about 20 years since I've eaten cheap white bread). Plus, that bakery's deserts are to die for, like their pear frangipane tarts for instance, or their old fashioned brownies. Because they only put a minimum of sugar, you can taste the real ingredients, which is a bliss for your palate and intestines. So basically : Real food >>> Chemical food that has been so processed/drowned in additives it's not even food anymore.

[@kristinaro4380]

Whenever I see a video like this I'm so glad that I live in one of the EU countries with the strictest food regulations

[@Pseudomonasa]

So true "America land of the free" free health issues, free debt, free school shootings every week

[@IRweasel1988]

I used to be hyperactive as a kid, to a point that I was annoying myself 😂, my mom found an article that it could help to cut out certain food coloring and other chemicals from my candy... I remember being allowed to choose candy and me being 6 years old(could have been 10 I don't know), reading the ingredients to see if certain e numbers where in the candy😅, it did help alot

[@Nerdsammich]

Or did it help to slow down and think about things when you were getting excited about a treat?

[@tumultoustortellini]

You sure that's not just placebo? Plenty of "sugar increases hyperactivity", is just kids being active, maybe it's the same for red-40?

[@lawson6267]

@@tumultoustortellini It's not. It's also important to remember that not everyone reacts to certain things the same way and of those that do react we all have different tolerances. But removing specific chemicals can effect people's behaviour to an extent, regardless of if they're informed or not. Think of it like a sensitivity (mild allergy) but instead of a physical reaction it's a mental/behavioural one. While caffeine isn't one of the additives we're discussing it can be used as an example to show how common food items can have positive or detrimental behavioural effects. Sue Dengate has some good books on child behaviour and food colourings, etc The sugar thing has merit but is definitely overblown. People love to use it at parties or other exciting events for some reason when the kids would be hyper anyway XD

[@tumultoustortellini]

@@lawson6267 Can you give me tl;dr of the book? Also, I'm getting a psych degree, I know that chemicals can influence behavior. I'm just genuinely curious of red-40 does, nothing more. I keep hearing about it's influence and negativity, but never actually am given anything. If you could, I'd be very glad. Fun fact about sugar, there is no scientific proof that sugar increases hyperactivity in children. In fact, one of my professors outlayed proof that said it actually increases focus in kids with ad/hd.

[@JustSomeone_666]

From an italian: in supermarkets you can find meat already packaged for raw consumption. That meat is always more controlled with respect to the meat that is to be cooked.

[@mathiasgran5361]

I work in spice production as seen at 1:32, and the safety gear is indeed mainly for us workers. Not necessarily bc its dangerous to breathe in (your nosehairs usually stop them, but certain powders can be irritable to the skin and airways), the staining on your clothes and hair is something we’d rather avoid. Ofc it’s also for santiation purposes.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Its also to prevent workers from developing allergies to the spices you come into contact with frequently. A guy I know worked as a cook for a few years. Eventually went to the doctor for an allergy test. He was allergic to like 98 of the 100 herbs and spices they tried on him.

[@mathiasgran5361]

@@TheSuperappelflapReally depends on the spices. A lot of the raw produce is basically just glucuse and and filler

[@SysterYster]

You were given cakes at LUNCH in schools? Wow. In schools from year 1-9, Swedish schools don't allow the selling of candy, cookies or cake, and the kids are very rarely given it. Like, for Easter, Christmas, at school start and such, but not every day. :O

[@nejaahalcyon]

wrt: tartar, yes it's a pretty popular bistro dish in France. However, the production, storage, and preparation of the meat have to be pretty rigorous specifically because of the health risks. We're pretty good about it but also our beef usually can roam around and doesn't require to be loaded with hormones and antibiotics for the meat to be safe and developed. The main thing is that tartar is that the beef isn't the main flavor component, there's always a sauce or accompanying seasoning and other vegetable to be eaten at the same time

[@charlesunderwood6334]

I like the videos showing British kids eating US food; they usually love it. Not surprising. After being in the US I wondered why the food tasted odd- I then realised that all of the sugar and flavour enhancers were making it all sweet and textureless. Essentially US food tastes as if it was designed for a birthday for an 8 year old already high on sugary drinks, not for adults enjoying a meal with a glass of wine.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

We have skittles in the UK, they’re pretty popular. The difference is they use ingredients that are not bad for you. Which the US could do, but choose not to. And Americans don’t seem to mind as they still eat them.

[@paulmilner8452]

well ofcourse we have skittles in the UK we invented them, like most other things americans believe are theirs ..... snickers, kit kats etc etc makes me laugh when they say you guys have snickers in the uk? well duh yeah

[@JeroenJA]

​@paulmilner8452 huh, i saw them weirdly past 2 years once or twice for sale, dont think it took on.. what is the difference with m&m lookslike a low Q m&m imitation to me on first side 😅,

[@paulmilner8452]

@@JeroenJA skittles are not m&ms in anyway but colour, skittles are sweet inside and sour m&ms are chocolate or peanut

[@JeroenJA]

@@paulmilner8452 i didn't noticed any big advertising, as dr pepper tried some, uhm 20 yrs ago to get us to drink that.. i was a teenager then,the adds were.. wow, most wanted to really try it, it was very suddenly for sale in most supermarkets, for a month or 2-3? Tasted it.. just tasted like.. fruit bubble gum or do.. didn't like it, neither did 99,9% of all the others that tried. Not forbidden, but you'll have to go really look to find it.. a drink shop that specializes in also offering soda tastes from around the world? :-)

[@suzannelacy8093]

@@paulmilner8452 They are on our boycott list in R of Ireland .

[@Henoik]

Fun fact: Since Mountain Dew was banned for so long (not anymore), Coca-Cola established its equivalent on the Norwegian market. You might remember Surge in the US, but it started in Norway as Urge, and has stayed here even long after its marketing ceased in the US. Mountain Dew is allowed in Norway again, but they don't make the drink itself neon yellow - they make the bottle neon green to make it have that appearance.

[@JustBigL66]

Greetings from germany =) its actually quite common here to eat raw ground meat on a dinner roll. We call it "Mettbrötchen" and its often served with raw onion on top of it. Although in supermarkets it sometimes says on the label to cook the meat before you eat it i often still use that meat on Mettbrötchen without any concern of getting sick (never had any problems)

[@sarwelhlaalu3926]

And worse, Mettbrötchen uses pork, not beef - the Americans here will fall over backwards about it! They would not dream of eating undercooked pork, let alone raw minced pork. They can't conceive of our high quality standards when it comes to meat. Btw, I'm German, and I love Mettbrötchen!

[@TimTaylorCEO_Binford]

Greetings from Germany, too - and the meat used in Steak Tatar is really different from "Mett" - its mostly tendon-free and relatively fat-free beef cuts. There is also a Wikipedia article about it in english: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

[@DanielAusMV-op9mi]

Mettbrötchen are addicting af 🤤

[@Pseudomonasa]

Alter abgepacktes hack ist gefährlich 😂 Mikrobiologie Student hier und nebenbei zum Metzger gehen und 1€-1,50€ für 100g frisches sicheres Mett ist nicht die Welt. Nicht zu vergessen, dass laut Lebensmittel Recht Fleisch welches zum roh Verzehr geeignet ist extrem hohe sicherheits Auflagen hat um sich überhaupt Mett nennen zu dürfen. Ich wünsche dir nicht, dass du krank wirst würde aber hart lachen wenn du dir die Seele aus'm Leib scheißt und kotzt, wie sagt man so schön Dummheit tut weh 😂 PS: bitte tu dir und deinem körper einen Gefallen und hör auf abgepacktes hack roh zu verzehren, das kann dich schnell auf die Intensivstation bringen no joke. Bleib gesund ❤

[@peterjones6507]

What the US needs is a food agency that is not also a drugs agency.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

Or a market based organization, like the EWG, instead of a government on the take agency.

[@kristoffer3000]

@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Or just some actual regulation, the FDA is great when they actually do their jobs properly. Aka when they're not paid off to look away.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

@@kristoffer3000 It's not the government's job to dictate what people do or don't ingest. The only legitimate function of government is to protect *individual* liberty.. not gangs, groups or corporations.

[@kristoffer3000]

@@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know I was talking to someone with an acorn for a brain. The people have to be protected against corporations under capitalism, that's just the way of this dystopian hellscape we're living in.

[@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority]

@@kristoffer3000 And that's what the judicial branch's function is... not an unconstitutional agency. Raw milk, from your own cows, has been "ruled on by the FDA.. not the government's job. Medications that used to be over the counter, used safely for decades, got slammed behind a prescription wall, by the FDA.. it should not exist. If the majority of the people hadn't been indoctrinated by the department of education, they'd be smart enough to protect themselves. Now a fifth of the population can't find Canada on a map. At this point in time, this hellscape as you called it, we need protection from the government allowing an invasion, much more urgently than corporations.

[@Amanoob105]

Bri'ish dude here mate. On the subject of banned food and drink over here just before last year ended a whole mass of American products got the boot. Examples include, but are not limited to, Mountain Dew (this one I'm a bit annoyed about), Sunny D, Dubble Bubble, Jolly Rancher gummies and hard candy, Hot Tamales, Twizzlers, and Swedish Fish. We do have Skittles, have done for decades. We just don't use the same colouring you do. Also our purple one is blackcurrant flavour, as grape is a largely unheard of flavour over here and most would just consider a very weird concept.

[@davidfilicietti7168]

I am constantly fascinated by Americans obsession with fluorescent orange cheese.

[@tumultoustortellini]

It's cheap in time and energy (we're lazy and functional cheese is "premium), and the rest is history.

[@twoflyinghats]

It's so bizarre, isn't it, since NO cheese is orange. There's is just more plastic and artificial.

[@davidfilicietti7168]

The only cheese I've eaten that comes close to American fluoro orange is Red Leicester, which is delicious.

[@homelander7646]

If you have the opportunity to visit a German bakery in the states, DO IT! It's an eye opener.

[@rexgoldwing6311]

or even better, come to german and try the real deal. thats even a step beyond^^

[@ilikecatsandtos2]

Honestly? My family (Polish) have told me specifically to never go to the USA, nowhere else specifically, just the US. Under no circumstances. And now I want to go even less.

[@harrybarrow6222]

I lived in California for 14 years. I loved the fruit and vegetables, but I worry about the pesticides used (some banned in the EU). The problem is that food producers are more concerned with marketing and profits than food quality. I remember that tomatoes looked great, but had no flavour.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Those tomatoes come from greenhouses, probably Dutch ones in fact, although some local greenhouses are popping up in the USA as well. We produce tomatoes, carrots, lettuce etc so cheap that farmers in third world countries cant even compete with our prices on their local markets. As for the pesticides, dont worry, the EU just voted a few weeks ago not to ban Roundup here so we have it just as bad.

[@twoflyinghats]

California imports Australian oranges and other fruit and vegetables in their winter when it's spring or summer harvest season Downunder.

[@dfuher968]

@@TheSuperappelflap Not quite. As with American food brands, Roundup in Europe is also a different recipe than in the US, coz all the banned chemicals have to be replaced for sale in the EU.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@dfuher968 none of the chemicals in roundup are banned in EU, they had a vote on it last year and voted not to ban the glyfosate

[@mrm7058]

Allegedly (means, I read it in comments under other videos multiple times) , the private labels at Aldi in the US are made by German/EU food standards, so this might be a way to avoid some of the questionable food dyes and additives.

[@Biditchoun]

Would make sense, since Aldi is a german supermarket chain

[@ronnie5329]

Do you also have Lidl in the US? That chain is better than Aldi here in europe, higher quality. At least here in Denmark

[@skylanderlego4163]

​@@ronnie5329Lidl bakery is better than should be. It is overall definitely better than Aldi. -someone from UK.

[@ronnie5329]

@@skylanderlego4163 Definitely

[@dfuher968]

@@ronnie5329 Lidl is still cheap, low quality here in Denmark tho. Under EU standards ofc, but still. I never shop in Lidl, if I can avoid it.

[@Americaninparis2012]

I never had a weight problem so I didn't see the difference, but there are anecdotes of Americans losing weight while living in Europe while not having altered their eating habits.

[@zirilan3398]

tbh it`s not hard to lose weight if you unintentionally cut about 80% sugar from your diet.

[@mehallica666]

I spent nearly 3 years in the U.S, ate much less than usual and still gained weight.

[@Philemaphobia]

And the other way around, 6 week South Carolina gained me 4kg. I weigh around 45 kg, that’s nearly 10% gain in less than two months. Scary!

[@findalfin3243]

They walk more in europe

[@jaqian]

Funny you should say that, but knew an American who stayed in Ireland a month last year. He didn't change his eating habits but lost a stone in weight (14lbs for Americans)

[@PsychoticEwok]

Fun fact people that work in food production especially with powdered ingredients are using the PPE to protect themselves, flour and powdered vitamins are known to cause respiratory issues for people that work with them then the people cleaning machinery are working with chemicals that are capable of causing chemical burns and again respiratory issues for different reasons to flour and powders

[@OblivionGate]

At the start of the Mountain Dew section you said "is that why you guys don't play as many computer games as we do here in America" "It's The ultimate gamer fuel" Fact, The US has 215 million regular gamers while Europe has 275 million regular gamers. And Asia has the biggest gaming population in the world. The UK and Japan has the highest number of gamers per capita at 58% Just another illustration of an American thinking that America is the world leader in everything. America is not even close to being the top gamers in the world. And we don't drink Mountain Dew because it's shit.

[@laurenC91.]

That very last blunt part made me chuckle 😂

[@Sinpox90]

yeah we are drinking other garbage, like monster, redbull, effect and so on xD

[@juanmejiagomez5514]

The last part is true, but to be fair europe has at least 100mil more people living in it than the US

[@JeroenJA]

I only know mountain dew from south park, with double dew, and then the hilarious diet double dew, with "only half the sugar and what was it, the double dew" 😅😅😅

[@Spacemongerr]

@@juanmejiagomez5514 Even more, Europe has more than twice the population of USA. If you meant the EU and not Europe, then you are correct. Europe: 750 million EU: 450 million USA: 335 million Remember that European countries like Britain, Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Serbia +++ are in Europe but are not in the EU.

[@silviapinho4277]

When I visited NY, the most unpleasant experience I had was the amount of sugar used in cakes and cookies. It was like eating tablespoons of sugar.

[@BrandonDenny-we1rw]

Thats exactly what it is. Sugar with a bit of flour

[@traceyrhoden9808]

I used to work in a English bakery (im English)and we used to make our own bread like white crusty tin. Great for doorstep sandwiches Wholemeal bread honey and spelt Beetroot bread, just a few examples and we made cake as well

[@Jaydaydesign]

In australia our Mountain Dew is almost colourless and the bottles are the neon green colour. I don’t understand why they can’t do the same in the US? Our skittles and m&ms use slightly different colours also because of banned yellow and blue colours. Back in the 80’s Australians became engaged with healthy eating. fast food chains like macdonalds were failing. The backlash came when it became public knowledge that , according to our food standards, if you took the pickle out of a cheeseburger it became ‘confectionary’ because of the huge sugar content. Also around the same time all ingredients and nutritional values had to be advertised for every food item Macdonalds was forced to change their recipes to compensate and provide more nutritious food. Many European countries insisted on similar changes

[@laurenC91.]

Coca cola is also coloured, they tried removing the brown colouring in the past, no change to taste but people wouldn't buy it. I think they should try it again though, people back then weren't as educated on unneccesary additives 👍🏼

[@bararobberbaron859]

@@laurenC91. I think it's also unfortunate that they made the color such a big part of it, for example, Red Bull. It looks nasty if you pour it into a glass so most drink it from a can, never wanting to look the color of it in the face. I wish they'd introduce at least alongside normal coke one without dye, find a way to make it a pinch cheaper, and eventually people will switch over I imagine.

[@johnathon007]

@@laurenC91. To be fair the color in Coca cola is made with burnt sugar. It's really not the one people need to worry about as far as food coloring goes.

[@df71091]

The US version tastes way better and the colour is more intense, neon like

[@laurenC91.]

@@johnathon007 but still an unnecessary additive 😅

[@mickypescatore9656]

Hi, Ryan! Typically, the fresher and less processed a food is, the better and healthier it is.

[@NadCAtarun]

Hello, French person here. Been watching the video for 5 minutes and I really want to give you a hug (if welcome).

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Europe: Bread, flour, water, salt and perhaps yeast or some sourdough added, but that's it. America: The entire chemical warfare you could add is in the bread...including way to much sugar.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I think American shopping habits are the trouble. I know people in the UK and in Europe will shop for food several times a week. Normally a big shop at a supermarket every 1-2 weeks. With smaller shops in between for fresh products. Whereas many Americans don’t have access to local shops you can walk to. They have gigantic supermarkets that can be 1-2 hours drive away. So they shop every 2-4 weeks. So they load everything full of preservatives and sugar. To make it last longer. I know an American couple that only shop every 4 weeks. Which is crazy to me. They only eat frozen vegetables, rarely fresh because of it.

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@JarlGrimmToys Even with a Walmart around the corner they shop only once a week at most, so the 1-2 hours drive is not the reason really. It's not the norm to drive 2 hours to the next grocery store, is it? Several times a week is right. Sometimes even twice a day...in the morning and in the evening. Getting fresh produce in say Germany is no hard task to accomplish. There's plenty opportunity to do that in walking distance.

[@paulmilner8452]

@@JarlGrimmToys maybe in rural America but the majority have convenient stores far more vast than the UK does , places like new Mexico and the obscure states maybe so

[@karlbmiles]

Sugar is added to bread to make it rise like a tall sandwich loaf. If you don't mind that your loaves of bread to look like a cow flop, you don't need it to rise.

[@Misterjingle]

Honestly, most Europeans live in houses, at least in countries like France, the UK or Germany, and most people will also have to take their car to shop. But it is never 1hour drive away, maximum 20min. @@JarlGrimmToys

[@okkietrooy6841]

When I lived in the USA, I was dumb founded about for example the coloring of icing. No way that kind of colour cannot be toxic. Fluorescent-like blue, green etc. It was also far too sweet for my taste. The birthday cakes looked fantastic but I didn't like the taste. I did eat a piece a couple of times because I didn't want to offend the host. The icing had no real taste outside the taste of pure sugar. I did like carrot cake though and pumpkin pie.

[@witoldlitwin5722]

Same in Canada. North Americans in general don't seem to know what a good cake tastes like.

[@tracim3080]

Carrot cake usually has cream cheese icing which helps with the pure sweetness the other icings have.

[@jessovenden]

Sidebar: I spent a year in the USA, mostly in Florida. There were three foods that I still miss. Craw daddy’s, blue cheese salad dressing and waffle house hash browns. I think crawdaddies aren’t particularly unhealthy… less unhealthy than the other two. The food in general was odd. Huge serves, brightly coloured but almost tasteless. Another exception, Southern barbecue. Yum!

[@okkietrooy6841]

@@jessovenden I lived in Iowa and in NYC. I loved the corn I bougth on the farmer's market and bavarian sandwich with honey-cup mustard, I regularly bougth in a deli-sandwich shop. The honey-cup mustard really made this sandwich. I loved a well prepared burger. Where I lived there was a bar-deli that served great hamburgers. A large part of the food was OK but not really yummy. The portion sizes are enormous. I had a lot of trouble finding a container with less than 1 gallon milk. I didn't like the taste and the mouth-feel of american cheese. I hated bologni sandwiches. The same with peanutbutter. I am still wondering what is in the peanutbutter besides peanuts. The first time I ordered a steak, I found the size of a lady-steak intimidating. I loved the side dish oven-potato.

[@101steel4]

They even spell colouring incorrectly 😁

[@SleepyFen]

Skittles are not banned in Norway, and are also not banned in Denmark. It's possible that their list of ingredients are altered for the European market, though. And as for the M&M's, they're also not available in Norway. Marabou is a brand of chocolate - they sell plates of chocolate like the one depicted at 21:20, but they also sell other kinds, like the M&M's kind, which is where the conflict arose. So the video trying to equate the two to cause a stir feels misleading at best. Overall I'd take what's in that video with a bit of a gain of salt. It feels poorly written (GMO isn't shorthand for genetically modified *organisms*) and lazily researched.

[@mattyyy906]

Steak tartare is amazing, but you have to make it homemade from real meat scraping little pieces. Its pretty common in europe.

[@akteno2796]

Mett is better!

[@klizzard5166]

ew

[@akteno2796]

@@klizzard5166 that's because you haven't eaten it...

[@GrimmaStadguard]

@@akteno2796 I love how the guy is commenting the same thing under every tartare comment...

[@mattyyy906]

@@klizzard5166 Believe me when i was younger i had no idea why would anyone eat raw meat like this i thought Its disgusting but after you try you understand why people eat that. To be fair its not just raw meat, u add mustard, ketchup, garlic, Olive oil, onion,seasoning. What ever you like and u spread that on a grilled bread. Man i Guess u Will never know if you dont try

[@pecket]

Tartar can be crazy good! It's feels a bit strange for some people, until they realize it's just "red meat sushi". My father has spent more than 10 years talking about one specific meal that he considers to be the best one he's ever had, and it happens to be a tartar.

[@BLAQFiniks]

Seriously, the best part of helping my mom make grounded meat dishes at home was sticking the meat and onions into a grinder & testing it raw to check for enough spices in my childhood experience... we don't do it anymore, because modern meat production is hazardous~

[@clementcate4730]

And just like sushi, there are ways to make the tartar safe. It's not literally cut from the cow and put in your plate, the cooks use meat from reputable sources, and usually pasteurize them quickly at very high temperature before cutting it. Since the bacteria are at the surface, not inside the muscle, it becomes safe after this step. Also, the piece of meat should be hand-chopped with clean tools, not grounded with a meat grinder that is grinding a lot of non-pasteurized meat, and could contaminate the tartar with the bacteria from other less clean meats. It's close to sushi safety really! And it's not very good on its own lol. A chef will season the tartar in a way that makes it delicious! It should be eaten in small quantity, it's not really a full meal :)

[@dfuher968]

I dont like tartar myself, but most European countries do allow it, coz we have the safety standards to make sure, that the meat is good.

[@araptorofnote5938]

You can blame us Brits for developing the Chorleywood Bread Process (look it up). The idea was to improve or make better use of our inferior homegrown wheat, thus reducing imports. The process enabled us to mass produce tasteless spongey mould incubating sweat pads on an industrial scale in factories, instead of making bread in bakeries. There was no reason for the rest of the world to follow suit, other than to mass produce tasteless spongey mould incubating sweat pads on an industrial scale in factories.

[@Itsme-xf7sx]

In Germany you have so much choice of bread. Today I ate fig and walnut bread and potato and onion bread. In the supermarket you can choose from perhaps 20 types of bread, in the bakery you have another bread. We can throw bread at you here, but our donuts suck

[@stupidllama5656]

The fig and walnut bread from kaufland? If yes, I love that one as well. It’s so good

[@DrRemuss]

As a french guy, my 2nd fav country for bread is indeed Germany. I think there's such a variety of breads between our 2 countries...

[@Virtualblueart]

I can confirm our Eastern neighbours are totally mad for bread. Very tasty bread, too.

[@dfuher968]

We love our bread in Denmark too, most bakeries have their own specialties, across the country, we have 100s of different kinds (supermarket bread is nothing like real bakery bread). And thats b4 we even get to pastry and cakes. I love Berliner Pfannkuchen, its really hard to find in Denmark, coz here they tend to do it with sugar on the outside and jam on the inside, and its just not as good as a nice creamy Pfannkuchen with powder on the outside. Ur Apfel Strudel is great too, tho I have to admit, when it comes to ur cakes, Im not a big fan, I find most of them to be excessively sweet and dry. Absolutely love French bread. First thing I do when coming to France, find a bakery, get a REAL croissant. Honestly, I could eat my way through vacations in France on the different breads alone. Tho eventually I would miss the rye, we do have a huge selection of rye breads too, most of us eat it for at least lunch every day. US bread.... is inedible. And yeah, cant even be classified as bread by EU standards.

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

If you're not a steak tartare fan you can still get very close to it by ordering your steak "blue." It's almost as raw but it is warm and it comes in one piece.

[@davidfagerberg9283]

20:20 Cuba Cola is Swedens oldest cola beverage and has nothing to do with Cuba. It is not sold in Cuba as far as I know. It got it's name only because Cuba was considered exotic during the 1950s.

[@jonasduell9953]

I can confirm! And Coca Cola is unofficially available and imported like most embargoed stuff via Mexico. Cuba has its own Cola named "tuCola", not Cuba Cola and a few lemonades all from the same factory. Beer in Cuba is the same, 3 types of canned beer, all from one brewery but not half bad to be honest. Cubans also don't drink much rum, they love their aguardiente de caña more than any ancient barrel aged rum. (Aguardiente is basically first distillate of fresh sugar cane ferment, no molasses or other stuff involved. Basically what Cachaça is to Brazil or Rhum Agricole on Martinique, an almost clear spirit with tons of sugar cane aroma) I miss Cuba!

[@dfuher968]

We've had "Jolly Cola" in Denmark since the 50s. Sadly they changed the recipe about 20 years ago, and its just not as good anymore. They didnt even change it for food standards, but to "modernize the flavor", they claimed.

[@Sus-ir9zc]

I'm Cuban and thats hilarious, and not,it was never sold in Cuba But we do have our own variety of Coca-Cola called TuKola and Tropi-Cola

[@meio_feio]

Idk why bread is so difficult for Americans to get right. Before moving to the USA, I lived in Portugal. The cheap unbranded bread you find there in every supermarket for like 0,90€ made in the back by some disgruntled teenaged worker is superior to the $7 artisanal bread you find here at Whole Foods

[@nickryan3417]

Also it's down the the flour. I was chatting with someone who said it took her three years in the US city she was living in to find somewhere to buy decent flour that she could make edible bread from. She found two places and within a month one of them closed... such was luck.

[@redslate]

Our infrastructure is built around mass-distribution and longevity. That's why there's comparably more preservatives (salt, sugar, etc...) in our shelved foods. Big difference between a single European country and 3/5ths of a Continent.

[@nickryan3417]

@@redslate You really don't understand much about economics and production or geography do you? A huge amount of food in the world is transported around the world by ship. It's not about one country, even an introverted one such as the US, only moving food around within its own borders. Australia is the same size as the USA but the food there isn't pickled with chemicals and drugs. The US food manufacturers do what they do because they can, due to poor health rules in the US, which is why so much US food is prohibited to import into other countries.

[@redslate]

@nickryan3417 Australia uses _plenty_ of preservatives, and their packaged food is actually deemed *less* *healthy* than that of the US. Really shot yourself in the foot on that one kiddo! Guess you poked a hole in the emphasis on "continent." 🫠 Australia is *20* % _smaller_ than the US (you forgot AK & HI) and has only *1* / *13* the population. Australia's interior is also essentially *vacant* whereas the US is fairly populated throughout. Not exactly a like for like comparison. I understand quite a bit about the geography, production, and ecconomics of food distribution as I've studied it. 😋 The US isn't "just shipping within its interior." That's an incredibly ignorant and small-minded perspective. We ship globally! Not only do we buy exotic foods the world over, but we sell our own produce as well. That's all completely omitting our military bases, strategically located along *every* *single* *shipping* *route* *on* *the* *planet* , which we have to support logistically. You think those are all locally sourced? 😆 If you can't hold down a meaningful conversation, then fuck right the hell off, but don't feign false facts while attempting to maintain some sense of superiority, simultaneously showing you lack the basic knowledge requisite of the subject matter at hand.

[@redslate]

@nickryan3417 Australia uses _plenty_ of preservatives, and their packaged food is actually deemed *less* *healthy* than that of the US. Australia is *20* % _smaller_ than the US and has only *1* / *13* the population. Australia's interior is also essentially *vacant* whereas the US is fairly populated throughout. Not exactly a like for like comparison. I understand quite a bit about the geography, production, and ecconomics of food distribution as I've studied it. The US isn't "just shipping within its interior." We ship globally! Not only do we buy exotic foods the world over, but we sell our own produce as well. That's all completely omitting our bases, strategically located along *every* *single* *shipping* *route* *on* *the* *planet* , which we have to support logistically.

[@wolf5370]

In countries with a nationally funded health service, the state needs to worry about health, including food and hygiene. In a country where it is profit on both sides - the food production chain and the medical services - there is no impetus to protect the public.

[@GrimmaStadguard]

French tartare is great! Its also pretty safe here in the EU thanks to all the regulations...most of the people I know enjoy it.

[@oneworld1160]

Yeah, in Germany we have also our Mettbrötchen, but the last one I have seen eaten was about 30 years ago by my father…

[@bencollins4168]

You can eat both beef and lamb steak raw in Britain due to our food standards

[@johnp8131]

@@oneworld1160 When over in German visiting the inlaws, I try and have a Mettbrötchen as a snack with onions and black pepper and several Altbiers, in the Uerige brewpub in Düsseldorf. They normally come around with a tray of them on Saturday afternoons if I remember correctly? Unless it's changed since covid?

[@GrimmaStadguard]

@@oneworld1160 Aye, had that in Hamburg. It was pretty good.

[@oneworld1160]

@@bencollins4168 🤪🤪🤣🤣 Best joke I heard this month! You mean after they have been watered with the human excrements in your rivers…

[@Dutch1961]

It's in even your national anthem. The land of the free (to put whatever garbage in the food they deem necessary to make a fast buck) and the home of the brave (who eat this stuff).

[@marcromain64]

In this case, the line "as it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses" refers to either the list of ingredients or the flatulence after consumption. Or both.

[@Alltagundso]

😂😂😂 I read that as a travel warning!

[@Barnaclebeard]

Buddy: "I feel bad about all the factory farming." Also buddy: "Steak is a thing I can feel good about." Pick one.

[@dominikschmalstieg2912]

One of my favorite quotes from a food related video, was from a Absolute History video about bakers in the Victorian era: “Doesn’t that cause brain damage?” “Not immediately” (Maybe some habits the Victorian era haven't yet ended in some countries...)

[@Philemaphobia]

Uk and it’s colonies are the only ones to ever have a Victorian era.

[@Zantetsudex]

I tried an actual American soft drink once. Barely took a sip before I gagged, it was so sweet it felt like dish soap.

[@nickryan3417]

I had the same with yoghurt. After a few days of sugar and chemical breakfast overload I was trying to find a passably healthy breakfast. I ate one spoonful and realised that I should have read the label first... it had 32% sugar content. Seriously, 32% WTF? It's possible eat more healthily now in the US than then, and I have, but there's still a lot of crap out there.

[@7thlittleleopard7]

Likely the use of corn syrup as sweetener had to do with that. Not only the taste but the consistency seems to be thicker than alternatives made with beet or cane sugars.

[@shizukagozen777]

Oh God. 🤢

[@bdsman64]

I'm about to turn 60, and I can't drink high sugar soft drinks anymore. If I do, I know that my teeth will be aching in a few hours. I wish the video would have talked about artificial sweeteners as well, though. They're even worse than the sugar version.

[@shizukagozen777]

@@bdsman64 That's because you have cavities...

[@matirion]

Steak tartare is common over here, in the Netherlands, but unlike in the US and canada, we have extremely strict hygiene standards so diseases caused by it are practically unheard of, with years between incidents across the country. We have multiple variants of the dish that involve ground raw beef with various spices available in every grocery store.

[@Sdoironpowers]

Canada doesn't allow the import of many US foods, including meat, as they're below our food standards. We have some of the same brands, but the ingredients aren't the same. Canadian and US meat are not comparable.

[@matirion]

@@Sdoironpowers It may be better, but Canadian meat does not meet EU standards in most cases.

[@mareksimon1220]

Well steak tartare is safe in here, because we keep strict veterinarian control over the farms and butcheries. If even one person would get salmonella from it, the national bureau for health would investigate the company which can lead to the loss of license. Plus it's used from the most expensive cut so the butchers selling it keep it as high quality as possible. They even keep it in one piece and mill it once you pick it at the pult, right before your eyes so you know it's as fresh as it can get. You can also make one at home too. The meat by itself is kind of bland, that's why we add multiple seasonings and other ingredients, but overall it's super tasty. And expensive :D

[@dontgetmadgetwise4271]

I would be more concerned about food handling and handlers between farm and your table.

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

Never got the point of steak tartare, give me a nice rib eye steak, I'll brush it in oil, salt and pepper, and then flash fry it in a hot pan. Ooh, just remembered, there are rib eyes in the freezer...

[@KrunchyJD]

Coca Cola is sold in Australia, and I can confirm it tastes different. I was told that its different in the US, and when I met some American tourists I bought them an Australian sold Coke. They said it tastes different and actually liked it better. The main difference is that we dont use High fructose corn syrup in anything really. Its still not good for you here, but its Sugar, not Corn Syrup.

[@Ryuuoo_]

Yes, that is true it have little variation on recipe, depending where it is sold.

[@GamerBunny2024]

In Mexico it has real sugar not corn syrup as well

[@skindred1888]

In America, people commonly refer to the recipe given around the rest of the world as...Mexican coke as they mostly import it from there.

[@MegaRazorback]

HFCS is outright banned in Australia in terms of making things out of it but you can import things that have it in already in limited numbers.

[@nausicaa8179]

@@GamerBunny2024Mexican coke is soooooo good oh my god

[@Yoroiful]

16:55 Steak tartare is delicious, but you're right, it does look disgusting. I'm pretty sure you would like it, as beef (even raw) is rather tasty. Meat over in the EU is inspected very closely, so the risk of getting sick or having a parasitic infection is very low.

[@andrewobrien6671]

American food companies have changed their ingredients in other countries to meet regulations of the country, but not in America. Anything to do with pharmaceutical companies providing those drugs that are used and lobbying of government?

[@Jay_Richardson]

Yep exactly, more Government fueled cooperations to make profit. More ill the people are the more profit other companies will make such as pharmacautical ccompanies and health companies make. Its all a profit machine for the ultra rich. The cost of human life isnt important to them. A nice multi dollar bonus is and for Government. But Americans are stupid too realise.

[@diedampfbrasse98]

its usually just about cost ... mighty expensive to get good colors, intense tastes or whatever effect with natural/harmless ingredients. The advantage of those additives is that they are easily and cheaply produced while usually requiring far smaller amounts for the desired effect. And most are not even from the pharma industry, for example the azodicarbonamide in US "bread" comes from the plastics industry which has a massive production of azodicarbonamide going for vinyl and EVA-PE products, long before it was discovered for food production. Also seems that its not so much lobbying to keep harmful substances in food, but simply the lack of interest to regulate in general ... the consumer in the US simply doesnt care enough, even when informed about the garbage they usually just laugh it off instead of changing their consumption ... as seen with most of these murrican YTers.

[@DougBrown-h1n]

We do have local bakeries here in the UK, but a large white crusty loaf can cost between £2.50 - £4.50 (at least in London). A relatively chemical-free loaf of "white sliced" in the supermarket will only cost around £1.20. I bake my own (free from chemicals and sugar), and buying bulk from a flour mill, a large loaf of white crusty comes in at around £0.80.

[@JarlGrimmToys]

I was surprised by him saying he wishes they had local bakeries in America. Because like you say we have them here. We have a really nice bakery in town, and a few farm shops that sell freshly baked bread. But most supermarkets have bakeries in them. So it’s really easy to buy fresh bread. From what I can tell from the US with people who live in the sprawling suburbs. It’s not like here in the UK where we have local shops on practically every main road. I’ve never lived more than a 10 minute walk from a local convenience shop. What they have are huge warehouse sized mega stores that sell everything. But they might be an hours drive away. Apparently the average Americans only shop for food every 2-4 weeks. While in the UK we shop several times a week, with a big shop once every week or 2, and smaller local shops in between.

[@JeroenJA]

A big bread? Like 800gr? Yeah... i find it hard to swallow 3€ or over to still... went strait up after war in Ukraine.. Belguim, i d say, 3 to 4€ for big bread, and , indeed, supermarket, to me acceptable quality about 1,5 till 2 €, but there is also the sponge bread in plastic bags for about a euro.. but that i really can not eat.. the texture is all wrong and such, just like, oh rught, when i went to london.. most of the breads i could find there in the supermarket.. mmm been 8 years.. i really aint gonne suddenly get a passport yo visit England for a few days.. when are they gone come back on that stupid twist Boris Johnson started not accepting id cards any more.. i can travel to Turkey, Egypt, Marocco , .. just fine without needing a passport.. needing a passport is Russia, Midle east, non Mediterranean Africa... and all of a sudden.. the UK/GB... really stupid..

[@amyntas2868]

Is that £0.80 with or without the energy bill of your oven?

[@DougBrown-h1n]

@@amyntas2868 Without.

[@TheCursedCat1927]

​@@JarlGrimmToys OP said they have a local bakery in UK - not America. But you are still right. There are local bakeries in US, but they just aren't as popular, because Americans are used to the supermarket bread...

[@Terkina__]

I was at an event with a group of Americans. All of them ate more than they done at home. But guess what? ALL of them lost weigt, and gained it back in two weeks after they went home. Some of them said that they had more energy during the day, they woke up more easily, slept better, etc.

[@thymark]

Mett, also known as Hackepeter, is a preparation of minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper that is popular in Germany and Poland. It is frequently spread on halves of a bread roll, with raw onion optionally on top.

[@tookitogo]

And it’s yuuuummmmmmy!

[@marcokocsy]

I realy thought that this would be in the top 10 comments 😂

[@marcokocsy]

In Germany you have strict rules for meat and fish for raw consumption. Therefor you don't have to worry about getting food poisoning when you buy your Mettbrötchen or Sushi.

[@chibiarchervr]

I was searching for this comment. How is it that Mett wasn't meantioned earlier :D I'm not a big meat eater, but my "Mettbrötchen" once a week at work is a must have for me.

[@KarolinaS-zt1kl]

Metka in Poland oh yeah. But I guess it's getting less popular. My grandpa would always eat metka.

[@LouiseJ48896]

I’m from Sweden and most of those band items still sells here but they’ve changed the recipes And they do sell m&m

[@yccmzimmy]

16:38-16:40 tartare is extremely common in Switzerland, where I live (I am Italian, though), even more than I expected since I found out that in some locations there are also Automated machines at the station that provide you fresh tartare daily. But the regulation on farming here is very strict and the quality of the meat is very high.

[@Vera----]

5:25 you can bake your own bread it is really easy. Through the covid times in Turkey, everyone started to bake their bread at home and turns out it is super easy to bake.

[@hypatian9093]

Especially if you want only the white bread for sandwiches or toast - every child could bake that ;)

[@tumultoustortellini]

I learned to make flatbread recently, just 3 ingredients, and a cooking oil. 5, if you want the best. Sugar isn't on the list. It's crazy that we have sugar in our bread at all.

[@CorAngar20]

In Poland we love tartar. With onions, pickled cucumbers and egg yolk, its soooooo gooood 😊

[@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783]

The best steak tartar i ate in Poland. You really do it well. I also ate often in Denmark, but they tend to be sweeter, I much prefer the savory tartare.

[@CorAngar20]

@@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783 Thanks, we appreciate it.

[@ianfischerschilling9779]

I live in France. There are many friends of mine who love to eat tartar… I always say “thousands of years to discover fire totally wasted”

[@Dadgrammer]

Polish 🇵🇱 pov: I’ve friends that came from states recently, they where shocked about food quality in Poland. Not even with bread or other stuff, but in McDonald’s, they said its taste better than most of US craft burger places that they had been.😂 Guys you should do something with your food business there.

[@albin2232]

Food quality in Poland is very high. I live in Scotland, but I buy most of my food from my local Polish shop, because the quality is so superior. Happy Christmas, my friend.

[@marzenalidia8277]

also, our food is so good quality that steak tartare is actually one of our national dishes!

[@Dadgrammer]

@@albin2232 glad to hear it, when I use to live in London and latter Slough, all of the Mleczkos, and other Polish shops was salvation for me, Merry Christmas to you and your family🎄🎁

[@mehallica666]

The U.S healthcare industry enjoys an unhealthy population. $$$.

[@Dadgrammer]

@@marzenalidia8277 not fan of it, but it’s popular in homes and restaurants.

[@frankhooper7871]

The reason you don't have local bakeries selling proper, fresh bread is the same reason they're rapidly disappearing here in England. Because of the convenience of doing a 'big shop' in a supermarket that sells everything. I have friends who bemoan the closure of their local bakeries and butchers, but when asked where they buy their bread and meat, the answer is invariably one of the big supermarket chains. Re steak tartare, an interesting aside is that in the Netherlands you often see a variety of it served on bread and called 'filet Americain' - American fillet

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Stupid ppl get stoopid goods.. There are thousands of small bakeries in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Croatia...what does this list tell about The UK? It says, you suck at everything!

[@YuzumiNoya]

That being said, support your local small shops and bakeries !

[@harlequinems]

Yeah, I hate people like that, the ones who moan that the local shops are too expensive so they only use supermarkets, then the local shops close down and suddenly it's a national tragedy 🤦‍♀️

[@annasolovyeva1013]

In Russia we have it the other way During the Soviet era, they banned little bakeries and opened big mechanised bread factories. In the modern decades, bakeries sprawled like mushrooms, now in sleeping districts they're like everywhere. They don't only make better bread, but sell sweet and savoury buns and pies and offer hot drinks to go, being a place for people to meet indoors, to teenagers to drop in before/after school, and also to grab bread. Our scale of urban sprawl means that they have a lot of demand

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@harlequinems Yeah, me being in Germany. I'd rather pay three times more money on bread from a local bakery, than ever buying shelved plastic bread... So...what the eff are you doing over the pond, huh?

[@blahfasel2000]

1:37 They DO protect themselves from the food as well. Just because stuff is safe to eat doesn't automatically mean that it's safe to handle mass quantities for hours every day. For example a lot of powdered stuff (like flour) can wreak havoc on your lungs if you breathe in the dust constantly, and various things can cause severe allergies if you're constantly exposed to them.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

I was already a vegetarian when I visited the US back in the early to mid nineties and it was a nightmare as a tourist to find vegetarian food and my poor Dad who is a meat eater but LOVES his salad, fruit and veggies, was travelling with two vegetarians (myself and my brother) and I don’t think he had a single piece of fruit or veg or salad that he particularly enjoyed the whole time we were there. He even still to this day remarks on how he feels that in the US they grow the flavour out of everything, as in everything has to be bigger and look great but there’s no flavour left in it.

[@unkyduck]

The thrust is the curb appeal… once sold they DGAF

[@Magere-Kwark]

When i went to the US (NYC and DC) around 13 years ago i noticed that too. For instance, the apples i had there were the most beautiful, big and colorful apples I've ever seen but also the most flavorless and watery I've ever encountered to this day. And the price was also crazy! I could get a Kg of apples here in The Netherlands for the price of one apple over there. I know New York City and Washington D.C. aren't the cheapest cities to live in but still, it was a shocker.

[@CabinFever52]

You nailed the truth on the head. My grandmother used to have a huge garden and various fruit trees. That was before gene manipulation and working to grow fruits and vegetables that were plastic-like for prettier, longer shelf life products. When I got over here to Austria, it was wonderful to be able to taste the fruits and vegetables again, like I remember from my grandmother's garden, as recently as the early 70s.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@CabinFever52 it’s quite a sad state of affairs really. It seems that there are generations of US citizens growing up being told they have the best of everything, more often than not paying through the nose for it and wondering why Europeans (us in the UK in particular) don’t drown their food in hot sauce, cheese or anything and everything else possible. All without realising that if you have fruit, vegetables and salad (and meat and fish if you eat them) that aren’t overly interfered with to prettify and preserve them, you can make enjoyable yet simple meals. I might sound like I’m moaning but it gets really boring hearing our food being criticised by people who’ve never been here because of decades old information that might be third or fourth hand. Especially when our more traditional cuisine is bourne out of the climate on this relatively small group of islands and need for comforting sustenance through winters when there is more night than day (being a Scot from the central belt, we experience winter days that you only have full daylight between maybe 9am and 3pm) so you go to school/work in the dark and come home in the dark, so all you want is a comforting soup or stew…sorry for the kind of rant.

[@CabinFever52]

@@lynnejamieson2063...I hear ya'!

[@Richiecandylover]

Skittles ain’t even American - was released in Europe 6 years before US got them! We also have blackcurrant instead of Grape - USA only got M&Ms because US soldiers saw British soldiers eating British Smarties (different to the US products) which also is chocolate covered in a sugar shell

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Close, Skittles were created in the UK but didn’t really take off until they were introduced to the US market (I was born the year after Skittles were introduced in the UK and I don’t really remember them being popular her in the UK until I was in maybe a pre teen in the mid to late 80’s) and M&M’s came about because Forrest Mars Snr saw the UK sweets Smarties being added into ration packs for soldiers in the Spanish Civil war and saw that due to the sugar shell, the chocolate didn’t melt everywhere…at least not as quickly, in the heat. He then went back to the US and developed his own version which became M&M’s. The two M’s representing Forrest E Mars Snr (son of the founder of the Mars Company) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey Chocolate’s president William F R Murrie) who founded the company M&M Limited.

[@Richiecandylover]

@@lynnejamieson2063 well UK is Europe so technically I’m right :-) and yep that’s pretty much what I said about M&Ms :-)

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@Richiecandylover I know the UK is in Europe but the M&M story involves a different war to the one you stated (Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 WWII 1939-1945), a country that remained neutral during WWII and a different discoverer. So not really what you’ve stated at all.

[@loopywren]

​@@lynnejamieson2063 the UK is not in Europe any more. We can now make our own rules.

[@lynnejamieson2063]

@@loopywren the UK IS STILL IN EUROPE, it left the EU not the continent and we always had the ability to make our own rules…in fact ours was one of the voices that made the rules for the EU but now in order to trade with EU countries we still have to abide by their rules but are bound by additional paperwork and we’ve had to pay out a fortune in a divorce settlement and gain nothing from that money. We have left ourselves less protected when it comes to ‘the small boats’ and what have we gained? A blue passport that we could have had anyway. Please don’t engage me further in your Brexit Benefits nonsense (because there are none) as I really don’t have the patience for it today.

[@darkySp]

12:54 You see... Because using Red 40 to give it a deeper color is cheaper than just having the needed cocoa content in the batter to have that same color.

[@Sevarrius]

I was often hyperactive as a kid, I was actually diagnosed with ADHD. My favourite sweet was smarties.(do they even have those in the US?) Turns out some of the colourings and additives they used in the smarties back then was a BIG offender in ADHD behaviour in kids. They switched out those colourings and additives some years later due to new legislation banning them, other elements in the recipe have also been changed over the years. Of course it was a good thing but I can't eat smarties now as they don't taste anywhere near as good. However I do know that those colourings and additives are completely legal and widely used in the US to this day. For context I'm in the UK. I don't have kids yet but I know when I do I'll be steering them towards fruit rather than giving them chocolate and candy.

[@angelousmortis8041]

US Smarties are not like UK Smarties. Those are chocolates covered in a candy shell like M&Ms, American Smarties are a pressed powder candy.

[@danchmelar7111]

Yes, Tartar steak is really popular in Czechia. You can find it in some restaurants, and usually all family celebrations with catering comes naturally with big bowl of Tartar, toasts and garlic to swipe your toasts with. Really delicious and no health problems for anyone. It can be dangerous with some cheap shady places that offer it tho. You should definitely pick some normal or even better place to order it.

[@Scarlett.Granger]

Tartar is really good in all European countries that have strict food safety/supply chain rules for it. It's basically the same Japan does for sushi. America (US) just doesn't often have such good regulations so it's not really safe in lots of places and people get confused

[@mypointofview1111]

Steak tartare is a great meal. It doesn't cause any problems due to how its prepared with finely chopped gherkins, virgin olive oil, some chilli sauce salt and pepper. The vinegar from the gherkins and other ingredients kill off harmful bacteria and so the meat is a kind of ceviche, almost "cooked" if you like. Its usually served with a raw egg yolk which makes it quite rich and sublimely goid

[@adriennebogatie9795]

All sodas in South Africa are "reduced sugar", even regular Orginal taste Coca-Cola is less sugar. Our Skittles and M&M type candies (smarties) are all made with natural colourants so they are lighter in colour. We thankfully do have actual bakeries that sell both bread and cakes, Kellogg cereals have also had a recipe change to reduce the chemical and sugar content, Special K cereal is not recommended for diabetics. Steak tartare is also served with raw eggs, in the US eggs need to be refrigerated because of the cleaning process, here our eggs are stored on the shelf.

[@tl1897]

16:45 I eat Mettbrötchen. This is raw Pig meat with onions, Pepper and Salt on white bread. That tastes great.

[@gfimadcat]

When I lived in Berlin I always wished I could eat those because it smells absolutely brilliant but I just couldn't get over the texture. Same reason I don't (or can't, really) eat steak tartare, I can't get over the texture. Now if you bring me a liverwurst... I'll absolutely demolish that.