American reacts to US vs UK Portion Size Differences

[@nolaj114]

It's not just the portion sizes, you need to consider the ingredients.

[@simbella99]

Exactly...

[@Lisa-xn9xc]

Yeah, at least they should have compared the calories, too. And for the pizza the size says nothing - it could be twice as thick.

[@ejokurirulezz]

Considering Greece at least to my experience has a lot bigger portion sizes and less obesity, yes it's mostly the ingredients.

[@alanpotter8680]

@antjea.3105 As a Greek.. I agree. We not just only "may swim", we DO... A LOT. And we walk and spend time outside more than we stay at home, hence our obsession with large porches and balconies, with greens and whatnot. Our house has 4 floors and 2 basement levels, but we spend most of our time in the garden.

[@TomKirkemo-l5c]

Absolutely!!

[@frale_2392]

Drinks in the US are mind boggling to me. A large cup of soda is basically an entire bottle and has around 600 calories. Pair it with burger and fries and you have your daily calories intake in ONE meal. Not to mention all the additives they put in the food

[@Redenial]

No vegetable or fruits... so all your calories for the day but no vitamines and not enough fiber.

[@baylessnow]

Let's be fair, it's mostly ice. By the time they've drunk down to let's say, a 1/4 cup, it's just going to be coloured water anyway!

[@Redenial]

@@baylessnow It's top much calories with no interest for your health. A milkshake at least gives you some vitamines, minerals, proteins and fats. It's not the healsthiest things to drink but it's better than a soda.

[@valivali8104]

​@@baylessnow soda in USA has more sugar than soda in Europe, so that coloured water still has sugar.

[@matthewbrown6163]

@@Redenial First trip to USA & I was so looking forward to a roast dinner full of veges. I lived there for a few months & cooked myself as I could NOT live on that crap everyday. Hard to get the food I craved for but I became best mates wiith my Butchers in the street. I used to order roasts every week as I needed to live normal sometimes & then the roast meat sangers for lunch with Tomato Sauce.

[@xtophgerard1169]

Btw, in the us, they use an ingredient related to rubber in the Subway bread. It gives it that special spongy texture. Disgusting. That ingredient is illegal in Europe because it’s not good for you.

[@helenwood8482]

In Europe, it's mostly used for yoga mats.

[@Sharon-bo2se]

What is its name?

[@speleokeir]

Fun fact: In the US 14% of meat is contaminated by faeces - They're literally feeding you shit over there!💩💩💩

[@xtophgerard1169]

@@Sharon-bo2se Azodiacarbonamide

[@xtophgerard1169]

@@helenwood8482 exactly lol

[@Balthazare69]

The problem with American food, aside from GMOs, is that they put sugar everywhere, actually it's not even sugar, it's high fructose corn syrup

[@AlbandAquino]

They also "fortify" everything that can be (legacy from the early 20s/40s). So on top of having overly processed food, it's food that bloat you at best, make you sick on the worst side.

[@matthewbrown6163]

I rarely drink Coca Cola but I learned that why we use refined sugar in Oz - USA uses Corn Syrup which taste like crap. Our Coke is called "Mexican" Coca Cola as they use the same mix too in Mexico.

[@DylRicho]

The UK also has its own issues with sugar in that the sugar tax has basically forced all formulas onto synthetic sugars.

[@dcallan812]

If I want my bread to be sweet I would buy brioche. As for cheese in an aerosol can. 🤦‍♂spray cheese 🤣🤣

[@matthewbrown6163]

@@dcallan812 Yeah I saw that orange gunk when I was there too. I think it would be a big NO from me.

[@geoffreynolds8835]

I feel that, you must consider the differnce between American and European ingredient lists.

[@ebbhead20]

Thats true, as the way fries are made in America is totally illegal here in Denmark. They put a lot of artificial stuff in them, even a bleach product to make them more white looking. Here the fries at MacD confuse yanks as they're yellow. Told them, we dont put all that bad stuff in them so they look like that..

[@MetalGuitarTimo]

@@ebbhead20 why even bleach them? the yellow ones look way better anyway

[@ebbhead20]

@@MetalGuitarTimo ask the Yanks.. idk ?

[@UKsystems]

@@MetalGuitarTimo because most American people won’t like it unless it taste like chemicals

[@kokkolintu3528]

Why would you NEED free re-fills if your big drink is over 1 litre?? 😯😯

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

How else are they going to beat the diabetes speedrun world record?

[@phoebeel]

Americans are obsessed with hydration. They constantly have to sip some iced beverage. It's weird

[@kineticnrgi]

@@phoebeel I just cannot, for the life of me, understand their fixation. Just have water! But nooo, they got to have the most sugary drinks, full of ice and call it water

[@karlbmiles]

You take the refill back to your car and resume your drive. Or take your refill back to the office as your refreshment for the afternoon. Or finish your meal with fresh drink with fresh ice and active carbonated bubbles. We don't NEED a lot of things, we just enjoy American privilege.

[@barbarafavata1249]

They think... "Because is FREE".

[@tylersdog]

What's terrifying is that this is normal eating for so many people.

[@Mysfi]

Here in Finland those places are so expensive that most people just can't eat there too often.

[@karlbmiles]

This terrifies you? What happened to "Be Calm and Carry On"?

[@helenwood8482]

The food in the UK is a vastly higher quality and also cheaper.

[@Sam-cq3sl]

UK food although not healthy, is still way healthier then any American foods

[@matthewbrown6163]

I reply the abuse that chef Jamie Oliver had from the UK & the USA for the crap they served in school cafeterias. The fools who objected refused to listen as these overly obese students were eating pure crap. Jamie asked them to switch the lard to olive oil in their cooking & realise you are saving a high portion of fat being ingested by younger bodies. Forming these bad habits leads to long term health issues. I recall a lovely girl crying over "Twirlers" or "Twirlies" being removed off the menu. These were deep fried potato twists I believe. You can never change ignorant people from their ways.

[@xadarr2309]

not really cheaper based on purchasing power tho

[@BaseyMiC]

nah, not after Brexit. Nothing is cheap anymore on that island 😂

[@pantarei.]

@@BaseyMiC well, they wanted brexit - now they know what that really is. The funniest thing is that the UK wanted to join the EU three times. France opposed it twice. But in the end they joined the EU to leave it. I will never understand the British mentality. It is a completely different and strange world for me.

[@glambertini4709]

I think there are several reasons for obesity in the USA: the size of portions indeed, the fact that processed and poor quality food is much cheaper than healthy food, the habit (and often the obligation) of the car to the detriment of walking and cycling which means that people move little, the love of fried foods (nothing is worse), the love of sodas, more salt and fat in the food...

[@clemente3966]

Don't forget to mention the difference in health and security norms between the two.

[@paulharvey9149]

All of which in the complete absence of any free healthcare, or counselling, to help with your addiction to caffeine and sugar; and when the almost inevitable stomach ulcer comes...

[@sharonmartin4036]

You forgot the fructose and corn syrup and sugar in almost everything.

[@ejokurirulezz]

size of portions is not one. portions of trash ingredients is.

[@Virtualblueart]

There are also studies (iirc) that growth hormones given to cattle still persist in meals and triggering extra appetite, making you want to overeat. It's one of the reasons the hormone meat is banned here.

[@Altres]

When I was in the USA (New Jersey and New York) I was blown away by the portion sizes. My wife and I would buy small meals and share them. I think people thought we were simply trying to save money (I’m Scottish 😂) but we were simply trying to stay healthy. BTW, if they ever do a movie version of the Wacky Races you’d be an amazing Dick Dastardly. 👍

[@ejokurirulezz]

And still US portion sizes are mid compared to Balkans.

[@Simona0707]

@@ejokurirulezzbalkan portions are not as big def, even if they are our food is homemade, with ingredients from our gardens and 100x healthier

[@karlbmiles]

Have you ever had an English breakfast? Beans, tomatoes, and sausage, and toast BEFORE the eggs and bacon. Try to stay healthy, skip breakfast when in England. Portion sizes indeed!

[@UKsystems]

@@karlbmiles a full English breakfast is not an everyday breakfast it may be a treat but it’s not as common as people make it out to be most people would not have it every day

[@Asa...S]

If it's free refill on soda in the US, why would anyone buy the large, instead of just buying the cheaper small one and refill it as many times as you like? I get if you take it to go, then perhaps you want the large one, but then you don't have the refill option anyway.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

But you do get all those extra bubbles ...and the resulting gaseous emissions...?! 🤭🤭🤭🥤🥤🥤🥤🥤

[@gerardflynn7382]

Large portions = Large to very large people. The rest of the developed world doesn't have free refills. The only thing that the free refills do is build up the sugar levels thus increasing the chances of becoming diabetic. Not a good route to go.

[@Xiroi87]

@gerardflynn7382 why do you say "the rest of the developed world"? Burger Kings does offer free refills in Spain, probably in other countries too. I think TGIF also offers free refills and I seem to recall Domino's had some kind of similar deal too. Otherwise I'm not familiar with what's offered in this kind of restaurants, I hardly ever go to any of them, save for just occasionally indulging in a portion of Burger King's onion rings.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@Xiroi87 The 'the rest of the world don't do that' is a lie, we in the UK are told (or tell ourselves), to make us feel better about getting a worse deal. Our media reinforce these types of lies. Our media also run campaigns to get us to want these worse deals. Re why buy big if you can get free refills, you only get the refills while in the restaurant, these are often takeaway, also the bigger drinks are often included in bigger deal prices.

[@ebbhead20]

To me these meals seem to go, but that's just me, if i order a lot of things it's normally for taking home..

[@riccardocoletta2398]

We have cold coffe in Italy, but we don't use the ice. We prepare it the evening before and keep it in the fridge to be cold the whole day after. This is because the ice melt and add water to the coffe making lose taste

[@karlbmiles]

Starbucks sells their coffee for the fridge now. I like it. I need the caffeine jolt, but I prefer my first drink in the morning to be cold. And you're right about the ice if you can't drink it fast.

[@_qlone]

I don't know if this is the case throughout Europe, but in Germany Subway's sandwiches are classified as sweets because the ingredients - especially the bread - contain an abnormal amount of sugar.

[@sharonmartin4036]

In most of Europe USA bread would be considered as cake because of it's sweetness.

[@karlbmiles]

All White Bread recipes have added sugar. The Brits invented 'American White Bread" for their Afternoon Tea to look more refined than a peasant's loaf with a crunchy crust. Look up any British recipe for White Bread, you can eliminate the sugar and the Tea.

[@Richard1A2B]

Subway aren't allowed to call it bread here in Ireland, it's classified as cake because it contains so much sugar. So unhealthy, kind of defeats the whole idea of the sandwich in the first place.

[@faithrussert3753]

I have also noticed that clothing sizes can be different. (For example) What's labeled as L in the USA is labeled as XL in Europe, M in USA is L here.

[@chronic2023]

In the US they have vanity sizing. What was a US size 12 dress over 50 years ago is now a US size 8 dress. Europe hasn't followed suit.

[@matthewbrown6163]

As a 19 year old on my first USA trip I loved the large meals but by day 2 I was choosing the small or medium meal. I actually lost weight as I was skipping lunch as the struggle to eat the volume & calories was too much. In future trips I was prepared to eat breakfast & skip lunch. When I lived there I needed to cook my own foods as I could live off the take away food after a few days

[@gerardflynn7382]

Which goes to show how much unsafe chemicals are in the US food. Hence the larger portion sizes.

[@ebbhead20]

That wouldn't work for me as take away is not even a monthly thing to me. I feel weird if i get take away 2 times in the same month...

[@matthewbrown6163]

@@gerardflynn7382 Yes the Orange Cheese always shocked me

[@mehallica666]

I gained weight during my time there whilst eating less.

[@lynnhamps7052]

Most interesting to me is the difference in ingredients rather than size..for instance McDonald's fries in UK have three ingredients, potatoes, salt and the cooking oil. US fries 🍟 have a huge list of ingredients including colours, beef flavouring etc I know what I'd rather be eating. And the American Kentucky chicken looked so greasy...🙁✌🇬🇧

[@moondaughter1004]

Yeah when I went on vacation to California I got shocked because all the restaurants had signs that said their food could potentially cause cancer

[@ahaokei2216]

As far as I can tell they don't add any colouring to the fries in the US, they add Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate which is basically the same thing as E450 - a stabiliser (which helps the fries *maintain* their colour). E450 is also listed in the ingredients for the fries in Finnish McDonald's, so it's not unheard of in Europe as an ingredient. The beef flavouring on the other hand is odd.

[@MLWJ1993]

​@ahaokei2216 Apparently they add beef flavouring because they used to fry the fries in beef tallow instead of the oils they fry in nowadays.

[@cupoftea2957]

I saw another video where I think they said there were 19 ingredients in US McDonald's fries, compared to three in the UK. Why? They're already delicious!

[@lynnhamps7052]

I stand corrected on the colouring however, ..'The US fries have 14 ingredients, while the UK fries are restricted to potatoes, two kinds of oil, and (sometimes) dextrose. Notably absent from the UK fries is methylpolysiloxane, a commonly used anti-foaming agent that's also an ingredient used to make Silly Putty' 🙁

[@margaretnicol3423]

It's not the SIZE of the cups - it's how much drink is put INTO the cups - for heaven's sake!

[@VeneficusCubes]

Also Double bottom. US cups might be the entire volume but EU cups have indents in the bottom with reduces the inside volume. Cheap marketing trick. Make the cup look bigger than the amount of liquid it can actually hold

[@Lofftsno]

​@VeneficusCubedo you mean the extra 4-5 mm edges on the bottom of many paper cups that allow them to stand better on uneven surfaces? they are very useful, in the nordics we like to sit on stones or grass in the park or in the forest so it is practical that the paper mug does not have a flat bottom.

[@sharonmartin4036]

@@VeneficusCubes The cups are the same in the USA. That is done everywhere for balance.

[@karlbmiles]

I know what you mean, the Brits actually think a pint is the small glass! Next up is the liter glass of beer that gets warm and flat before they run out on the check without leaving a tip. Imagine actually putting a liter of beer in a liter glass. Oh, the humanity.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@karlbmiles The staff are paid a proper wage so they don't have to rely on begging for tips!!!

[@lidewijvos]

It's not just portion sizes but US McDonald's products (and probably other chains as well) have a higher fat rate, more salt and more calories than most European products, even if you account for size differences.

[@la-go-xy]

Besides, what are people actually eating? How many choose S/M/L as single portion, do they share/keep left-overs for next day...??

[@annafrolova7891]

As I remember, they don't salt the fries at all in Europe! I tried KFC and McDonald's in the UK, the Netherlands and Finland. And I was angry about lack of salt on potatoes. Our McDonald's also tried that standard for a year or something, but people disliked it and they go back to salt in fries.

[@lidewijvos]

@annafrolova7891 in the Netherlands we definitely have salt on the fries. You can watch them putting it on there. We just don't bury the fries in salt. That would kill people.

[@annafrolova7891]

@@lidewijvos no, they didn't salt at all. I asked. Maybe it was a short trend that time in fast food.

[@bloxyman22]

@@lidewijvos What I find here in Norway is that it varies from store to store.. One mcdonalds in my city has alot of salt on their fries by default, while another one in same city has so little salt that you can barely taste it.

[@hulda4ever]

Europe doesn't put growth hormone in our meat which is why the chicken looks bigger in the US

[@barbarafavata1249]

The chicken, the pork end beef are banned in the EU countryes

[@barbarafavata1249]

From US I mean...

[@StevenQ74]

What I don't understand about places with unlimited refils: why would you ever get a large when you can just pay for a small and keep refilling?

[@Hey.Joe.]

Hi Ryan, you was asking for prices. I would be curious how much it would cost in your state. In Germany in my region here are some examples. (By the way, taxes are already included in our pricing.) Burger King: Hamburger 2.09€ (~ 2.27$) Cheeseburger 2.49€ (~2.70$) Big King 5.99€ (~ 6.51$) Whopper 6.19€ (~ 6.72$) McDonalds: Hamburger 2.29€ (~ 2.49$) Cheeseburger 2.69€ (~ 2.92$) Bic Mac 5.99€ (~ 6.51$) Hamburger Royal TS 5.99€ (~ 6.51$) KFC: You know what? I'm done for now... 😉

[@AV-we6wo]

Just wanted to add that the 'Hamburger Royal' is called 'Quarter Pounder' in the US.

[@Not-famous]

In Lithuania: McDonalds: Hamburger 1.25€ Cheesburger 1.50€ Big Mac 4.10€ Royal 4.10€ Big Tasty 5.25€ And thats regular prices.. With app all these are ~20% cheaper. Burger King: Hamburger 1€ Cheesburger 1.50€ Big King 4.95€ Whopper 4.75€

[@corncutter]

I still remember when Hamburger and Cheeseburger were 99 cent snacks. That was proper pricing for them. Who pays 2,69 for such a joke of a "burger"?

[@Hey.Joe.]

@@corncutter I remember that too. I also remember how much lesser "Döner Kebab" did cost and that a scoop of Ice cream once cost 80 cent, now it's 1.80€.

[@8Flokati8]

Kürzlich habe ich mit jemandem über die Mc Donalds App geredet. Laut ihm bekommt man mit der App, durch die Gutscheine oderso, den regulären Preis. Kaufst du ohne App ist es beim Kauf teurer. Mir sind die Preise jedenfalls mittlerweile so der so zu hoch. Bei KFC war die mittlere Pommes so groß wie die kleine bei Mc Donalds. Alles nur noch Verarsche vom Preis her. Wenn ich schon minderwertiges essen möchte kann ich lieber was aus der TK im Supermarkt kaufen. Da gibt es dann wenigstens auch mehr für's Geld für den selben Müll.

[@Xia-hu]

the cup lids have those bubbles for ease of determining what's inside. you can ask for diet cola for example amd they will push one of the bubbles down, so if you are with friends/family and order more stuff together, you know which drinks are diet ones.

[@AL5520]

It's not just the size, there are also the ingredients, which are not published but due to different laws the UK (and other places, llike in other European countris) the US ones most likely have more chimicals. Weight is also problematic as a measure. A check of the Big Mac, which was similar in weight, on both websites show that the US Big mac has almost 100 calories more than the UK one (590 vs 493).

[@samstevens7888]

The mass produced chicken for most takeaways and supermarkets in the USA is a cornish cross chicken ( that's the breed) they are hatched and can be slaughtered in 8 weeks. It is a cross bred chicken but it isn't gmo the food it is feed is gmo though. In the UK we do not use the cornish cross yet and of course no animals in the UK are fed any gmo foods as its illegal to feed to humans and animals.

[@jmi5969]

8 weeks, really? this may (partially) explain their size. In my country (on the other side of the globe) it's typically six weeks (42 days), even in "organic" home farms. The standard allows 5 weeks for 1.4-1.6 kg. gross weight, 6 weeks, or 7 weeks max for 2.5-3 kg gross weight. it seems that one more week won't add any more value.

[@samstevens7888]

@@jmi5969 it's actually 6 to 8 weeks. 8 weeks max because they grow so fast their legs break or they end up having heart attacks if they go any longer. 8 weeks will be a 5lb to 6lb bird (2.26kg to 2.72kg)

[@nedludd7622]

Britain does not use Euro. A few years ago, The Onion did a report that Subway execs expected that the foot-long would be shared.

[@anubis9151]

The Onion is a satirical journal, isn't it?

[@BWA85]

​@@anubis9151it is... But there's a very high likelihood that an exec probably thought it.

[@walkir2662]

@@anubis9151 in this timeline, they often get things right, though.

[@DarkHelixia]

I remember serving an American at a McD in Skegness who ordered the XL. He said: 'Yo boi, I's ordered the XL and ya'll serve me this weeny cup? It ain't evens holding my whizz, ya hear me boi?' I told him that septics could just piss somewhere else ...

[@Ramtamtama]

why would a merkin go to Skeg?

[@BWA85]

​@@RamtamtamaI was wondering the same thing.

[@hekatonikles]

They main issue seems to be the sizes of drinks. I mean, the small US cup was usually about the size of the large UK one. So in the UK your drink intake would be at a max of about 200kcal and in the US that's the minimum. Provided you drink the whole thing. And it's not just calories, the drinks probably have more sugar in them than the food items. Having said that, I am actually more shocked at the scammy tactics seen at play here; Burger King and Starbucks, I'm looking at you.

[@highrhino]

TBF to Starbucks im pretty sure it is the cup size that is listed, but they dont fill the cups all the way expecting people to add milk to a black coffee which is what was ordered and with the other coffees the foam would prevent the cup from being completely filled. The chips on the other hand are a scam from most places, the McDonalds near me they dont bother to fill a large chip so you dont get any more that you would if you ordered a medium.

[@MrGabba78]

I've been travelling a lot around the world, and regardless of what your video says. I know there's a huge difference in portions. From Vietnam to European countries, to Santa Monica LA. The portions in the US are disgustingly big compared to Europe. Every time I'm in the US it's amazing to me the portion I recieve: soon as I look for a quality restaurant however, the prizes are insane. For even a mid tier restaurant the prices are insanely high. But as long as you're looking for garbage food level, US will hammer you with it at the lowest price

[@mehallica666]

Garbage food is promoted there, it yields more profit for the health industry.

[@cannadodry7022]

Macdo in france advertise mostly on the freshness and the quality of their product. Like AOP cheese (real cheese with protected origin), homegrown beef and that kind of stuff. Like we have the signature burgers, which are more expensive but supposedly with better quality. But also everyone complain that they are now very expensive for a fast food (a best of big mac menu is like 9€). The approach is totally different for the 2 market i think

[@hellemarc4767]

You could watch some "my 600 lbs life" episodes, and see the amounts of food these people are swallowing...

[@Brauiz90]

I live in Austria now for almost 2 years. There even are differences between Austria and Germany. Austia's BK has a 4th size in drinks - "King Size" is 750ml and the largest you can get... In Germany the largest is 500ml

[@kathrynkelman5334]

Im from the UK & the 1st time we went to Florida on holiday we couldn't get over the portion size of everything out there. Both a large McDonald's/burger king in UK was a medium out there. Everything is just huge. Also the same drinks/sweets taste different in each country because the US had additives that are banned in UK/Europe. Dr Pepper/Mountain Dew tastes totally different, also skittles & Starburst are different, all because of the additives.

[@Jeni10]

Ryan, there’s no way for any of us to know what damage fast food is doing to your insides. The effects won’t become evident until you reach forty and then the symptoms will start to show, by which time it’s a bit late to reverse it.

[@teresafernandez73]

I can imagine the shadow meetings between medical, pharmaceutical, food, insurance and banking companies, all aimed at turning healthy people into sick and ruined ones.

[@chronic2023]

True. Scientists have discovered that people age dramatically at two key points in life. One is at around 40 and the other is at around 60. The wrong life choices and 40 won't be pretty.

[@Creakybits_]

I’m Australian and it was mind boggling what the family drank that I was staying with in the USA, 64 ounces ffs. I introduced them to stir fries and roasts etc. oh & putting butter in crackers etc tastes a hell of a lot better 😅 Not expensive & way healthier than what they were consuming. FYI free refills aren’t a thing here.

[@weejackrussell]

The size of dinner plates has grown in the UK and with the increase in the size of the plates we have had an increase in people with obesity. I have a dinner plate I bought in the 1970s and it is far smaller than the dinner plates they sell now. When I went to the USA in the 1970s I thought the family I stayed with was buying catering packs until I went into a supermarket and found that everything was that size! And yet, the cucumbers and packs of butter were tiny compared with the UK!

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

Considering the customer is paying most of the staff wages with tips US portions should be bigger .

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Dinner _And_ Breakfast for the price of...uh...one...or...is it two?! 🤔🤭😳🥺

[@zamarco2]

as an Italian, for me that pizza is terrible 🤣. However, Burger King is bad as practically the medium size is almost the same as the small one and I understood that if they come to the United States it's by chance If I ever went to a fast food restaurant I would have to take small measures and I would also struggle to finish that drink. At most I'll take sparkling water like I always do :-)

[@AleCo_reviews_stuff]

Keep in mind that UK is still a country with big portions compared to other places in Europe - in Romania the mc chicken nuggets go up to 9 pcs max, and other food items tend to have sizes extra to rest of Europe.

[@JohanHultin]

Most of europe do have 15 or 20 pieces tho, nordics and (unless it changed in the past year) Germany have 20pcs. Most people don't go for larger than 9 though.

[@John-jw8rx]

It really isn't.

[@ClintDawg]

Denmark has 4, 6, 9 and 18 pcs

[@HartmutGitter]

Started watching your clips approx. 3 weeks ago. A big like from Westphalia!

[@MrEron19]

17:17 Little physics explanation : when the ice melts, the volume doesn't change, it's still the same. So 21 fl oz with ice will still be 21 fl oz when the ice melts

[@sophiemoser1752]

Sorry to interrupt this train of thought, but the volume from frozen to liquid changes by an amount of 9%. It's the mass that stays the same

[@MrEron19]

@@sophiemoser1752 Sorry to contradict you, but by the Archimede push, the ice is occupying a volume equal to its water mass, and will still occupy the same volume when it will melt.

[@konradwysokinski8063]

I'm sorry what? Ice and Water weights the same, but ice takes more volume. When you put water battle in the freezer it will explode when it converts to ice. It doesn't gain any weight in the process

[@lauralopez4447]

​@@MrEron19 you are talking about water level, not volume, in this particular case you are correct because thats what they are measuring, water level. If you take into account the volume of the ice sticking out then no.

[@vanesag.9863]

You have to watch too the ingredients of the food. Here in Europe (not only in UK) we have forbidden ingredients or a maximum quantity permited (like sugar and salt) in a portion. And I suppose the diference of volume in USA and UK chicken is the breed of said chicken. I remember eating this big and dry chicken in Canada in a pair of places. My group of friends remember it 9 years after eating it because it was not very palatable for our standars.

[@Aeroxima]

I think for pizza, Europeans might be more likely to have one to themselves more often, and Americans' default is splitting a pizza between multiple people and/or having leftovers in the fridge. You can get a personal pan pizza too, but it's not the default go-to, but like a "oh yeah, that's a thing too."

[@sabrinasambo7570]

Hi from Italy! I'm sure someone else has already said it, but venti in italian means twenty on its own. There is no ventitwenty or whatever he said 😂 Also in Italy pizza diameter is usually about 30 cm more or less (it depends on the thickness, the quantity of dough is the same, but it can be thinner and larger or a bit more thick and smaller). That is more or less 12 inches. BUT each person gets their own pizza! If we share, it means you get half of my pizza and I get half of yours, maybe because neither of us could choose between the same two toppings 😂

[@davidjames149]

our ancestors were hunter-gatherers, and had to burn crazy amounts of calories just to find and hunt food. now we can get a literal pile of fried chicken in a bucket, without even getting off the couch 😂

[@Staliris]

Efficiency xD

[@neutronenstern.]

Everythings big,- The people are, too

[@javiTests]

Why do they measure the pizzas just with the diameter? They can be thinner or thicker, so they should have checked the weight! 😅

[@stephenlee5929]

Because most pizza places in UK (and US I think) describe their pizzas by their diameter🤔🤔

[@javiTests]

@@stephenlee5929 Yes, but the thickness could change. The fries come in different sizes but they weight them, so this should be the same: The size is the diameter and they should check the actual weight.

[@stiegelzeine2186]

thin is premium, aint no way an american fast food chain offers authentic italian pizza(or insert any other nationality food)

[@Cleow33]

Because the American guy had already started to eat it...and he drunk out of all of the coffees so how can you then measure!

[@stephenlee5929]

@@Cleow33 Re the coffee, they were measuring in Fluid Ounces, in UK and US without mentioning these are different sizes. I think its worth noting these are fairly light hearted comparisons. At least they didn't measure the pizzas by counting how many slices.

[@ffqm]

I had never seen a venti in the Netherlands. I didn't see one until my vacation in Curaçao where they use the US standard sizes.

[@spaghettiboi33]

18:29 That laugh is wholesome. I love it

[@assassinlv8274]

About the drinks - it's because of angle... The US drinks were filmed from more above position - while UK ones were filmed more in table level.....

[@Jamie_D]

That 2oz might not be much for 1 person, but when you multiply that by a few million each day, their profits from their savings/ripping us off probably equal profit from sales of the same item.

[@alansmith3781]

FLUID OUNCE, UK or US? The British Imperial fluid ounce is equal to 28.413 milliliters, while the US Customary fluid ounce is 29.573 ml. The British Imperial pint is 568.261 ml (20 fluid ounces), while the US Customary pint is 473.176 ml (16 fl oz).

[@Xiroi87]

A one milliliter difference in a drink will not really make a difference, its like 10 drops.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The British Pint. One of those odd times when something from the US is smaller.

[@RaduRadonys]

Ffs... that's why the metric system was invented guys, so you could get out of the stone age.

[@libbysevicke-jones3160]

I came across that when l was a a US petrol station. (I had a rough idea of the old English system). I was standing there trying to figure out the prices of fuel, when l was asked if l needed help. I replied that l was confused about the volume of the US gallon. Personally l can’t think in inches and feet, or work out liquid volumns either. Its 100% metric here in New Zealand.

[@libbysevicke-jones3160]

How can any other country possibly have 14”, or 16”, or 12” pizza’s etc etc. The rest of the world use METRIC !!!!!!. We don’t have/so don’t use imperial cookware !!!!!!!! American coffee is SHIT. You guys try to upsize EVERYTHING. Good coffee should never be upsized. And to top my arguement, most Americans still drink filtered coffee. That stuff is SHIT !!! We drink real coffee. Thankfully Starbucks have all by failed in my country. Bad coffee and bad business practise, no ethics.

[@Jeni10]

I was expecting this video to be meals on plates, not fast food. Dine in restaurants have very different foods to fast foods. Food Wars was only fast food, until they met up in UK and went to dine in restaurants.

[@9wombats]

Do they eat anywhere else?

[@chrisb943]

If I was ever again forced to drink Starbucks 'coffee', I would be thrilled if my 20oz cup from Starbucks was handed to me empty - forget 18oz.

[@AussieFossil]

I tried it once, years ago. Never went back.

[@82mabli]

this "bubble" is to drinking out of as we trying to ban straws. I haven't been to McDonalds in a decade so I never tried it, but I have seen in on other cups.

[@Jim-the-Engineer]

The extra large pizza with 6 slices (instead of the more typical 8) is an intentional copy of New York style pizzas - which are often sold as street food, in single pieces. That's Papa Johns' approach at least - they won't sell their "New York Style" pizzas in any size but extra large. Not sure about Domino's...

[@keitheabosmeri6554]

Portions are even smaller in germany.. dominos for example: medium (28cm) 11,02", large is 32cm 12,6"...

[@StephSinalco]

Holy shit, those portions size in the US are ridiculous !

[@adamsoderberg6970]

I have a question for the Americans. If you guys have free refills, what's the point of getting a large soda? Are you just paying extra to not need to refill as often? Or are large just for take-away?

[@OldieBugger]

Unlimited refills... you get it here at BK in Finland as well. My grandsons and their friend loved it!

[@a.z.983]

For me the UK is the European USA, more similar to the US than to the rest of Europe... I would like to see comparisons to the portions in e.g. Italy... But why would anyone eat at McDonald's in Italy?

[@stannumowl]

Italian McDonald's have surprisingly cheap hamburgers. I were visiting Rome on the weekends. And that's only place I found where I could find something at night. Btw, why all pedestrians ignored red lights? That's so weird

[@Frostnase]

Ice and Water have the same volume (and same weight). You can test it yourself: mark a waterline on a glas and fill it with ice and water and let it sit. The waterline won´t change a bit after the ice melted. So no, there won`t be more after.

[@Draggonny]

Ice has a larger volume than water but the same weight as the original fluid frozen. That's why you shouldn't freeze anything in a sealed container unless you leave an air gap and you should never freeze liquids in glass bottles.

[@sangfroidian5451]

The size of a drink has little to do with looks, that's why it's measured....smh

[@Sciss0rman]

2:20 - It's the perspective. The UK guy is way closer to the drinks than the guy from the US. That's why they look pretty much the same in the shot.

[@tomscorpion6288]

Why would you buy a large drink if you have unlimited refills?

[@piau1798]

I can’t imagine getting a regular burger menu including an absurd amount of fries and softdrink in the us and being able to eat everything without stomach issues. I struggle with this even with our European sizes, you have to consider fries are usually just a side dish so I find those portions crazy 😅

[@Draiscor]

In burger king we generally have free refills in the UK now too

[@Xiroi87]

Also in Spain, and not just recently.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Where is this because I've not seen it in any BKs around Berkshire/Oxfordshire?

[@Draiscor]

@Thurgosh_OG I live in West Berkshire, my town's BK has the self service drinks machines and they just give you the cup for it, so you can go up and refill your drink as much as you like. The BK I visited in Newquay when I was on holiday there had the same

[@clairefuzipeg1983]

The drinks in the first clip may look the same, but it's just the perspective because they do the same shape of cup for each size but just make the cup itself larger or smaller. So the angles are the same per cup size to make it look taller or squatter, but the volume is altered.

[@thegovernor184]

With the coffee, they measured the liquid. What should be looking into is how many coffee shots go into the different sizes and sometimes the only difference between a small and medium is the hot water and had the same amount of coffee in.

[@clairefuzipeg1983]

There are places in the UK that do even larger pizzas, but they're not chains. There was one near my work that did a 24" pizza. The students loved it.

[@ZenPxL-56]

No only proportions. For exemple. In a french McDonald's, children can choose fries or cherry tomatoes as side dish and they also can have fruits or Yogurt We can also have these if we want as adults. We have a lot of messages on tv everyday which says "eat 5 fruits or veggies everyday" "don't drink to much alcohol"... Fruits and veggies are cheap, they try to réduce sugar and salt in food, etc.

[@silesiaminers98]

Ice in fluid after melting will not increase volume of the fluid!!!

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

If anything, it would decrease the volume since water expands when frozen, so the melted ice would displace less of the fluid.

[@ottoneiii4353]

venti twento? venti = 20; that's it. fun fact: in italy we don't use oz and venti referred to coffee has no sense for us

[@raisan5989]

Starbucks has big,bigger and biggest, i find Grande or tall for a small and medium weird names

[@JohnHollands]

I’m a Director, I’d love to get a Subway platter for my crews lunch. I usually get a plate of sandwiches. (Small crew, big crews get catering)

[@Elandrianthetrue]

Those cookie portions are a bit misleading. the way that works is when you buy a dozen you get a discount and when you buy 3 dozen you get a bigger discount. they won't tell you no you can't have 3 cookies, you just get them at the price of 3 individual cookies whereas in the UK you'd already get a discount for buying 3.

[@Lw1337]

2:30 yes its the angle. Look where the table is and compare the bodies in the background with the drinks. Then you'll get an idea what of a huge difference that is 😄 But honestly i like your drink sizes more. I would like to have them here. I didn't seen the food part yet but i probably wouldn't want to adapt that here, since for me the servings are fine, no need to scale up.

[@WooShell]

It's crazy that the US McD/BK soft drink sizes are roughly double of the EU sizes.. and the US version has even more calories thanks to the high-fructose corn syrup. I'm not surprised about the obesity problems..

[@MrBrianholding]

To paraphrase an old Carry On joke. If you think 12" is standard, you've been spoiled.

[@yuanfurbax]

17:11 ice is about 90% of water, if 3oz is missing and ice is 10% more, there needs to be atleast 30oz of ice metlted to get 27oz water (in that 'x' time). few ice cubes aint 3oz less if it'd be water

[@wolfgangreichl3361]

As a kid I worked at McD and we were told to fill the (same sized) fry bag only half for the small fries and full for the medium fries. Nobody really did that. So I think this concept persists. The domino pizza sizes (11,5" vs 12") might be due to metric vs imperial as 11.5" is roughly 30cm ... so no discrimination just cultural differences. As for the coffee: go to an Italian restaurant (in Italy, mind you), order a coffee and you'll get a half ounce of coffee - which is actually worth drinking and enjoying.

[@izibear4462]

The biggest coffee chain in the Uk got into trouble a few years sgo because the medium and large were the same volume. They had just made the large cup slightly slimmer and taller.

[@Peterigepan]

In cilinders (like cups), the diameter is the driver of volume (half the diameter, to the THIRD power, so)

[@judyjude]

its def true. when I watch an american brings up his 1 gallon sippy-cup to drink coffee or soda from, I do not understand how you got to thinking that is normal.

[@pleegjepleegje]

Interesting, and now I also want to know the differences in the number of calories and the length of the ingredients lists😅

[@stephenlee5929]

That channel does those types of comparison. Also putting the ingredients lists for each country. This is a spliced (edited) version for just for portion sizes. Most of their episodes are about 1 outlet type (McD, KFC, BK...)

[@helenwood8482]

I would struggle to eat the KFC UK regular fries. The American sizes just make me feel queasy.

[@TheJohnboyhunter]

Other than Domino's, which I've only ever had once, most, if not all, other pizza shops I've been to in the UK use the 10", 12", 14" sizing.

[@markdermody9698]

I can't believe that the cold drinks sizes at McDonalds or BK are so different. We have our large drink is smaller than the US Small Drink which is absolutely ridiculous. No wonder the fast food craving American Citizens are much larger than their UK counterparts in general. It never ceases to amaze me. With KFC, even the small 6 piece bucket is a sharing one, is the US small classed as a sharing bucket? I would love to know!

[@tr3pidatioN]

Some places in denmark, you can get a "giant pizza" which measures 20 inches across

[@tigerlily-jf6bg]

I got my fast food cultural shock back in the early 90s when visiting my aunt and uncle in California. My uncle warned us about the US portion sizes, so we ordered small burgers with fries and it turned out both the burger and the fries were bigger than a large order back home. Oh and it came with what I can only describe as a bucket of coke

[@MrDarkneah]

2:21 .... its just because one put them next to the border of the table and the other is farther x) lol

[@UKsystems]

With pizza, if you add an inch on to the diameter, the surface area increases a lot more so it’s quite hard just to compare

[@elwither777]

We also have free refills, just the drinks are smaller, anyways, I have to say spanish dominos only have medium and family pizza sizes.

[@seijika46]

It fits into the corporate ecosystem in the US - the food makes overweight and ill so that you have to pay more to gyms and hospitals. (Plus, if your lawmakers care more about money from food lobbies than constituents, they're less likely to pass regulations that keep people alive for longer.)

[@stefanbozic6413]

all fast (Junk) food restaurants should be banned as a matter of urgency

[@viceroyzh]

I've been to the US several times for several weeks. Only once was I not able to finish the plate due to the portion size. It's a myth that portion sizes are big. Perhaps they used to be, but nowadays also US restaurants have to reduce costs and therefore portion sizes. Of course, if you order more, you will get more, and you will pay more.

[@Hamsterdam91]

We already knew US sizes are bigger but we learned that Burger Kings Medium size is a scam, potentialy a global scam

[@wojtekpolska1013]

other pizza places in europe definitely have bigger pizzas than dominoes, i am kinda surprised by how small the pizza sizes are being from poland cuz i dont eat dominoes

[@deadzio]

You should do another of this video, as they did one with updated prices etc.

[@BlueFlash215]

You are missing a CRITICAL part of the sizes. Medium size is in all countries not worth it. It mostly has the worst food/price ratio. This makes the consumer think: "For just 3$ more, I can get the large option!" You weirdly have a seize in between which could make you in certain situations choose large vs super large. "I don't want to cook tonmmorow and will keep them" or "I'll just pay a little extra and throw the rest (definitely!) away". If you have ever seen fast food chains from the inside you will realize that medium cups seem to be almost out of stock. It's just that they are so bad for the customer regarding the price that they will be happy with the small option and all other customers will upgrade to the big one. They also use a different psychological effect. "Saving money by paying more". Normally this can make a lot of sense if you buy goods like shampoo that you can keep forever. Over a couple of month you'll indeed save some percentage with a initial greater investment. With food it's different. You don't necessarily have more hunger but by slightly paying more you get more. It would be a shame if you would let it go to waste. You can eat it but you will surpass your needed calory intake. Most people won't eat fast food if it's 1 or 2 days old. Instead you are already at the next fast food chain ordering something to "fresh" or something that is "only avaible today!".

[@nomaam9077]

this is for sharing! 😏

[@Naylte]

I don't know if someone's already done this. MacDonald's: Big Mac £4.99, small fries £1.19, medium fries £1.59, large fries £2.19, 6 McNuggets £4.69, 9 McNuggets £5.19, 20 McNuggets £5.99, small milkshake £1.79, medium milkshake £1.99, large milkshake £2.19 (unfortunately I couldn't get the different portion prices for any other beverages). All prices include tax. Unfortunately KFC and Burger King don't seem to list the specific prices on their website until you begin to construct a shipping order.