Is "AMERICAN FOOD" in the Netherlands any good? (an american food reaction video)

Michelle and Alex try all of the "faux-merican" food they found at their local grocery store in Holland. Will American food in the Netherlands be good? Will it even be familiar? The first of a (hopefully!) ongoing series of buncharted trying American food in other countries. Join us on an American food mukbang (with American food reactions) with two foreigners trying American food in Europe.
00:00 Introduction
00:44 American Frites saus
01:55 Big Americans Texas Pizza
03:44 Doritos Cool American
05:09 American Hotdogs
06:40 Hawaiisaus
07:48 American Pancakes
09:22 Recap
10:51 Conclusion
We're Michelle and Alex, also known as buncharted, an American couple living as expats in the Netherlands, with an affinity for travel and snacks. Subscribe for new content like this every week!

[@buncharted]

We ate weird "American food" in the Netherlands so you don't have to. 😸 What kind of weird "American food" have y'all come across in your travels?

[@mrnobody043]

There are different Hotdogs that are much better, those are vacuum sealed and are snappy. They are usually located in the meat section, not the canned foods section. The reason for the canning is for shelf-life and export/import, depending on the factory location. Get the ones from a butcher, they will cost more but taste better (especially grilled). And as far as (dipping) sauces go, "(Gouda's Glorie) Samurai sauce" is my favourite, you should give it a try. Greets from the south of the Netherlands, Maastricht.

[@sentokigames151]

To be honest...if it's made in EU, it's not american. I think it's just called that way because it's bigger than normal and different flavour. If americans use real sugar and we use aspartame in it or other fake sugar...it's already different.

[@stephenvanwijk9669]

No poffertjes are poffertjes. Pancakes are pannenkoeken. And we have pannenkoeken thick and thin, the thin ones go in the direction of French crêpes. My mum used to make the thin ones, because they taste better.

[@wboumans]

Most pannenkoeken are actually flensjes. Real pancakes are made with yeast, nobody does that anymore.

[@ElMariachi1337]

The Big American Pizza's name basically only reverts to the thick crust, there is even ones with Nacho's and Kebab in that line which is hardly American. The American Frites Sauce is just a copy of the Mc Donalds sauce you get for the fries here and since they obviously couldn't call it Mc Donalds sauce they probably just called it American sauce. Some of the bigger grocery stores do have some authentic US products like Skippy peanutbutter, Tabasco and A&W Root Beer (AH XL)

[@frits1954X2]

Dutch pancakes are 12" and in a restaurant 16" and a 1/4" thick and the extras are baked into the batter. Poffertjes are a very different dough and 2" round and 1/2 thick Best regards Frits

[@rmyikzelf5604]

A quarter inch thick? That's over 6 millimetres. Dutch Pancakes are 3 to 4 mm maximum (1/8"). Good ones at least. ;-) agreed on the rest though

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

Dutch pancakes are large, plate size, and thin. Meant for one person. They can be either sweet or savory. Poffertjes are small and thicker. Generally served with powder sugar.

[@hvermout4248]

Putting "American" on food is not an advertisement. It's more a bit of a health warning ...

[@henkvisscher4379]

American food in the Netherlands is food supposed to be typical American, adapted to the Dutch/European taste. Albert Heijn (Ahold Delhaize) although a Dutch company, realizes 2/3 of his turnover in the USA (e,g. Giant, stop&Shop, Food Lion, Hannaford). As the 5. grocery retailer of the States they know exactly what is the American food taste and where it differs from the European. 😎

[@apie1977]

I think it is absolutely criminal nobody commented on your excellent steve1989MREinfo cameo on 1:18. Made me laugh out loud!

[@janalberts7073]

Dr.Oetker is a multi-billion German Based company. As frozen pizza is original American, they name it American pizza and Texas refers to BIG. Everything which is bigger than normal European size could be called “American” . Pure marketing. 😊

[@dobberdop]

You both are doing a great job Keep up the good work

[@atropatene3596]

Try some typical "traditional" Dutch foods next please! Hutspot, boerenkool, zuurkool, erwtensoep, sprouts, andijviestamppot, hete bliksem. After all of these junkfood videos you can probably use some vegetables 😉

[@buncharted]

it’s coming soon! and don’t worry, we’re vegetarian outside of the videos 😄

[@atropatene3596]

@@buncharted ohh I'm looking forward to that! Glad you guys have found a good balance though, I won't feel as guilty watching your videos then 😁

[@mellepasveer6173]

@@buncharted no he or she is talking about vitamins

[@AlbertZonneveld]

@@buncharted Popular dutch fish dishes: Smoked eal, (popular on toast) Smoked mackarel (popular on a bun), Kippers (Salty raw herring) Dutch shrimp (cocktail), Zeeland mussels and/or oysters Fried whiting (Lekkerbekje), Fried cod or haddock pieces (Kibbeling) Fried Plaice, Baked sole (pricy restaurant dish)

[@starsparkle5369]

This was so fun to watch! I am dutch and recently got married to an American. He said the exact same things about the items you guys mentioned. I always thought American saus was indeed American. According to my husband it tastes like tartar saus 😆

[@nataslived7029]

This is realy fun to watch, cool video!😎

[@LazyManJoe]

Watching multiple of your food tasting videos & I'm surprised HOW MUCH you guys can eat ! 🙂

[@TheKuolin]

Great Video ! ❤

[@SaharaAlpaca]

Hi im new here,living in Haarlem. Love your channel. Such cute couple! Subbed and hope to see more soon. 🌷🌷

[@buncharted]

thank you ❤️❤️

[@allp84]

McDonalds in the Netherlands had a special sauce for the fries. Every kid just assumed that this was american sauce, as you could not get it elsewhere. At some point, you could buy the sauce in the supermarket, I remember the bottle being white with red, blue and stars on it, and it was marketed as American sauce. Since they could not label it as McDonalds sauce, this is the branding they chose. And it worked. Kids loved to have a little bit of McDonalds at home. In the end i found out that the McDonalds sauce is not used at all in the US (everything is ketchup).

[@ericbus3457]

Putting a bucket of mayonaise on top of fries is a bit wierd, are there any other countries except Belgium where they do that?

[@allp84]

@Eric Bus dutch and Belgium mayonnaise is very different from what other countries call mayonnaise. I've tasted quite some "mayonnaise " around the world, and it is often very sour or tasteless.

[@Nitzpitz]

Hotdogs are always sold in a can here, not only the American variety. It has a longer shelf life this way. You can also buy “fresh” ones, which are vacuum sealed, but those only keep for a couple of weeks. The canned ones can be in your kitchen cabinet gor years.

[@RobertKhoe]

Lidl has country themed weeks, including American themed a couple of times a year. BTW: I noticed Aldi has regularly products from Trader’s Joe (at least the label says so).

[@buncharted]

ooh, really? aldi here in the netherlands? (aldi owns trader joe's in the US, so that'd make sense, i suppose!)

[@Mdgd63]

We usually not eating Hotdogs, but Knakworst. I think that some supermarkets sell knakworst under the name of hotdog.

[@WhiteRabbitKurai]

I'm Dutch, my girlfriend is American (LDR) and I've told her about the weird trend we have going on here where the marketing teams slap 'American' on something to make it more appealing. It's a thing they do and It seems to work! 90% of products I tell her about she tells me, nah, never heard of that in my life. Imagine my surprise to find out Philadelphia is American, too! I seriously had no idea! You'd think with the name, right? But names are no sure fire way to figure out where's something from anymore! In any case, glad you liked the pancakes they're my favorite too! Even bought myself some maple syrup (I hope? For some reason they call it acorn syrup in Dutch?) and by god are those things delicious. My favorite treat either she or other American friends have ever send me though? Hot tamales.

[@buncharted]

the candy? those are pretty tasty 😋 we saw some college students yesterday with a stack full of “big american” pizzas in their hands, so the marketing must be working 😂

[@WhiteRabbitKurai]

@@buncharted Yes, the candy! Sorry, forgot for a second that there's a non candy version. They're just so delicious, we've got cinnamon flavored things but I've never had anything like them before! Haha, yeah~. I mean, they're cheap, easy and actually don't taste bad out of all the other frozen pizza's that are available. No doubt they're super popular with students!

[@Helpimnoob]

My personal favourite deep-freeze pizza are the Ristorante line of pizza's also by Dr. Oetker. but it's a personal thing. Is Alex a ventriloquist dummy professionally? doing a great job there in the pizza bit. What you might want to try though sometime is Filet Americain. Even though it has the "Americain" name it isn't american at all. Its raw ground up beef you put on bread. you can buy it at any supermarket. When you try the pannenkoeken keep in mind that the homemade stuff is 1000% better than the store bought stuff. ;) Welcome to Europe and enjoy your exploring! and thanks for the fun vids.

[@buncharted]

we will have to try filet americain! (and thank you for noticing my attempt at a silly bit, haha!)

[@lucasomalley]

The crown and monocle must have taken some serious editing skills to CGI in. Great touch. Great video.

[@syracuselux1450]

Have you noticed the use of paprika? Oddly hotels put in their eggs. They also us it for “bbq”.

[@buncharted]

honestly, i’m here for it 😄

[@natasjavanvugt]

Love your video's. I live in the Netherlands. Shocked to hear that we have so much aspartaan in food. 40 years ago sugar was bad and it was exchanged with aspratan or another fake sugar. You should try the bockworsten. The amrican frietsaus is a dupe for the McDonalds frietsaus. And btw we love frietsaus of mayonaise with fries.

[@tubularap]

2:32 - Alex: "... so it's a pepperoni pizza, from a legitimate doctor." Michelle: "We got a prescription for this." The unexpected pun in your dry delivery made be burst out a laugh 😀 Keep doing what you do.

[@Persei1]

It's true. I love everything with aspartame in it :O :P

[@Wrecker3D]

Greasy Pizza, that's your link to Texas: Oil (although I hope the one in/on the pizza is plant based😅)

[@Blizzzzzzard_]

Dr.Oetker is such an amazing brand, we have it here in Sweden too and it honestly feels like they make everything food related. You find everything from waffle mix to cocktail berrys and I find that hilarious 😂. Great video !!!

[@buncharted]

it’s a doctor so you gotta trust ‘em! haha

[@jarnickvanessen2625]

German quality

[@emielverschuur8395]

nice video but now you are living in the Netherlands try the dutch food like poffertjes , pannenkoeken , the snacks like kroket , fricandel speciaal, bereklauw pindasaus and later the stampotten zuurkool and hutspot i'm looking out for that

[@Mdgd63]

Pannenkoeken are the big ones and mostly made at home by yourself. The small poffertjes are mostly found at foodcars or at special events. People make them mostly not at home.

[@victorvandillen5297]

Try American filet from the butcher👍👍 you'll love it😁

[@gjalie]

funny thing, the 'american' frites saus was introduces by McDonalds in the Netherlands cause we dutch are more a mayonaise loving country than ketchup, so they served their own take on mayonaise. it wasn't the same as our mayonaise so we called it american frites saus cause the McDonalds introduced it.

[@buncharted]

so it’s basically a special mcdonald’s mayo fry sauce? ah ha!

[@annekekramer3835]

@@buncharted yes it is indeed.

[@racingweirdo]

​@@buncharted mayonaise Need to contain 70% of fat by law, to avoid that brands came up with frite saus and halvanaise. A Dutch McDonald's franchise owner decided to mix the frite saus with herbs. The famous McDonald's sauce was born. Its not allowed for other Brands to called it McDonald's sauce so they called it american sauce.

[@ShadowDrakken]

I think the only food thing I miss when I'm overseas is Oscar Mayer hotdogs. In Honduras they had two similar looking hotdogs (along with the other various local sausages), but the flavor and especially the texture were 100% completely wrong.

[@marcelrombouts8607]

To get your hotdog kicks, try Frankfurters. They have more of a bite to them.

[@gerrygrouwe70]

Better use vacuum knakworst for hotdogs not the caned ones

[@frankgeurts3912]

We love aspartaam 😂

[@babykots]

I did try the hot dogs in a can and thought they tasted like hot dogs. I too thought it was weird that they were in a can though. I also have had the Big Americans pizza which was ok for a frozen pizza but it was not big, it was actually small like a personal pizza. Funny that they wouldn’t market ketchup as American fry sauce since that is what we use on our fries. The other thing I found weird that a lot of Dutch thought was American was filet American. It is definitely not American but I personally loved it in crackers. I also didn’t realize until later in a funny way that it is raw meat like steak tartar.

[@buncharted]

we found ranch dressing at jumbo and it was marketed as american. it didn’t taste much like ranch though, was VERY dill forward. it was actually very, very good. just unexpected. it’s interesting to try interpretations of american food!

[@wilcoolen5870]

Filet americain comes from the word armoricain wich is a french breed of cows from wich the prepare was made. Somehow, through time, the word changed to americain.

[@henkkoopmans3240]

My fav American food in NL (but without the Stars 'n Stripes): Beyond Meat products, Bragg's Apple Cider & Nutritional Yeast, Heinz Tomato Ketchup (the EU version) and Hellman's (vegan) mayonnaise (by Unilever which is Dutch but the product is American by origin and even that's not true, it's German, created by a German emigrant, never mind). Great video by the way, loved it!!!!

[@MmalpMm]

pannenkoek=large and thin, poffer= small and thick, american pancakes are fluffier thicker and smaller than dutch pannenkoeken

[@murmandamus5137]

Is there a difference between knakworst and hotdogs?

[@buncharted]

that’s a good question. they have separate wikipedia entries which makes me think they’re different but they sound awfully similar!

[@mormacil]

Hotdogs are an American derivative of Frankfurter sausages. Knakworsten differ from the latter in that they can contain other meats then pork but are essentially the same product. The lam intestine gave it a snap when broken. Over time it got largely substituted to cheaper alternatives. So they're similar products with a different origin but in the end are essentially the same.

[@Mdgd63]

Fritessaus is a cheap/simple version of mayonaise!

[@highs_and_lows4665]

Dr Oetker - pronounced "Utker" - is a German brand and I believe Europe 's largest frozen pizza brand. They produce 2.4 million pizza's a day in Germany alone!

[@mormacil]

Also inventor of baking powder and uncomfortable ties to a certain man from the 1940's.

[@highs_and_lows4665]

@@mormacil he loved everything Italian

[@mormacil]

@@highs_and_lows4665 We all have our flaws

[@Unknown-tj5tv]

if you want real pannekoeken you need to go to a pannekoeken restaurant they have very good pancakes

[@femkeklijn4802]

You can try filet american. What is range? We do not have that taste overhere. A range is a farm for me not a taste.

[@janetross1900]

Do the hot dogs taste like or seem like Plumpers hot dogs?

[@buncharted]

plumpers aren’t in a can, right? the can made them super soggy.

[@janetross1900]

@@buncharted right but I was thinking because they were cooked in their own juice that they might have that same texture

[@buncharted]

i’ll have to try plumpers when we get back to the US and compare 😄

[@janetross1900]

New subscriber, by the way! My parents went on a cruise in the Netherlands on the canals. They were able to go to Friesland, and my mom met. The people who lived in the house, where her grandmother was born. Her mom moved to the US from Amsterdam, and her father moved to the US from Rotterdam. If they hadn’t met each other I wouldn’t be here I’m 69 and I live right in the north west corner of Indiana about 15 miles away from Chicago

[@syracuselux1450]

The hotdogs are canned. A post war thing Europe is still doing. In the USA this has been changed to shrink wrap. When things are canned it’s cooked. So technically you can eat them straight out of the can. Canned food lasts much longer and is shelf stable.

[@buncharted]

they’re cooked in the shrink wrap too! 😵‍💫

[@theonijkerk3012]

Poffertjes are not Dutch pncakes. Dutch pancakes are bigger and thinner than American pancakes. Easy to make yourself, just mix flour, milk and eggs untill you have a smooth batter and then you can make Dutch pancakes. You can put bacon on them, cheese, ham, salami or all of the above mentioned. I love apple syrup on them.

[@annekekramer3835]

The first one, "American friet sauce", how could you think it could be ketchup when you see through the bottom it's yellow?

[@buncharted]

we knew that wasn’t ketchup. we were remarking that fry sauce in the US would be ketchup - that’s what’s usually served with fries.

[@annekekramer3835]

@@buncharted Ah, like that. Well, I do understand that part. I don't think I saw mayo in the USA a lot, while we Dutchies really love it. We love it so much that we get charged separately for it when we order fries with mayo. I think we're one of the few countries that charge more if you order sauce with it?

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Most of these marketing labels for the products of the big processed food conglomerates are decided by panels of consumers being asked what they associate the product with. Give an assortment of house wives, students, single dads and whatnots a slightly larger than than usual knackwurst in a bun... "American!!" . A pizza with a thick base? "American!" A sauce with pineapple? "Ame... oh... wait...Hawaiian!!" A sauce resembling McDonald's "American!!" Thick, smaller, but not poffertjes-sized pancakes? "American!!" The difference is only that Jan, apparently, does know how to make tasty pancakes. (I've had those and they are good, although obviously nowhere near as good as home made)

[@ivo215]

As a rule, if food is being 'upsold' with flashy branding, like "american!", then the value is in the branding and packaging, not in the food.

[@markjacobs1086]

I actually like that first sauce once in a while with my fries, luckily it's not acactually American because I very much dislike ketchup.😂

[@buncharted]

it definitely is an unfamiliar flavor profile to us 😂 do you like curry sauce? i find that to be just as sweet as ketchup

[@markjacobs1086]

@@buncharted Curry sauce is okay, I usually end up mixing it with some mayonaise though.

[@marcelrombouts8607]

Those Big Americans pizza's have cracked me up ever since they were introduced. Like no friggin' way an American would call those "big". Having said that I do think they're some of the best frozen pizza's you can get at the super.

[@Siriusly_Sirius]

Immediately paused at 1:23 “Let’s get this out onto a tray” - if that wasn’t a Steve1989 shoutout…

[@buncharted]

we love steve1989 :)

[@Siriusly_Sirius]

@@buncharted nice! (hiss)

[@pel666]

Do us a favour, and buy a jar of Meica Frankfurter saucages. Origin of the best 'hotdogs' IS Germany. Snappy and delish. We dutch people only give Knaks and such to our kids, but adults prefer generally the Bockwurst or Frankfurters.

[@henseegers914]

Your very nice to say some nice thinks about the American food.. But your faces say otherwise.. Hahaha hahaha. Your very brave to eat the stuf.. chapeau.. 😂

[@frankgeurts3912]

The doctor was a German doctor,now Europa biggest company in frozen food

[@wisecat.]

I'm Dutch and I never eat "American" food here in the netherlands. I always get scared of something. Scared of the way it looks or the taste or even get scared of the label that says "Real American" because you know it is not. I never go to Mcdonald's or Burger King. The only "American" thing I eat is the Big Americans Pizza Pulled Pork. That one is delicious. But what's American? It's just a bunch of sugar, salt, grease. You're better off by going to a American steakhouse restaurant here. btw. You're absolutely right about the fake sugars like aspartame or the worst fake sugar is Sucralose, 600 times sweeter than sugar and no calories at all. You'll find it in almost everything here (mostly diet products) It is crazy.

[@dutchgamer842]

I only consider food American, that's imported from the US. Otherwise it's just a name

[@eddys.3524]

Yeah... the "American" is only advertisement I guess. Most Dutchies haven't been to the USA, neither have I, let alone stayed there long enough to know.

[@rrshadow2]

I have some of that American fry sauce in my fridge right now. There is nothing in America that tastes like that

[@frankgeurts3912]

Sausage party😁

[@bvanbiezen3008]

I would not try the hotdogs, cause they aint hotdogs even tough the can says it is. Thay are the same as the Cheap knakworst but Americanized. I would try the other AH hotdogs, thay come in a package of four Hotdogs dry in a bag. Although I would probably buy the AH gerookte knakworst instead, cause thay come dry packed in 9 for the same price as the hotdogs. AH has some real american stuff, like Hellemann’s mayonaise, or Skippy and Jif peanutbutter. Doritos cool american is my favorite flavor, but I don’t see the american favour in it. Also I guess the hawaiian saus is probably based on eggs so not for using as a marinade, but a salade dressing possibly yes.

[@buncharted]

“cool american” is called “cool ranch” in the united states - guessing ranch is american and mostly unfamiliar as a flavor in most of the rest of the world (though we do have ranch dressing at jumbo here, it just tastes very different…)

[@Dutchbelg3]

The thing is that you won't eat these if you are American ;-) OK you liked 1 🙂 These products are designed to fill a stereotype. Not to have American items available in the Netherlands. These are products for people that never been to the USA. Like the pizza Hawai is not representing Hawaiian cuisine ;-) Like the deep frozen pizza's do not represent Italian pizza's. It's like comparing Dutch pancakes with American pancakes: It is a complete different thing! Different ingredients, different purpose, one will never be the other. Poffertjes are NOT pancakes.. They're poffertjes. It's comparing Dollar notes to Euro notes. If you are used to the one you will be disappointed with the other. 😛

[@metalvideos1961]

Fun fact Pancakes originated from China and Nepal. But we brought it back to the netherlands to Brabant. From there on out we spread it over the rest of the world. and other countries gave it their own twist. French pancakes crepes are more closer to the original Chinese and Nepal pancakes then our dutch pancakes. no our dutch pancakes are called pannenkoeken. poffertjes got nothing to do with it. poffertjes are poffertjes pancakes are pancakes. foreingers call it dutch pancakes but thats not correct. so you know

[@mormacil]

Oh they're certainly a related dish but you're right they're not pancakes because of their cooking implement isn't flat bottomed. Other then that they totally qualify as a variety of pancakes, like potato pancakes and blini.

[@metalvideos1961]

@@mormacil no they dont qualify as a pancake as well.

[@mormacil]

@@metalvideos1961 They are, it's in the fucking name. You're confusing pannenkoek with pancake. Pancake is a broader term just like Pudding in english is a term that covers both savory and sweet dishes. From a dessert to Yorkshire pudding.

[@metalvideos1961]

@@mormacil no they are called Pofferetjes. where in this word do you see pannenkoeken? pancake in dutch? exactly nowhere. its a dutch dish its not the same as pancakes. you foreigners called it Dutch pancakes which is the wrong name for it., you want to tell me a Dutchman how to call our own dish? is that where we are at this point? And we have pudding and Vla in the netherlands. its not the same. no matter what you say you are wrong.

[@mormacil]

@@metalvideos1961 Pancakes are any dish made from a starch based batter cooked on a flat surface. Starch based batter can be potatoes, wheat, rice, etc. The thing that disqualifies poffertjes is the pan used to make them isn't flat. The rest is entirely right to quantify as pancakes within the English language. And I'm also een levenslange Nederlander, je blijft fout ;)

[@roberts6035]

It's all about marketing and try to sell more by the fancy label American. Those hotdogs are really awfull. Even with a lot of mustard and ketchup. Brrrrr. A no go.

[@queercastlimburg]

The nutrition organization wants us to eat less sugar and salt, it is healthier than too much sugar and salt

[@frankgeurts3912]

The American sauce,yes nobody knows it why only herbs inside

[@joellevandenberg6529]

You missed Filet Americain!! Basically steak tartare. Not at all American.

[@pmvdmeulen]

Koop het rode blikje hotdogs / knakworsten in de Jumbo. They are real KNAKworstjes niet die zachte van unox. Ohnee jullie zijn vegan... of flexivegan because of cheese.

[@Johnjohnthejohn]

Pancakes out of a pack are horrible

[@albertlay8927]

I was expecting filet americain.

[@buncharted]

ooh, what is that?

[@albertlay8927]

@@buncharted It's raw minced beef (I think it's raw), with some mayo and some more things mixed into it (I think ketchup, salt, pepper, but I'm not sure about that). As far as I know, it is totally unknown in the US. That is why I've always wondered about the name. You'll find it in the cold cuts section (with the meat products for your boterham), You are supposed to use it as a spread on bread or crackers, preferably with pepper, chopped onions and hardboiled egg.

[@buncharted]

it sounds like a different take on “meatloaf” in the US but i’m very curious to try it! thanks for the tip!

[@hvermout4248]

Americans don't know what "americain" means. Or how to pronounce it.

[@babykots]

Filet Amercain is like steak tartar not like meatloaf at all. It is also very tasty but a little goes a long way. It’s great on crackers. It is raw though so don’t eat it if your pregnant. I was not aware that it was raw and when I went for a prenatal appt my doctor asked if I was eating raw meat which I said of course not but then my husband said, well…. And that’s how I found out it was raw. He never told me before. 😂

[@D00dles]

Tbh Mustard is French. Not that crap American liquid you call mustard 🤣

[@metalvideos1961]

no we in the netherlands dont like fake sugar its the EU regulations that we have to follow. Aspartaam is not bad for you and it doesnt contain calories as well its just a replacement for real sugar. and it makes you less fat and less change of diabetes. we also have drinks that uses Stevia. a natural sugar thats 300 times stronger then sugar. it doesnt contain calories so you wont get fat if you consume it.

[@Ollie_NL]

American pizza = thick soft breadlike crust and Italian pizza is thin hard crust. Furthermore Texas = meat. It is really that simple (and stupid)

[@buncharted]

😆

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

No, don’t do that. Disappointment waiting to happen. Even if inbox from the same international brand, everything is tested to local taste and mainly just a marketing thing. I’ve seen do many things abroad called Dutch this or that, up to Dutch cookies in South Korea, all totally foreign to me. And I’ve been around for a while.

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

If you any s good dog. Get the fresh knakworst at Albert Heijn. 9 in a pack in the cooling cabinets close to the pre cut cheeses. If the original Dutch smoke dog, frankfurter. They really snap. And that’s in the name: knak means crack or snap.

[@buncharted]

hey, thank you for the tip!

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

Oh, one thing. The skin is not artificial, so, not straight !!

[@SAMUDRAMAC]

@@buncharted oh I now see why’s you did wrong with the big American pizza: you’ve been cutting it wrong. LOL!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmS2gWupjpVmlaM

[@stephenvanwijk9669]

No, I do not eat hot dogs. Never had. 80% of what is an average supermarket I don’t buy, because it is too poisonous and has too little nutrition.

[@robverbree4768]

In The Netherlands you eat Dutch food!

[@komkwam]

You must be the only one then because people don't eat just Dutch food anymore, there are so many cuisines nowadays, besides Dutch food is boring. I eat mostly other cuisines, maybe once in two weeks i eat Dutch food. So, no we don't eat just Dutch food anymore. You are stuck in the past.

[@mormacil]

@@komkwam 1) Technically all food prepared in the Netherlands is Dutch food. We don't know what he means by Dutch food, he might be pedantically pointing out that those products made in the Netherlands aren't American food but Dutch food by origin. 2) Dutch food is only boring when you can't cook. It's no more boring then Italian. If all you make is a pasta sauce with spaghetti that's indeed pretty boring even if you sometimes add sausage or a different vegetable.

[@davevanbeers6944]

There are some decent American restaurants near Rotterdam tho. Please let go of your notions that because it said American it therefore is….. or you will be disappointed.

[@henrimessinghausen5185]

Thanks for sacrificing yourselfs....but ehm....we already knew that "American"' food is justawful.

[@boydboyles7303]

Nope!

[@brian5154]

What I can tell you is that people have eaten exectly the same food in the USA and Europe. When in the US people gained weight, the people in Europe lost weight. Food, with all the hormones and other additives used in the USA are banned in Europe. This has been very well researched and documented. The food that you are looking at now are only meaningless names. "American" is just a meaningless name probably. What else I can tell you is that the choice of food you have in the Netherlands is bigger than in any other country. And that's official. What I suggest you do is buy less fake American food and follow a more healthy diet. Dutch pancakes are not poffertjes. Go to a proper Dutch pancake house and you'll get full size pancakes with any filling, savoury or sweet. Take your time to learn about Dutch food. It will take you many years. What you seem to have been picking up is "named" junk fast food. And portions of everything sre smaller here. This is considered a good thing as you may notice that there are not so many obese people in the Netherlands, although the obesity problem is getting worse.Obesity amoungst other things is contributing to decreasing longevity in the US.

[@mormacil]

Woosh missing the point of the video. The folks who've been vegan for the longest time and obviously don't appear overweight (unlike the majority of Dutch people as per 2022). Clearly they're people with no concept of nutrition and desperately in search of American tasting food and not at all exploring American stereotypes in the Netherlands in a funny video. As for food selection, Dutch cuisine is traditionally not considered healthy at all. High in red meat, fat/oil and sugar. Doesn't mean we don't understand a healthy diet but by and large our cuisine is less healthy then say Italian or Vietnamese. Not sure what you mean by choice. If you mean the variety in food types then India and China have us beat. If you mean access to different food per country then again you're way off. If you mean for the average person of said country then the image of India and China starts to change. You'd still lose out to countries like Spain and Italy though. And South East Asia has some of the highest dietary variety on the planet. Ranting about the generally poor American diet seems like such a weird segue from the subject of this video.

[@yvescallaert7923]

ugh... the countless amounts of copied and butchered/'adopted' foods that America produces and markets as being from a foreign origin often is way worse. So... yeah... there's that too. And a lot of 'American cuisine' is often an Americanized rip off of food from other cultures anyway. That's some food for thought.

[@stephenvanwijk9669]

Dutch marketing makes no sense, nothing new there. When do you guys take the educated Dutch custom of eating food? Like, eating food. The stuf you are showing I hope is not exemplary for your habits, because it is not healthy stuff.

[@buncharted]

haha, no. we’re actually vegetarian when we aren’t making videos or traveling. we used to be vegan. we eat pretty healthy!

[@stephenvanwijk9669]

@@buncharted I used to eat typical Dutch. But I eat vegan for 8 years now. I veganised Dutch food, but I cook a lot of international dishes. However, we are used to international flavors since hundreds of years, because of the colonial past. We have Dutchified Indonesian and Kantonese food, but also the Near By East, and very traditional restaurants from basically everywhere. International flavors and give a Dutch home cooked dimension to it is normal to us.

[@strange4you]

Not much American allowed here. Because it contains too many sugars or other chemicals that are prohibited here. American food is very bad.

[@babykots]

Yes we do have a lot of prepackaged food that is not healthy but there are a lot of local cuisines in America that are not only healthy but very yummy. I cooked a lot for my Dutch husband and he was very surprised by American meatloaf, American goulash (which is basically Dutch macaroni), chili, grilled salmon with Dijon mustard, American thanksgiving which includes a roast turkey, sweet potato casserole, corn soufflé, green bean casserole, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, roasted acorn squash, etc., Tex mex in the south, and Indian fry bread tacos in the southwest. There is so much more like traditional New York pizza or a Chicago deep dish pizza. Barbecue or queso in Texas. Chicken fried steak in Texas. Traditional American pot roast, etc.

[@kickzant5922]

Big amerikans piza made in Germanië dr oetker

[@kickzant5922]

Hot dogs bey a jar off frankfurters that tast beter