1:26 in the Netherlands actually MacDonalds tells us that saus is as American as it can get. U can buy it in the grocery stores as American fry saus. Like why doe's MacDonalds serf it. All my life i just wanted mayonaise by my fries not some fake American saus, that everyone thinks is typically American but is actually dutch MacDonalds not American. If your truly dutch u wont eat MacDonalds fries anyways. Cause their basically trash compered to Dutch or belguim fries. Edit: i think MacDonald fry's is what gets served in the Germanic hell.
Vla kinda sucks Dutchies...Sorry to say. BUT as desert is not high on your list (more popular now as tastes move on with generations.) I see many more desert options in the stores. Ice creams, candy and specialty deserts, custards, cakes (taarts) ect.
The frites sauce is sold in grocery stores here in the Netherlands as American sauce😂 I always thought as a child that this was the sauce Americans eat with their burgers and fries.
As a Dutchie my favourite used to be the stroopwafel mcflurry, but I think it’s been over a decade since they served that one. Also, sometimes during the wintertime they have deep-fried prawns with chili sauce, it’s so good!
those prawns ARE THE BEST. like me and my mum got completely addicted to those things. i unfortunately haven't seen them in a while (the chili sauce there is also top tier)
Please go to a regular Dutch cafetaria. You'll be amazed by all the good fried stuff you can get there. There's more to explore than just kroket and burgers when it comes to fried food 😉😋👍🏼
To be honest I think they tried a lot of typical snacks in their visit to Eindhoven, can't think of anything particularly special they missed. What would you like to see them try?
Just a reminder for a recommendation: For Dutch streetfood, you have to try Hema rookworst. It's a smoked sausage and you can find it at the store HEMA. It's very delicious and flavorful. Just make sure you buy them 'cooked' ( or cook them at home).
Haha, the cherry tomatoes usually come with a Happy Meal. You can pick between cherry tomatoes or apple slices. these particulair ones are also called snoeptomaatjes (candy tomatoes) because they're sweet and easy snack on (snoepen is a verb similar to snacking in Dutch), not because they're candied.
if that chocomel only has 48kcal per 100ml it's not the original chocomel, you got the "0% sugar edition" in that bottle, which has skimmed milk + artificial sweeteners. it should have 87kcal per 100ml. which makes 870kcal per liter. it's extremely rich in calories but so good.
I live in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The Mc kroket is really my favorite burger. When I eat McDonald's, I always order a McDonald's mc kroket. Soooo delicious. and besides the kroket, I think the big tasty is also the tastiest hamburger.
hey phil, the vla is indeed very much thicker. that is because it is commonly eaten as desert. mostly put in a bowl and eaten with a spoon. but drinking the vla is indeed very handy as well if you like it.
The chicken big Mac was on for a limited time a few weeks a go in the UK . So they may move it around to different EU countrys so there's no sort supply probs
@@JesterMoes oh, I’m not, but for something to count as vegan it has to be prepared in a different fryer than stuff with animal products. Separate pans, separate fryers, separate grills… otherwise it’ll inevitably contain traces of meat. It works the same as with nut free or dairy free products basically
As a Dutch I definitely don’t eat the mckroket…it sucks (although my mom likes it so I guess it does appeal to some). I much prefer an actual kroket on a regular bun (wit puntje) with mustard. I’m with Deana…chocomel is 10/10!
@@Tom-vm2nm I thought the Veggie McKroket was really similiair, but I do think forcing the vegetarian options like this is not cool at all 😂. They should keep both options, and if they really care make the vegetarian a euro cheaper.
@@woesmaro, after I posted this reaction I actually found out that they got rid of the normal one haha, totally agree with you. I live in Spain though so no mckrokets for me anyway haha 😅
Yes, McDonalds burgers are very dry ☹ Which is ironic cause they used the have the reputation of being very soggy like 10/20 years ago. My guess is that changed when they switched from plastic to paper/cardboard containers for their burgers. The steam from the burgers used to be trapped in the plastic and got absorbed by the bun, but now it's absorbed by the paper.
I liked the old Styrofoam(?) packaging much better. The cardboard is pure crap. And nowadays basically everything at McDonald's is made out of cardboard it seems.
It is lack of fat and salt which make burger very dry. I think most people know that if they eat at MD it's not going to be healthy, so why destroy the taste.
@@cactusthomas914 I'm fairly sure the burger patties are still roughly the same as 20 years ago. I used to work at McDonald's and when calibrating the grills we had to taste-test the patties without any of the condiments. So I've had plenty 😅 The patties were never the reason for the soggy buns 😉
I'm a Dutchy and actually like the McKroket once and a while. The single Big Tasty is my favorite burger from Mc Donalds too. And I love the fritessaus 😊 I start everyday with a nice cup of hot chocomel (instead of coffee) I always have the one with no added sugar 🥰
@@musanonymouse You can still get the old version it's just called a double big tasty but the last one i ate was too dry and salty so i'm only on singles now.
Omg yes! The Mc Kroket is so awesome!😊 ill always get one when im there . But to be honest, a real 'broodje kroket' from the 'cafetaria' is even better😊😊
8:30 I've never been a big fan of McDonalds to begin with but I love the Dutch saying "Schoenmaker blijf bij je leest." (basically meaning stick to what you do well). So at McDonalds I just buy a Big Mac and I'd get a broodje kroket at a normal snackbar ;)
McDonalds always is a safe bet. The McKroket is nice, but why would you eat this if any random cafetaria has a 'broodje kroket' which is undeniably better than McDonalds? The McKroket became more of a novelty tourist thing. It was popular when it came out though. btw you are on spot with the big tasty. It's too messy so I order mine without tomato. If you like peanut butter, Calvé is the brand to go
Dutchie here, McKroket is a pretty solid pick for me. Its not my go-to, as the big tasty is just way better, but the mckroket is definitely one I like and order from time to time
I never eat a Mckroket as a Dutchie. I do occassionally eat fried stuff like a kroket or frikandel, but we mostly fry them at home because it's so expensive to buy them at a cafetaria. The cherry tomatoes are on the menu because McDonalds has a 'healthier' kid menu and so they sell these items also seperate. So you can get small carrots, apple slices and cherry tomatoes in a lil bag. They also offer a choice for a toy or a small book when you get a kid menu. Since children don't read as much anymore as they should.
I (Dutchie) eat fried food mostly on weekends as a snack. I stay away from the McKroket because it just doesn’t compete to the real thing. We have a farmers market every weekend in the city centre, and I really love to get some fresh fried white coalfish (Kibbeling) or a fresh made stroopwafel. I used to “pull food from the wall” as we call it here, but these are usually lukewarm at best and I like my fried food piping hot. Big Tasty is absolutely my favorite from the ‘Maccie’
Big Tasy used to be exactly the same as in Germany but with the white emmentaler cheese instead of cheddar/american. But they now just use one or two QP patties instead. The Netherlands simplified Mc Donalds a lot and I prefer German or French Mc Donald's lots over ours.
@@NOOBAR84it all comes down with the 'Made for You'-method they implemented. They had to simplify in something to reduce waste and make it simpler. Here the 'Made for You' can be actually quick. In Germany they do it also nowadays and a long service time isn't uncommon.
The funny part is we call that fritessauce "American Frites Sauce" to differentiate it from conventional mayonnaise. I think we call it that, because it's specifically popularised by McD's
As a Dutch I only ever get McChicken from McDonalds or chicken nuggets (or ice cream for that matter, lol). There's better food to find at cafeterias or snackbars :) Love your videos! Btw the 'snoeptomaatjes' were added because McD had a campaign with 'healthier' food choices, generally they can be added to a happy meal or smt.
hmmm I can get a ras patatje pinda with a kroket or mexicano at De Jong Snackbar with the best peanut sauce ever.... Or I can get 3rd rate burgers for twice the price that nature doesn't even want to digest at the mac. Choices, Choices, Choices.
So you can get fake shitty 'fries' with likely terrible peanut sauce (or is it an indonesian/surinamese snackbar?) instead of 3rd rate burgers? @@KajiRider1997
@@daytona1212 Agreed, everything is junk there. The McChicken and McNuggets are the worst junk they have though. Dry and quite flavourless. When I want fast-food chain chicken I'll sooner go to KFC. At McDonald's I think I like the Big Tasty with bacon best. But of course, as always, to each his own :)
Loving the videos!❤ you guys should try a "broodje kwekkeboom" or "broodje van dobben" which are 2 high quality brands of "kroket" that can be bought at almost every cafeteria in NL. It's amazing
Fun fact...donut or in the early years in the usa where called: Dutch doughnuts, is a dutch product brought to the usa (about the year 1622). they placed a nut in the middle of the fried dough and then called the dough-nut.
Here in the US we had the Big N Tasty which was McDonalds version of the Whopper. The sauce on this European version looks different, the US one was just ketchup and mayo. McDonalds discontinued it here after a couple years, though. I'm not sure why they serve them in boxes though, when they come wrapped in paper it's easy to fold back the paper which means less mess for eating in a car or while walking down the street.
Interesting background info. Don't know about the dutch version but the german version of the Big Tasty has a very smoky sauce which is the highlight of the burger. Really like it from time to time. Another favourite of mine is the McRip. Pretty sure it was a thing in the States too but for some reason it also disappeared.
@@amossutandiJupp, they should do both for all bigger burgers. The boxes are great to put your fries and sauce in, which always annoys me at BurgerKing, where I never knew where to put my mayo. Only for that reason I now carry some small plastic cups in my car. But I have to clean them at home afterwards, which shouldn't be necessary when dealing with fast food.
The cheese on the Big Tasty burger in the Netherlands is actually German emental cheese. They also used to have this in German McDonalds, but they changed it to cheddar cheese a few years ago.
I think (looking at the comments) that im in the monority saying that i order a mckroket everytime i go to mcdonalds. I just really like the easyness of the burger and i think the sauce in combination with the juiceness of the kroket is really good. No big uneatable burgers for me, just a simple mckroket seals the deal for me😍
In my youth (1970s) I regularly went to the Mac in Amsterdam in Reguliersbreestraat (the first Mac in Amsterdam) and I easily ate 3 Big Macs in a row. But as I got older (I'm 64 now) I actually never go to McDonalds anymore. That McKroket is a very bad version of a traditional Dutch "broodje kroket". And Chocomel, yes, that's what I grew up with :-) Aan those burgers, well, what can you say about that? There are many hamburger shops in the Netherlands where you can buy a much better quality hamburger. And finally: those McDonalds fries are just bad and that mayonnaise is really inedible. Go for real Dutch fries with a tasty sauce :-)
Never like McD. Dutch snackbar is always beter. The McD fries are mwah and the sauce is horrible. And the buns are soft and soggy. They used to have good coffee, but most petrolstations have coffee that is the same or better. No need to stop at McD.
I'm a Dutchy and I actually love the McKroket, and im obsessed with the big tasty! The fritessaus is my favorite sauce ever, as a kid my grandpa always made us fresh fries and we would always go to the store to buy the frites sauce. In the netherlands it is sold as american sauce so as a kid I always thought it was really populair in america😂😂😂
Haha. You went to NL to try tomatoes and they don‘t taste of much. Weird….😂 Love the video. Went to Helsinki recently to try the rye bread burger. Really changes the taste but is also a bit dry. Keep it coming.
There must be different menu’s in different places I think. Where I live in the Netherlands you can get a homestyled chickenburger and that one has the good chickenmeat (like the tenders) on them. You can also have the chili chicken burger f.e. overhere. And they have the chicken wrap as well. I must say that I don’t like the McKroket or the fish burger. By the way….this yellow fritesaus is called American Fritesaus overhere.
McDonald's is run by franchises not by corporate McDonald's itself, maybe they have to offer the basic McDonald's range that is made for the Netherlands and they can have a few extra options to offer
As a Dutch person, I don't really care for a kroket or a McKroket. But my best friend always orders a McKroket if she gets the chance. She says it's the only thing at the McDonalds that she likes, next to the Chicken Nuggets. Another weird thing she does is eating the Chicken Nuggets with the frites sauce
As a Dutch person I absolutely love the McKroket but I might be biased because a kroket sandwich from any place is great. It’s definitely a sandwich I have every time I visit McDonalds! In Amsterdam you can find the food halls and they have a foodstal called ‘’De Ballenbar’ which literally translates to ‘ball bar’, they sell gourmet bitterballen - which is the rond snack size version of kroketten. They have multiple fillings like cheese, mushroom, shrimp and of course the good old beef. I really recommend visiting
@@tkuzu9548 Groningen, of course. Because that is the best city in the world. Delft maybe, because I went to University there. Probably Amsterdam too. I lived there for a for a few years as well in the 90s.
Frites sauce is kind of a dutch interpretation of what we imagine a kind of hybrid mayonnaise/ranch to be like. It's typically marketed as 'American sauce'.
The McKroket is in my personal opinion the best burger the McDonalds has together with the Big Tasty. To bad the higher ups thought it was a good choice to take the McKroket off shelves and replace it with a 100% plant based version now. The taste is good, but you definitely miss the beef, and the texture is different too. So tons of people are actually very upset over this choice. I hope the original comes back soon!!
I never eat at McDonald's, but I used to work there. The cheese on the Big Tasty is supposed to be emmental. At least, that's what McDonald's calls it here. Also, it underwent quite some shrinkage, it used to be a lot bigger. A croquette is deep fried ragout. And even though the Netherlands is credited for this, the croquette, as the name suggests, actually originates from France. They do get ordered but aren't a particularly popular menu item. I heard they now switched to a meatless alternative.
There are so many Dutch things better to try, like Dudok Apple Pie, Kwekkeboom or Van Dobben Kroketten (or more artisinal versions)...even a Nierbroodje and I haven't even seen you guys visit Febo. There's not much weird at a Dutch McD, in France you'll find weirder stuff. A McKroket is rather iconic now. Same for Fristi or the real Chocomel, not thr skinny versions. Btw a much better challenge: go to Quick in Belgium, the Belgian McD.
Van Dobben are literally the most overrated kroket there is. Very little meat in the filling and a major flavour of bouillon powder. Even the cheaper krokets of the former 'Euroshopper' were miles better, looking at meat content. Kwekkeboom is good though.
The Cherry tomatoes are for the kids mostly. When you order the Happy Mean, you can choose for Cherry tomatoes or slices of apples for them in it together with fries, a burger and some toys.
Fun vlog!! That Chicken Big Mac looks good (in theory) but double chicken just seems overkill- even if it weren’t dry as you noted it seems to be too much 🤔
@@LythaWausW it so good right. I hope that they never take it away, or even worse, do it like they do in the US, where they just bring it back for a short amount of time, which is just cruel in my honest opinion.
i had a brief glitch while refreshing UA-cam on my pc and thought for a moment that this was a collab with My Name is Andong. He is another great food UA-camr (based in Berlin) with an emphasis on cooking but still goes out to just eat sometimes. Maybe you could reach out. I don't have any clear idea where a collab could lead but that's the beauty of it.
Dutch mcdonald's enployee here, The mc kroket gets ordered quite a lot, i would say around 1 in 6 orders has atleast 1 mckroket. Right now the mckroket is temporarily vegan as an experiment, but still it gets ordered quite a lot
McKroket! Kinda reminds me of some fried mashed potato balls I had in Indonesia (that Dutch influence) I always tell ppl that going to McDonald’s anywhere in the world is a ‘safe’ way of figuring out a different country’s food; it’ll be somewhat authentic with the flavour profiles but unlikely to be overly offensive or give you food poisoning! McDonald’s across Asia gives you various flavours of fried chicken and different kinds of chilli sauces, rice dishes, local inspired McFlurry flavours like with palm sugar and grass jelly.
Fun fact about the McKroket. When they introduced McDonald in The Netherlands in 1971 they added it along with split pea soup to give Dutch people familiar options.
I'm from the USA but while staying in Garmisch I stopped in for lunch... Three things I noticed are, the place was cleaner, the food was fresher and it didn't have that "no one knows what" smell that McDonald's seem to all have in the States...Love your content, take care.
When you're next in the Nether;lands and visit a McDonalds, try the vegetarian McNuggets. I'm not a vegetarian but I think they taste so much better than the regular McNuggets. Also I wonder ; didn't you want to try the McFish ?
I really wish we had vegeterian mcnuggets in Austria. We have the burgers. But McNuggets would just be great. The Burger King ones aren't so great, but I think that the vegetarian ones anywhere always have a much better texture than the regular ones.
I watch this channel cuz Deana keeps words like Bamboozled in my active vocabulary. Thank you! Peanut MnMs - when I was little we had Easter baskets like everyone else but when we grew older my parents still wanted to get us something for Easter so it was an enormous 2 pound bag of Peanut MnMs for each of us kids. So awesome.
I don't actually know that many Dutch people that go to the McDonalds. It's mostly tourists or immigrants (that is also why they don't serve it with mayonaisse but with the other weird sauce). Cafetaria/snackbar fries and other snack stuff are far superior (and cheaper) than anything McDonalds has.
The quarter pounder in the Netherlands is not dry at all. They changed that a few years ago. Be sure to eat it right away, or the fat gets into the bun. Then it is dry
Frietsaus is mayonaise with less than 75% oil. In this case combined with herbs 2. The Dutch loved there mckroket, there was a huge protest when McDonald's discontinued it in the early 2000
some comments from a dutchie, the cherry tomatoes are a desert in the happy meal, to promote healthy eating habits for kids i guess? i have never seen anyone order them alone xD. The chicken big mac is a limited edition item, so it isnt a standard item on the menu. atm they also have a limited edition veggie mckroket! as a vegetarian retired mckroket fan, i was rly happy when they announced it :)))
I Actually have the McKroket as a side order with a menu some times. Or I get it with a cheeseburger and a Coke as lunch. At the moment of me writing this, McDonald's retired the beef McKroket for a plant-based version. And I belief it's a good swap, the plant-based McKroket tastes verry good. It's more like a vegetable ragout filling.
Hi Phil, Vla isn't something you drink usually.. It's a dessert like pudding. Combined with a little bit of 'Ranja' (Siroop) it's very nice! Also very nice combined with Cherries packaged in a glass pot.
@@dutchgamer842 Here in the north we also use it for "Limonade". I hear plenty of people use it as a synonym for limonade who probably never even had lemonade from the brand ranja.
Worst thing about the McKroket, when they first started with it, I think you could get one for € 1,50 if memory serves. A few years ago they did the "Elfstedentocht"-burgers which were interesting too!
I like croquets. They are just a ball of mashed potatoes (with some other ingredients mixed in sometimes), breaded and deep fried. We don't eat them in the states much, but they can be found in Japanese restaurants here, and Cuban places.
I remember the last time i was at mcdonalds and sat inside we ordered a milkshake and since that plastic drama in our “nederlands” i did get a milkshake without a cup cover since that is plastic and so it was also not stirred and also the nice cardboard straw that gets soft and disgusting in your mouth.. but if you order something in the us you still get plastic bruh hope they rewind this awfull improvement..
Ice cream machines in the U.S. aren't broken. They problem is that the automatic cleaning cycle takes about 6 hours plus there is a major manual process to it as well.
tbh as someone who worked at mcdonald's for 2 years, often times the icecream machines arent actually broken, ppl just can't be bothered to clean and refill them, which doesn't even take that long, but it can be annoying if you have other stuff to do aswell
8:29 Hardly ever. If I go to McDonald's (which happens like once every 1-2 years) I go for a beef or chicken burger. If I want a kroket I'd go to a proper snackbar instead, much better quality.
Hint if you go to McDs again and get a big mac ask for extra big mac sauce. My grandson gets the big mac with extra sauce as it is dry without the extra sauce. Should work for either beef or chicken big macs.
It's been a while since i've eaten at a Dutch McDonalds, and even longer ago at a German McDonalds, but I seem to remember they had 'pommes frites sauce' back then. It was the same sauce they sell at the dutch McDonalds as 'fritessaus'. Also, in Belgium, they used to have a choice between 'fritessaus' and 'real' Belgian mayonaise. idk if that is still the case. Fun fact: you can buy the McDonalds fritessaus in supermarkets. It is sold as 'American fritessaus'. The best known brand is 'Mad Sauce'. It tastes exactly the same as the McDonalds fritessaus, so I guess the company that makes the McDonalds sauce also makes the Mad Sauce. There are also store brands that have 'american fritessaus', but those do not taste exactly the same as the McDonalds sauce.
Love the McKorket! And there even is a good vegetarian version of it. They used to have a real Dutch McFlurry the Stroopwafel McFlurry, which was awesome. Hope it will return on the menu.
1:40 bro, our sauce is the best sauce in the world. I always forget you get “normal” mayonnaise when you order “fritessauce” at a MCDonalds outside the Netherlands😅
Welkom terug! ❤ Here a Mc Kroket eater! and i love it but to be honest i eat the vegetarian Mc Kroket because the MC Plant is just not the best burger, and i tought the MC Chicken veggie was dry because it was vegetarian but i guess it is just the taste of Mc Chicken! 😮
Sooo, when I went to America I was sooooo excited to taste the real american McDonalds sauce. But the people I stayed with had absolutely no idea what I ment. And I was so absolutely shocked that the "American sauce" was not on the menu.
Having lived and worked in the Netherlands for a long time, the best things to try (food & drink) are Moroccan mint tea, the coffee, Indonesian food and of course Argentinian steak (the best in the world in my opinion).
When we order at mc Donalds i always take the mc kroket . I love it . The sauce is Mustard sauce. I also go for the fish burger. What is also suprisingly good is the veggie burger.
When I crave something like McDonald's, I'd go to a snackbar (Netherlands) or frietkot (Belgium). You get better chips (crisps as they say in the US), a savory item or two, fantastic choice of sauces and you pay far less. If you go back, have a portion of chips, a frikandel speciaal, a satay and a beer. You'll have had twice as good a meal for half the price.
Its called “snoeptomaatjes” which means “candy tomatoes” but it is not candy. Its called like that because in The Netherlands we eat it as a snack (or as candy) we also have “snoep komkommer (cucumber)” and “snoep paprika” Btw, we don’t order them as a dessert in the Netherlands. It is mostly sold in a happy meal.
In Israel, there is the 'Mega Mumbai'. It is basically chicken tenders with curry sauce on a hamburger bun with lettuce and veggies. I think it is the best macdonalds burger (next to the mckroket and the simple cheeseburger)!
Thank you for the video! Very entertaining - as always! Those burgers looked very sloppily put together. Will stick to herring and gin when in Netherlands...:)
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just to let you guys know 😆 we don't "drink" vla out of the packet. we put it in a bowl and eat it with a spoon 😂
I like it just without the bowl
1:26 in the Netherlands actually MacDonalds tells us that saus is as American as it can get. U can buy it in the grocery stores as American fry saus. Like why doe's MacDonalds serf it. All my life i just wanted mayonaise by my fries not some fake American saus, that everyone thinks is typically American but is actually dutch MacDonalds not American. If your truly dutch u wont eat MacDonalds fries anyways. Cause their basically trash compered to Dutch or belguim fries.
Edit: i think MacDonald fry's is what gets served in the Germanic hell.
Add chocolate sprinkles for an even better experience. 😊
I like the dubbel vla. Lekker!
Vla kinda sucks Dutchies...Sorry to say. BUT as desert is not high on your list (more popular now as tastes move on with generations.) I see many more desert options in the stores. Ice creams, candy and specialty deserts, custards, cakes (taarts) ect.
The frites sauce is sold in grocery stores here in the Netherlands as American sauce😂 I always thought as a child that this was the sauce Americans eat with their burgers and fries.
exactly 🤣
Yes indeed but I love that sauce XD
I thought until few weeks ago 😂
We always call it Mcdonalds sauce lol
With a large American flag printed around it🇺🇲
As a Dutchie my favourite used to be the stroopwafel mcflurry, but I think it’s been over a decade since they served that one. Also, sometimes during the wintertime they have deep-fried prawns with chili sauce, it’s so good!
For me it is the MCFlurry Rolo. Loved that one!
Maybe not the same, but ever tried the Hema stroopwafel blijsje?
ja is echt goeie@@michelluuuh
those prawns ARE THE BEST. like me and my mum got completely addicted to those things. i unfortunately haven't seen them in a while (the chili sauce there is also top tier)
Ugh why do I watch these videos drunk, now I want a mcflurry stroopwafel
Please go to a regular Dutch cafetaria. You'll be amazed by all the good fried stuff you can get there. There's more to explore than just kroket and burgers when it comes to fried food 😉😋👍🏼
To be honest I think they tried a lot of typical snacks in their visit to Eindhoven, can't think of anything particularly special they missed. What would you like to see them try?
Ja, like Kibbeling with garlic sauce🤤
agreed they have amazing food there
1:50 She says It has a Ton!! OF shredded lettuce. Meanwhile it literally has 1 tiny pieces
I know i am dutch
Just a reminder for a recommendation: For Dutch streetfood, you have to try Hema rookworst. It's a smoked sausage and you can find it at the store HEMA. It's very delicious and flavorful.
Just make sure you buy them 'cooked' ( or cook them at home).
Hema is quintessential Dutch food
Haha, the cherry tomatoes usually come with a Happy Meal. You can pick between cherry tomatoes or apple slices. these particulair ones are also called snoeptomaatjes (candy tomatoes) because they're sweet and easy snack on (snoepen is a verb similar to snacking in Dutch), not because they're candied.
if that chocomel only has 48kcal per 100ml it's not the original chocomel, you got the "0% sugar edition" in that bottle, which has skimmed milk + artificial sweeteners. it should have 87kcal per 100ml. which makes 870kcal per liter. it's extremely rich in calories but so good.
I live in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The Mc kroket is really my favorite burger. When I eat McDonald's, I always order a McDonald's mc kroket. Soooo delicious. and besides the kroket, I think the big tasty is also the tastiest hamburger.
hey phil, the vla is indeed very much thicker. that is because it is commonly eaten as desert. mostly put in a bowl and eaten with a spoon. but drinking the vla is indeed very handy as well if you like it.
Polo buttoned all the way up, tall white socks with above the knee shorts. He's either a dad from the 80's or a German.
The chicken big Mac was on for a limited time a few weeks a go in the UK . So they may move it around to different EU countrys so there's no sort supply probs
I absolutely love the McKroket! There’s a whole riot going on as they forced a veggie only version on us…
What riots?? I didnt see any riots because of a vegan mckroket...
Fakenews....
Only temporarily as they’d have to fit every one of their kitchen’s with an extra fryer if they want to offer both simultaneously.
@@justmike-ytI see another mcdonalds employee, I was about to say
@@JesterMoes oh, I’m not, but for something to count as vegan it has to be prepared in a different fryer than stuff with animal products. Separate pans, separate fryers, separate grills… otherwise it’ll inevitably contain traces of meat.
It works the same as with nut free or dairy free products basically
McKrokket
As a Dutch I definitely don’t eat the mckroket…it sucks (although my mom likes it so I guess it does appeal to some). I much prefer an actual kroket on a regular bun (wit puntje) with mustard. I’m with Deana…chocomel is 10/10!
McKroket is a pretty common order in the Netherlands
Alleen kwekkeboom vriend 😂😂
I actually really like the McKroket as far as McDonalds goes, I think they did a good job on the mustard. The veggie McKroket is quite good too
@@Tom-vm2nm I thought the Veggie McKroket was really similiair, but I do think forcing the vegetarian options like this is not cool at all 😂. They should keep both options, and if they really care make the vegetarian a euro cheaper.
@@woesmaro, after I posted this reaction I actually found out that they got rid of the normal one haha, totally agree with you. I live in Spain though so no mckrokets for me anyway haha 😅
Yes, McDonalds burgers are very dry ☹ Which is ironic cause they used the have the reputation of being very soggy like 10/20 years ago. My guess is that changed when they switched from plastic to paper/cardboard containers for their burgers. The steam from the burgers used to be trapped in the plastic and got absorbed by the bun, but now it's absorbed by the paper.
I liked the old Styrofoam(?) packaging much better. The cardboard is pure crap. And nowadays basically everything at McDonald's is made out of cardboard it seems.
@@Der_Kleine_Mann Including the patties xD
It is lack of fat and salt which make burger very dry. I think most people know that if they eat at MD it's not going to be healthy, so why destroy the taste.
1:50 She says It has a Ton!! OF shredded lettuce. Meanwhile it literally has 1 tiny pieces
@@cactusthomas914 I'm fairly sure the burger patties are still roughly the same as 20 years ago. I used to work at McDonald's and when calibrating the grills we had to taste-test the patties without any of the condiments. So I've had plenty 😅 The patties were never the reason for the soggy buns 😉
I'm a Dutchy and actually like the McKroket once and a while. The single Big Tasty is my favorite burger from Mc Donalds too. And I love the fritessaus 😊 I start everyday with a nice cup of hot chocomel (instead of coffee) I always have the one with no added sugar 🥰
@@musanonymouse You can still get the old version it's just called a double big tasty but the last one i ate was too dry and salty so i'm only on singles now.
@@musanonymouse oh shit i forgot the old big tasty was a single patty 😅u re right
In the UK the old one is still available 🤓 whenever I come to NL I miss it hahaha
Me too but the McKroket went meatless 😞
Omg yes! The Mc Kroket is so awesome!😊 ill always get one when im there . But to be honest, a real 'broodje kroket' from the 'cafetaria' is even better😊😊
you can not get the mc kroket anymore. now you can only get the Vegan MC kroket
8:30 I've never been a big fan of McDonalds to begin with but I love the Dutch saying "Schoenmaker blijf bij je leest." (basically meaning stick to what you do well). So at McDonalds I just buy a Big Mac and I'd get a broodje kroket at a normal snackbar ;)
McDonalds always is a safe bet. The McKroket is nice, but why would you eat this if any random cafetaria has a 'broodje kroket' which is undeniably better than McDonalds? The McKroket became more of a novelty tourist thing. It was popular when it came out though. btw you are on spot with the big tasty. It's too messy so I order mine without tomato. If you like peanut butter, Calvé is the brand to go
Nope nope, the mckroket is way better. Always safe and always good. I used to say the same, but dont agree anymore
Everything "mc" is shit! 👎
At my local mcdonalds i always ask for 1 tomato slice instead of 2 and that makes it much better.
Are you kidding me. The McKroket is superior
Dutchie here, McKroket is a pretty solid pick for me. Its not my go-to, as the big tasty is just way better, but the mckroket is definitely one I like and order from time to time
I never eat a Mckroket as a Dutchie. I do occassionally eat fried stuff like a kroket or frikandel, but we mostly fry them at home because it's so expensive to buy them at a cafetaria.
The cherry tomatoes are on the menu because McDonalds has a 'healthier' kid menu and so they sell these items also seperate. So you can get small carrots, apple slices and cherry tomatoes in a lil bag. They also offer a choice for a toy or a small book when you get a kid menu. Since children don't read as much anymore as they should.
The cherry tomatoes (or apple slices) are a choice in the happy meal. I had no idea you could also buy them separately
yeh but imagine going to mc donalds and buying fucking cherry tomatoes. You either go hard and rape ur toilet 3 hours later or ur doing it wrong.
You can only the most people at the kassa don’t know how
what the fuck is that sentence@@rayisbot6007
They seem like such a steal of money and waste of plastic 😂
I (Dutchie) eat fried food mostly on weekends as a snack. I stay away from the McKroket because it just doesn’t compete to the real thing.
We have a farmers market every weekend in the city centre, and I really love to get some fresh fried white coalfish (Kibbeling) or a fresh made stroopwafel.
I used to “pull food from the wall” as we call it here, but these are usually lukewarm at best and I like my fried food piping hot.
Big Tasty is absolutely my favorite from the ‘Maccie’
Big Tasy used to be exactly the same as in Germany but with the white emmentaler cheese instead of cheddar/american. But they now just use one or two QP patties instead. The Netherlands simplified Mc Donalds a lot and I prefer German or French Mc Donald's lots over ours.
@@NOOBAR84it all comes down with the 'Made for You'-method they implemented. They had to simplify in something to reduce waste and make it simpler. Here the 'Made for You' can be actually quick. In Germany they do it also nowadays and a long service time isn't uncommon.
The funny part is we call that fritessauce "American Frites Sauce" to differentiate it from conventional mayonnaise. I think we call it that, because it's specifically popularised by McD's
The white Big Tasty cheese is a cheese called "emmentaler".
Its a young cheese which imo is a little flavourless, but it does melt easy
A video where you two sampled all of the available fast food deserts in either Germany or the Netherlands would be fantastic.
They will get sick of it. Is way too much.
As a Dutch I only ever get McChicken from McDonalds or chicken nuggets (or ice cream for that matter, lol). There's better food to find at cafeterias or snackbars :) Love your videos!
Btw the 'snoeptomaatjes' were added because McD had a campaign with 'healthier' food choices, generally they can be added to a happy meal or smt.
hmmm I can get a ras patatje pinda with a kroket or mexicano at De Jong Snackbar with the best peanut sauce ever.... Or I can get 3rd rate burgers for twice the price that nature doesn't even want to digest at the mac. Choices, Choices, Choices.
Same here. McChicken or Nuggets, the rest is junk. Nothing like a DOBBE kalfskroket from a proper snackbar.
Thx for the explanation about the tomatoes. Makes sense.
So you can get fake shitty 'fries' with likely terrible peanut sauce (or is it an indonesian/surinamese snackbar?) instead of 3rd rate burgers? @@KajiRider1997
@@daytona1212 Agreed, everything is junk there. The McChicken and McNuggets are the worst junk they have though. Dry and quite flavourless. When I want fast-food chain chicken I'll sooner go to KFC. At McDonald's I think I like the Big Tasty with bacon best.
But of course, as always, to each his own :)
Loving the videos!❤ you guys should try a "broodje kwekkeboom" or "broodje van dobben" which are 2 high quality brands of "kroket" that can be bought at almost every cafeteria in NL. It's amazing
I personally think both brands are overrated
Fun fact...donut or in the early years in the usa where called: Dutch doughnuts, is a dutch product brought to the usa (about the year 1622). they placed a nut in the middle of the fried dough and then called the dough-nut.
Here in the US we had the Big N Tasty which was McDonalds version of the Whopper. The sauce on this European version looks different, the US one was just ketchup and mayo. McDonalds discontinued it here after a couple years, though. I'm not sure why they serve them in boxes though, when they come wrapped in paper it's easy to fold back the paper which means less mess for eating in a car or while walking down the street.
Interesting background info. Don't know about the dutch version but the german version of the Big Tasty has a very smoky sauce which is the highlight of the burger. Really like it from time to time. Another favourite of mine is the McRip. Pretty sure it was a thing in the States too but for some reason it also disappeared.
Policy of McDonald's to put premium burgers in boxes and cheap ones in wrappers. At least here in Holland. Maybe they should do both for the big tasty
@@amossutandiJupp, they should do both for all bigger burgers. The boxes are great to put your fries and sauce in, which always annoys me at BurgerKing, where I never knew where to put my mayo. Only for that reason I now carry some small plastic cups in my car. But I have to clean them at home afterwards, which shouldn't be necessary when dealing with fast food.
The cheese on the Big Tasty burger in the Netherlands is actually German emental cheese. They also used to have this in German McDonalds, but they changed it to cheddar cheese a few years ago.
I’m a huge fan of the McKroket!
What I do before eating one I turn the beef paddy upside down, so the saus gets on both sides 🙏🏼😱❤️
I think (looking at the comments) that im in the monority saying that i order a mckroket everytime i go to mcdonalds. I just really like the easyness of the burger and i think the sauce in combination with the juiceness of the kroket is really good. No big uneatable burgers for me, just a simple mckroket seals the deal for me😍
In my youth (1970s) I regularly went to the Mac in Amsterdam in Reguliersbreestraat (the first Mac in Amsterdam) and I easily ate 3 Big Macs in a row. But as I got older (I'm 64 now) I actually never go to McDonalds anymore. That McKroket is a very bad version of a traditional Dutch "broodje kroket". And Chocomel, yes, that's what I grew up with :-) Aan those burgers, well, what can you say about that? There are many hamburger shops in the Netherlands where you can buy a much better quality hamburger. And finally: those McDonalds fries are just bad and that mayonnaise is really inedible. Go for real Dutch fries with a tasty sauce :-)
I agree, but at 06:03 it doesn’t say “halfvol” or “0%” on the bottle… strange
Never like McD. Dutch snackbar is always beter. The McD fries are mwah and the sauce is horrible. And the buns are soft and soggy. They used to have good coffee, but most petrolstations have coffee that is the same or better. No need to stop at McD.
I'm a Dutchy and I actually love the McKroket, and im obsessed with the big tasty! The fritessaus is my favorite sauce ever, as a kid my grandpa always made us fresh fries and we would always go to the store to buy the frites sauce. In the netherlands it is sold as american sauce so as a kid I always thought it was really populair in america😂😂😂
Haha. You went to NL to try tomatoes and they don‘t taste of much. Weird….😂
Love the video. Went to Helsinki recently to try the rye bread burger. Really changes the taste but is also a bit dry.
Keep it coming.
8:59 snoep actually is Dutch for candy but at the word snoeptomaatjes it’s more like “snack tomatoes”
There must be different menu’s in different places I think. Where I live in the Netherlands you can get a homestyled chickenburger and that one has the good chickenmeat (like the tenders) on them. You can also have the chili chicken burger f.e. overhere. And they have the chicken wrap as well. I must say that I don’t like the McKroket or the fish burger.
By the way….this yellow fritesaus is called American Fritesaus overhere.
McDonald's is run by franchises not by corporate McDonald's itself, maybe they have to offer the basic McDonald's range that is made for the Netherlands and they can have a few extra options to offer
As a Dutch person, I don't really care for a kroket or a McKroket. But my best friend always orders a McKroket if she gets the chance. She says it's the only thing at the McDonalds that she likes, next to the Chicken Nuggets.
Another weird thing she does is eating the Chicken Nuggets with the frites sauce
Should’ve tried the homestyle crispy chicken, it’s amazing
I know right they forgot the best dutch exclusive item
As a Dutch person I absolutely love the McKroket but I might be biased because a kroket sandwich from any place is great. It’s definitely a sandwich I have every time I visit McDonalds!
In Amsterdam you can find the food halls and they have a foodstal called ‘’De Ballenbar’ which literally translates to ‘ball bar’, they sell gourmet bitterballen - which is the rond snack size version of kroketten. They have multiple fillings like cheese, mushroom, shrimp and of course the good old beef. I really recommend visiting
Yeah! Next year visiting the Netherlands for the first time in 14 years. Looking forward to eating a McKroket again!
Where you going?
@@tkuzu9548 Groningen, of course. Because that is the best city in the world. Delft maybe, because I went to University there. Probably Amsterdam too. I lived there for a for a few years as well in the 90s.
Frites sauce is kind of a dutch interpretation of what we imagine a kind of hybrid mayonnaise/ranch to be like. It's typically marketed as 'American sauce'.
The McKroket is in my personal opinion the best burger the McDonalds has together with the Big Tasty. To bad the higher ups thought it was a good choice to take the McKroket off shelves and replace it with a 100% plant based version now. The taste is good, but you definitely miss the beef, and the texture is different too. So tons of people are actually very upset over this choice. I hope the original comes back soon!!
I never eat at McDonald's, but I used to work there. The cheese on the Big Tasty is supposed to be emmental. At least, that's what McDonald's calls it here. Also, it underwent quite some shrinkage, it used to be a lot bigger.
A croquette is deep fried ragout. And even though the Netherlands is credited for this, the croquette, as the name suggests, actually originates from France. They do get ordered but aren't a particularly popular menu item. I heard they now switched to a meatless alternative.
There are so many Dutch things better to try, like Dudok Apple Pie, Kwekkeboom or Van Dobben Kroketten (or more artisinal versions)...even a Nierbroodje and I haven't even seen you guys visit Febo. There's not much weird at a Dutch McD, in France you'll find weirder stuff. A McKroket is rather iconic now. Same for Fristi or the real Chocomel, not thr skinny versions. Btw a much better challenge: go to Quick in Belgium, the Belgian McD.
Yep, ate there one time on a school trip. Best fastfood in the Benelux region.
Als ik me niet vergis is de Quick overgenomen door Burger king, maar is de naam gebleven. Maar Quick is inderdaad veeeel beter dan de Mac
Van Dobben are literally the most overrated kroket there is. Very little meat in the filling and a major flavour of bouillon powder. Even the cheaper krokets of the former 'Euroshopper' were miles better, looking at meat content. Kwekkeboom is good though.
Hello, Im from the netherlands. I rarely eat one of the clasic dutch things, altho I really like them from a snackbar.
Hello Deana and Phil have a Nice weekend.
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@@daykibaran9668 Hi 👋
The Cherry tomatoes are for the kids mostly. When you order the Happy Mean, you can choose for Cherry tomatoes or slices of apples for them in it together with fries, a burger and some toys.
Fun vlog!! That Chicken Big Mac looks good (in theory) but double chicken just seems overkill- even if it weren’t dry as you noted it seems to be too much 🤔
The snoeptomaatjes are usually like a side in the Happy Meal. It's a healthier treat, and quite a lot of kids like them.
Many Dutch people like to go to the German McDonalds for the MC Rib ❣❣
but the MC croquette is tasty, especially the sauce, in my opinion
I recently had my first McRib. I was blown away that McDonalds could make something so perfect.
@@LythaWausW it so good right. I hope that they never take it away, or even worse, do it like they do in the US, where they just bring it back for a short amount of time, which is just cruel in my honest opinion.
i had a brief glitch while refreshing UA-cam on my pc and thought for a moment that this was a collab with My Name is Andong. He is another great food UA-camr (based in Berlin) with an emphasis on cooking but still goes out to just eat sometimes. Maybe you could reach out. I don't have any clear idea where a collab could lead but that's the beauty of it.
The big tasty used to be bigger here0 in the netherlands aswell, but they changed the size some years ago.. it used to be way better.
Dutch mcdonald's enployee here, The mc kroket gets ordered quite a lot, i would say around 1 in 6 orders has atleast 1 mckroket. Right now the mckroket is temporarily vegan as an experiment, but still it gets ordered quite a lot
McKroket! Kinda reminds me of some fried mashed potato balls I had in Indonesia (that Dutch influence) I always tell ppl that going to McDonald’s anywhere in the world is a ‘safe’ way of figuring out a different country’s food; it’ll be somewhat authentic with the flavour profiles but unlikely to be overly offensive or give you food poisoning! McDonald’s across Asia gives you various flavours of fried chicken and different kinds of chilli sauces, rice dishes, local inspired McFlurry flavours like with palm sugar and grass jelly.
we call those balls bitterballen here in the NL
Fun fact about the McKroket. When they introduced McDonald in The Netherlands in 1971 they added it along with split pea soup to give Dutch people familiar options.
Please try the same (or similar) food at a real Dutch snack bar - the quality is generally a lot higher than at McD's.
They put the cherry tomatoes in the happy meal as side dish
You two should really be visiting Loetje sometime, it's a classic dutch family-owned restaurant chain! Very good Biefstuk and sides!
But very overpriced.....
@@TheMiscexpense True, but it is worth the experience once in a while if you ask me
Hoping they will try Loetje 😊
I'm from the USA but while staying in Garmisch I stopped in for lunch... Three things I noticed are, the place was cleaner, the food was fresher and it didn't have that "no one knows what" smell that McDonald's seem to all have in the States...Love your content, take care.
When you're next in the Nether;lands and visit a McDonalds, try the vegetarian McNuggets. I'm not a vegetarian but I think they taste so much better than the regular McNuggets. Also I wonder ; didn't you want to try the McFish ?
I really wish we had vegeterian mcnuggets in Austria. We have the burgers. But McNuggets would just be great. The Burger King ones aren't so great, but I think that the vegetarian ones anywhere always have a much better texture than the regular ones.
Hell nahhh
I watch this channel cuz Deana keeps words like Bamboozled in my active vocabulary. Thank you! Peanut MnMs - when I was little we had Easter baskets like everyone else but when we grew older my parents still wanted to get us something for Easter so it was an enormous 2 pound bag of Peanut MnMs for each of us kids. So awesome.
I don't actually know that many Dutch people that go to the McDonalds. It's mostly tourists or immigrants (that is also why they don't serve it with mayonaisse but with the other weird sauce). Cafetaria/snackbar fries and other snack stuff are far superior (and cheaper) than anything McDonalds has.
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The quarter pounder in the Netherlands is not dry at all. They changed that a few years ago. Be sure to eat it right away, or the fat gets into the bun. Then it is dry
Frietsaus is mayonaise with less than 75% oil. In this case combined with herbs 2. The Dutch loved there mckroket, there was a huge protest when McDonald's discontinued it in the early 2000
No way, the mckroket tastes like a mora kroket, but somehow less tasty.
McKroket? Dat kleffe ding mag je van mij hebben, vriend!
some comments from a dutchie, the cherry tomatoes are a desert in the happy meal, to promote healthy eating habits for kids i guess? i have never seen anyone order them alone xD. The chicken big mac is a limited edition item, so it isnt a standard item on the menu. atm they also have a limited edition veggie mckroket! as a vegetarian retired mckroket fan, i was rly happy when they announced it :)))
I Actually have the McKroket as a side order with a menu some times. Or I get it with a cheeseburger and a Coke as lunch. At the moment of me writing this, McDonald's retired the beef McKroket for a plant-based version. And I belief it's a good swap, the plant-based McKroket tastes verry good. It's more like a vegetable ragout filling.
Hi Phil, Vla isn't something you drink usually.. It's a dessert like pudding. Combined with a little bit of 'Ranja' (Siroop) it's very nice! Also very nice combined with Cherries packaged in a glass pot.
Why with specifically the Ranja brand?
@@dutchgamer842 You're aware that "Ranja" is also a different word for "Limonade/Siroop" Right?
@@DantalionNL1 Ranja is litterly a brand and doesn't mean siroop at all.
@@dutchgamer842 Here in the north we also use it for "Limonade". I hear plenty of people use it as a synonym for limonade who probably never even had lemonade from the brand ranja.
@@DantalionNL1 Well if you call every syrop, Ranja. There's something like a TM, patent, copyright or something
The sauce is/was also available in Belgium and France.
Worst thing about the McKroket, when they first started with it, I think you could get one for € 1,50 if memory serves. A few years ago they did the "Elfstedentocht"-burgers which were interesting too!
The first European McDonald’s opened in Netherlands in 1971. McKroket and peasoup were on the menu together with appelmoes (apple sauce)
I like croquets. They are just a ball of mashed potatoes (with some other ingredients mixed in sometimes), breaded and deep fried. We don't eat them in the states much, but they can be found in Japanese restaurants here, and Cuban places.
Indeed, you’re describing potato croquets. Not the same! Our croquets are meat ragout filled. No potato at all.
@@musanonymouseZe zijn in de war met aardappel kroketten.
1:54 that was a limited edition item in The Netherlands.
I remember the last time i was at mcdonalds and sat inside we ordered a milkshake and since that plastic drama in our “nederlands” i did get a milkshake without a cup cover since that is plastic and so it was also not stirred and also the nice cardboard straw that gets soft and disgusting in your mouth.. but if you order something in the us you still get plastic bruh hope they rewind this awfull improvement..
Ice cream machines in the U.S. aren't broken. They problem is that the automatic cleaning cycle takes about 6 hours plus there is a major manual process to it as well.
tbh as someone who worked at mcdonald's for 2 years, often times the icecream machines arent actually broken, ppl just can't be bothered to clean and refill them, which doesn't even take that long, but it can be annoying if you have other stuff to do aswell
I love the McKroket and a 6.5 is a crime it should be a 9.5
8:29 Hardly ever. If I go to McDonald's (which happens like once every 1-2 years) I go for a beef or chicken burger. If I want a kroket I'd go to a proper snackbar instead, much better quality.
Hint if you go to McDs again and get a big mac ask for extra big mac sauce. My grandson gets the big mac with extra sauce as it is dry without the extra sauce. Should work for either beef or chicken big macs.
It's been a while since i've eaten at a Dutch McDonalds, and even longer ago at a German McDonalds, but I seem to remember they had 'pommes frites sauce' back then. It was the same sauce they sell at the dutch McDonalds as 'fritessaus'. Also, in Belgium, they used to have a choice between 'fritessaus' and 'real' Belgian mayonaise. idk if that is still the case. Fun fact: you can buy the McDonalds fritessaus in supermarkets. It is sold as 'American fritessaus'. The best known brand is 'Mad Sauce'. It tastes exactly the same as the McDonalds fritessaus, so I guess the company that makes the McDonalds sauce also makes the Mad Sauce. There are also store brands that have 'american fritessaus', but those do not taste exactly the same as the McDonalds sauce.
Love the McKorket! And there even is a good vegetarian version of it. They used to have a real Dutch McFlurry the Stroopwafel McFlurry, which was awesome. Hope it will return on the menu.
1:40 bro, our sauce is the best sauce in the world. I always forget you get “normal” mayonnaise when you order “fritessauce” at a MCDonalds outside the Netherlands😅
7:25 sesame saus??? Lol! Kroket and mustard go together, so it’s mustard saus, with the mustard seeds in there.
The filling of a Kroket is not a gravy but a Ragout and Ragout is a french Dish/preparation method.
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Here a Mc Kroket eater! and i love it but to be honest i eat the vegetarian Mc Kroket because the MC Plant is just not the best burger, and i tought the MC Chicken veggie was dry because it was vegetarian but i guess it is just the taste of Mc Chicken! 😮
A few years ago we had the Maestro burger. It was the best mcdonalds burger, but they don't sell it anymore unfortunately.
Sooo, when I went to America I was sooooo excited to taste the real american McDonalds sauce. But the people I stayed with had absolutely no idea what I ment. And I was so absolutely shocked that the "American sauce" was not on the menu.
Chocomel is just a brandname (in belgium it's cecemel. But we now use chocomel as a synonym for chocolate milk 😊
No, it depends on the region if Chocomel has become a generic name. It's not everywhere in the Netherlands
There are specialist peanut butter shops in Holland . But Belgiuns are the friet soecialists in Europe
My personal favorite was when I found out that the Spanish McDonald’s sold gazpacho. 🎉 love gazpacho!
Having lived and worked in the Netherlands for a long time, the best things to try (food & drink) are Moroccan mint tea, the coffee, Indonesian food and of course Argentinian steak (the best in the world in my opinion).
When we order at mc Donalds i always take the mc kroket . I love it . The sauce is Mustard sauce. I also go for the fish burger. What is also suprisingly good is the veggie burger.
The chocomel; warm it up in a pan, add some whipped cream. It's spectacular🎉
When I crave something like McDonald's, I'd go to a snackbar (Netherlands) or frietkot (Belgium). You get better chips (crisps as they say in the US), a savory item or two, fantastic choice of sauces and you pay far less. If you go back, have a portion of chips, a frikandel speciaal, a satay and a beer. You'll have had twice as good a meal for half the price.
The Big Tasty used to be so much bigger, they cut the size like by a few cm. It used to be larger (horizontal), now it's the same size as a Big Mac.
There is quite a difference in taste and quality in between different locations as it comes to McDonalds. Also prices may vary.
Mckroket is a mac branded broodje kroket which excisted long before mc made them. ( veal kroket on a bun with mustard)
Its called “snoeptomaatjes” which means “candy tomatoes” but it is not candy.
Its called like that because in The Netherlands we eat it as a snack (or as candy) we also have “snoep komkommer (cucumber)” and “snoep paprika”
Btw, we don’t order them as a dessert in the Netherlands. It is mostly sold in a happy meal.
In Israel, there is the 'Mega Mumbai'. It is basically chicken tenders with curry sauce on a hamburger bun with lettuce and veggies. I think it is the best macdonalds burger (next to the mckroket and the simple cheeseburger)!
Thank you for the video! Very entertaining - as always! Those burgers looked very sloppily put together. Will stick to herring and gin when in Netherlands...:)