Sadly if the American government had to pay for health care, these foods would not be allowed there either as it would cost them so much to correct the damage. Obviously having to pay for your own health encourages making things more addictive and doing more unhealthy so you have to pay out.
They would it would just be heavily taxed as with alcohol and tobacco in the UK and governments don't have money to pay for anything it's tax payers money like the much talked about 'free' NHS in the UK is paid for through taxation,so not quite as free as perceived.
@@martindunstan8043 We all know the NHS is paid for by tax. The full sentence is. Free AT POINT OF USE. Unlike in the USA where they have bills for Copays and Deductables.
I'm sure I saw one the other day which said one of the side effects was "could cause a rare rash on your perineum, the area between your gentiles and anus"
@@ntm3347 I'm British. I was born in England and have lived in numerous places in the UK. I have a very good knowledge of the UK geography. I'm friends with 2 sheep farmers in England and 2 crofters in Lewis and North Uist. I agree that the ability to write wasn't wide spread and therefore the recipe isn't necessarily the be all and end all proof of the origin of haggis, but to think that people in London and the surrounding areas wouldn't have access to sheep, and/or that people in Scotland couldn't/wouldn't write down recipes is foolish. While we are on the subject: kilts are from Northumberland, not Scotland.
We do have Skittles, Mountain Dew and many others of these in Europe, it's just that all of the colourings come from approved "safer", and usually natural, sources. (For example, for our purple skittles, the colour comes indirectly from grape skins, even though they're blackcurrant flavour.) As for chicken, just cook it properly!
interesting fact though... the EU actually says there are no issues with chicken that is chlorinated. the issue is they believe that chlorinating chicken makes the companies less likely to be safe with the chicken throughout the process... and yes as you say, if anyone is cooking chicken, just cook it properly... virus and bacteria cannot survive in the chicken if it is cooked properly.
I’ve noticed of late many sweets esp kids sweets and sweets from marksies, they’re all coloured with fruit and vegetable dyes instead of E numbers . They still taste the same so it’s a great move imho
Hey king boomer, i wastch alot of stuff about americans who live in the uk, they say they eat just as much but have lost weight and feel healthier, when they return to the US, they find themselves feeling sick for the first couple of months, as there take time to adjust to the highly processed food and ingredients
You can buy Cadbury's Mini Rolls as an alternative to Lil' Debbies. Looks like the same mini-Swiss-roll chocolate, buttercream and chocolate cake but without the same toxins pumped into it. It does have a couple of E-numbers and some palm oil so depends on how fussy you are about that, I guess.
i always find it incredible how many Americans seem to think everything is their creations, here are a few that are 100% British foods imported to the USA might shock a few of you ....... Snickers , kitkat, twix, skittles and Lays (walkers crisps over here and sold to Lays in the 1980s)
Dont worry about yours and Mrs boomers love for the choc swis rolls from lil debbies.. Cadburys in the UK have their own version mini rolls so just add them to your export list with flakes, tea cakes etc 😅😅
mrlegend-vw7hb Tom Scott’s video was about the marketing disaster of Disani water in the UK. It not band: it just that no one would buy it. ua-cam.com/video/wD79NZroV88/v-deo.htmlsi=VAcSjt-CpfrK3jF7
@@jkayrichardson3366Dasani is nasty, I got it once on the way to visit family in North Carolina, at home, we don’t pay bottled water, we have an artesian well.
There was a video on Reacting to My Roots comparing the same product in the UK and USA. For example, we have a Kellogg's factory in the UK, and the video showed the contents of a box of cereal made over here, compared to the same one in the USA. There were so many additives in the USA contents compared to the UK version.
I don't think you realise how British you are becoming KB!.....Your sarcastic comments during the vid had me chuckling a lot 😂 and wouldn't be out of place in a British comedy.....love it!
To answer your question about the largest chicken exporter in the world, it's actually Brazil. China doesn't actually export all that much meat wise, mostly exporting vegetables and products made out of them (like soy-based goods), with oils and beverages being their fastest growth area. Meat and Fish wise China still heavily relies on other nations (as they do consume 50% of all pork produced in the world) - it's also why Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland was given two Panda's by China several years ago as China ramped up Fish & Seafood imports from the nation to cover lower imports from Norway (the Norwegian Gov had brought up China's human rights record).
Just at the start of the video so don't know how many of these are going to come up, but: American cheese, with so little cheese, sometimes no cheese, that the word cheese can't be used, hence why they are called 'dairy slices'. McDonalds fries - in the UK, ingredients are potatoes, vegetable oil and salt, not in the US, with some extra added ingredients, just for fun. Subways bread - something in recent years about the trans fats used in the recipes. Various foods with added food colourings banned in most other countries.
You don't remember the coca cola adverts, they were a bit cultish looking but they were iconic for the brand. American food has got to be the most sugary, processed stuff anywhere, even your wines are like syrup.
Mountain Dew contains Yellow 5 just like Skittles and that equals to cancerous, not just beeing a mild warning its very cancerous especially later in life it shows its effect this has lead to many cancerdiagnosis ( Especially Liver and pancreatic cancers)for midaged today. Its very sad. ( Sorry for my bad english I am from Sweden).
The Coke ad was from the seventies and the song was really good, based on I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing by The New Seekers. It started one of my first obsessions with the band/group.
You haven't seen the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" advert from coca cola? i was born 24 years after it and i've still seen it, then Noel Gallagher stole it and wrote "Shakermaker"
'I'd like to teach the World to Sing' had two versions: one for Americans referencing Coke Cola and sung by the Hillside Singers, the other for the UK was sung by British band The New Seekers and dropped the coke references. It was reworked by British song writers Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway from their original song 'True Love & Apple Pie'.
The problem with American bread is that it contains so much sugar (the same is true about American breakfast cereals). American bread - the mass produced sliced type of bread) has around 6 times the amount of sugar per slice as similar European bread.
Mountain Dew (atleast the original recipe) is also banned in the UK as it contains BVO or Vegetable Bromate. You know it's bad because even on the American can's ingredients table, after it's mentions it its says in big blocks letter (TO PRESERVE TASTE) as they need to even validate its use they know it's that bad.
Mountain Dew in the UK has to be legally classified as an energy drink not a soft drink . Where I live in the Isle of Man you can’t buy energy drinks if you’re under 16. That being said I’ve still seen parents give their kids relentless . Asides from the health issues, why would you want your kids to have relentless energy unless they’re going on a hike? And the same parents will claim their kids have ADHD 😂
An interesting, thought provoking, eye opener of a video. WTF were they thinking!? Oh wait, they weren't. 😡 Oh btw, King Boomer, there was a problem with the sound during section about Special K. There wasn't any sound at all. Fortunately only on that section. Look after yourself and your precious family, Queen and Princess B.
I'm beginning to wonder if there may actually be a video out by anyone that states as its title - "Foods That Are Actually Safe To Eat In The USA!" . . . just wondering?
The video has to have focus for “space” to work. If the general window has focus, space scrolls by roughly a screen. The “k” key always pauses. “j” skips back and “l” skips forward by 10 s. If you want to skip by only 5 s, use forward/back arrow keys. There are tons of useful keyboard shortcuts in UA-cam, e.g., 0-9 jumps to 0-90% of the way through video, Shift , and Shift . slow down and speed up video, respectively.
This video did not cover the poor welfare of livestock in the US and the use of drugs and chemicals to mask these bad practices. To keep this comment short I will just mention one - the use of antibiotics. 80% of antibiotics used in the US are fed to animals. This is done to treat anticipated infections due to poor hygiene plus antibiotics boosts meat production in an animal. Unfortunately it is a prime cause of why so many microbes are becoming antibiotic resistant. Wouldn’t be so bad if antibiotic resistance it was just restricted to the US but unfortunately it is spreading around the world.
@@user-gf1jt2hp4m Actually no it does not. The only time Antibiotics are permitted to be added to feed is if a major outbreak is in progress and administering the medication through feed is the most effective way of doing so. This is most often the case with high volume animals such as chickens for example, where giving injections or pills to each individual runs from the difficult to the nigh impossible depending on how large the farm is. It has been illegal to add antibiotics to feed in the UK either as growth promoters or as a way to anticipate future infections for decades. British Law requires proper hygiene and welfare for the animals to mitigate the chances of infection, not pre dosing with antibiotics. Quite frankly, you are out right lying. UK followed EU Law in this regard (which banned such practices decades ago), and since Brexit has ratified most if not all of the EU Food Hygiene, safety and standards Laws into British Law. So feel free to hate something that literally does not happen in the UK. No one is stopping you because frankly no one cares.
America has a culture of treating the product not the source. Animals in Europe are vaccinated against harmful diseases as such we don't need to refrigerate eggs (Scandinavian countries do it purely because the supermarkets there sell them in refrigerators so consumers think they have to). In America you don't vaccinate the animal you treat the end product, that's why you bleach chicken and your eggs have to be refrigerated as your treatment of eggs kills the natural protection an egg has making it more porous and open to disease. The FDA has some of the lowest food standards in the world and more often the fine for breaching their rules is less than the profit a company has made from the product so there is very little deterrent.
Dasani, a brand of purified water made by Coca Cola, was a marketing disaster when it was launched some years ago here in the U.K. There are a couple of videos out there explaining why this happened. You might want to give one a watch and tell us what you think.
2:49 I've noticed that too. It seems to highlight with a blue square whatever you last clicked on. But not everything. At least the volume, captions and (always for me) the settings.
In 2020, the life expectancy at birth in the EU was 80.4 years. In the US: 77.28 years. Food won't be the only reason, access to (affordable) healthcare and gun violence will also play a part. But still. And of course, there are regional differences in the EU, as there will be in the US (Netherlands: 81.41 years).
@@marydavis5234 Its not just the sugar, its all the other additives I am afraid. One reason I refuse to visit the US is quite simply the terrible food safety and standards Laws.
I was drinking Coca-Cola in Cuba last year. It's produced in Mexico and openly shipped to Cuba. You can buy it pretty much anywhere there. That drink gets everywhere. I actually prefer the local Cuban Cola in my Cuba Libres, though.
Re the Coca Cola advert - this was a famous TV commercial from 1971. The group (The Hilltop Singers) is singing 'Buy the World a Coke', an adaptation of 'True Love and Apple Pie' by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. The song was later re-recorded by the group without references to Coca Cola and also adapted as 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing' recorded by the New Seekers (U.K. No 1, December 1971). Here's the full commercial: ua-cam.com/video/KW9cuta7mdE/v-deo.html
Luckily, governments outside the USA tend to ban additives until they are proved safe, whereas the US government let's companies use additives until they are proved unsafe. If you carry on down this path, just be prepared if you watch any videos on animal rearing using chemicals to increase meat yield - they're quite upsetting! Oh, and don't M&M's have a coloured shell?
Given the status of pork (in the US), option would be to find someone that processes wild hogs (boar), and fill your freezer. As you said, when you consider all the pork products, bacon, ham, sausages, that has to all add up. Also, wild meat is far healthier than intensively farmed meat. The solution is quite simple. Manufacturers of processed food should just use the normal ingredients and stop f'ing about adding unnecessary things in.
Just to be clear: the Cuban government (commie or not) does NOT have a ban on the import or sale of Coca Cola (or McDonalds, or pretty much anything else besides drugs, guns and the like). Coca Cola sales to Cuba, either directly from the US or indirectly from any third country subsidiaries is explicitly forbidden by the US embargo and violations of the embargo come with hefty fines to the companies involved. Is the exact same situation with US citizens visiting Cuba; the prohibition comes exclusively from the US government, Cuban authorities don't even stamp the passport from US citizens entering from a third country to avoid getting them in trouble. After all, they strongly oppose the US embargo and have no reason whatsoever to enforce it. PD: I'm not sure what the heck is that Cuba Cola, the last time I went there they had something called Tropicola instead.
The song you refered to for the coca cola was a number 1 smash hit here in the UK for a group called The New Seakers. It was called " I'de like to teach the world to sing" they changed the words fpr the advert to " Ide like to buy thw world a coke". You tube the song. Very pleasant
Bread is not banned in the UK but our bread is produced in the UK under strict rules I personally purchase three loaves (Hovis extra thick white sliced) on my monthly shop, chicken love it but not bleached and no GM food and stick with good old M&S Traditional Scottish Porridge Oats 2kg bag.
I thought it was common knowledge that North American bread is full of artificial crap. That's how it stays good on the shelves for so long. I think UK bread is slightly better, but still not as good as french bread. As for Greek food, the thing that I thought was so much better than the UK was tomatoes. They are SO juicy. Also watermelon. Amazing! Our stuff is just watery in comparison.
American BREAD sold in supermarkets can have up to 500% MORE sugar when compared to a UK or European loaf! Some US bread is closer to being CAKE - just saying!
Essentially, the FDA created a problem to provide the solution. In this case; tell you to wash the egg in a chemical bath and then to prevent issues that come with following their own guidelines, tell you to refrigerate them. All could be avoided if they just left them alone to begin with. Same result with extra, pointless steps.
Something else about the US and sandwiches - EVERY time I visit the US (and meeting with non-Brits), I seem to end up teaching them 'How to make a Proper Sandwich'. It's also one of the reasons they don't understand why we have so many sandwiches for sale everywhere throughout the UK. Apart from Subway or a local Deli (when you may easily end up paying $7-$10), they usually compare/think of a sandwich as the 'awful looking thing' found in a gas station, only bought by the desperate! Sandwiches made in America don't do it like in the UK or Europe! They are NOT buttered first. it's just NOT done - because, (just like their chocolate), American butter is usually 'sub-standard' compared to butter found in the UK, Ireland, France, Denmark and many other countries throughout Europe that has a MUCH higher butterfat percentage. The NEXT issue is the bread which I already did a comment about here. It can have as much as 500% more sugar in a loaf compared to the UK, so you need to go to an 'artisan' bakers to buy decent bread... Thus, you end up spending a LOT of money to make a good sandwich and that's without buying the fillings... 👍🤔 Also that's why it's easier to buy 'fast food' and to hell with the ingredients. DOH! (As Homer would say).
What seems really bizarre about USA food production is how much extra is added. Wouldn't it be cheaper to add the bare minimum colouring and preservative? Wouldn't it be a great, unique feature in the market to advertise "all-natural additives!"? Seems like the attitude it just to chuck in all the stuff and things because "it's what we've always done". Maybe it's a case of 'Too many cooks spoilt the broth' if everyone decided to add something for some reason until it became a witches' brew of stuff and things.
I love so many pork products but very glad I have them in Europe.....balls, some of those chems in US foods, crazy.......actually like the Mountain Dew......can't cope with the Red Bull etc. though....smell those chemicals coming out of you for days....particularly with Jagermeister and Jagerbombs.....food colouring has been well in the public sphere for decades - I remember warnings and changes to them for what, 35 years.....since I was a nipper anyway.......great vid and reaction again KB, ta v much....
KB is having the same problem as I was having! Yeah, spacebar gone a bit annoying lol. I have a workaround, but I don't know if I can pinpoint the problem, or if my workaround just got lucky?
I'm from the UK originally, but I lived in VA for a while. The bread there is bloody weird. I wouldn't even call it bread, but instead some kind of bread / cake / yoga mat hybrid thing that a chemist would make rather than a baker, or maybe a bakerchemist? - I dunno... but I do know that you guys are missing out because the real deal is so much more delicious, IMO.
Have you ever wondered that the FDA does food and drugs when the rest of the world has them separated?? they do sell skittles, mms and mountain dew is sold in the UK as they have the bad parts removed 😎go UK
FYI: I was in CUBA and saw a lot of 'Coca-Cola'! When looking at the cans, it was Coke Made in Mexico (where Coke has a big manufacturing plant). Also, I was amazed just how MANY American's holiday in Cuba, most come via Mexico OR Canada. When you arrive at Havana International Airport (Jose Marti Habana) they DO NOT STAMP your passport, mainly because American's are not supposed to go to Cuba! They DO stamp a loose 'visa' card which you need to keep in your passport while in Cuba, but then they have a BIN for 'used' visas to be dumped prior to departure from the country. As Brits, friends and I also chose NOT to have our passports stamped 'Cuba', to avoid ANY issues when visiting the US (which several of us have been doing for years). Additionally, they have a bronze plaque is on the wall of the airport to 'thank' the Prime Minister of Canada for opening the airport (terminal 3), as they contributed towards the cost and thousands of Canadians holiday every year. Funny old world... 😅 😂 🤣
Go to McD in the US and check out the fries and their ingrediants. You'll find a long long very long list of stuff you'll have problems to even pronounce. Go to McD in the EU and you'll find out all they need to make good fries is potatoes, oil and salt. That should tell you everything about eating "food" in the USofA.
"The Space Button" - It never used to work well for NASA, and now it doesn't seem to work on UA-cam Either! :D Edit - Ah great! Now the Sound Button isn't working either!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fantastic as always, thanks KB!
a lot of american foods that are sold in Europe have totally different ingredients than the USA as we have much stronger food regulations . I was aware of this before visiting the USA but was shocked at how long the ingredients list was. one popular oat biscuit has 4 ingredients where's the USA version had over 20!!!!!! 12:13
May I suggest that you read the books of Tim Spector (check him out - a professor specialising in nutrition) that explains why processed foods are really dangerous particularly "Spoon Fed"
The space bar does whatever you clicked on last, I think. So if you adjusted the volume or something, then it won't recognise it as start-stop. Very annoying, because start and stop is the only time it's actually useful.
Space bar used to work on UA-cam to pause, rather than it pressing what it thinks you last had in focus within the player - it’s something they’ve broken (again). There’s a lot of complaints and bug reports about this circulating out there.
As a Brit, this is a bit misleading, because it’s more about additives in the food than the food themselves and stuff is produced differently all over the world. Like Coca Cola in the US is made with is it Corn Syrup? Which is meant to be horrific to consume, but here it’s not. It’s still not great for you in huge quantities but no one’s ever died from eating Skittles dude 🤣 unless they choked.
Sadly if the American government had to pay for health care, these foods would not be allowed there either as it would cost them so much to correct the damage. Obviously having to pay for your own health encourages making things more addictive and doing more unhealthy so you have to pay out.
They would it would just be heavily taxed as with alcohol and tobacco in the UK and governments don't have money to pay for anything it's tax payers money like the much talked about 'free' NHS in the UK is paid for through taxation,so not
quite as free as perceived.
@@martindunstan8043 We all know the NHS is paid for by tax. The full sentence is. Free AT POINT OF USE. Unlike in the USA where they have bills for Copays and Deductables.
@@grahamsmith9541 well, that's the land of the free for you🤣🤣✌️
The US government pays more per person and per GDP for HC than other OECD countries, with poor results in the US.
@@martindunstan8043WE KNOW!! And more importantly, compared to the USA it's peanuts, a small percentage of the average persons 20% income tax.
Watching an American advert for pharmaceuticals is an eye opener, the list of potential side effects is both horrific and hilarious 😂😂
And they tell you the side effects talking at a million miles an hour
I'm sure I saw one the other day which said one of the side effects was "could cause a rare rash on your perineum, the area between your gentiles and anus"
scotlsh food bsnned in usa haggis shocking
@@thomasskinner2259 the first recorded mention of haggis is from a recipe book from London, so it could be English, not Scottish
@@ntm3347 I'm British. I was born in England and have lived in numerous places in the UK. I have a very good knowledge of the UK geography. I'm friends with 2 sheep farmers in England and 2 crofters in Lewis and North Uist.
I agree that the ability to write wasn't wide spread and therefore the recipe isn't necessarily the be all and end all proof of the origin of haggis, but to think that people in London and the surrounding areas wouldn't have access to sheep, and/or that people in Scotland couldn't/wouldn't write down recipes is foolish.
While we are on the subject: kilts are from Northumberland, not Scotland.
We do have Skittles, Mountain Dew and many others of these in Europe, it's just that all of the colourings come from approved "safer", and usually natural, sources. (For example, for our purple skittles, the colour comes indirectly from grape skins, even though they're blackcurrant flavour.)
As for chicken, just cook it properly!
I believe the UK version of Mountain Dew just uses beta carotene and annatto for colouring, which are both natural colourings
Skittles are originally British
Also mountain dew has brominated oil in it, that's banned
interesting fact though... the EU actually says there are no issues with chicken that is chlorinated. the issue is they believe that chlorinating chicken makes the companies less likely to be safe with the chicken throughout the process... and yes as you say, if anyone is cooking chicken, just cook it properly... virus and bacteria cannot survive in the chicken if it is cooked properly.
I’ve noticed of late many sweets esp kids sweets and sweets from marksies, they’re all coloured with fruit and vegetable dyes instead of E numbers . They still taste the same so it’s a great move imho
Hey king boomer, i wastch alot of stuff about americans who live in the uk, they say they eat just as much but have lost weight and feel healthier, when they return to the US, they find themselves feeling sick for the first couple of months, as there take time to adjust to the highly processed food and ingredients
I have heard that about Americans visiting or living all over Europe.
@@danilopapais1464never heard that once. It's almost like your five 😂
@@westleyjohnstone4719 If you multiply that by 5 you are getting close, seems more like someone else is close to that age.
I remember that Coke ad in the UK during the '70s. The song they sang was "I'd like to teach the world to sing" with changed lyrics.
It was re release in the 80s when I was a kid. It's so nostalgic to me we sang the song I our year 4 school play!
It was a hit song for The New Seekers who then sang ‘I’d like to give the world a Coke’ on the ad.
Then you have the Christmas advert ,
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You can buy Cadbury's Mini Rolls as an alternative to Lil' Debbies. Looks like the same mini-Swiss-roll chocolate, buttercream and chocolate cake but without the same toxins pumped into it. It does have a couple of E-numbers and some palm oil so depends on how fussy you are about that, I guess.
I can overlook E-numbers and palm oil for the raspberry mini rolls. So yummy!
i always find it incredible how many Americans seem to think everything is their creations, here are a few that are 100% British foods imported to the USA might shock a few of you ....... Snickers , kitkat, twix, skittles and Lays (walkers crisps over here and sold to Lays in the 1980s)
It astounds me that most people in USA don't realise that so many products from USA are banned in Europe for their additives.
On the bread, there was also the case of Subway in Ireland, where they ruled that they couldn't legally claim to be selling bread.
its classed as cake cause of the sweetners
@@cmcculloch1brioche I guess :)
@@irreverend_ Brioche has extra butter and eggs, it's not really the extra sugar that gives brioche it's classification.
@@irreverend_ wrong guess :)
It's cake.
Never been so thankful to live in the UK. All the excess American freedom is bloody deadly
Don't worry, they're not as free as they've been led to believe 🤣👍
Dont worry about yours and Mrs boomers love for the choc swis rolls from lil debbies.. Cadburys in the UK have their own version mini rolls so just add them to your export list with flakes, tea cakes etc 😅😅
Skittles in the U.K. are made without the dangerous chemicals thank goodness as I love them .
Phew i love them too
Smaller farms - fresher food - eat local - no need to be transported for thousands of miles.
Tom Scott has done a video on why American bottled water is (or was not sure if it still is) banned in the UK
mrlegend-vw7hb Tom Scott’s video was about the marketing disaster of Disani water in the UK. It not band: it just that no one would buy it.
ua-cam.com/video/wD79NZroV88/v-deo.htmlsi=VAcSjt-CpfrK3jF7
that was the coca cola company's brand of water, Dasani, and from what i hear from people who can get hold of it, the UK really isnt missing much
@@jkayrichardson3366Dasani is nasty, I got it once on the way to visit family in North Carolina, at home, we don’t pay bottled water, we have an artesian well.
There was a video on Reacting to My Roots comparing the same product in the UK and USA. For example, we have a Kellogg's factory in the UK, and the video showed the contents of a box of cereal made over here, compared to the same one in the USA. There were so many additives in the USA contents compared to the UK version.
American bread is basically cake..
Marie Antoinette approves this 😂
American Bread is basically Fake
I don't think you realise how British you are becoming KB!.....Your sarcastic comments during the vid had me chuckling a lot 😂 and wouldn't be out of place in a British comedy.....love it!
Give "K" a go instead of the space bar. K for King I guess?
To answer your question about the largest chicken exporter in the world, it's actually Brazil. China doesn't actually export all that much meat wise, mostly exporting vegetables and products made out of them (like soy-based goods), with oils and beverages being their fastest growth area. Meat and Fish wise China still heavily relies on other nations (as they do consume 50% of all pork produced in the world) - it's also why Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland was given two Panda's by China several years ago as China ramped up Fish & Seafood imports from the nation to cover lower imports from Norway (the Norwegian Gov had brought up China's human rights record).
Well you like Little Debbie SwissRolls you really need to try Cadburys Mini Rolls
Just at the start of the video so don't know how many of these are going to come up, but:
American cheese, with so little cheese, sometimes no cheese, that the word cheese can't be used, hence why they are called 'dairy slices'.
McDonalds fries - in the UK, ingredients are potatoes, vegetable oil and salt, not in the US, with some extra added ingredients, just for fun.
Subways bread - something in recent years about the trans fats used in the recipes.
Various foods with added food colourings banned in most other countries.
You don't remember the coca cola adverts, they were a bit cultish looking but they were iconic for the brand. American food has got to be the most sugary, processed stuff anywhere, even your wines are like syrup.
Mountain Dew contains Yellow 5 just like Skittles and that equals to cancerous, not just beeing a mild warning its very cancerous especially later in life it shows its effect this has lead to many cancerdiagnosis ( Especially Liver and pancreatic cancers)for midaged today. Its very sad. ( Sorry for my bad english I am from Sweden).
American bread contains 6 times more sugar than European bread contains
The Coke ad was from the seventies and the song was really good, based on I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing by The New Seekers. It started one of my first obsessions with the band/group.
You haven't seen the "I'd like to teach the world to sing" advert from coca cola? i was born 24 years after it and i've still seen it, then Noel Gallagher stole it and wrote "Shakermaker"
'I'd like to teach the World to Sing' had two versions: one for Americans referencing Coke Cola and sung by the Hillside Singers, the other for the UK was sung by British band The New Seekers and dropped the coke references.
It was reworked by British song writers Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway from their original song 'True Love & Apple Pie'.
King Boomer, if you are still having problems with the Spacebar, try pressing the K key instead.
The problem with American bread is that it contains so much sugar (the same is true about American breakfast cereals). American bread - the mass produced sliced type of bread) has around 6 times the amount of sugar per slice as similar European bread.
Cadbury do Swiss rolls, I bet you and Queen Boomer would love them.
Mountain Dew (atleast the original recipe) is also banned in the UK as it contains BVO or Vegetable Bromate. You know it's bad because even on the American can's ingredients table, after it's mentions it its says in big blocks letter (TO PRESERVE TASTE) as they need to even validate its use they know it's that bad.
Mountain Dew in the UK has to be legally classified as an energy drink not a soft drink . Where I live in the Isle of Man you can’t buy energy drinks if you’re under 16. That being said I’ve still seen parents give their kids relentless . Asides from the health issues, why would you want your kids to have relentless energy unless they’re going on a hike? And the same parents will claim their kids have ADHD 😂
An interesting, thought provoking, eye opener of a video. WTF were they thinking!? Oh wait, they weren't. 😡
Oh btw, King Boomer, there was a problem with the sound during section about Special K. There wasn't any sound at all. Fortunately only on that section.
Look after yourself and your precious family, Queen and Princess B.
21:20 You're pretty much spot on, they are all singing "I'd like to give the world a Coke"
I remember that Coke advert from the seventies! They were singing 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing'
I'm beginning to wonder if there may actually be a video out by anyone that states as its title - "Foods That Are Actually Safe To Eat In The USA!" . . . just wondering?
Weird History and Weird Food History are great channels, quite informative and delivered in the same style - always worth a watch
The Coke advert has the song 'I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke in perfect harmony' and you were right it's a 1970s advert.
Guess you are going to have to import your food if you want a longer life. 😂
The video has to have focus for “space” to work. If the general window has focus, space scrolls by roughly a screen. The “k” key always pauses. “j” skips back and “l” skips forward by 10 s. If you want to skip by only 5 s, use forward/back arrow keys. There are tons of useful keyboard shortcuts in UA-cam, e.g., 0-9 jumps to 0-90% of the way through video, Shift , and Shift . slow down and speed up video, respectively.
This video did not cover the poor welfare of livestock in the US and the use of drugs and chemicals to mask these bad practices. To keep this comment short I will just mention one - the use of antibiotics. 80% of antibiotics used in the US are fed to animals. This is done to treat anticipated infections due to poor hygiene plus antibiotics boosts meat production in an animal. Unfortunately it is a prime cause of why so many microbes are becoming antibiotic resistant. Wouldn’t be so bad if antibiotic resistance it was just restricted to the US but unfortunately it is spreading around the world.
Hi johnny this happens in uk too and I hate how people don't care. I don't eat meat.
@@user-gf1jt2hp4m Actually no it does not. The only time Antibiotics are permitted to be added to feed is if a major outbreak is in progress and administering the medication through feed is the most effective way of doing so. This is most often the case with high volume animals such as chickens for example, where giving injections or pills to each individual runs from the difficult to the nigh impossible depending on how large the farm is.
It has been illegal to add antibiotics to feed in the UK either as growth promoters or as a way to anticipate future infections for decades. British Law requires proper hygiene and welfare for the animals to mitigate the chances of infection, not pre dosing with antibiotics.
Quite frankly, you are out right lying. UK followed EU Law in this regard (which banned such practices decades ago), and since Brexit has ratified most if not all of the EU Food Hygiene, safety and standards Laws into British Law.
So feel free to hate something that literally does not happen in the UK. No one is stopping you because frankly no one cares.
America has a culture of treating the product not the source. Animals in Europe are vaccinated against harmful diseases as such we don't need to refrigerate eggs (Scandinavian countries do it purely because the supermarkets there sell them in refrigerators so consumers think they have to). In America you don't vaccinate the animal you treat the end product, that's why you bleach chicken and your eggs have to be refrigerated as your treatment of eggs kills the natural protection an egg has making it more porous and open to disease. The FDA has some of the lowest food standards in the world and more often the fine for breaching their rules is less than the profit a company has made from the product so there is very little deterrent.
American bread is stuffed full of sugar, to the point where it's almost closer to being a cake than bread.
Dasani, a brand of purified water made by Coca Cola, was a marketing disaster when it was launched some years ago here in the U.K.
There are a couple of videos out there explaining why this happened.
You might want to give one a watch and tell us what you think.
Good old American dream.....money first, people second.
America isn't a country, it's a giant corporation.
2:49 I've noticed that too. It seems to highlight with a blue square whatever you last clicked on. But not everything. At least the volume, captions and (always for me) the settings.
In 2020, the life expectancy at birth in the EU was 80.4 years. In the US: 77.28 years. Food won't be the only reason, access to (affordable) healthcare and gun violence will also play a part. But still. And of course, there are regional differences in the EU, as there will be in the US (Netherlands: 81.41 years).
To be fair to the USA while gun violence is bad, its not having an appreciable difference on the average American Citizens life expectancy.
Salmonella should be very popular in USA - it is great for losing weight
I think the song was "i'd like to teach the World to Sing" but they changed it to "I''d like to BUY the World to a COKE"
You don't have to go cold turkey. Have your treats up till Christmas then ease off them gradually. 😀 At least you know what not to give your baby!
we've got Skittles in Australia, but they're made in Australia and don't have those two color dyes mentioned in this video
If you just compare the ingredients between UK and USA Heinz ketchup, your be horrified at how dreadful the USA one is.
Heinz ketchup in the US has a sugar free version, that is I buy.
@@marydavis5234 Its not just the sugar, its all the other additives I am afraid. One reason I refuse to visit the US is quite simply the terrible food safety and standards Laws.
I was drinking Coca-Cola in Cuba last year. It's produced in Mexico and openly shipped to Cuba. You can buy it pretty much anywhere there. That drink gets everywhere. I actually prefer the local Cuban Cola in my Cuba Libres, though.
I love my Coke and I'd love to go to Mexico and try the best
@@JamieAubrey And don't forget to try the Coca-Cola too. 😁
Re the Coca Cola advert - this was a famous TV commercial from 1971. The group (The Hilltop Singers) is singing 'Buy the World a Coke', an adaptation of 'True Love and Apple Pie' by Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. The song was later re-recorded by the group without references to Coca Cola and also adapted as 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing' recorded by the New Seekers (U.K. No 1, December 1971). Here's the full commercial: ua-cam.com/video/KW9cuta7mdE/v-deo.html
Luckily, governments outside the USA tend to ban additives until they are proved safe, whereas the US government let's companies use additives until they are proved unsafe. If you carry on down this path, just be prepared if you watch any videos on animal rearing using chemicals to increase meat yield - they're quite upsetting! Oh, and don't M&M's have a coloured shell?
Given the status of pork (in the US), option would be to find someone that processes wild hogs (boar), and fill your freezer. As you said, when you consider all the pork products, bacon, ham, sausages, that has to all add up. Also, wild meat is far healthier than intensively farmed meat.
The solution is quite simple. Manufacturers of processed food should just use the normal ingredients and stop f'ing about adding unnecessary things in.
Just to be clear: the Cuban government (commie or not) does NOT have a ban on the import or sale of Coca Cola (or McDonalds, or pretty much anything else besides drugs, guns and the like). Coca Cola sales to Cuba, either directly from the US or indirectly from any third country subsidiaries is explicitly forbidden by the US embargo and violations of the embargo come with hefty fines to the companies involved.
Is the exact same situation with US citizens visiting Cuba; the prohibition comes exclusively from the US government, Cuban authorities don't even stamp the passport from US citizens entering from a third country to avoid getting them in trouble. After all, they strongly oppose the US embargo and have no reason whatsoever to enforce it.
PD: I'm not sure what the heck is that Cuba Cola, the last time I went there they had something called Tropicola instead.
Yo Boomer, if you like Swiss Rolls try Cadbury's Mini Rolls from UK in your next food tasting video. Scrummy yummy
The song you refered to for the coca cola was a number 1 smash hit here in the UK for a group called The New Seakers. It was called " I'de like to teach the world to sing" they changed the words fpr the advert to " Ide like to buy thw world a coke". You tube the song. Very pleasant
My favourite line: "...because they put yoga mat stuff in the bread, it makes me maT" :)
In wales we don't have mountain dew here
Bread is not banned in the UK but our bread is produced in the UK under strict rules I personally purchase three loaves (Hovis extra thick white sliced) on my monthly shop, chicken love it but not bleached and no GM food and stick with good old M&S Traditional Scottish Porridge Oats 2kg bag.
I thought it was common knowledge that North American bread is full of artificial crap. That's how it stays good on the shelves for so long. I think UK bread is slightly better, but still not as good as french bread. As for Greek food, the thing that I thought was so much better than the UK was tomatoes. They are SO juicy. Also watermelon. Amazing! Our stuff is just watery in comparison.
American BREAD sold in supermarkets can have up to 500% MORE sugar when compared to a UK or European loaf! Some US bread is closer to being CAKE - just saying!
Essentially, the FDA created a problem to provide the solution. In this case; tell you to wash the egg in a chemical bath and then to prevent issues that come with following their own guidelines, tell you to refrigerate them.
All could be avoided if they just left them alone to begin with. Same result with extra, pointless steps.
Something else about the US and sandwiches - EVERY time I visit the US (and meeting with non-Brits), I seem to end up teaching them 'How to make a Proper Sandwich'. It's also one of the reasons they don't understand why we have so many sandwiches for sale everywhere throughout the UK. Apart from Subway or a local Deli (when you may easily end up paying $7-$10), they usually compare/think of a sandwich as the 'awful looking thing' found in a gas station, only bought by the desperate!
Sandwiches made in America don't do it like in the UK or Europe! They are NOT buttered first. it's just NOT done - because, (just like their chocolate), American butter is usually 'sub-standard' compared to butter found in the UK, Ireland, France, Denmark and many other countries throughout Europe that has a MUCH higher butterfat percentage.
The NEXT issue is the bread which I already did a comment about here. It can have as much as 500% more sugar in a loaf compared to the UK, so you need to go to an 'artisan' bakers to buy decent bread... Thus, you end up spending a LOT of money to make a good sandwich and that's without buying the fillings... 👍🤔
Also that's why it's easier to buy 'fast food' and to hell with the ingredients. DOH! (As Homer would say).
What seems really bizarre about USA food production is how much extra is added.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to add the bare minimum colouring and preservative? Wouldn't it be a great, unique feature in the market to advertise "all-natural additives!"?
Seems like the attitude it just to chuck in all the stuff and things because "it's what we've always done". Maybe it's a case of 'Too many cooks spoilt the broth' if everyone decided to add something for some reason until it became a witches' brew of stuff and things.
I love so many pork products but very glad I have them in Europe.....balls, some of those chems in US foods, crazy.......actually like the Mountain Dew......can't cope with the Red Bull etc. though....smell those chemicals coming out of you for days....particularly with Jagermeister and Jagerbombs.....food colouring has been well in the public sphere for decades - I remember warnings and changes to them for what, 35 years.....since I was a nipper anyway.......great vid and reaction again KB, ta v much....
I’ve sadly heard countless “patriotic” Americans say “if my government tells me it safe, it’s safe”.
KB is having the same problem as I was having! Yeah, spacebar gone a bit annoying lol. I have a workaround, but I don't know if I can pinpoint the problem, or if my workaround just got lucky?
I'm from the UK originally, but I lived in VA for a while. The bread there is bloody weird. I wouldn't even call it bread, but instead some kind of bread / cake / yoga mat hybrid thing that a chemist would make rather than a baker, or maybe a bakerchemist? - I dunno... but I do know that you guys are missing out because the real deal is so much more delicious, IMO.
Your bread would be classed as cake here in the U.K. due to the amount of sugar in it
U need egg in somethin* to class as cake
Not to worry Cadbury make a mini roll which are just like those Little Debbie rolls but with none of the E numbers
Small tip: Pressing K I've found is more dependable to pause videos on YT. Not as satisfying as the clicky clacky spacebar but there ya go
The window has to be active for the space bar to work. You have clicked off the screen on maybe another window
Have you ever wondered that the FDA does food and drugs when the rest of the world has them separated?? they do sell skittles, mms and mountain dew is sold in the UK as they have the bad parts removed 😎go UK
FYI: I was in CUBA and saw a lot of 'Coca-Cola'! When looking at the cans, it was Coke Made in Mexico (where Coke has a big manufacturing plant).
Also, I was amazed just how MANY American's holiday in Cuba, most come via Mexico OR Canada. When you arrive at Havana International Airport (Jose Marti Habana) they DO NOT STAMP your passport, mainly because American's are not supposed to go to Cuba! They DO stamp a loose 'visa' card which you need to keep in your passport while in Cuba, but then they have a BIN for 'used' visas to be dumped prior to departure from the country.
As Brits, friends and I also chose NOT to have our passports stamped 'Cuba', to avoid ANY issues when visiting the US (which several of us have been doing for years).
Additionally, they have a bronze plaque is on the wall of the airport to 'thank' the Prime Minister of Canada for opening the airport (terminal 3), as they contributed towards the cost and thousands of Canadians holiday every year. Funny old world... 😅 😂 🤣
Go to McD in the US and check out the fries and their ingrediants. You'll find a long long very long list of stuff you'll have problems to even pronounce. Go to McD in the EU and you'll find out all they need to make good fries is potatoes, oil and salt. That should tell you everything about eating "food" in the USofA.
That's why UK get a bad rap for their food because their standards are stricter with less ingredients so American palettes generally arent accustomed.
You’re not the only ‘Tuber who now has grief pausing through the Space Bar! I know others now tap the ‘K’ key…?
Cadbury, mini rolls - that's what you need
"The Space Button" - It never used to work well for NASA, and now it doesn't seem to work on UA-cam Either!
:D
Edit - Ah great! Now the Sound Button isn't working either!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic as always, thanks KB!
I literally watched this video for the reaction against pork - it using a substance banned in 160 countries is infamous
my space bar works fine, you can buy skittles in uk
a lot of american foods that are sold in Europe have totally different ingredients than the USA as we have much stronger food regulations . I was aware of this before visiting the USA but was shocked at how long the ingredients list was. one popular oat biscuit has 4 ingredients where's the USA version had over 20!!!!!!
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That's why your bread is dollars a loaf 20 cents worth of flour and 2 dollars 80 cents worth of depleted uranium 😂😂
I heard to press k for the space bar ? others have had the same problem. We have large sized back bacon rashers, I believe you don't ?
the only way to stop them putting bad stuff in your food is to buying there food but not enough people will do that unfortunately
American Foods......lists Skittles (which are originally British)
Sound was muted during large part of Special K review.
16:32 “soda pressing”? Is soda a type of fruit?
May I suggest that you read the books of Tim Spector (check him out - a professor specialising in nutrition) that explains why processed foods are really dangerous particularly "Spoon Fed"
I was quite shocked there was zero reaction to the duck/geese being forced fed by man and machine in the steak section of the video😮😱😢
That advert is I want to buy the world a coke set to a popular song , 70s I think
Skittles are from the UK 1974 Sold to Marrs Wrigley 1979
The space bar does whatever you clicked on last, I think. So if you adjusted the volume or something, then it won't recognise it as start-stop. Very annoying, because start and stop is the only time it's actually useful.
Space bar used to work on UA-cam to pause, rather than it pressing what it thinks you last had in focus within the player - it’s something they’ve broken (again). There’s a lot of complaints and bug reports about this circulating out there.
pressing 'K' still works to pause
(with 'J' also being go back 10 seconds, and 'L' being go forward 10 seconds)
As a Brit, this is a bit misleading, because it’s more about additives in the food than the food themselves and stuff is produced differently all over the world. Like Coca Cola in the US is made with is it Corn Syrup? Which is meant to be horrific to consume, but here it’s not. It’s still not great for you in huge quantities but no one’s ever died from eating Skittles dude 🤣 unless they choked.
regarding the space bar its best to keep your mouse on the monitor the video is on
This is why I’m making all my own desserts now
Instead of the space bar try the K key that also stops and starts videos.
US keyboards do not work the same as other countries keyboards,
I'm not American, but I'm genuinely thinking about becoming a vegetarian after watching this.
Me too. The clip showing man forcing a machine down the ducks throat to force feed it made my soul weep
@@wezz69 I was selfishly thinking about my own health more than anything, but yeah, that's not good to see.
Just think, when you do come over to the UK to go and see Al Murray you are going to be really well fed.