You know KitKat is English, right? It was created by Rowntree's of York in North Yorkshire. It's now owned by Nestlé - a Swiss company. It's made by Hershey's under licence in the USA
@stevefreeman3474 it's the same manufacturer (Mars) the peanut/nougat chocolate bar was launched in the US and UK at the same time, but they called it Marathon over here coz Snickers rhymes with knickers and back then that was a rude word.
@@verttikoo2052 Nestle owns Kit Kat now, they bought Rowntree's (UK) the company that inVented them in the 90's I believe, Hershey got the rights to produce them in the USA. Mondelez produces Kvikk Lunsj a similar product to Kit Kat. Please get your facts right. Oh and the best Kit Kats I've tasted are the Japanese ones, they have many flavours.
American chocolate requires at least 15% cocoa mass concentrate. European regulations require a minimum of 43% cocoa mass, including a minimum of 26% cocoa butter.
When it comes to ingredients I was honestly surprised by the ingredients on the US Oreo Cookies. From a European standpoint the High Fructose Corns Syrup is debatable, the soy oil is best to be avoided, depending on whom you ask (I think it is one of the substances that is considered inflammatory. Then there are the artificial flavors. Other than that, not a lot of ingredients for a US product, and most things pretty reasonable. Sadly I couldn´t see and read the ingredients on the other wrappers, might have been interesting ti see and compare those as well. Gladly coacoa was mentioned first, as chocolate was the last ingredient. That is barely one notch top of a marking like "May contain traces of chocolate"
In Belgium chocolate is something we're proud of. A friend of mine brought back some "chocolate" from the States after a holiday, and it just tasted like nothing.
I've noticed that since you started shopping from this European store near you, you've lost weight, and it shows, and it's wonderful. Keep up your healthy new lifestyle. Love from Greece.
@@LenaTheodor I’m glad you have noticed. 😎🎉 we have been exclusively shopping only at a couple European stores for about 6 weeks now, and I have lost almost 20 pounds (sorry American measures suck I know lol) and I haven’t been actively trying to lose weight.. it’s just been a positive benefit to buying better goods
4:13 I FULLY disagree with you. The oversimplification on the US one gives off a "rip off" vibe. The more intricate packaging of the European/British KitKat gives off more sophisticated vibes. Also, KitKat is BRITISH, not American.
in america they think everything is american made and they think they invented everything on earth...while more than half is european made and invented in europe
Its funny that choclate considdered bad or low quality in Europe still beats the American choclate. Hersheys isnt considdered choclate by my standards. 😅 Greetings from Germany
To be called chocolate in the EU, it must contain at least 30% cocoa (milk chocolate), Hershey’s in the US only has 11% cocoa. So in the EU Hershey’s isn’t even chocolate, but cacao fantasy, or something like that. (In NL it’s called cacao fantasy if the cacao is below the required amount).
@@Mus.Anonymouse Except that the amount of cocoa is measured differently between the US and the EU. When accounting for this, I believe they pretty much amount to the same amount of cocoa.
We did once, one time it was the only way to keep chocolate from going bad quickly, but since then we have had the wonders of science pasteurised milk etc which helps keep chocolate good for longer. Hershey's (who invented the original butyric acid method) foolishly kept a hold of the process all this time without changing, because they were fearful that Americans wouldn't like the newer taste over the one they have grown up with.
As a European, during my brief visit to Washington DC, I was chocked by two things foodwise : - The green peas were the biggest and most beautiful green peas I had even seen, also disgustingly tasteless. - My Quarter Pounder at McDonald was so full of oil, I felt sick all afternoon.
In the UK there are so many Cadbury's with Oreo 'fusion' products - cake bars, easter eggs, ice cream, dairy milk with cookie bits etc. It's like Mondelez, through owning Cadbury, seriously wants to will into existence some liking for Oreo. The biscuits suck - stop shoving them into other things. Rather have supermarket basics custard/bourbon creams tbh.
@@tonyduffy7441Agree, the 'cream' in oreos has no flavour at all. Custard and bourbon creams are 100% better, but Fox's Gypsy Creams (am I still allowed to call them that? - I don't have any in the house to look at!) are 1,000% better.
@@vanesag.9863 Agree. It's like they used flour mixed with some sort of sand for the biscuits, with a layer of dried-out cheap glue to hold them together. You can feel the texture on your tongue, instead of tasting any flavour.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 That isn't the case, the process invented by Hershey's to preserve chocolate for longer used a milk spoiling method, hence the unique "taste", Hershey's simply hasn't moved on from that process out of fear their customers would hate the change. So they keep the same recipe as before.
@@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 its also more expensive to use better ingredients... Other chocolates have switched and still kept their customer base, and many Americans seem to prefer more European style chocolates...
Before a Euopean ingredients list there will be two capital letters to identify the country/language area of (most) sale: Belgium (BE) Greece (EL) Lithuania (LT) Portugal (PT) Bulgaria (BG) Spain (ES) Luxembourg (LU) Romania (RO) Czechia (CZ) France (FR) Hungary (HU) Slovenia (SI) Denmark (DK) Croatia (HR) Malta (MT) Slovakia (SK) Germany(DE) Italy (IT) Netherlands (NL) Finland (FI) Estonia (EE) Cyprus (CY) Austria (AT) Sweden (SE) Ireland (IE) Latvia (LV) Poland (PL) This can also be used to identify number plates of cars Edit: in some countries the licence plate has only one letter to identify the country Edit: these are the EU countries only
@@rickardelimaa The letters were for Sweden, Norway and Denmark. I think those three country share the KitKat distribution among each other. They often work together very close
Fun fact, Kit Kat (at least in the UK) tasted way better when it was packaged in foil & paper sleeves. The taste changed to the point I stopped buying them.
@@Psychofuechschen I believe the US Mars Bars are called Milky Ways and their Milky Ways are called Three Musketeers (I could be misremembering this, please correct me if I'm wrong).
@aqua3890 I eat those sugar-coated and colored puff rice candies as well. But yeah, it is fine to have different tastes. How boring the world would be if we all liked or even just had to eat the same thing. It would look like a prison planet.
Considering that European KitKat and snickers tastes better and there isn't much difference between Oreos - helps me understand why I don't like Oreos 😀
I don’t like Oreos either. Here in Germany there are so many way better cookies to choose from than Oreos. And the best are homemade cookies without all that chemical crap in it
If you go to Ginza in Tokyo there is a KitKat emporium there and they sell lots of the different flavours in all sorts of sizes as well as selection boxes that are beautiful as gifts. Different prefectures in Japan have their own flavours too. I really like the Sakura flavour and I also had Hojicha tea flavour that was delivious and really tasted like the tea. They're super popular in Japan because "Kitto Kattsu" can translate as "you will surely win" - Mum's put them in bento boxes if their kids have an exam.
My sister is in the US at the moment staying with american friends and they gave her some lindt balls as fancy chocolate and asked her if they are the same. She said that ours (european) are much better, the american ones taste like poor chocolate for our standards
KitKat began production in 1935 in York, England, under the banner of the Rowntree Company. Many, many years later Nestlé bought the company. It's another one of those excellent products that Americans like to assume they made just because it's so good.
@@Me-uh1lb Shame that Nestle won't take the leap into making more flavours over here, the reason why it is like that in Japan is people love variety and weird gimmicky flavours over there, but also their kit kats are smaller in size so any that don't sell isn't a big loss to the company. I loved the Ruby Chocolate one though.
@@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 Think the reason is that there already were so many flavoured chocolate things anyway in Europe. So för these international brand things, they sort of have to stick to the one thing being the variety out of it all. Let's also consider that there really are very few companies being the owner of most of them anyway. So even completely different brands originally are now really the same companies product. Anyways, the more ..experimental? chocolate in Europe seem to tend to be made for the more premium range products.
@@N7senseiahh OK. So, bugatti is owned by Audi which is German. But, bugatti is a French car manufacturer still to this day. Also, many nestle products are made in the UK. They have a factory in Halifax
Amazing video! The only suggestion is to include a little history into each item's introduction. Knowing where they originated and some random cool facts would really move it to the next level ;)
Much less toxic! Check this one and order some : Cote d'or chocolade. The best chocolate you can get. Real chocolate. Founded in 1883 in Brussels. Enjoy.
because Europe has strict laws and regulations of what can be put into foods and what not, also everything is denied sales until proven safe for human consumption by the highly regulated testing facilities, I heard that really dont exist in USA, its more like sale allowed until proven unsafe while europe has denied sale until proven safe
@@laurapalmerTDGE i live in Austria even the cheapest chocolate taste good no need to pay 10 Euro or more when i can have something just as good for a fraction of the price
@LudovitVarga According to GS1, the organization that develops, establishes, and communicates barcoding standards in use around the world, while the first three digits do represent a country code that code enables you to understand where a company’s headquarters or office is located. Production, on the other hand, is often in different countries and sometimes in several countries. So, while there isn’t a barcode country of origin list, there is a list of countries in which manufacturers’ businesses are based.
No. I don't know where that claim originates -- I have heard it before, but it's not true. The code doesn't tell about origin of the product in the package. It tells which branch of the organization that issues the barcodes issued the specific barcode that the manufacturer has then printed on the package. Depending on the manufacturer the headquarters might be acquiring the barcodes for their products worldwide from one office of the barcode issuer, or the manufacturer's branches around the world might be acquiring them separately. Even in the best case the code can roughly point to the manufacturer's branch that handles the marketing (and often importing) in the country or region, and sells the products to retailers. But often stuff from one factory will be shipped to multiple nearby countries, often with packaging in different sets of languages and with different barcodes.
@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87 Snickers are a Mars Foods product, and it is made in a number of factories around the world, including Slough in England. Mars, an American company, happens to have a strong presence in the Polish market, with its factory in Janaszówek, east-central Poland, producing up to 640 million Snickers bars each year. The bar with the 590 barcode was simply made there. If the Snickers bar had been made in Slough, its barcode would have started with a number between 500 - 509
Have to comment, the Euro KitKat is from Finland/Sweden/Norway/Denmark judging by the packaging labels. I think a lot of those products are manufactured in one place and then gets shipped all over Nordics. List goes, top to bottom. Energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, dietary fiber, proteins and salt.
@@Blaublahblue The Kvikk Lunsj is the Norwegian superior version of KitKat yes. Anyone who disagrees about it being superior gets a visit from angry men in longships, even if they are landlocked.
@@Blaublahblue True, but you also find KitKat in some stores in Norway. I think it's there just for foreigners to compare them 😂 I can attest to the fact that the ingredients are written in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (in that order), then Finnish at the end, by the way.
always glad to see you wife playing a bigger role in videos, because you can just hear by your voices that you love each other, and that simple connection brightens up my day (and the cute child sounds in the background) just honest people giving honest reviews on, rally cars, food, whatever
typically the first 2-3 digits of a barcode (called the GS1 prefix) indicate the country where the product's barcode was registered, possibly where it was manufactured. For example: 00-13: USA & Canada 30-37: France 40-44: Germany 49: Japan 50: UK 69: China 76: Switzerland 80-83: Italy 84: Spain
The most maddening thing on US food packaging is that they have this mandated standardized nutritional facts thing, even specifing the fond and size and what not, but not a standardized serving size comparison.... which makes it nearly impossible to compare different products. European nutritional information will always have the service size amounts, which can be whatever, and a row of per 100g/100ml. So you can easily compare items.
Tbh the part per 100g/100ml is very important, the serving size not as much. Often times the serving suggestions are crazy small especially if we're talking about adults. 15g of nutella per serving is not even enough to cover a slice of toast.
So for the first 90% of reading I was thinking.. so what, the serving size doesn't matter as much, all you really need is the per 100gr. And then it hit me, really? In the US they list per package not per ounce or whatever freedomunit?
When I was in China I complained to one of the Americans about the taste of their chocolate. He said they need to be different to cope with the heat in America. I pointed out that Australia gets hot as does China. Hmm was his reaction.
Actually Australia has changed our chocolate over the years because of melting, we now only require something to contain 20% cocoa solids to be labelled chocolate with no more than 5% oils other than dairy or cocoa butter. US requires 10% cocoa solids. UK requires 25% minimum along with other standards. Apparently chocolate here isn't as good as it used to be unfortunately because of it but I don't eat dairy anymore so I can't say too much. I think our chocolate standards are still much better than US, first time I ate Hershey's I couldn't believe it. I reallllly tasted the butric acid 😂 I couldn't taste chocolate at all. But they do have some really nice conceptual stuff, like butterfingers. It's just a shame about their food industry standards.
My partner works for an international chocolate company in Australia and they sell products made in eastern Europe, western Europe, USA (anything with caramel) and Australia. They are all made to the same European (parent company) standards. If you don't have the aircon on full blast they don't get home before melting.
Personally I don't get the hype about Oreo. I have tried several different Oreos here in Finland (I don't remember where they were manufactured) and to me they are just okay. We have a similar product called Domino and it tastes so much better, so I don't understand why a Finn would buy Oreo.
I agree. Their marketing budget probably are larger than their manufacturing costs. Never bought an Oreo product in my life but have been served them and it´s just boring.
Yeah it's funny but also extra engagement for this guy who's making an effort to buy all the marked up European products so at least that's good for his algorithm
He can move to Australia, we have Czechs here too. Trust me, I can pronounce Ř better than at least one recent Czech president. The one born in Slovakia. To be fair, I pronounce Ř better than my dad who grew up in Odry.
One problem with these comparisons is that Europe is not a one country. Each European country still have their own laws so products differ greatly between European countries too. Probably not as much as between USA but still.
Oreo only came to the UK in the late 90s so would have been designed to taste the same. The rules for sugar fat salt and serving sizes have slowly been introduced in Europe during the last 20ish years so the recipe will have been tweaked to fit while retaining the taste as much as possible
Oreos suck. They are like "cool coz USA". But then you taste them and get back to your Prinzenrolle. They are like... yuck! The sweets you give children you don't like.
Though crumbled oreos as a cake base for a "non baking" cake (don't know the English term, in German I'd say Kühlschranktorte (=fridge cake), because they go into the fridge instead of the oven).
I became obsessed with Oreos as a kid, unfortunately, so I developed a taste for them xD I haven't had any in a long time now, though, since I've been trying to buy less stuff from the most evil corporations (of which Mondelez International is definitely one)
Oh, man. Prinzenrolle. My Tesco started selling Oreos and stopped selling Prinzenrolle. Biggest crime ever. They have like half an isle of oreos and nobody gives a damn.
Also I would like to to mention that here in Europe most of these products are produced in two or three different factories. For example from video, Oreo is produced in Romania and you can see there are different country codes. If you buy Oreo in Germany it could be from other factory and for different countries market placement.
Don't forget they also sell more expensive in Eastern Europe for the same products. In Bulgaria they showed same products that have like 50-100% higher price than in the west. Meanwhile salaries are 1/2, 1/3 compared to the west. It was big outrage here, not sure if something was done to 'fix' it tho.
Roundtree were one of the largest chocolate makers in the world when Nestlé bought them. Also responsible for Yorkie, Smarties (which M&Ms are a literal rip off), Fruit Pastilles, etc.
On the KitKat wrapper, there's "SE DK NO" and later "FI" in white inside small colored rectangles. It means it comes from the Nordic / Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. The oreos I've tasted in France seemed a lot darker, almost charcoal black, not brown.
But that does not mean it's made there, could be from UK, Germany or any other European country which produce KitKat and labelled for those countries. I can tell you that the ones found in Spain are made in Germany (they also have several country codes on it's wrapper), and tastes a bit different to the UK ones.
@@betsytb694 It's not ammonia, it's ammonium carbonate, a leavening agent commonly used in bakery. It's a bit like baking soda, which is also used in oreos. You wouldn't call baking soda sodium hydroxide, right? And it shouldn't have any effect on color. The darker color most probably comes from the "lean cocoa" (or mass cocoa, aka fat-reduced cocoa), like you'd have with a brownie using only fat-reduced cocoa.
The three first black signs with white letters at the ingredients list on the Snickers show you the short country codes. SE,DK,NO means Sweden, Denmark, Norway. The other one in the middle, FI is Finland.
Yes. The milky way is what the world calls a mars. It was due to a 1930s naming issue that the us mars family shipped to the uk and needed a different name as there was a uk bar with a planetary name. Galaxy?
The KitKat is from Scandinavia, the ingredient list is in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish all lumped together, with brackets where we use different words, and then in Finnish at the end. I couldn't see anything about where it's made though. The link is for the Rainforest Allience, not the KitKat.
I just wanted to say, the Eastern European products are a bit different than the rest of EU. Sadly, the quality is a bit lower, it was actually a huge scandal a few years ago.
Hi Ian, one way how to identify the country of origin of a packaged produce (when not explicitly stated on it) is to use the first three digits of the bar code which serve similarly to a country prefix in a phone number. You can find the list on the internet (i.e. Wikipedia).
As some others have mentioned, the KitKat is for the nordic countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. On the Oreo pack the first language is Bulgarian and it is the origin of these particular cookies. They and many other sweets, chocolate bars and candies for the Balkan/Eastern European market are made in a small town, called Svoge near the capital in a factory that has been producing local and export chocolate for 100 years (last 30 under Mondelez).
Scandinavian chocolate. ❤ I am guessing the major difference is that there is much filler in the American to make it cheaper to produce, maximizing profits, while the European must follow stricter guidelines.
the dangers of companies apparently being allowed to be completely un checked in a market as it seems to be the case with at least some american companies when they produce candy and beverages for the american market
Small correction: KitKat is BRITISH, not american. First made by Rountree's in York England in 1935. The US Version is made under licence by the H. B. Reese Candy Company, a division of the Hershey Company. The license dates back to 1970, but Roundtree's was bought by Nestlé in 1988.
You can check the country codes in ingredients list for where they are sold! That KitKat is a nordic one. Snikers looks like it's got wider set of languages in it (possible area of sales). And yes the language set in the Oreos is more "middle" Europe
Prinz polo 😍😍😍 such a great choclatebar! I love it, with haselnuts or Cocos is my favorite. My stepdad is from poland, he always bring it from there. In our little town in germany I dont find them 😢
@yvi2335 I think that you could order it online. There's a few family businesses that are sending polish food - not only sweetness - to customers in Germany
Kitkat is British KitKat is a delicious balance of creamy milk chocolate and crisp wafer fingers. Invented in York in 1935 as 'Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp', the name 'KitKat' was adopted a couple of years later. The brand has gone on to become a worldwide phenomenon, with 17 billion KitKats eaten across the globe every single year.
Agreed. I’m 65. I was brought up in my dad’s sweet shop. I remember when Rowntree changed name to Rowntree-Mackintosh, and later was bought over by Nestlé.
(Multipack) Snickers are produced in the Veghel plant in The Netherlands for Mars Eesti. Euro Kit Kat bars are produced by Nestlé in United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Turkey & Bulgaria. The European Oreo's are produced in Spain and at the Cadbury factory in the UK. For Russia they are manufactered by Mondelez in Russia.
I am German, born in the post-war period. When I was seven, we moved to Argentina; my aunt was already living in New York at the time (an incredible number of Germans emigrated during this time). In Argentina, of course, there was Argentine chocolate: at least 60% cocoa, it didn't remind me of the German chocolate that my grandma sent me on holidays, was more like the "bitter chocolate" i knew from Europe.. My aunt in New York sent me cadbury, they were the biggest bars and almost impossible for me to do on my own, but I managed it every time - I loved Cadbury, I always disappeared into my room with the whole bar + and a good book and couldn't get out until I got it completely absorbed it - this is one of the most beautiful memories in my life: CADBURY 😍
BTW, Tony's chocolate from Netherlands is probably one of the best chocolate I have ever tried. I am from Europe and tried all kinds of different chocolates, but Tony's probably takes the top spot. It is expensive, but it has a very interesting background and mission.
it tears apart my Belgian heart but.................................... (gggggod this is hard)..........you..........are............right (THERE I SAID IT) nothing to compare with praline makers but regarding industrial market it's the best
i traveled to the USA i think 8 years ago and i remember me and my brother being so excited to try out USA sweets! they all looked so fun and in our head USA = candy (lots of commercials and american animated shows had these vibrant candies and snacks). When we were finally allowed to buy some candy we stocked up, and ohhh my god. it was heaven for us. it was so sweet i remember my tooth hurting - albeit partly due to the quantity i ate in one sitting, haha
From ingredients texts it looks like KitKat packaging is Nordic with text is Swedish/Danish/Norwegian/Finnish, Snickers seem to be just European or something all languages there are English, German, French, Greek that I could see easily.
Nestlé (Swiss) bought British company Rowntree & Mackintosh in 1987. R&M's products included KitKat, Aero, Fruit Pastilles, Caramac and Quality Street. Hershey were contracted in 1976 to produce KitKat in the States, this licence pre-dates the Nestlé takeover hence there is no branding on the US market product.
Because of the way the Oreo cookies are arranged, here in the EU there are 10, not three "pins" of two cookies in one package... Regarding chocolate desserts, some products are prohibited here for health reasons. You rediscovered the same with bread. For example, here in Bulgaria, bread has only 4 ingredients. In general, the entire food industry is limited by the abuse of so-called preservatives and enhancers. There is a risk that they will punish you, and even close your company!
There is a UA-cam channel (Expedition Evans) run by a couple of American small boat sailors (worth watching - a good channel). One of them was diagnosed as gluten intolerant, and has avoided foods with gluten in them for years. Occasional accidental intake of gluten causes her problems. They are currently in Europe - and she has been eating all kinds of bread in Europe, with or without gluten, and has never felt healthier. So probably the problem is not gluten but some other crap that gets put into American foods.
@@akc5150 I just think Ian is genuinely trying to bring light to the many positives of Europe in comparison with the US so generalizing him with a provoking question like that isn't very considerate. I can understand the frustration but Ian is definitely not one of 'those' Americans, OP speaks of.
The KitKat and the Snickers you had in the video seem to be from the Scandinavia region, since those were the languages and countries marked in the descriptions on the packages. While the Oreos seem to be from the Balkan area, likely from Bulgaria since that was the first language listed on the package.
There are also snacks, which are similar versions to those-just in case there has been some room for improving. E.g. in Finland we have Kismet competing with KitKat, Tupla product family with Snickers and Domino with Oreo. Tasting videos including those: "Very Finnish Problems Taste testing Finnish chocolate bars", "Irish People Try Finnish Chocolate" and "Finnish the Candy [FINNISH THE COOKIE] Finnish Cookie taste tasting". The salty licorice/salmiakki might need a second, third and fourth opinion and perhaps some background info: "Why Finland fell in love with salty liquorice", "Fazer Salmiakki Licorice Chocolate Bar: A Product of Finland", "My Suomi Finland SALMIAKKI Chocolate: FINLAND", "The Super Laku - Finnish Liquorice ice-cream", "Jättis Bestis Salmiakki - Finnish Salt Liquorice ice cream" and "Mel Kaulfuss Liqourice Tupla (Finnish chocolate bar)".
@@572Btriode there is no american english because the united states has no native or official language the american people are not english and it's also the second largest spanish speaking country in the world
@@Gambit771 Mars is an American company...What they sell as Galaxy in the UK is sold as Dove in the U.S. The Mars product 3 Musketeer bars are similar to what we call Milky Way...and what the US know as Milky Way are similar to our Mars bars. Maltesers they don't sell in the U.S probably due to Hershey's Whoppers...which are basically the same thing. Snickers and Twix are the same name in both (nowadays since if you are old enough you will remember what we call Snickers in the UK used to be called Marathon). Bounty bars I'm pretty sure are not sold in the US as Hershey have similar products called Mounds and Almond Joy...Mounds is basically a Bounty bar and an Almond Joy is a Bounty bar with a couple of almonds on top.
RA when referring to chocolate means ‘Rainforest Alliance’, who work to support cocoa producers to get fair prices, but also to keep rainforests as safe as possible.
I'm Finnish and I checked what my local grocery store's web pages say about KitKat. The package that they have looks similar to the one you have and it is manufactured in Germany. But the other varieties of KitKat that they currently have (white chocolate, dark chocolate and hazelnut) are made in Britain. I think it may vary over time where products like this are made if the same company has several factories in Europe.
Kitkat is from scandinavia, im sure, because on ingredients it has denmark/norway/swedish (very similiar languages) and finnish on the bottom. (The black squares before ingredients [SE] = Sweden [DK] = Denmark [NO] = Norway [FI] = Finland )
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You know KitKat is English, right? It was created by Rowntree's of York in North Yorkshire. It's now owned by Nestlé - a Swiss company. It's made by Hershey's under licence in the USA
A lot of things are, skittles and starburst are also originally from the UK before being bought.
Not under license. Mondelez owns KatKit. Here in the Europe we have standards for chicolate.
Snickers was originally call Marathon in the UK,I think the makers of Snickers forced the change so the uk manufacturer ha rename it
@stevefreeman3474 it's the same manufacturer (Mars) the peanut/nougat chocolate bar was launched in the US and UK at the same time, but they called it Marathon over here coz Snickers rhymes with knickers and back then that was a rude word.
@@verttikoo2052 Nestle owns Kit Kat now, they bought Rowntree's (UK) the company that inVented them in the 90's I believe, Hershey got the rights to produce them in the USA. Mondelez produces Kvikk Lunsj a similar product to Kit Kat. Please get your facts right. Oh and the best Kit Kats I've tasted are the Japanese ones, they have many flavours.
Vomit is generally considered unpleasant in Europe. Therefore, we do not put vomit acid in our chocolate.
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We put all over our pasta though....
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@@no_no_just_no I have no idea what you mean.....
@@The_Catnip there's a lot of butyric in parmesan cheese. The vomit taste.
American chocolate requires at least 15% cocoa mass concentrate. European regulations require a minimum of 43% cocoa mass, including a minimum of 26% cocoa butter.
When it comes to ingredients I was honestly surprised by the ingredients on the US Oreo Cookies. From a European standpoint the High Fructose Corns Syrup is debatable, the soy oil is best to be avoided, depending on whom you ask (I think it is one of the substances that is considered inflammatory. Then there are the artificial flavors. Other than that, not a lot of ingredients for a US product, and most things pretty reasonable. Sadly I couldn´t see and read the ingredients on the other wrappers, might have been interesting ti see and compare those as well. Gladly coacoa was mentioned first, as chocolate was the last ingredient. That is barely one notch top of a marking like "May contain traces of chocolate"
@@alexanderkupke920 But Chocolate is made from coacoa, do you know that, do you?
In Belgium chocolate is something we're proud of. A friend of mine brought back some "chocolate" from the States after a holiday, and it just tasted like nothing.
Vomit acid as a preservative is why your chocolate is puke
@@SpiderF27what’s your point
I've noticed that since you started shopping from this European store near you, you've lost weight, and it shows, and it's wonderful. Keep up your healthy new lifestyle. Love from Greece.
@@LenaTheodor I’m glad you have noticed. 😎🎉 we have been exclusively shopping only at a couple European stores for about 6 weeks now, and I have lost almost 20 pounds (sorry American measures suck I know lol) and I haven’t been actively trying to lose weight.. it’s just been a positive benefit to buying better goods
@@IWrocker That's 9Kg converted from freedom units 😉 Sounds like a good speed too.
4:13 I FULLY disagree with you. The oversimplification on the US one gives off a "rip off" vibe. The more intricate packaging of the European/British KitKat gives off more sophisticated vibes. Also, KitKat is BRITISH, not American.
in america they think everything is american made and they think they invented everything on earth...while more than half is european made and invented in europe
And Nestlé is Swiss...
@rainerzufall42 nestlé bought it from Rowntree's, a British company. It's history is literally listed on their webpage.
@@Sif3r Yes, I know that. That was not my point though...
I like the more retro look of the US kitkat packaging.
Its funny that choclate considdered bad or low quality in Europe still beats the American choclate. Hersheys isnt considdered choclate by my standards. 😅
Greetings from Germany
It's wild that American chocolate is literally the worst chocolate by many standards, it's absolutely vile
Lindt and Hachez dark chocolate are my favourite…also from 🇩🇪
To be called chocolate in the EU, it must contain at least 30% cocoa (milk chocolate), Hershey’s in the US only has 11% cocoa. So in the EU Hershey’s isn’t even chocolate, but cacao fantasy, or something like that. (In NL it’s called cacao fantasy if the cacao is below the required amount).
@@lynnm6413Lindt is a Swiss company not German.
@@Mus.Anonymouse Except that the amount of cocoa is measured differently between the US and the EU. When accounting for this, I believe they pretty much amount to the same amount of cocoa.
In Europe, we don't put butyric acid in our chocolate bars so they don't taste like vomit.
Fun fact, the name "butyric" comes from the particular stench of "rancid butter" of several "butyric" chemicals.
Butter > butyric.
Just say that we don’t vomit on our chocolate 🎉
In America our corporate overlords rule the government and feed us microplastics.
@@KyrilPGhell yeah, butter over butyric
butter > butyric
We did once, one time it was the only way to keep chocolate from going bad quickly, but since then we have had the wonders of science pasteurised milk etc which helps keep chocolate good for longer.
Hershey's (who invented the original butyric acid method) foolishly kept a hold of the process all this time without changing, because they were fearful that Americans wouldn't like the newer taste over the one they have grown up with.
As a European, during my brief visit to Washington DC, I was chocked by two things foodwise :
- The green peas were the biggest and most beautiful green peas I had even seen, also disgustingly tasteless.
- My Quarter Pounder at McDonald was so full of oil, I felt sick all afternoon.
Americans don't know how to make food and drinks and that's a fact.
I have never understood the popularity of Oreos, they taste like two sheets of cardboard stuck together with kid's glue.
In the UK there are so many Cadbury's with Oreo 'fusion' products - cake bars, easter eggs, ice cream, dairy milk with cookie bits etc. It's like Mondelez, through owning Cadbury, seriously wants to will into existence some liking for Oreo. The biscuits suck - stop shoving them into other things. Rather have supermarket basics custard/bourbon creams tbh.
@@tonyduffy7441Agree, the 'cream' in oreos has no flavour at all. Custard and bourbon creams are 100% better, but Fox's Gypsy Creams (am I still allowed to call them that? - I don't have any in the house to look at!) are 1,000% better.
I hate them. It's like eating sand. I thought I was the only one that didn't like Oreos.
@@vanesag.9863 Agree. It's like they used flour mixed with some sort of sand for the biscuits, with a layer of dried-out cheap glue to hold them together. You can feel the texture on your tongue, instead of tasting any flavour.
You're right! Prinzen Rolle® ftw!
Im so happy to see your channel hitting those views Ian been following for years now, your videos got me through rough times, keepit up!
Hershey is literally one of the worst excuses for chocolate ever
They're cheap, that was literally their mission. Find a way to get chocolate to the masses with an affordable pricetag.
@@MLWJ1993Europe managed to do that with many companies without tasting like vomit, especially English chocolate, sounds more like greed to me.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 That isn't the case, the process invented by Hershey's to preserve chocolate for longer used a milk spoiling method, hence the unique "taste", Hershey's simply hasn't moved on from that process out of fear their customers would hate the change. So they keep the same recipe as before.
@@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 its also more expensive to use better ingredients... Other chocolates have switched and still kept their customer base, and many Americans seem to prefer more European style chocolates...
I never tried Hershey and I don't remember ever seeing it. Where are they sold?
Before a Euopean ingredients list there will be two capital letters to identify the country/language area of (most) sale:
Belgium (BE) Greece (EL) Lithuania (LT) Portugal (PT)
Bulgaria (BG) Spain (ES) Luxembourg (LU) Romania (RO)
Czechia (CZ) France (FR) Hungary (HU) Slovenia (SI)
Denmark (DK) Croatia (HR) Malta (MT) Slovakia (SK)
Germany(DE) Italy (IT) Netherlands (NL) Finland (FI)
Estonia (EE) Cyprus (CY) Austria (AT) Sweden (SE)
Ireland (IE) Latvia (LV) Poland (PL)
This can also be used to identify number plates of cars
Edit: in some countries the licence plate has only one letter to identify the country
Edit: these are the EU countries only
He knows that, he used it in other videos
@@mif4731 Repeating can be Helpful, often you See things through different Eye´s, on a 2nd Look.
Even in the Basics.
(RS) Serbia
The kitkat had several capital letters. Doesn't really tell which country it was produced in.
@@rickardelimaa The letters were for Sweden, Norway and Denmark. I think those three country share the KitKat distribution among each other. They often work together very close
💡Next time maybe blind test the food/snack after unwrapping (or let your wife do the unwrapping, so she only knows which one is which)
good idea!
Commenting so they see it. Awesome suggestion!
I just suggested that aswell.. 14 hours later :-) Its such a good idea.
Nice one !
Hello there, was looking for a comment like this, greetings from France.
Do you or your wife like Marzipan and dark chocolate? If so try that combination from Ritter . Another all time favorite is Toblerone.
Fun fact, Kit Kat (at least in the UK) tasted way better when it was packaged in foil & paper sleeves. The taste changed to the point I stopped buying them.
I totally agree with you.
I think the Snicker is different, because Europeans know how real nougat taste! 😋🤷♂️✌🏼
I was watching a video with Babish the other week and he was adamant that he hated nougat - then had a UK bar of something and did a 180
Mars is also very different, milky way as well
@@Psychofuechschen indeed the European made Mars and Milky way is way better. I was so dissapointed when I was in the US tasting the chocolate.
@@Psychofuechschen I believe the US Mars Bars are called Milky Ways and their Milky Ways are called Three Musketeers (I could be misremembering this, please correct me if I'm wrong).
You're an idiot @@stuartfaulds1580
You know what my favorite bar is? A European Lion chocolate bar. I just love the crunch of the puffed rice in there.
Favourite.
The white choco version is even better, imo
I didn't had Lion in years and you just made me realize this. I need to buy one now lol.
@aqua3890 I eat those sugar-coated and colored puff rice candies as well. But yeah, it is fine to have different tastes. How boring the world would be if we all liked or even just had to eat the same thing. It would look like a prison planet.
Yes, though I'm still a big fan of Nuts, which is a bit old-fashioned I guess.
Considering that European KitKat and snickers tastes better and there isn't much difference between Oreos - helps me understand why I don't like Oreos 😀
Hate Oreos. I love Aldi's dupes, they are palatable and 100% better than originals.
I absolutely hate oreos too, the only thing that I like though is milka oreo, that shit is addictive
I don’t like Oreos either. Here in Germany there are so many way better cookies to choose from than Oreos. And the best are homemade cookies without all that chemical crap in it
Only tried them once and it just didn't taste good. Doesn't help to know that the white cream is just pure fat and sugar beaten up with air.
The same. Oreos taste so unnatural compared to other biscuits and cookies.
14:15 The "weird" flavor is, probably, the roasted peanuts.
You should look into Japan. Japan have a HUGE (echo) range of Kitkats that come in some crazy flavours (spelt with a U because I speak real English)
i like the green tea ones
If you go to Ginza in Tokyo there is a KitKat emporium there and they sell lots of the different flavours in all sorts of sizes as well as selection boxes that are beautiful as gifts. Different prefectures in Japan have their own flavours too.
I really like the Sakura flavour and I also had Hojicha tea flavour that was delivious and really tasted like the tea.
They're super popular in Japan because "Kitto Kattsu" can translate as "you will surely win" - Mum's put them in bento boxes if their kids have an exam.
You should try Lindt chocolate, it will blow your mind.
Yes the balls from Lindt 🎉
Milk chocolate would be a clsssic for comparisons. But there are many more -- and better ones.
Swiss an Belgian chocolates are the best.
My sister is in the US at the moment staying with american friends and they gave her some lindt balls as fancy chocolate and asked her if they are the same. She said that ours (european) are much better, the american ones taste like poor chocolate for our standards
@@L.RangerFord can't eat many of them, super, super rich 😂
Oh yeah, the red big lindor balls! not the small ones, the big ones!!!
KitKat began production in 1935 in York, England, under the banner of the Rowntree Company. Many, many years later Nestlé bought the company. It's another one of those excellent products that Americans like to assume they made just because it's so good.
Im a huge KitKat fan, went over and had the usa version, it just tastes like sugar in a chocolate bar, hardly any flavour, can't even compare the 2
@@Alakablam They stick with their version of 'chocolate'
@@Alakablam Have you tried the Japanese ones (original and the many flavoured ones they have)? IMO they taste great too.
@@Me-uh1lb Shame that Nestle won't take the leap into making more flavours over here, the reason why it is like that in Japan is people love variety and weird gimmicky flavours over there, but also their kit kats are smaller in size so any that don't sell isn't a big loss to the company.
I loved the Ruby Chocolate one though.
@@mcgeorgeofthejungle6204 Think the reason is that there already were so many flavoured chocolate things anyway in Europe. So för these international brand things, they sort of have to stick to the one thing being the variety out of it all. Let's also consider that there really are very few companies being the owner of most of them anyway. So even completely different brands originally are now really the same companies product.
Anyways, the more ..experimental? chocolate in Europe seem to tend to be made for the more premium range products.
I'm amazed no one has pointed out that KitKat is British.
Not a single comment about it.
I’ve seen 4
@josephfoulger9628 wooooosh
KitKAt is NOT british. Hasn't been for 44 years now. It is owned by Nestlé, which is a Swiss company.
@@N7senseiahh OK. So, bugatti is owned by Audi which is German. But, bugatti is a French car manufacturer still to this day.
Also, many nestle products are made in the UK. They have a factory in Halifax
@@N7sensei congratulations on the most stupid comment in the section.
Amazing video! The only suggestion is to include a little history into each item's introduction. Knowing where they originated and some random cool facts would really move it to the next level ;)
Sorry mate kitkat is originally from the uk
yes, since '35, and now owned by a Swiss company
And how they make the modern chocolate is a Dutch recipe
I just wanted to tell the guy as he is a lovely bloke and I think he would like to know nothing more really ❤
@@daphnelovesLDank u
Anyway, today everything belongs either to Nestlé or to Danone.
I didn't know if food in Europe taste better but they are surely less toxic
Much less toxic!
Check this one and order some : Cote d'or chocolade.
The best chocolate you can get. Real chocolate. Founded in 1883 in Brussels.
Enjoy.
because Europe has strict laws and regulations of what can be put into foods and what not, also everything is denied sales until proven safe for human consumption by the highly regulated testing facilities, I heard that really dont exist in USA, its more like sale allowed until proven unsafe while europe has denied sale until proven safe
@@laurapalmerTDGE i live in Austria even the cheapest chocolate taste good no need to pay 10 Euro or more when i can have something just as good for a fraction of the price
@@Bagrem95 - Mirabell oder Manner? Oder ... ?
Good chocolate doesn't need to be that expensive.
CÔTE D'OR melk hazelnoot
2x200 gram = 8 EUR.
@Bagrem95 but the chocolate mentioned doesn't even cost 10 euros... 😅
First 3 digits of barcode can be used to identify country of origin. On Snickers is 590 for Poland, Oreo is 762 for Switzerland.
@LudovitVarga According to GS1, the organization that develops, establishes, and communicates barcoding standards in use around the world, while the first three digits do represent a country code that code enables you to understand where a company’s headquarters or office is located. Production, on the other hand, is often in different countries and sometimes in several countries. So, while there isn’t a barcode country of origin list, there is a list of countries in which manufacturers’ businesses are based.
No. I don't know where that claim originates -- I have heard it before, but it's not true. The code doesn't tell about origin of the product in the package. It tells which branch of the organization that issues the barcodes issued the specific barcode that the manufacturer has then printed on the package. Depending on the manufacturer the headquarters might be acquiring the barcodes for their products worldwide from one office of the barcode issuer, or the manufacturer's branches around the world might be acquiring them separately. Even in the best case the code can roughly point to the manufacturer's branch that handles the marketing (and often importing) in the country or region, and sells the products to retailers. But often stuff from one factory will be shipped to multiple nearby countries, often with packaging in different sets of languages and with different barcodes.
@@alanmorris9425 well, I had no idea snickers was polish
@butlazgazempropan-butan11k87 Snickers are a Mars Foods product, and it is made in a number of factories around the world, including Slough in England. Mars, an American company, happens to have a strong presence in the Polish market, with its factory in Janaszówek, east-central Poland, producing up to 640 million Snickers bars each year. The bar with the 590 barcode was simply made there. If the Snickers bar had been made in Slough, its barcode would have started with a number between 500 - 509
But the Oreos are made for northern europe: Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. That's on the ingredients list.
if you do next time try brands like *milka* and other common brands usually found in central europe(germany, czechia etc)
In the US, we don't put chocolate in our vomit bars so they don't taste like chocolate.
Haha, love how we all came to the comments to say that KitKat is English originally 🤣
I love your comparison videos Ian, keep them coming!
Have to comment, the Euro KitKat is from Finland/Sweden/Norway/Denmark judging by the packaging labels. I think a lot of those products are manufactured in one place and then gets shipped all over Nordics. List goes, top to bottom. Energy, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugar, dietary fiber, proteins and salt.
Gonna add here, had to check from store sites. KitKat sold in Nordics is manufactured in Germany
For me it's Ghana chocolate From the brand Golden Tree Kings bite. 2nd comes Belgian chocolate. The rest you can forget!
Isn't Kvikk Lunsj the nordic version of Kitkat?
@@Blaublahblue The Kvikk Lunsj is the Norwegian superior version of KitKat yes. Anyone who disagrees about it being superior gets a visit from angry men in longships, even if they are landlocked.
@@Blaublahblue True, but you also find KitKat in some stores in Norway. I think it's there just for foreigners to compare them 😂
I can attest to the fact that the ingredients are written in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian (in that order), then Finnish at the end, by the way.
always glad to see you wife playing a bigger role in videos, because you can just hear by your voices that you love each other, and that simple connection brightens up my day (and the cute child sounds in the background)
just honest people giving honest reviews on, rally cars, food, whatever
@@DoctorGibbon aweeee thank you for your kind words. Very nice comment 🥰🥰🥰 Daniela
My favourite alternative to KitKat is actually the Norwegian "Kvikk Lunsj" ("Quick Lunch").
Sadly it's hard to get them here in Switzerland...
If you can get your hands on some, give the Marabou KEX bar a try. Soooo good.
i bought 6 six packs yesterday!!! the best chocholate to coffe!!!!! Kvikk Lunsj rules!!,,,just give me a word, and i'll ship you some Ian!
Both are owned by US company Kraft these days.
typically the first 2-3 digits of a barcode (called the GS1 prefix) indicate the country where the product's barcode was registered, possibly where it was manufactured. For example:
00-13: USA & Canada
30-37: France
40-44: Germany
49: Japan
50: UK
69: China
76: Switzerland
80-83: Italy
84: Spain
I've never seen anybody hold a kitkat for that long😂 are you cold blooded Ian?😂
😂😂😂
I was thinking the same thing 🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Theirs is not melting like the waxy Stuff.
They have AC, remember! 😂
The most maddening thing on US food packaging is that they have this mandated standardized nutritional facts thing, even specifing the fond and size and what not, but not a standardized serving size comparison.... which makes it nearly impossible to compare different products. European nutritional information will always have the service size amounts, which can be whatever, and a row of per 100g/100ml. So you can easily compare items.
Tbh the part per 100g/100ml is very important, the serving size not as much. Often times the serving suggestions are crazy small especially if we're talking about adults. 15g of nutella per serving is not even enough to cover a slice of toast.
So for the first 90% of reading I was thinking.. so what, the serving size doesn't matter as much, all you really need is the per 100gr.
And then it hit me, really? In the US they list per package not per ounce or whatever freedomunit?
Same here in Australia. I only pay attention to the per 100ml/100g. Crazy that the US doesn't do this.
European serving size is always 70percent less then you want it to be.
@@Trebor74 Service size of potato chips(crisps) - that's a joke, right?
When I was in China I complained to one of the Americans about the taste of their chocolate. He said they need to be different to cope with the heat in America. I pointed out that Australia gets hot as does China. Hmm was his reaction.
Actually Australia has changed our chocolate over the years because of melting, we now only require something to contain 20% cocoa solids to be labelled chocolate with no more than 5% oils other than dairy or cocoa butter. US requires 10% cocoa solids. UK requires 25% minimum along with other standards. Apparently chocolate here isn't as good as it used to be unfortunately because of it but I don't eat dairy anymore so I can't say too much. I think our chocolate standards are still much better than US, first time I ate Hershey's I couldn't believe it. I reallllly tasted the butric acid 😂 I couldn't taste chocolate at all. But they do have some really nice conceptual stuff, like butterfingers. It's just a shame about their food industry standards.
My partner works for an international chocolate company in Australia and they sell products made in eastern Europe, western Europe, USA (anything with caramel) and Australia. They are all made to the same European (parent company) standards.
If you don't have the aircon on full blast they don't get home before melting.
Love your excitement about this!!! Keep up with those videos. I like it.
Please notice that even Eastern European products of the same brand differ from the Western European ones.
French fanta are differents than belgian fanta..
@@EmDe3003 my Lord, how do you name TWO WESTERN COUNTRIES? 😂
HIT HIT MISS MISS
@@LathropLdST?
@@LathropLdST drink water
Personally I don't get the hype about Oreo. I have tried several different Oreos here in Finland (I don't remember where they were manufactured) and to me they are just okay. We have a similar product called Domino and it tastes so much better, so I don't understand why a Finn would buy Oreo.
I agree. Their marketing budget probably are larger than their manufacturing costs. Never bought an Oreo product in my life but have been served them and it´s just boring.
Yeah I agree Oreo’s and biscoff overhyped and overrated.
Dominos are far superior to Oreos if you ask me.
The chocolate covered Dominos are the best. The oreo alternative is horrible in comparison
@@craig5066hey now, not my biscoff, that's an old Belgian classic
Omg people. Read before writing. Now we all know, kit Kat is UK product
Is it, how did you find out?
To be fair, the UK invented the chocolate bar, you're welcome world
Yeah it's funny but also extra engagement for this guy who's making an effort to buy all the marked up European products so at least that's good for his algorithm
The Swiss bought out The UK company of Rowntree's so was made in the UK & Kitkats are still made in UK for Nestle
Ikr can people reead the comments first, a couple repeats is one thing cause they might not have found the comments saying the same thing but still
Brother... Your life is Europe not USA.
Move to Europe, buy Škoda and live happily untill end of time
He'll be the most happily welcomed person by all European countries
Ahhh yes. The Škoda is waiting for him.
Move to NL and buy a Škoda and a UNIMOG and as @rankoostojic6846 already said: live happily untill the end of time 🙂
He can move to Australia, we have Czechs here too. Trust me, I can pronounce Ř better than at least one recent Czech president. The one born in Slovakia. To be fair, I pronounce Ř better than my dad who grew up in Odry.
I've called it before, he'll relocate within 2 years
1:48 what you meant to say was that the european version appears to be less unhealthy :)
Oreo is a brand of cookies from the American company Nabisco, part of Mondelēz International, that first came onto the market in 1912.
5:57 because we don’t use butyric acid in our chocolate because it should be illegal
Kit kat is English. I'm sure no-one else has told you that in the comments.
Absolutely no-one else.
😂 😂😂 no- one!
Can't see any other comments, nope, none whatsoever
Still waiting for a similar reply to yours. 🤔
Absolutly no one 😂
But that's an American made KitKat,so American.
KitKat was an English chocolate bar first, not American.
Even now, it's not really american. It's american in the states but swiss in the rest of the world.
@@dalriada7554still an English chocolate bar.
That explains a lot why it taste so bad.
@@Gambit771 I don't disagree, I'm just saying that even if you go by owner rather than origin, it's not american
@@jensv874 How?
One problem with these comparisons is that Europe is not a one country. Each European country still have their own laws so products differ greatly between European countries too. Probably not as much as between USA but still.
Man i love these videoes, you hit a goldmine with this idea
So glad you found this sweetspot of videos, they go HARD 😋👍🏼.
Greetz from germany.
What is "shocking" for me is that the oreos taste the same while the ingredient list show much less crap in the European one...
You can’t polish a turd. Horrible confections.
Oreo only came to the UK in the late 90s so would have been designed to taste the same. The rules for sugar fat salt and serving sizes have slowly been introduced in Europe during the last 20ish years so the recipe will have been tweaked to fit while retaining the taste as much as possible
@@julia2jules Very interesting ! So why is it necessary to add high fructose corn syrup and canola oil in the US ?
let me guess...
@@eagle1de227 Money, yes. Those are readily available in USA.
@@kikixchannel This corn syrup stuff is heavily subsidized (or the raw material is, don't remember exactly).
Oreos suck. They are like "cool coz USA". But then you taste them and get back to your Prinzenrolle. They are like... yuck! The sweets you give children you don't like.
Though crumbled oreos as a cake base for a "non baking" cake (don't know the English term, in German I'd say Kühlschranktorte (=fridge cake), because they go into the fridge instead of the oven).
Yeah you just buy them for the fun of it in Europe, but there are way better biscuits in the market, and oreo isn't even cheaper either.
I became obsessed with Oreos as a kid, unfortunately, so I developed a taste for them xD
I haven't had any in a long time now, though, since I've been trying to buy less stuff from the most evil corporations (of which Mondelez International is definitely one)
I tried the gingerbread ones recently. They suck even worse than the normal ones.
Oh, man. Prinzenrolle. My Tesco started selling Oreos and stopped selling Prinzenrolle. Biggest crime ever. They have like half an isle of oreos and nobody gives a damn.
Nice video as always. A little hint for you, the 3 first numbers in the barcode tells country of origin, you can google the list
Also I would like to to mention that here in Europe most of these products are produced in two or three different factories. For example from video, Oreo is produced in Romania and you can see there are different country codes. If you buy Oreo in Germany it could be from other factory and for different countries market placement.
Companys make better quality for Western Europe than Eastern Europe its proven on court by Croatian represantive in EU parlament Biljana Borzan.
Don't forget they also sell more expensive in Eastern Europe for the same products. In Bulgaria they showed same products that have like 50-100% higher price than in the west. Meanwhile salaries are 1/2, 1/3 compared to the west. It was big outrage here, not sure if something was done to 'fix' it tho.
KitKat is not american. They are made my Nestlé (Swiss company) worldwide except in the USA where they are made by Hershey's.
Invented by roundtree from England first and bought by Nestle
Roundtree were one of the largest chocolate makers in the world when Nestlé bought them. Also responsible for Yorkie, Smarties (which M&Ms are a literal rip off), Fruit Pastilles, etc.
They had (or have?) the slogan:
"Have a break, have a kitkat!"
@@productjoe4069 it's Rowntree
@@majorminor3367Nestle made Kit Kat's too sweet they were better when Rowntree made them.
On the KitKat wrapper, there's "SE DK NO" and later "FI" in white inside small colored rectangles.
It means it comes from the Nordic / Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.
The oreos I've tasted in France seemed a lot darker, almost charcoal black, not brown.
same here in hungary, its like charcoal black
the black color is because ammonia has been added to the cocoa, which is stated on the packaging as an E number (E503) so now you know
@@betsytb694 #TheMoreYouKnow
But that does not mean it's made there, could be from UK, Germany or any other European country which produce KitKat and labelled for those countries. I can tell you that the ones found in Spain are made in Germany (they also have several country codes on it's wrapper), and tastes a bit different to the UK ones.
@@betsytb694 It's not ammonia, it's ammonium carbonate, a leavening agent commonly used in bakery. It's a bit like baking soda, which is also used in oreos.
You wouldn't call baking soda sodium hydroxide, right?
And it shouldn't have any effect on color.
The darker color most probably comes from the "lean cocoa" (or mass cocoa, aka fat-reduced cocoa), like you'd have with a brownie using only fat-reduced cocoa.
Interesting to see. Im from germany. Thanks for the video
The three first black signs with white letters at the ingredients list on the Snickers show you the short country codes. SE,DK,NO means Sweden, Denmark, Norway. The other one in the middle, FI is Finland.
I recently learned that your version of Milkyway, is more like a Mars bar(?) 😮
Yes. The milky way is what the world calls a mars. It was due to a 1930s naming issue that the us mars family shipped to the uk and needed a different name as there was a uk bar with a planetary name. Galaxy?
The KitKat is from Scandinavia, the ingredient list is in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish all lumped together, with brackets where we use different words, and then in Finnish at the end. I couldn't see anything about where it's made though. The link is for the Rainforest Allience, not the KitKat.
I just wanted to say, the Eastern European products are a bit different than the rest of EU. Sadly, the quality is a bit lower, it was actually a huge scandal a few years ago.
Also, when Nestlé buys some regional sweet they often make it a more universal receipe -- usually not improving it
Horse meat lasagna
@@la-go-xy RIP Quality Street.
@@jwi1085 that was a 90s thing. :)))
@@alexia2189 it was in 2013, and tagged back to food chains in Romania, are you thinking of mad cow disease (BSE)?
Metric KitKat and Imperial KitKat 😂😂 4:51
Hi Ian, one way how to identify the country of origin of a packaged produce (when not explicitly stated on it) is to use the first three digits of the bar code which serve similarly to a country prefix in a phone number. You can find the list on the internet (i.e. Wikipedia).
As some others have mentioned, the KitKat is for the nordic countries - Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
On the Oreo pack the first language is Bulgarian and it is the origin of these particular cookies. They and many other sweets, chocolate bars and candies for the Balkan/Eastern European market are made in a small town, called Svoge near the capital in a factory that has been producing local and export chocolate for 100 years (last 30 under Mondelez).
@@borrisdzh wow cool! Thank you for letting us know!🙂
Scandinavian chocolate. ❤ I am guessing the major difference is that there is much filler in the American to make it cheaper to produce, maximizing profits, while the European must follow stricter guidelines.
The vomit flavoring also makes American chocolate taste bad.
The Snickers is produced for the Scandinavian market. The ingrediënts on the package are in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.
Marabou is really nice!
the dangers of companies apparently being allowed to be completely un checked in a market as it seems to be the case with at least some american companies when they produce candy and beverages for the american market
Small correction: KitKat is BRITISH, not american.
First made by Rountree's in York England in 1935.
The US Version is made under licence by the H. B. Reese Candy Company, a division of the Hershey Company. The license dates back to 1970, but Roundtree's was bought by Nestlé in 1988.
And of course Nestle was bought by US company Kraft Foods, making them all 'American' these days.
You can check the country codes in ingredients list for where they are sold! That KitKat is a nordic one. Snikers looks like it's got wider set of languages in it (possible area of sales). And yes the language set in the Oreos is more "middle" Europe
Try find a sweets from Poland - fir example a Prince Polo wafers in dark or milk chocolate
Prinz polo 😍😍😍 such a great choclatebar! I love it, with haselnuts or Cocos is my favorite. My stepdad is from poland, he always bring it from there. In our little town in germany I dont find them 😢
@yvi2335 I think that you could order it online. There's a few family businesses that are sending polish food - not only sweetness - to customers in Germany
Kitkat is British
KitKat is a delicious balance of creamy milk chocolate and crisp wafer fingers. Invented in York in 1935 as 'Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp', the name 'KitKat' was adopted a couple of years later. The brand has gone on to become a worldwide phenomenon, with 17 billion KitKats eaten across the globe every single year.
Kitkat is british, or was, I'm 56 and worked at Rowntrees in York for 13 years from 1990 to 2003
Agreed. I’m 65. I was brought up in my dad’s sweet shop. I remember when Rowntree changed name to Rowntree-Mackintosh, and later was bought over by Nestlé.
I remember going past the rolo factory in Halifax, smelt amazing in the mornings!!
(Multipack) Snickers are produced in the Veghel plant in The Netherlands for Mars Eesti.
Euro Kit Kat bars are produced by Nestlé in United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Turkey & Bulgaria.
The European Oreo's are produced in Spain and at the Cadbury factory in the UK. For Russia they are manufactered by Mondelez in Russia.
Multitask Snickers are also produced at the Slough UK factory.
kitkat label is nordic, sold by sweden, denmark, norway and finland. creetings from finland. thanks again for great video.
I am German, born in the post-war period. When I was seven, we moved to Argentina; my aunt was already living in New York at the time (an incredible number of Germans emigrated during this time). In Argentina, of course, there was Argentine chocolate: at least 60% cocoa, it didn't remind me of the German chocolate that my grandma sent me on holidays, was more like the "bitter chocolate" i knew from Europe.. My aunt in New York sent me cadbury, they were the biggest bars and almost impossible for me to do on my own, but I managed it every time - I loved Cadbury, I always disappeared into my room with the whole bar + and a good book and couldn't get out until I got it completely absorbed it - this is one of the most beautiful memories in my life: CADBURY 😍
BTW, Tony's chocolate from Netherlands is probably one of the best chocolate I have ever tried. I am from Europe and tried all kinds of different chocolates, but Tony's probably takes the top spot. It is expensive, but it has a very interesting background and mission.
Great chocolate, but I wish their mission didn't spread into the shape of their bars - impossible to break off a sensible amount.
@maciozo1 unless you're gonna finish it in one sitting. In that case shape doesn't really matter 😀
Have you tried Ombar or Patrick Roger?
it tears apart my Belgian heart but.................................... (gggggod this is hard)..........you..........are............right (THERE I SAID IT) nothing to compare with praline makers but regarding industrial market it's the best
Kinder has so many different and interesting products and I'd love to see you try them!
The first numbers of the barcode identifies the country, where the product comes from.
i traveled to the USA i think 8 years ago and i remember me and my brother being so excited to try out USA sweets! they all looked so fun and in our head USA = candy (lots of commercials and american animated shows had these vibrant candies and snacks). When we were finally allowed to buy some candy we stocked up, and ohhh my god. it was heaven for us. it was so sweet i remember my tooth hurting - albeit partly due to the quantity i ate in one sitting, haha
From ingredients texts it looks like KitKat packaging is Nordic with text is Swedish/Danish/Norwegian/Finnish, Snickers seem to be just European or something all languages there are English, German, French, Greek that I could see easily.
Nestlé (Swiss) bought British company Rowntree & Mackintosh in 1987. R&M's products included KitKat, Aero, Fruit Pastilles, Caramac and Quality Street. Hershey were contracted in 1976 to produce KitKat in the States, this licence pre-dates the Nestlé takeover hence there is no branding on the US market product.
Because of the way the Oreo cookies are arranged, here in the EU there are 10, not three "pins" of two cookies in one package...
Regarding chocolate desserts, some products are prohibited here for health reasons. You rediscovered the same with bread. For example, here in Bulgaria, bread has only 4 ingredients.
In general, the entire food industry is limited by the abuse of so-called preservatives and enhancers. There is a risk that they will punish you, and even close your company!
There is a UA-cam channel (Expedition Evans) run by a couple of American small boat sailors (worth watching - a good channel). One of them was diagnosed as gluten intolerant, and has avoided foods with gluten in them for years. Occasional accidental intake of gluten causes her problems. They are currently in Europe - and she has been eating all kinds of bread in Europe, with or without gluten, and has never felt healthier. So probably the problem is not gluten but some other crap that gets put into American foods.
Errr Kitkats are originally from England.
Why do Americans always presume everything started there?
Give him a break :D
@@Cyan37 🤣🤣 I applaud you for that comment sir!! 🖖🖖
Because americans think they do everything better fantasyland thinking
@@akc5150 I just think Ian is genuinely trying to bring light to the many positives of Europe in comparison with the US so generalizing him with a provoking question like that isn't very considerate.
I can understand the frustration but Ian is definitely not one of 'those' Americans, OP speaks of.
They all think that apple pie comes from America as well 🤦♂️🤣
The KitKat and the Snickers you had in the video seem to be from the Scandinavia region, since those were the languages and countries marked in the descriptions on the packages. While the Oreos seem to be from the Balkan area, likely from Bulgaria since that was the first language listed on the package.
KitKat was invented in england and ist now produced from nestle, which is swiss. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Kat
There are also snacks, which are similar versions to those-just in case there has been some room for improving. E.g. in Finland we have Kismet competing with KitKat, Tupla product family with Snickers and Domino with Oreo. Tasting videos including those: "Very Finnish Problems Taste testing Finnish chocolate bars", "Irish People Try Finnish Chocolate" and "Finnish the Candy [FINNISH THE COOKIE] Finnish Cookie taste tasting".
The salty licorice/salmiakki might need a second, third and fourth opinion and perhaps some background info: "Why Finland fell in love with salty liquorice", "Fazer Salmiakki Licorice Chocolate Bar: A Product of Finland", "My Suomi Finland SALMIAKKI Chocolate: FINLAND", "The Super Laku - Finnish Liquorice ice-cream", "Jättis Bestis Salmiakki - Finnish Salt Liquorice ice cream" and "Mel Kaulfuss Liqourice Tupla (Finnish chocolate bar)".
If you get the chance, maybe try some japanese kit-kats :) they're really fun.
Hello kitty kat..?
Oh, the green tea one was the best KitKat I ever had.
Yeah,japanese KitKat come in a bunch of flavors that the rest of the world will never see
On the Snickers bar there's a barcode starting with 5 90, which is a country code for Poland.
Also, that other language you mentioned is probably greek lol
@@youlol7331Bulgarian has left the chat
And 762 on the Oreo Switzerland, full list en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GS1_country_codes
kitkats english not american
like apple pie
and the english language
And Mars bar.
Yes. There is no "American" English, it's just spelling mistakes. 🙂
@@test-201 well, that's just bitter
@@572Btriode there is no american english because the united states has no native or official language the american people are not english and it's also the second largest spanish speaking country in the world
@@Gambit771 Mars is an American company...What they sell as Galaxy in the UK is sold as Dove in the U.S. The Mars product 3 Musketeer bars are similar to what we call Milky Way...and what the US know as Milky Way are similar to our Mars bars. Maltesers they don't sell in the U.S probably due to Hershey's Whoppers...which are basically the same thing. Snickers and Twix are the same name in both (nowadays since if you are old enough you will remember what we call Snickers in the UK used to be called Marathon). Bounty bars I'm pretty sure are not sold in the US as Hershey have similar products called Mounds and Almond Joy...Mounds is basically a Bounty bar and an Almond Joy is a Bounty bar with a couple of almonds on top.
RA when referring to chocolate means ‘Rainforest Alliance’, who work to support cocoa producers to get fair prices, but also to keep rainforests as safe as possible.
You should try Mars bar also
Many years ago Snickers used to be branded 'Marathon' in the UK.
It was changed in 1990.
@@wessexdruid7598 Not in my mind. It's still a marathon!
My dad never are one again. He said Snickers sounded like Knickers 😂😂😂
it was Nuts, in France, then Snickers.
@@Searover749In germany we have/haf nuts as well. But it was different from snickers. It hat almonds instead of peanuts.
I remember a 5 bar Roundtrees KitKat in the 70s, the OG
You should visitas Europe, greetings from Spain
I'm Finnish and I checked what my local grocery store's web pages say about KitKat. The package that they have looks similar to the one you have and it is manufactured in Germany. But the other varieties of KitKat that they currently have (white chocolate, dark chocolate and hazelnut) are made in Britain. I think it may vary over time where products like this are made if the same company has several factories in Europe.
Kitkat is from scandinavia, im sure, because on ingredients it has denmark/norway/swedish (very similiar languages) and finnish on the bottom.
(The black squares before ingredients [SE] = Sweden [DK] = Denmark [NO] = Norway [FI] = Finland )
If it also has English on it then usually it is from the UK
If you use the UPC bar code decoding list (the numbers over the bar code) you can easily identify the country of origin.
@@kerouac2 that’s good to know I will tell Ian, thank you 😊
KitKat was invented in the UK, and Nestlé is a Swiss-based company.
I wonder if anyone in the comments will take the time to tell the history of the Kit-Kat.......
Make sure to try "Mila".
One of the best snacks from Slovakia. I'm just so in love with that thing.
Try products of Croatia from Kraš, like Dorina, Domaćica, Napolitanke Bajadera and many others