Pretty cool that the German kids' points of reference are natural foods - honey, marzipan, cinnamon... I feel like in America, kids would probably only be able to compare them to *other* manufactured products lol
I once heard, that in america, a lot of kids don't know how a real strawberry tastes like, they only know the artificial taste of it. Don't know if thats true?
Isn't it interesting that kids' first reaction on seeing food they've never tasted before is to smell it. This is true across all ethnicities, countries, and cultures.
The children were so soft-spoken and polite! Not the reactions I would expect from children in the USA, especially when they didn't like the taste of something! It took a LOT before those little girls actually spit something out into the trash! And I agree with you: cold, dry Pop-Tarts aren't at all palatable. Ewww!
yeah they asked first "can I spit in here?" because normally you'd see thouse trash cans with a plastic bag inside of them. So it's kinda weird to spit inside of a bare trash can (I don't remember ever doing that in my 32 years of my life [spitting anything inside of a trash can except for maybe chewing gums]). I considered it with food active poinsoning (but had a bucket instead).
Yeah, it's like that. People here are a lot more conscious of their health ON AVERAGE, unfortunately not everyone. But schools and kindergarten have some additional functions as well, I think those have been anchored in your school system at one time as well. The additional functions are, besides the teaching assignment, for example the educational mission! So teachers and staff look (passively!!! they don't go to anyone examining!) for injuries or actual condition, like getting enough sleep, conscious, active, acting strange,... and at times at what the children eat! Obviously they look closer with younger children as the danger of mistreatment, malnourishment, etc... is far more grave as they couldn't defend themselves at younger age. So there's help programs offered for that, school cantinas, we have cooking and housekeeping (lifekeeping... 😅), etc... And they get taught from very little you're eating x, y and z now!
Am Samstag, dem 7. Oktober 2023, unterzeichnete der Gouverneur von Kalifornien, Gavin Newsom, einen Gesetzentwurf, der allgemein als „Skittles Ban“ bekannt ist. Zur Klarstellung: Der Gesetzentwurf verbietet Skittles nicht, verbietet aber vier Lebensmittelzusatzstoffe - bromiertes Pflanzenöl, Kaliumbromat, Propylparaben und Red Dye-3, die möglicherweise Krebs verursachen. Das Gesetz wird, sofern es genehmigt wird, ab dem 1. Januar 2027 in Kraft treten.
@@karinland8533 yah like mcdonalds and every other stuff from america ^^ man EU banned so much stuff from america even bread no chicken import no prok import basicly every meat ^^ alot of sweets are banned tough mountain dew too etc thers alot of stuff u dont wana consume in america >.
@@Shoryuken89 McDonalds is not banned in Europe. Imported meat is banned but that's because America use too much antibiotics and other susopicious medicine in the animals. We produce meat locally both because we can control what the animals are feed and because the transport cost and time is lower. Mountain Dew also is produced locally, with changed ingredients to meet the European safety standards.
Now you know how I feel when Americans try British food. Kidney, black pudding, haggis and jellied eels are all specialist foods and NOT part of anyone's staple diet here and are hated by many, no matter what the Scots say. Yet they are trotted out for every American-tries-British food comparison.
Jellied eels are a southeast English thing, nothing to do with the Scots. Black pudding is a speciality in northern England as well as Scotland, kidney is eaten all over the UK. So I'm not quite sure why you are targeting the Scots here. ???
@@alicemilne1444 I'm merely making the point that most of the British food that is trotted out for American reactors is NOT part of our staple diet. You would think the Scots eat haggis for breakfast, dinner and supper. I've lived all over the UK and enjoyed haggis on numerous occasions as well as black pudding, kidneys and liver. However, these foods are not eaten on a regular basis and most people under sixty will balk at the idea of eating liver or kidneys (which I love, by the way). So, I am not hitting on the Scots or anyone else. You need to lighten up a little.
@@billyo54 Easy-on, mate. I asked a genuine question. You started with British and then specifically mentioned the Scots, although there was no reason to do so.
Hershy's is made with genetically modified foods, which is banned in Germany and nobody wants it here. However, Hershy's is now also available in a few supermarkets, but only because there is a reference to genetic engineering printed on the packaging.
7:50 maybe they can't import those items, probably contain illegal things in the EU. Skittles for example; they contain yellow 5 and yellow 6 good dyes and more recently, titanium dioxide. All three are illegal in the EU.
Exactly what I wanted to say. I guess they cannot give the kids stuff which is forbidden in the EU, that would be illegal and they would not only earn a shitstorm but some legal action too.
@@pinkhope84 oh, okay. Hier bei uns nicht, ist ja oft auch eine Frage der Region in der man lebt. Ich habe oft gesehen das das Warenangebot in anderen deutschen Gegenden sich von meinem heimischen unterscheidet.
@@Herzschreiberdas ist wirklich seltsam in den meisten Bundesländern gibt es die außer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern da kann ich es nicht sagen aber überall sonst sollte es die geben
@@tim.n5395 sie sind mir hier noch nie aufgefallen, ich wohne am unterfränkischen A der Welt - hier gibt es auch vieles andere nicht, was man sonst in fast jedem Ort kaufen kann. Zum Beispiel die Zimtschnecken von Knack und Back. Will nur sagen, da wo ich wohne ist das Warensortiment sowieso nicht repräsentativ für Deutschland.
Many things with cherry flavor can taste like marzipan because cherries and almonds are closely related (both belong to the genus Prunus) and therefore contain benzaldehyde. Also, almond flavor is often used to accent the cherry flavor.
You said that you think it's a pity that they don't test the good sweets like Skittles or Reeses, but then that wouldn't be a test anymore, as they are already sold here and are very well received. So don't worry, many like American sweets, even if they don't (yet) know they're American sweets!
I think the snacks should have been more typical as you said. I also think the children should have been older. They looked kind of scared to say anything. High school kids would have been much more fun in my opinion.
I myself was one of those kids who rather eat an apple or other fruits than sweets. Dont get me wrong - i like sweets (if they aren´t to sweet) but if I´ve been given a choice, i always go for fruits. The daughters of a friend of mine are pretty much the same. When they have sweets and a bowl of fruits on the table the chuildren go for the fruits first.
My niece was so cute when she was a toddler...my mom put gummi bears and grapes on little sticks so she could eat them (the grapes were added so it is not just candy). She only ate the grapes though 😂
Exactly what I said as a kid about a lot of sweets, including milk chocolate (also Nutella) "No, thanks, it's too sweet for me". Only dark chocolate. Now that I'm a grown up... exactly the same, milk chocolate for me is terrible, but I adore dark (over 70%) chocolate! 😋😋
'Pop Tarts' - cinnamon roll ? _Sounds_ nice. How can a cinnamon roll taste bad?! (Maple bacon _does_ sound 'rank' !! Individually each flavour sounds nice but together? Really? Who thought of _that_ as a good combination?!!)) I was hungry before I started to watch this...now, I feel queasy & definitely not hungry anymore...& I haven't eaten anything yet!! (I love marzipan...)😊❤🏴
Some 20 years ago I worked as a purchaser in a medical equipment company, being the market leader of our country. We ordered most of the stuff from the UK and the US. So there were contacts made with the other purchasers because there were larger contracts decided above our heads and nothing to haggle or fight for. One of my contacts was from Indiana, let's leave it at that. Well, we talked about hobbies, countries, families and habits. To cut ahead some time at one point, we were basically all a bunch of 'friends' by then, she (let's call her Mare...) sent me Hershey bars, Skittles and stuff. I gave it all away after tasting and I absolutely agree with the kids: FOR ME it was all either bitter, way too sweet and definitely in all cases extremely artificial haptic- and taste-wise! But when I sent her our stuff like Überraschungseier, Duplo, Milka chocolate bars.... 😵💫🤩 ... it was love on first taste for them! They couldn't believe how it all tasted so much more harmonic and natural in their mouths (make no mistake, our kids get fat when they eat that stuff same as yours! 😂)! I can only repeat what they said to me and everyone has, fgs, a different taste, but they said it's a completely different thing, albeit being under the same topic. In the end: So my boxes had to get bigger... 🙄😇😋😄... and Mare developed a sweet tooth. Especially due to the fact that she had a daughter and once her daughter got it... no, wasn't like that. Jk. But Mare, should you read this.... I'd have loved to visit you so badly and I'm sorry for the powers that all came between that. I hope you are all well in these times and... I still do think back to that time a lot! 💚
Reece’s pieces and milk duds are the only 2 American candies worth eating. We’ve been going there for years and I’ve never had anything else that tastes anywhere near good, but then I’m from the UK so am biased towards European chocolate 🥴
8:13 i know exactly what you mean. And i thought about the same. I've seen a handful of these Videos and you see it quiete often that they chose the most random stuff to eat. I mean.. look at it! Haha
Hi, Joel! Are theese differences you`re talking about like good or maybe bad or just interesting? I think you're not that typical American. Somehow you fit in quite well with Germany! At least that is my personal feeling. Maybe because you were here. But you were also in England. So I say, you might as well be European!!! Greetings from Germany (nearby Cologne).
I don’t want to be mean, but I can’t enjoy Hersheys after eating Lindt , Neuhaus or Godiva chocolate! Even Aldi here has Moser chocolate , which is delicious and affordable!
Jup I was in the USA for three weeks and couldn"t eat Hersheys because it didn't tast good at all 😅 Where I grew up Lindt/Tonys is for presents or when you want to trat yourself and Milka is the normal thing you get most of the time. Milka isn't high quality but I tasted such a big diffrence
We do not know how the kids were briefed before they began their tasting, but they were all very analytical and cautious if not a little fearful, with cause it seems. The idea that children and adults should eat different foods is not universal and may not be well founded.
Yeah, I got prediabetes now, because I never said what that one kid said; "its to sweet for me". On the "plus" side, everything is now to sweet for me. Yay...
Hey Joel. I've been so impressed by your vids lately. A few weeks back you and Arturo reacted to "US Foods banned in the EU" (or something like that). I was really impressed when in that vid you said "America's not the greatest country in the world." It takes a lot of education (self-education or otherwise) for an American to get to the point where they can say that - and I'm an American too. It's a great country, sure but so are lots of others. Even a LITTLE humility goes a long way. Bravo, and keep up the good work!
Heyshey like most American chocolates contain putrescine (coming from the word putrid) also found in baby vomit. Its supposed to extent the shelf of the milk in chocolate. Apparently americans don't like to acknowledge that pasteurization exists when that doesn't affect the taste. That's why it tastes bad to everyone.
Totally "untasty" the Hershey's chocs (yuk!) and the 'Smarties' (ewww!) As for the rest, I cannot say as have only tried these above!! However, the taste tests I've watched by Americans, tell me even Americans prefer British sweeties. Probably European sweeties too. 😏 🏴❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖
We don't have pop tarts in Australia either, and the highest selling cereal is Weet-bix which is 97% wholegrain wheat and only 2% sugar (compared to 30%+ in US cereals)
Hello Joel. Interesting. I hope they were not from an allegedly dodgy shop, as per allegations about Oxford Street in London in a reaction on another US channel recently.
Yes, it's actually a shame to give things to the children and let them eat them without telling them what's in them. Like with the probably Muslim boy bacon bits of pork. Maybe someone is allergic to nuts or chili... it doesn't really matter here.😮
'Luckily' there is no actual bacon in those pop tarts. It's all artificial flavoring. They do, however, contain gelatine (like all pop-tarts flavors) for viscosity, and it is not clearly specified whether it is bovine or pork gelatine. Although I read in a few articles that it's supposedly bovine gelatine, which at least wouldn't make it fully haram (forbidden) for consumption for Muslims. As it is from cows that has not been slaughtered following muslim rites, however, it can also not be considered 'halal' (allowed). Anyway, avoiding gelatine completely is difficult in modern processed foods, and not only foods, it is also used for many medical pill casings which are meant to dissolve in your stomach. If you absolutely want to avoid it in foods the only option is to opt for Halal or Kosher products, which both do not contain any pork. If people on top of that also insist on the Halal slaughtering process they usually don't allow their kids to eat outside food, period, and only feed them Halal food at home. But I doubt that's the case here, as for a video showing kids the parents will have to have given written consent anyway. Most people (reasonably) make an exception for medical treatments (when it's in pills). But yeah, anywhere in the West, if parents really want to make sure their kids won't catch any pork-based gelatine or fat, they usually wouldn't let them participate in a video like this to begin with. Either his parents are not Muslim or they're just not that anal about checking every single food their child consumes that thoroughly. I know plenty of Muslims who actually don't really care that much at all XD
Not all Europeans are blonde and blue-eyed, not even all in Northern Europe... I'm German and the child is lighter than my brother was... to me he looks like an average German child.
@@andreamuller9009 he does look a bit Southern European, but yeah, he could absolutely just be plain German too. My best friend is Bavarian through and through and she's 5 shades darker than this kid in summer XD
6:20 if I understand him correctly, he says "die schmecken alle ein bisschen kalkik". they all taste a bit like chalk. sweet is not the correct translation. 6:59 cardboard is actually a pretty good description, although I never had that stuff.
The subtitle is correct. He says "Mir schmecken alle Süßigkeiten." - "I like all sweets" But he adds "Glaub ich zumindest" - "At least I think so", which didn't make it into the translation. I guess he changed his mind that day.
Maybe they're giving the 'bad' American candy because the 'good' American candy is sold across the world and they already know it. Plus a lot of American candy is banned from other countries. So that leaves you with.... Exactly.
Skittles wouldn't be a good choice for something specific to America I think. I am pretty sure you can get Skittles in Germany (at least you can get them in Poland, which is Germany close neighboor which you can visit without a passport). That's probably why the sweets choice is so unusual. Tasty sweets are not something that can't be imported or produced locally. BTW. I am a fan of sour skittles.
Yes you're right, we also have Skittles in Germany... (but we don't even have Polish Ptasie Mleczko, please Poland, why don't you export some of YOUR good sweets to us?)
@@ratatosk8935 Ptasie Mleczko might be already available in some German shops. It isn't about us exporting it but about Germany importing it. Poland imports some Lentilky and Studenska chocolate now, while a few years ago I could only get them when my grandparents were going to the hot springs in Slovakia and buying them on the border shop.
Maybe you're right. I was getting my first Ptasie Melczko from Polish friends 15 years ago. (and my first Michalki after German reunification - they were more common, when I was a kid) Since 10 years I live in Switzerland and have had seldom visits from my Polish friends here... So maybe in this time some German shops could have imported them. I think most German companys are not looking enough in Central and Eastern Europe for good stuff. They didn't even look enough into the good stuff of Eastern Germany back in the 90s. There's just few Eastern sweets left nowadays. It's tragic. As far as I heard, they have changed Lentilky recently to taste more like Smarties. I haven't tried them for a long time, don't know, if I would recognize the difference. Now, as you brought ab Lentilky, I remember, in Germany we had Czech Kolonada in some supermarkets, didn't see this in Switzerland. Next time, when I'm crossing the border, I'll have to look for them, they're so good.@@AnaMert1
@@ratatosk8935 BTW. Ptasie Mleczko isn't even that popular in Poland nowadays. You can buy it easily, but I don't know anyone buying it regularly. There is tons of other sweets around to choose from. Both local and imported.
Me and my bf ordered a box of foods from the USA a while ago. And we were... disappointed. Some of the bags we never finished. Not only was everything too sweet to us. The chocolates were.. very bad. In some of them you could taste the pure sugar bits, so it was also pretty badly produced. That's probably why there's not a lot of American sweets here (NL), they wouldn't do very well here. I remember Hersheys and Reeses, Warheads and Toxic Waste, Nerds, candy corn (that was the biggest disappointment, yuck), sour jelly beans, Mountain Dew and Jolly from the top of my head. There was more though. Idk it wasn't great :( I had higher hopes for Reeses but I believe we threw that bag away. It is mass production stuff after all so I'm sure there are far better sweets available, but these were not it.
I don't know what's in that poptart, but I'm quite sure there's not a single molecule of pork. Bacon flavoured snacks usually just contain smoke (and are even vegan, at least for the flavour). It's our mind that associates the taste of smoke with smoked meat.
"Have you ever put butter on a Pop Tart? It's so frickin' good Have you ever put butter on a Pop Tart? If you haven't then I think you should" . lol Reese's is my favorite sweet.
no reference to the original video in the videodescription? i couldve just watched the OG video then xD u didnt rly add much discussion or input despite watching the thing and commenting.. adding less than 5min extra or so. i wouldve liked more...maybe experience report from ur side or anything to contribute. dunno.
the programme remit is to find obscure versions. There would be little point in reacting to food they could try in Germany. Try to be be offended. Watch some other from the series. The children are brutally honest
its so wierd that you guys dont have marzipan. And i also dont get how people say they dont like it. Its just almond and sugar. I guess the almonds are too healty for american standards.
@@suave-rider In germany you can buy all sorts of treats with marzipan inside. Like chocolate coated or something. Especially on christmas and easter. You can also buy raw marzipan and create whatever you want with it. And its not even expensive. Its less than 2 bucks for 200 grams, thats likc 8 ounces.
Reese's we have in Germany, and i think they're disgusting. The chocolate is lowest tier and the peanut butter filling is grainy and overall way too sweet. Together with oreos the most overrated US food.
Is there a slightly more precise and preferably verifiable figure for "most German children", or is it more of a "my children/grandchildren like this and therefore everyone" thing? ;-)
I'm German and I wonder if the kids got some Valium before this video. These tired and quiet reactions are by no means typical for German kids. More like children of helicopter parents... What a terrible video you have reacted to 😂
Swede here 🇸🇪 🫢😉. There's a popular Mexican sweet (or rather snack) that perfectly illustrate how you successfully can combine sweet and spicy. It's called "Jícama con Chile". I can buy it here so you definitely should be able to get it in the US. I think you might acually find it quite delicious (🌶️ 😉).
02:07 "do i have to eat up?" - that is very polite german for: "that's disgusting" :D
"German" ?
Pretty cool that the German kids' points of reference are natural foods - honey, marzipan, cinnamon... I feel like in America, kids would probably only be able to compare them to *other* manufactured products lol
Americans are slaves of their own consumption.
I once heard, that in america, a lot of kids don't know how a real strawberry tastes like, they only know the artificial taste of it. Don't know if thats true?
marcipan isnt natural, its non baked sweet dough like stuff made from almonds and sugar..
@@theoteddy9665good marzipan is just ground almonds and sugar, no artificial flavor. I think that counts as „natural“ compared to most sweets.
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Isn't it interesting that kids' first reaction on seeing food they've never tasted before is to smell it. This is true across all ethnicities, countries, and cultures.
then when youre older your realise the smell is fake and you have to trust the label.
@@mucxlx 😂😂😂
Not only ethnicities and countries, thats normal behavior among mammals in general
the children's faces say more than 1000 words 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The children were so soft-spoken and polite! Not the reactions I would expect from children in the USA, especially when they didn't like the taste of something! It took a LOT before those little girls actually spit something out into the trash! And I agree with you: cold, dry Pop-Tarts aren't at all palatable. Ewww!
yeah they asked first "can I spit in here?" because normally you'd see thouse trash cans with a plastic bag inside of them. So it's kinda weird to spit inside of a bare trash can (I don't remember ever doing that in my 32 years of my life [spitting anything inside of a trash can except for maybe chewing gums]).
I considered it with food active poinsoning (but had a bucket instead).
Yeah, it's like that. People here are a lot more conscious of their health ON AVERAGE, unfortunately not everyone.
But schools and kindergarten have some additional functions as well, I think those have been anchored in your school system at one time as well.
The additional functions are, besides the teaching assignment, for example the educational mission! So teachers and staff look (passively!!! they don't go to anyone examining!) for injuries or actual condition, like getting enough sleep, conscious, active, acting strange,... and at times at what the children eat! Obviously they look closer with younger children as the danger of mistreatment, malnourishment, etc... is far more grave as they couldn't defend themselves at younger age.
So there's help programs offered for that, school cantinas, we have cooking and housekeeping (lifekeeping... 😅), etc... And they get taught from very little you're eating x, y and z now!
Skittles are banned in a lot of EU and other countries as the food colouring is proven to be carcinogenic or causes hyperactivity.
Skittles arent banned... maybe some ingredients. Skittles are available in 180 Counties 😉
Am Samstag, dem 7. Oktober 2023, unterzeichnete der Gouverneur von Kalifornien, Gavin Newsom, einen Gesetzentwurf, der allgemein als „Skittles Ban“ bekannt ist. Zur Klarstellung: Der Gesetzentwurf verbietet Skittles nicht, verbietet aber vier Lebensmittelzusatzstoffe - bromiertes Pflanzenöl, Kaliumbromat, Propylparaben und Red Dye-3, die möglicherweise Krebs verursachen. Das Gesetz wird, sofern es genehmigt wird, ab dem 1. Januar 2027 in Kraft treten.
Skittles are available, but thy had to change the ingredients (how they coulers)
@@karinland8533 yah like mcdonalds and every other stuff from america ^^ man EU banned so much stuff from america even bread no chicken import no prok import basicly every meat ^^ alot of sweets are banned tough mountain dew too etc thers alot of stuff u dont wana consume in america >.
@@Shoryuken89 McDonalds is not banned in Europe. Imported meat is banned but that's because America use too much antibiotics and other susopicious medicine in the animals. We produce meat locally both because we can control what the animals are feed and because the transport cost and time is lower.
Mountain Dew also is produced locally, with changed ingredients to meet the European safety standards.
Now you know how I feel when Americans try British food. Kidney, black pudding, haggis and jellied eels are all specialist foods and NOT part of anyone's staple diet here and are hated by many, no matter what the Scots say. Yet they are trotted out for every American-tries-British food comparison.
Jellied eels are a southeast English thing, nothing to do with the Scots. Black pudding is a speciality in northern England as well as Scotland, kidney is eaten all over the UK. So I'm not quite sure why you are targeting the Scots here. ???
@@alicemilne1444 I'm merely making the point that most of the British food that is trotted out for American reactors is NOT part of our staple diet. You would think the Scots eat haggis for breakfast, dinner and supper. I've lived all over the UK and enjoyed haggis on numerous occasions as well as black pudding, kidneys and liver. However, these foods are not eaten on a regular basis and most people under sixty will balk at the idea of eating liver or kidneys (which I love, by the way). So, I am not hitting on the Scots or anyone else. You need to lighten up a little.
@@billyo54 Easy-on, mate. I asked a genuine question. You started with British and then specifically mentioned the Scots, although there was no reason to do so.
Hershy's is made with genetically modified foods, which is banned in Germany and nobody wants it here. However, Hershy's is now also available in a few supermarkets, but only because there is a reference to genetic engineering printed on the packaging.
"this only appeals to girls" hahaha! classic!
7:50 maybe they can't import those items, probably contain illegal things in the EU. Skittles for example; they contain yellow 5 and yellow 6 good dyes and more recently, titanium dioxide. All three are illegal in the EU.
Exactly what I wanted to say. I guess they cannot give the kids stuff which is forbidden in the EU, that would be illegal and they would not only earn a shitstorm but some legal action too.
Skittles kann man auch mittlerweile in Deutschland kaufen zb Edeka
@@pinkhope84 oh, okay. Hier bei uns nicht, ist ja oft auch eine Frage der Region in der man lebt. Ich habe oft gesehen das das Warenangebot in anderen deutschen Gegenden sich von meinem heimischen unterscheidet.
@@Herzschreiberdas ist wirklich seltsam in den meisten Bundesländern gibt es die außer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern da kann ich es nicht sagen aber überall sonst sollte es die geben
@@tim.n5395 sie sind mir hier noch nie aufgefallen, ich wohne am unterfränkischen A der Welt - hier gibt es auch vieles andere nicht, was man sonst in fast jedem Ort kaufen kann. Zum Beispiel die Zimtschnecken von Knack und Back. Will nur sagen, da wo ich wohne ist das Warensortiment sowieso nicht repräsentativ für Deutschland.
Many things with cherry flavor can taste like marzipan because cherries and almonds are closely related (both belong to the genus Prunus) and therefore contain benzaldehyde. Also, almond flavor is often used to accent the cherry flavor.
You said that you think it's a pity that they don't test the good sweets like Skittles or Reeses, but then that wouldn't be a test anymore, as they are already sold here and are very well received. So don't worry, many like American sweets, even if they don't (yet) know they're American sweets!
Most American candy is sold in Germany. It's true that in general, Germans eat less sugar than Americans.
Everyone eats less sugar than americans
I think the snacks should have been more typical as you said. I also think the children should have been older.
They looked kind of scared to say anything. High school kids would have been much more fun in my opinion.
true, but more influenced.
8:01 we also have skittles
I myself was one of those kids who rather eat an apple or other fruits than sweets. Dont get me wrong - i like sweets (if they aren´t to sweet) but if I´ve been given a choice, i always go for fruits. The daughters of a friend of mine are pretty much the same. When they have sweets and a bowl of fruits on the table the chuildren go for the fruits first.
Yeah, after watching this I needed to eat an apple.😅
My niece was so cute when she was a toddler...my mom put gummi bears and grapes on little sticks so she could eat them (the grapes were added so it is not just candy). She only ate the grapes though 😂
Exactly what I said as a kid about a lot of sweets, including milk chocolate (also Nutella) "No, thanks, it's too sweet for me". Only dark chocolate. Now that I'm a grown up... exactly the same, milk chocolate for me is terrible, but I adore dark (over 70%) chocolate! 😋😋
'Pop Tarts' - cinnamon roll ?
_Sounds_ nice. How can a cinnamon roll taste bad?! (Maple bacon _does_ sound 'rank' !! Individually each flavour sounds nice but together? Really? Who thought of _that_ as a good combination?!!))
I was hungry before I started to watch this...now, I feel queasy & definitely not hungry anymore...& I haven't eaten anything yet!! (I love marzipan...)😊❤🏴
Skittles and Reese's are well known in Germany so it wouldn't make sense for a taste test
Some 20 years ago I worked as a purchaser in a medical equipment company, being the market leader of our country. We ordered most of the stuff from the UK and the US. So there were contacts made with the other purchasers because there were larger contracts decided above our heads and nothing to haggle or fight for.
One of my contacts was from Indiana, let's leave it at that. Well, we talked about hobbies, countries, families and habits.
To cut ahead some time at one point, we were basically all a bunch of 'friends' by then, she (let's call her Mare...) sent me Hershey bars, Skittles and stuff. I gave it all away after tasting and I absolutely agree with the kids: FOR ME it was all either bitter, way too sweet and definitely in all cases extremely artificial haptic- and taste-wise!
But when I sent her our stuff like Überraschungseier, Duplo, Milka chocolate bars.... 😵💫🤩
... it was love on first taste for them! They couldn't believe how it all tasted so much more harmonic and natural in their mouths (make no mistake, our kids get fat when they eat that stuff same as yours! 😂)! I can only repeat what they said to me and everyone has, fgs, a different taste, but they said it's a completely different thing, albeit being under the same topic.
In the end:
So my boxes had to get bigger... 🙄😇😋😄... and Mare developed a sweet tooth. Especially due to the fact that she had a daughter and once her daughter got it... no, wasn't like that. Jk.
But Mare, should you read this.... I'd have loved to visit you so badly and I'm sorry for the powers that all came between that. I hope you are all well in these times and... I still do think back to that time a lot! 💚
You should react to Buzzfeed India reacting to American Delicacies and swapping them with an American.
Reece’s pieces and milk duds are the only 2 American candies worth eating. We’ve been going there for years and I’ve never had anything else that tastes anywhere near good, but then I’m from the UK so am biased towards European chocolate 🥴
US chocolate (from supermarkets) is inedible for most/all Europeans. We’re not used to vomit-taste in chocolate.
skittles and reese’s we have already in germany
8:13 i know exactly what you mean.
And i thought about the same.
I've seen a handful of these Videos and you see it quiete often that they chose the most random stuff to eat. I mean.. look at it! Haha
All sceptical from the first to the last moment, at least.
Hi, Joel! Are theese differences you`re talking about like good or maybe bad or just interesting? I think you're not that typical American. Somehow you fit in quite well with Germany! At least that is my personal feeling. Maybe because you were here. But you were also in England. So I say, you might as well be European!!! Greetings from Germany (nearby Cologne).
so somewhere in Germany there's a group of kids walking around with an unexpected sugar high, bet that will be interesting for everybody 🤔🤔😳😳
The kid with the "Gossip" shirt just cracked me up.
I don’t want to be mean, but I can’t enjoy Hersheys after eating Lindt , Neuhaus or Godiva chocolate! Even Aldi here has Moser chocolate , which is delicious and affordable!
Jup I was in the USA for three weeks and couldn"t eat Hersheys because it didn't tast good at all 😅
Where I grew up Lindt/Tonys is for presents or when you want to trat yourself and Milka is the normal thing you get most of the time. Milka isn't high quality but I tasted such a big diffrence
We do not know how the kids were briefed before they began their tasting, but they were all very analytical and cautious if not a little fearful, with cause it seems. The idea that children and adults should eat different foods is not universal and may not be well founded.
I bought "Hot Tamales" in Germany a few weeks ago and I like them.
Yeah, I got prediabetes now, because I never said what that one kid said; "its to sweet for me". On the "plus" side, everything is now to sweet for me. Yay...
The knock-off peanut butter cups with dark chocolate from Trader Joe's are so much better imho. I wish we had these in Germany
Hey Joel. I've been so impressed by your vids lately. A few weeks back you and Arturo reacted to "US Foods banned in the EU" (or something like that). I was really impressed when in that vid you said "America's not the greatest country in the world." It takes a lot of education (self-education or otherwise) for an American to get to the point where they can say that - and I'm an American too. It's a great country, sure but so are lots of others. Even a LITTLE humility goes a long way. Bravo, and keep up the good work!
Heyshey like most American chocolates contain putrescine (coming from the word putrid) also found in baby vomit. Its supposed to extent the shelf of the milk in chocolate.
Apparently americans don't like to acknowledge that pasteurization exists when that doesn't affect the taste.
That's why it tastes bad to everyone.
You're handsome! 😍
To be fair as a german i love Reese Peanut Butter Cups but the ones i buy are bigger
Totally "untasty" the Hershey's chocs (yuk!) and the 'Smarties' (ewww!) As for the rest, I cannot say as have only tried these above!! However, the taste tests I've watched by Americans, tell me even Americans prefer British sweeties. Probably European sweeties too. 😏
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"Let's give them Skittles" Except Skittles are banned in much of Europe because... cancer.
Skittles have been back on the European market for some time. With adapted ingredients, of course.
It's because here in Europe we have the common flavors of most US snacks, reece's, snickers,... Pop tarts, we don't have poptarts 😂
We don't have pop tarts in Australia either, and the highest selling cereal is Weet-bix which is 97% wholegrain wheat and only 2% sugar (compared to 30%+ in US cereals)
@@suave-riderI saw weet-bix in europe and it's garbage, sure it's healthy but tastes horrible
@@tvojemanka Weet-bix is not available outside Australia and New Zealand. You would have had the junky Weetabix from the UK which is different
I've seen Poptarts being sold several times in Germany. The last time was only a few weeks back when Lidl had their American week.
I feel like I've seen this exact video before, did you repost?
...or am I going nuts?
Do you model?
Cool channel 👍
Iam British decided to try a American chocolate Candy bar I found it ok a bit sweet
Hello Joel. Interesting. I hope they were not from an allegedly dodgy shop, as per allegations about Oxford Street in London in a reaction on another US channel recently.
you see a confused worried look on the kid of Arabic descents face as he tastes the bacon pop tart then dont see him react to that again
Yes, it's actually a shame to give things to the children and let them eat them without telling them what's in them. Like with the probably Muslim boy bacon bits of pork. Maybe someone is allergic to nuts or chili... it doesn't really matter here.😮
You don't know if he was of arabic descent.
'Luckily' there is no actual bacon in those pop tarts. It's all artificial flavoring. They do, however, contain gelatine (like all pop-tarts flavors) for viscosity, and it is not clearly specified whether it is bovine or pork gelatine. Although I read in a few articles that it's supposedly bovine gelatine, which at least wouldn't make it fully haram (forbidden) for consumption for Muslims. As it is from cows that has not been slaughtered following muslim rites, however, it can also not be considered 'halal' (allowed).
Anyway, avoiding gelatine completely is difficult in modern processed foods, and not only foods, it is also used for many medical pill casings which are meant to dissolve in your stomach. If you absolutely want to avoid it in foods the only option is to opt for Halal or Kosher products, which both do not contain any pork. If people on top of that also insist on the Halal slaughtering process they usually don't allow their kids to eat outside food, period, and only feed them Halal food at home. But I doubt that's the case here, as for a video showing kids the parents will have to have given written consent anyway. Most people (reasonably) make an exception for medical treatments (when it's in pills).
But yeah, anywhere in the West, if parents really want to make sure their kids won't catch any pork-based gelatine or fat, they usually wouldn't let them participate in a video like this to begin with. Either his parents are not Muslim or they're just not that anal about checking every single food their child consumes that thoroughly. I know plenty of Muslims who actually don't really care that much at all XD
Not all Europeans are blonde and blue-eyed, not even all in Northern Europe... I'm German and the child is lighter than my brother was... to me he looks like an average German child.
@@andreamuller9009 he does look a bit Southern European, but yeah, he could absolutely just be plain German too. My best friend is Bavarian through and through and she's 5 shades darker than this kid in summer XD
6:20 if I understand him correctly, he says "die schmecken alle ein bisschen kalkik".
they all taste a bit like chalk.
sweet is not the correct translation.
6:59 cardboard is actually a pretty good description, although I never had that stuff.
The subtitle is correct. He says "Mir schmecken alle Süßigkeiten." - "I like all sweets"
But he adds "Glaub ich zumindest" - "At least I think so", which didn't make it into the translation. I guess he changed his mind that day.
The thing is: there are no trash german snacks haha :D
Naja die Geleebananen würde ich jetzt nicht freiwillig essen
😂 haha true! @@dertypderhalt Kommen die aus Deutschland? Ich hab bisher nur davon gehört...
American food is like plastic and cardboard mixed with sugar lol
Maybe they're giving the 'bad' American candy because the 'good' American candy is sold across the world and they already know it. Plus a lot of American candy is banned from other countries. So that leaves you with.... Exactly.
Maybe you can only give the kids sweet things that are not forbidden in Europe. About ingredients etc... Maybe.
Skittles wouldn't be a good choice for something specific to America I think. I am pretty sure you can get Skittles in Germany (at least you can get them in Poland, which is Germany close neighboor which you can visit without a passport). That's probably why the sweets choice is so unusual. Tasty sweets are not something that can't be imported or produced locally. BTW. I am a fan of sour skittles.
Yes you're right, we also have Skittles in Germany...
(but we don't even have Polish Ptasie Mleczko, please Poland, why don't you export some of YOUR good sweets to us?)
@@ratatosk8935 Ptasie Mleczko might be already available in some German shops. It isn't about us exporting it but about Germany importing it. Poland imports some Lentilky and Studenska chocolate now, while a few years ago I could only get them when my grandparents were going to the hot springs in Slovakia and buying them on the border shop.
Maybe you're right. I was getting my first Ptasie Melczko from Polish friends 15 years ago. (and my first Michalki after German reunification - they were more common, when I was a kid) Since 10 years I live in Switzerland and have had seldom visits from my Polish friends here... So maybe in this time some German shops could have imported them. I think most German companys are not looking enough in Central and Eastern Europe for good stuff. They didn't even look enough into the good stuff of Eastern Germany back in the 90s. There's just few Eastern sweets left nowadays. It's tragic.
As far as I heard, they have changed Lentilky recently to taste more like Smarties. I haven't tried them for a long time, don't know, if I would recognize the difference. Now, as you brought ab Lentilky, I remember, in Germany we had Czech Kolonada in some supermarkets, didn't see this in Switzerland. Next time, when I'm crossing the border, I'll have to look for them, they're so good.@@AnaMert1
@@ratatosk8935 BTW. Ptasie Mleczko isn't even that popular in Poland nowadays. You can buy it easily, but I don't know anyone buying it regularly. There is tons of other sweets around to choose from. Both local and imported.
Me and my bf ordered a box of foods from the USA a while ago. And we were... disappointed. Some of the bags we never finished. Not only was everything too sweet to us. The chocolates were.. very bad. In some of them you could taste the pure sugar bits, so it was also pretty badly produced. That's probably why there's not a lot of American sweets here (NL), they wouldn't do very well here. I remember Hersheys and Reeses, Warheads and Toxic Waste, Nerds, candy corn (that was the biggest disappointment, yuck), sour jelly beans, Mountain Dew and Jolly from the top of my head. There was more though. Idk it wasn't great :( I had higher hopes for Reeses but I believe we threw that bag away.
It is mass production stuff after all so I'm sure there are far better sweets available, but these were not it.
8:50 the kid has a probably turkish first name, giving him bacon might be a problem.
I don't know what's in that poptart, but I'm quite sure there's not a single molecule of pork. Bacon flavoured snacks usually just contain smoke (and are even vegan, at least for the flavour). It's our mind that associates the taste of smoke with smoked meat.
now yuo see...
What’s with the dark ones sniffer lol??
if you wanna try some german snacks, let me know! ill send you some - the best in my opinion
Would be funny to see that with American kids and German sweets… 😬
I think theres a imposter in the german kids
In aussie we have the 'Gay-time' ice cream, ice cream covered in nuts. Yeuk
what nuts? Have you ever eaten one?
"Have you ever put butter on a Pop Tart?
It's so frickin' good
Have you ever put butter on a Pop Tart?
If you haven't then I think you should" . lol
Reese's is my favorite sweet.
I bet they were all hyperactive after eating this
"Let's give them Hershey's, not any of this disgusting stuff" - hard put to find anything more disgusting than Hershey's LOL.
Not a very kid friendly choice with cinnamon bacon and dark chocolate😂
Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory..yeah, nah
I tried Swedish fish once they were disgusting it was like eating wax dipped in petroleum
licorice is love, licorice is life
Bacon should not be on or in candy. lol
I have only ever had American Ressee chocolate and it's crap compared to Australia, New Zealand, England and even Germany chocolate is way better.
Skittles are banned in Europe!
No, they aren't, you can buy Skittles without the banned ingredients in Europe.
The only item in this video i tried is reece's, but that peanutbutter quality is bad. So chemical in taste, our peanutbutter is way tastier.
no reference to the original video in the videodescription? i couldve just watched the OG video then xD u didnt rly add much discussion or input despite watching the thing and commenting.. adding less than 5min extra or so. i wouldve liked more...maybe experience report from ur side or anything to contribute. dunno.
Oh I was no fan of the Poptarts... Cardboard is the right term for those, for every flavour unfortunately
9:00 the Maple Bacon Poptarts taste so terrible, definitely their worst flavour
the programme remit is to find obscure versions. There would be little point in reacting to food they could try in Germany. Try to be be offended. Watch some other from the series. The children are brutally honest
How can you hate hot tamales?!
That's easy. I just choose to.
Es kommt immer darauf an, an welche Süssigkeiten die Kinder gewöhnt sind. Eskimokindern schmeckt wahrscheinlich rohe Robbenleber...
racist much?
these kids are now exposed to the US snacks that are much less available in EU. A lot of the absolute cr*p is already available.... :-}
Ok, who picked these out? They picked the worst possible things they could find!! I know there are better candies than this in America!!
is kinder still banned ? or they still scared of health issue from kinder 🤣
It's a horrible choice of "candy"
its so wierd that you guys dont have marzipan. And i also dont get how people say they dont like it. Its just almond and sugar. I guess the almonds are too healty for american standards.
nobody has marzipan, unless as icing on fruit cake
@@suave-rider In germany you can buy all sorts of treats with marzipan inside. Like chocolate coated or something. Especially on christmas and easter. You can also buy raw marzipan and create whatever you want with it. And its not even expensive. Its less than 2 bucks for 200 grams, thats likc 8 ounces.
@@mucxlx Ok well you cannot get it in Australia
I like almonds, but I don't like marzipan, it just doesn't taste like pure, unadulterated almonds and is too sweet.
Reese's we have in Germany, and i think they're disgusting. The chocolate is lowest tier and the peanut butter filling is grainy and overall way too sweet. Together with oreos the most overrated US food.
Dont worry, most German kids like American sweets. And they like it artificial and very very sweet too.
Is there a slightly more precise and preferably verifiable figure for "most German children", or is it more of a "my children/grandchildren like this and therefore everyone" thing? ;-)
Being a teacher in secondary school for twenty years I have seen 1000 kids. @@marcromain64
I'm German and I wonder if the kids got some Valium before this video. These tired and quiet reactions are by no means typical for German kids. More like children of helicopter parents... What a terrible video you have reacted to 😂
Marzipan 🤮
Peasant! 😉
Swede here 🇸🇪 🫢😉. There's a popular Mexican sweet (or rather snack) that perfectly illustrate how you successfully can combine sweet and spicy. It's called "Jícama con Chile". I can buy it here so you definitely should be able to get it in the US. I think you might acually find it quite delicious (🌶️ 😉).