Hello! Joe from Food Wars (the US guy on the right). Thanks for reacting to our video. Your observation on me not taking a bite is spot on, but it actually comes down to my energy levels as a host. The shoots go several hours. I would've LOVED to dig into that food but i would've passed out halfway through the shoot. Work comes first! Also, McGriddles are amazing.
American biscuits are not really like scones. American biscuits are never sweet and are often salty, but they can also be more buttery than truly savory, kind of like a croissant. They can be dense and doughy almost like good bread, or they can be almost as flaky and delicate as croissants, all depending on how you make them. 🖖💯✌
But if you leave them in the oven after the oven is turned off or leave them outside over overnight they might be like scones, particularly if you add some clotted cream.
Slightly off topic but do you guys only refer to what we call biscuits in the UK as cookies or do you have different varieties? Here in the UK we have different types of biscuits, like Digestives, bourbons, rich tea etc.
@@mohammedyahya5838 We have a huge selection of things that are categorized as cookies, at least for the purposes of where they are located in the market. Oreos, Nilla Wafers, and every imaginable variation on chocolate chip...just a gigantic variety. But we still also have things called "biscuits" like Belvita Breakfast Biscuits...which are just cookies made with slightly less sugar and healthier ingredients. To make it even more confusing, we also have sweet things that really are cookies, but we call them crackers...graham crackers and animal crackers being just 2 types. OH, and most large supermarkets here also now have a decent selection of foreign baked sweets, so we can also buy digestives and Jammie Dodgers and lots of others...then there are the biscotti. So, yeah...we got choices LOLOLOL
TLDR yes, basically any kind of ethnic or foreign 'biscuit' like thing that we eat here is called both a cookie in general and whatever it is originally called. As well there are lots of cookie like things under the label, like various turtles, snaps, or ladyfingers.
The difference ingredients could very well be because of 'labeling laws'. US has to list everything, the UK may only have to list the main ingredients.
American biscuits don’t go soft. They’re a bread and aren’t sweet. It’s more like a flaky, drier bun that traditionally uses grease/rendered fat for the oils.
Good biscuits aren't that dry though, at least if you're like my southern family that infuses everything with butter. You're right though, they don't go soft, they actually get harder when they age
It defiantly depends on where you are, who's making it, and what recipes. My parents like to make drier, more bready biscuits while I personally prefer to make softer, sweeter biscuits
9:00 The comments about the potato farming is... Well, ill-informed. All farmers have standards that restrict them from going in their fields after spreading pesticides. Not just potato farmers. And yes, potatoes are stored in special units, that utilize climate control. But that's so the crops can be available year round. And the farmers spray their crops to keeps pests from eating or infecting them. Not because McDonald's likes certain them to. The fry distribution company McDonald's gets their fries from select only certain shapes and sizes of potatoes; so the fries look more appealing in the cartons. The other potatoes they don't use, they sell off to local grocery stores, vendors and restaurants. And the potatoes, in McDonald's frys are safe to eat. Their the same exact kind you can buy and cook at home. The more you know, the less you don't know. 😀
Yup, and just to clarify for anyone interested, they do wear suits, only when spraying the insecticides and other concentrated chemicals. But these chemicals break down under sunlight and the elements, so by the time they are ready for harvest, there will be no trace of those chemicals in the crops. There are plenty of reasons to not want to eat McDonald fries in the US, but this is not necessarily one of those reasons.
Yeah, in America it’s pretty common for food processing. Just standard practice to wear stuff to not bring in outside things that can kill the potatoes
American biscuits are definitely different than scones... they actually opened an American fast food shop (can't remember which one) in Germany and made the workers go by American service standards, and after a few months they had to tell the workers to stop smiling so much because it was making customers uncomfortable lol
Hilarious that you think potatoes in America need harvested in hazmat suits. We use russett potatoes from Idaho. The best potato for baking and fries. No hazmat suit. Again...absolutely hilarious.
The pesticide called monitor is used on the potatoes to make them flawless and perfect for their fries is so toxic that farms are considered no entry zones for five days after it sprayed from what I heard
The US does have salsa at McDonald's. You get salsa picante packets with the Sausage Breakfast Burritos so you can just ask for them with whatever you want.
Scones and American biscuits are not the same. I'm a pastry chef. American biscuit are dry like scones, but have zero sweet in them and they are much lighter and fluffier than a scone. That is the main thing that distinguishes them from each other. They used to be called baking powder biscuits because they have so much baking powder in them, to make them rise
@@Northernliiights But GMOs aren't, and a majority of modern crops are GMO instead, which often don't require pesticides. Don't listen to all the bullshit you hear.
@@danielhavoc889 a majority? Try all And try not modern crops but ones that have been around for thousands of years since we started farming to begin with People need to educate themselves on what GMO really means
@@gimpyrules6714 I think you are very confused. GMO's have been genetically modified, in a laboratory. That's not been going on for thousands of years. What you are talking about is crossbreeding. While crossbreeding and GMO can accomplish similar things (like corn that needs very little water), GMO can be done much quicker opposed to years of crossbreeding to get your desired result.
Biscuits ain’t really like scones. You have to try them one day if you get the chance I’m telling you. Also the McGriddle, if and when you taste it, don’t be surprised if you start craving another.
Very true! In the US you commonly get 3/4 of a cup filled with ice standard. In the UK most places if you want ice you have to request it, or are asked for it before its served.
Scrambled, sunny side up, fried, poached, over easy, over medium, over hard, soft boiled, medium boiled, hard boiled, french scrambled, omelet and more lol
What makes an American biscuit (done well) is biscuiting, which is where you first cut the dry ingredients with cold butter, making sure that the mix remains cold throughout the mixing process, before you add the liquid part of the batter. What this does is create very very small chunck of butter in your batter, which then makes every bite buttery. The ideal biscuit is salty, buttery, and both fluffy and dense in just the right measures. Anything else, that says that it is a biscuit, but doesn't do this, is a scone. If you've had a KFC biscuit straight out of the oven, you'll know what I mean.
Poisonous potatoes and hazmat suits? Where does he get his info lol and the UK guy started eating out of boredom after he ran out of delicious mcdonalds delicacies to delight us with.
I’d like to make you a homemade biscuit and see you tell me it’s the same as a scone...😁 We have scones too, and our biscuits do not equal our scones. Maybe UK scones are different than our’s🤷🏻♂️ Enjoyed the video!
I've been to England and Scotland and most "scones" in the US are not scones at all. They're hard, really sweet, heavy, dry things that resemble colorful rocks, and feel about the same. The scones I had in the UK were slightly denser US biscuits, still light, but a tad richer--and having them with an obscene amount of clotted cream was just heaven.
Hell, I don’t think you can go anywhere below the mason-dixon line thinking like that? But at the same time, they’d be the first ones giving them a basket of freshly baked ‘education.’ Lol!
The reason you're seeing ingredients twice is that they are listing the ingredients of the components of the food. Like the sweet relish is a component of the special sauce. So they are listing the salt in the relish and then the salt that is added to the overall sauce.
In US, for all fast food places, the type of potato used are Russet potatoes. Although whenever you see a cooking show that shows how to cook "french fries" at home, those shows usually say that Yukon Gold potatoes are best for making homemade fries.
GMOs and Pesticides are entirely different. GMOs aren't a spray, it's a different genetic build, and have no direct negative impacts on health. Comparing a GMO and a Non GMO crop is like comparing a race horse with a wild horse. GMO crops, like a race horse, are breed to be better. The idea that GMO=bad is an outdated opinion, that really is just put out by politicians stuck in the 70s.
Dave, you've got to lay off the conspiracies. There's nothing going on with the potatoes. GMO is the design of the crop (its genetic code has been altered), not something added to it. It makes the crop resistant to disease or insects. Anything not organic is coming into contact with pesticides so you might see someone spraying fields in PPE. Just wash your potatoes off before you cook them, no big deal. The biggest problem the food has is adding things like corn syrup and sugar unnecessarily. Not to mention portion sizes. American biscuits aren't sweet. We also have scones they just aren't as popular. It's like English muffins and crumpets. They're not the same thing even if they look similar. Fast food workers aren't getting tipped. Their service is cultural expectations. Some places are better (Chick-fil-A) than others.
One thing to make sure you don't fall into the trap of is the "if I can't pronounce it, it must be bad for me," logic. I see this stuff in commercials for "natural" products in the US all the time. It's a very misleading scare tactic, but it's sadly effective. The main difference that makes the US versions worse is the obscene amounts of added sugars in the food.
@derp derpin The worst part to me is how they will use/list different kinds of sugars so it can be further down the ingredients list since they're sorted by volume. IIRC there's a few different names they can use for high fructose corn syrup alone. It's a very deceptive tactic to me.
Reminds me of the dihydrogen monoxide meme. People were warning that -insert food company- was putting dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical used in making yoga mats and cooling nuclear power plants, in their products. It’s just water lol
What you Europeans think "South American" is is actually Central American or Mexican or even Caribbean. I didn't realize how many Europeans think North America stops at the border of Mexico and US.
@@Tommy2shoe811 That doesn't make Mexico South America as these guys probably think it is. Latin America is just a grouping of countries in the Americas that speak mostly Spanish or Portuguese. For example, there are three countries in South America that aren't Latin. Also, Mexico was part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
If you go to a McDonald's in a small town or suburb they always get the order right, but if you go to one in a not so great area of a city they will 9 times out of 10 fuck up something lol
I live in a community that provides potatoes to all major companies, for fries and chips. The only time people stay away from the fields they are grown in, is when they are killing off the plants before harvest in the fall. When the potatoes are being graded or sorted for shipping and storage, all the workers wear jeans, flannels, some work gloves, usually the same worn by construction crews. There aren't people wandering around in hazmat suits or special gear. I just wanted to share! Keep up the great reactions!
Whenever I hear "scones" I think about one thing : He's a lumberjack and he's ok He sleeps all night and he works all day. I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory. On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea.
Yes, most US potato crops are sprayed with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides at least a dozen times. I've seen the farmers in their air-conditioned, positively pressurized tractor cabs that allow air out but not in, wearing hazmat suits. Breathing those chemicals can kill you in a minute or two as they are potent neurotoxins. That is why many potato farms use aerial spraying by plane. For those doubters below take a look at Potato Grower magazine and the nasty stuff they all use: www.potatogrower.com/2013/06/potato-growers-pesticides-buyers
Weighing the fries seems a little lazy for a test. I don't know about you guys, but the amount of fries they put in the carton is significantly different depending on who is stuffing them. Would have been a better test if they'd averaged out five orders or something like that.
the small fries in UK are whats in a childs happy meal here in america. well if you get fries you can also get apple slices instead. big mac sauce is thousand island dressing btw. i only get mcdonalds once a week, i usually get the deluxe chicken sandwich (17:51 this) with large fries and large diet coke (to cancel all the calories ofc😜) otherwise known as a "large number 4" off the menu. ooooh shamrock shake, love those!! only available around st patricks day though
Kids work at our Micky D’s as well. Our minimum wage here in Maryland, USA is $11.75. It was supposed to be $15 but they pushed it out to the year 2025. I have never seen hazmat suits worn to dig up potatoes.
The best thing as a poor college student in the US was the McGangbang. To make it, you first have to buy a McChicken and a McDouble. You then separate the McDouble, place the entire McChicken (bun and all) between the two patties of the McDouble, close it up, and enjoy. It's amazing! The best part was both the McChicken and McDouble were on the dollar menu (I'm not sure they still are), so you could get a ton of food for $2 + tax.
The us biscuit is nothing like a scone, except in looks. And yes, you guys are missing out pretty much every us city has an amazing taco truck that’s basically just Mexican-American home cooking
So McDonald’s in the US no longer serves salads, yogurt parfait, buttermilk chicken, grilled chicken, donut sticks or snack wraps. They recently introduced a new crispy chicken sandwich, plain or spicy, and bakery items- a blueberry muffin, apple fritter and cinnamon roll.
@15:00; BurgerKing has the Impossible burger, but if you don’t want it cooked in the same grill you have to ask for it (not sure what they do, maybe just microwave it; as they aren’t going to clean off the grill every time).
If your country doesn't enforce that law then you're probably eating poison lol And yeah you'd be surprised how different shit is here Tampico juice comes from Mexico, but here it's like 90% sugar and if you get in Mexico it's like 50% and has real fruit juice in it so it tastes completely different
with not having a 20 pc box, they used to. However, since they started selling 10pc portions, it is cheaper to just order more 10pc boxes rather than having larger boxes and trying to manage having enough.
They wear white suits when Messing with potatoes because if the risk of microscopic dust. They are basically the same (thicker for durability) suits electricians wear in clean environments. Though for opposite reasons.
The potatoes are sprayed with a chemical on the field. To stop them getting brown bits on them. Apparently nobody is allowed near the field for 6 week after because it is so hazardous.
Also I like to point out that the only McDonald’s in the world, which is located in Orlando Florida in the U.S., serve pasta and Belgian waffles in addition to pizza
Mc Donald's and other fast food joints for along time was considered to be a ideal highschool jobs for 17 and up so they can learn job skills only recently with the dawn of the internet has that stance changed over here in the us.
American fries are usually made with something like a Yukon Gold, or Gold Rush potato. Never seen hazmat suites on the farmers. I worked as a potato farmer in Wisconsin for 3 years. The farm that I worked at was one of the biggest potato farms in the state. The potato farm that I worked at grew the seed potatoes for Lays ( Lays potato chips ). Potatoes are stored in large dark warehouses with lots of air blowing threw them. If the potatoes gets a hot spot in the pile it will turn to mush so keeping them cool is a must. I have heard that green potatoes are poisonous. You get a green potato if the part of the potato is not covered with dirt and is exposed to sunlight.
Yeah, I'd be genuinely curious as to where he heard this, just so it could be corrected by whomever originally said this. Honestly, Dave should have known immediately this wasn't true, if nothing else than on the basis of how ridiculous it sounds, but he seems somewhat inclined to believe a lot of quite frankly 'strange' things that would usually be recognized as clear falsehoods by most people. This is definitely the most extreme example I've heard from him, but he says things like this quite often.
@@disciple16 Fair enough. Though if I sounded snarky, it wasn't meant that way. My apologies. Just an observation. And I guess a bit surprised. If you don't know, you don't know. That's fair enough. But there's a difference between that, and uncritically believing something obviously sketchy.
He probably saw that video going around a couple of years ago. It got debunked soon after, but people only want to hear the sensational stuff and the truth becomes secondary.
A lot of the extra things on the list of US food that sounds like chemicals are just vitamins if you look up their generic names. The FDA in the US also requires a lot of breakdown on ingredients in comparison.
I've noticed when traveling in other countries, McDonald's may have unique items on the menu (like poutine in Canada)and as you commented beer in some European countries. Also, even states can have regional favorites. When we were in Hawaii, there was Spam on the menu, like Spam and rice, etc. (This was in 2007.) They love their Spam in Hawaii. It's a WWII thing that was carried over afterwards.
Sunny side up means cooked on one side, the yolk being the sun. Over easy means flipped over once and cooked a little bit, and over hard means flipped over and cooked through. Oh and American biscuits are 1000% not scones. Scones are more crumbly and biscuits are buttery and flakey. ps the us host was being totally sarcastic. Ironic that the brits say americans don’t get irony!
Daz’s comment about the surly attitude of servers or order takers in the UK reminded me of a restaurant near the University of Texas in Austin where the servers had a shtick of being rude to the customers. The food was great, but the restaurant was extremely popular because everyone would get the G-M Steakhouse treatment of berating and insulting the customers. People loved it because it was funny, even though the insults could be quite harsh, but there was always a line to go inside. Even though the restaurant is now gone, the shtick is still used by some restaurants in other cities across the US.
Unfortunately McDonalds discontinued the Southwest Salad. Which came with Newmans Southwest dressing that was exclusive to McDonalds.They don’t have vegetarian sandwiches here either. They recently added smoothies and slushies to the drink menu.
Dave is the only one of the three that seems to feel the need to defend his home when something slightly negative is said about it or something positive is said about the US. It's not that serious.
14:55 Funny that you mention that, because Lav Luka (another UK reactor) reacted to this video and said he used to work at McDonald's, and they fried that vegetarian item in the same fryer. Lol
The "natural beef flavor" is used to replace the beef fat they used to use back in the day, which set them apart in flavor. Because beef fat is supposedly unhealthy they started using chemical beef fat for that delicious beef fat flavor. Mmmm mmm! I still love their chemical fries!
do the whole series please!!! here in Murica we make buscuits the way they are in case we need more ammunition, they can handle the force that propels them to the enemy. plus they're nutritious if you believe hard enough😁 source- me who was a mcdonalds employee and put the butter on the biscuits. They're super cold and hard and put in a oven for a short time and come out ready for humans to put in their mouth holes. ps: in america we've become a society that demands to know what food is made up, all of the ingredients which most are ok and don't hurt your health. We have to preserve food for travel and longer shelf lives, and people have pushed for laws that demand transparency. So our list of ingredients is generally much higher but there's no way the same restaurant in another country will only use a few ingredients, usually other nations don't have laws that require the company list all the ingredients. At least we know lol, doesn't change my order of nuggets. The potatoes are grown with pesticides and chemicals that get rid of diseases and pests, that's why we can grow so much and they don't spoil from natural causes. Due to our population and consumption amount it's required to supply all needs.
1) McGriddles are fucking incredible. 2) American biscuits are very different than scones...similar in texture maybe but flakey and buttery (kinda salty but only if you’re comparing them to scones which are typically sweet)
American Biscuits are flaky and not sweet, like a much more dense croissant, often doughy or "fluffy" in the center. The dough often uses buttermilk for richness. They are a staple of southern american cousine and were used to fend off starvation during the Great Depression. Because they are dense and caloric, they helped poor americans survive the 1930s. This is why we often put ANYTHING on a biscuit. Gravy, butter, chicken, cinnimon-sugar, jellyies and jams, ham, eggs and bacon etc.
Hello! Joe from Food Wars (the US guy on the right). Thanks for reacting to our video. Your observation on me not taking a bite is spot on, but it actually comes down to my energy levels as a host. The shoots go several hours. I would've LOVED to dig into that food but i would've passed out halfway through the shoot. Work comes first!
Also, McGriddles are amazing.
Chicken McGriddles are the best
You're pretty hilarious! Stay blessed dude
American biscuits are not really like scones. American biscuits are never sweet and are often salty, but they can also be more buttery than truly savory, kind of like a croissant. They can be dense and doughy almost like good bread, or they can be almost as flaky and delicate as croissants, all depending on how you make them. 🖖💯✌
But if you leave them in the oven after the oven is turned off or leave them outside over overnight they might be like scones, particularly if you add some clotted cream.
I understand why British people say this, as they look alike. But the similarity pretty much ends there.
Slightly off topic but do you guys only refer to what we call biscuits in the UK as cookies or do you have different varieties? Here in the UK we have different types of biscuits, like Digestives, bourbons, rich tea etc.
@@mohammedyahya5838 We have a huge selection of things that are categorized as cookies, at least for the purposes of where they are located in the market. Oreos, Nilla Wafers, and every imaginable variation on chocolate chip...just a gigantic variety. But we still also have things called "biscuits" like Belvita Breakfast Biscuits...which are just cookies made with slightly less sugar and healthier ingredients. To make it even more confusing, we also have sweet things that really are cookies, but we call them crackers...graham crackers and animal crackers being just 2 types. OH, and most large supermarkets here also now have a decent selection of foreign baked sweets, so we can also buy digestives and Jammie Dodgers and lots of others...then there are the biscotti.
So, yeah...we got choices LOLOLOL
TLDR yes, basically any kind of ethnic or foreign 'biscuit' like thing that we eat here is called both a cookie in general and whatever it is originally called. As well there are lots of cookie like things under the label, like various turtles, snaps, or ladyfingers.
The difference ingredients could very well be because of 'labeling laws'. US has to list everything, the UK may only have to list the main ingredients.
Exactly. Which is why he broke down all the different oils whereas the other guy just said, “oil”
@@chriscostas8143 And the duplicate ingredients, because you can't list "pickle" you have to list it as "pickle(gherkin, salt, vinegar, etc)"
The lack of certain chemicals changes the look and taste of it which is the case here so the uk one could actually have less ingredients.
thank you, someone is educated. well done my friend
Probably so. But the UK also had banned a lot of things that aren't in the US.
American biscuits don’t go soft. They’re a bread and aren’t sweet. It’s more like a flaky, drier bun that traditionally uses grease/rendered fat for the oils.
Good biscuits aren't that dry though, at least if you're like my southern family that infuses everything with butter. You're right though, they don't go soft, they actually get harder when they age
Every scone I've ever had was like a brick. But that may be because we don't know how to make them in the US.
@@buddystewart2020 Mocha Joe?
It defiantly depends on where you are, who's making it, and what recipes. My parents like to make drier, more bready biscuits while I personally prefer to make softer, sweeter biscuits
American biscuits are absolutely sweet.
9:00
The comments about the potato farming is... Well, ill-informed.
All farmers have standards that restrict them from going in their fields after spreading pesticides. Not just potato farmers.
And yes, potatoes are stored in special units, that utilize climate control. But that's so the crops can be available year round.
And the farmers spray their crops to keeps pests from eating or infecting them. Not because McDonald's likes certain them to.
The fry distribution company McDonald's gets their fries from select only certain shapes and sizes of potatoes; so the fries look more appealing in the cartons. The other potatoes they don't use, they sell off to local grocery stores, vendors and restaurants.
And the potatoes, in McDonald's frys are safe to eat. Their the same exact kind you can buy and cook at home.
The more you know, the less you don't know. 😀
They don’t wear hazmat suits to pick the potatoes 😂😂😂
Yup, and just to clarify for anyone interested, they do wear suits, only when spraying the insecticides and other concentrated chemicals. But these chemicals break down under sunlight and the elements, so by the time they are ready for harvest, there will be no trace of those chemicals in the crops. There are plenty of reasons to not want to eat McDonald fries in the US, but this is not necessarily one of those reasons.
Yeah, in America it’s pretty common for food processing. Just standard practice to wear stuff to not bring in outside things that can kill the potatoes
@@Hades-tf1zy and has nothing to do with GMOs since everything we fucking eat is a GMO
@@gimpyrules6714 there’s nothing wrong with GMOs
@@Dan-el4mz when did I say they are bad XD???
Idiot
American biscuits are definitely different than scones... they actually opened an American fast food shop (can't remember which one) in Germany and made the workers go by American service standards, and after a few months they had to tell the workers to stop smiling so much because it was making customers uncomfortable lol
Hell, I'd bee uncomfortable seeingthat and I'm from America! We don't smile THAT much. Or really, where I live at least, at all.
Hilarious that you think potatoes in America need harvested in hazmat suits. We use russett potatoes from Idaho. The best potato for baking and fries. No hazmat suit. Again...absolutely hilarious.
The pesticide called monitor is used on the potatoes to make them flawless and perfect for their fries is so toxic that farms are considered no entry zones for five days after it sprayed from what I heard
Not a McDonald’s person at all but the bacon egg & cheese McGriddle is to die for. It’s sooo good.
I'm a Burger King guy all the way, but that's some good stuff.
Yes i just wish they were bigger
Sausage egg and cheese McGriddle is my go-to
Yep! But they are so expensive.
Only good thing about Mickey D are their fries. Their burgers are greasy sponge on a bun riddle with gristle.
I lost him at hazmat suits when he was talking about the potatoes here in America😂
the mcgriddle is unrivaled by anything else on the menu
Yeah fax
So is the diarreah that follows it
@@jckdnls9292 no one gets diarrhea from a McGriddle... you tried it buddy
@@jckdnls9292 is that what happens to you?! That's crazy.
No cap
The US does have salsa at McDonald's. You get salsa picante packets with the Sausage Breakfast Burritos so you can just ask for them with whatever you want.
You can live without the McGriddle because you have never tasted it.
This needs to be on a t-shirt
I live in America and not a big fan of McGriddle
@@matthewmariano981 I move to immediately revoke your citizenship and deport you to Jupiter.
@@matthewmariano981 P.S. ua-cam.com/video/Zr1JQpqQlsY/v-deo.html
YESSS exactly. it’s such an ingenious idea, ppl, outside the US, actually think it’s not appealing
Scones and American biscuits are not the same. I'm a pastry chef. American biscuit are dry like scones, but have zero sweet in them and they are much lighter and fluffier than a scone. That is the main thing that distinguishes them from each other. They used to be called baking powder biscuits because they have so much baking powder in them, to make them rise
Uk people need to stop comparing biscuits to scones. Very different things.
Great b8 m8 xD
@Aidan S There's not really a good comparison to biscuits to a British food. One of those things that just has to be tried.
Hazmat suits... to harvest potatoes? Lol. No. They're just regular potatoes, dude.
Nobody wears hazmat suits picking potatoes! Stop believing everything you hear
They wear hazmats when farming alot of different things, pesticides are not good for you.
@@Northernliiights But GMOs aren't, and a majority of modern crops are GMO instead, which often don't require pesticides. Don't listen to all the bullshit you hear.
@@danielhavoc889 a majority? Try all
And try not modern crops but ones that have been around for thousands of years since we started farming to begin with
People need to educate themselves on what GMO really means
@@gimpyrules6714 I think you are very confused. GMO's have been genetically modified, in a laboratory. That's not been going on for thousands of years. What you are talking about is crossbreeding. While crossbreeding and GMO can accomplish similar things (like corn that needs very little water), GMO can be done much quicker opposed to years of crossbreeding to get your desired result.
Biscuits ain’t really like scones. You have to try them one day if you get the chance I’m telling you. Also the McGriddle, if and when you taste it, don’t be surprised if you start craving another.
Mcgriddles are EVERYTHING
The ice cream machine is always broken here in the US 🤣
One thing they don't mention here is that McDonald's milkshake/ice cream machines are almost always broken.
They’re not broken, they just tell you it is.
ALWAYS!!! 🤣 I go to Wendy's for the Frosty. I've never found one that wasn't working, but everywhere else, including Burger King... Never works...
Not always broke, just off for cleaning
Ice cream machines. You can get a milkshake just fine.
Maybe it depends on where you live? I’ve never had that happen to me, knock on wood.
To be fair... We use a LOT of ice. So it all balances out in terms of amount of soda.
Very true! In the US you commonly get 3/4 of a cup filled with ice standard. In the UK most places if you want ice you have to request it, or are asked for it before its served.
@@aj897 Unless you do drive-thru, you get your own pop and your own ice.
Scrambled, sunny side up, fried, poached, over easy, over medium, over hard, soft boiled, medium boiled, hard boiled, french scrambled, omelet and more lol
US McDonalds used to have wraps and they were amazing! Im jealous that the UK still has them
Remember the Big Mac wrap? Lol
What makes an American biscuit (done well) is biscuiting, which is where you first cut the dry ingredients with cold butter, making sure that the mix remains cold throughout the mixing process, before you add the liquid part of the batter. What this does is create very very small chunck of butter in your batter, which then makes every bite buttery. The ideal biscuit is salty, buttery, and both fluffy and dense in just the right measures. Anything else, that says that it is a biscuit, but doesn't do this, is a scone. If you've had a KFC biscuit straight out of the oven, you'll know what I mean.
Poisonous potatoes and hazmat suits? Where does he get his info lol and the UK guy started eating out of boredom after he ran out of delicious mcdonalds delicacies to delight us with.
He probably saw a picture of when they spray the pesticides on the plants. By the way, the above ground parts of all potato plants are poisonous. 😆
He always has the best conspiracy theories. Also said Pearl Harbor was a setup hehe.
@@imme6954 There is some poison in the potato itself but it's mostly processed out by some method. This is why you do not see potatoes eaten raw.
I’d like to make you a homemade biscuit and see you tell me it’s the same as a scone...😁 We have scones too, and our biscuits do not equal our scones. Maybe UK scones are different than our’s🤷🏻♂️
Enjoyed the video!
I've been to England and Scotland and most "scones" in the US are not scones at all. They're hard, really sweet, heavy, dry things that resemble colorful rocks, and feel about the same. The scones I had in the UK were slightly denser US biscuits, still light, but a tad richer--and having them with an obscene amount of clotted cream was just heaven.
Always dropping new content, you guys are killin it!
I live in North Carolina. I wouldn't visit here and tell anybody that a biscuit is pretty much like a scone. How fast can you run? 😜
Hell, I don’t think you can go anywhere below the mason-dixon line thinking like that? But at the same time, they’d be the first ones giving them a basket of freshly baked ‘education.’ Lol!
“Mate! It’s Macdonald’s! Y’don’t ge’ a wrap from Macdonald’s! D’yeh?” Man. I’m getting heavy Dave Lister from Red Dwarf vibes.
The reason you're seeing ingredients twice is that they are listing the ingredients of the components of the food. Like the sweet relish is a component of the special sauce. So they are listing the salt in the relish and then the salt that is added to the overall sauce.
when they mentioned the mcgriddle
“ehh i can live without it”
HAHAHAAH have a sausage, egg, and cheese Mcgriddle and say that statement again
In US, for all fast food places, the type of potato used are Russet potatoes. Although whenever you see a cooking show that shows how to cook "french fries" at home, those shows usually say that Yukon Gold potatoes are best for making homemade fries.
GMOs and Pesticides are entirely different. GMOs aren't a spray, it's a different genetic build, and have no direct negative impacts on health. Comparing a GMO and a Non GMO crop is like comparing a race horse with a wild horse. GMO crops, like a race horse, are breed to be better. The idea that GMO=bad is an outdated opinion, that really is just put out by politicians stuck in the 70s.
Dave, you've got to lay off the conspiracies. There's nothing going on with the potatoes. GMO is the design of the crop (its genetic code has been altered), not something added to it. It makes the crop resistant to disease or insects. Anything not organic is coming into contact with pesticides so you might see someone spraying fields in PPE. Just wash your potatoes off before you cook them, no big deal.
The biggest problem the food has is adding things like corn syrup and sugar unnecessarily. Not to mention portion sizes.
American biscuits aren't sweet. We also have scones they just aren't as popular. It's like English muffins and crumpets. They're not the same thing even if they look similar.
Fast food workers aren't getting tipped. Their service is cultural expectations. Some places are better (Chick-fil-A) than others.
One thing to make sure you don't fall into the trap of is the "if I can't pronounce it, it must be bad for me," logic. I see this stuff in commercials for "natural" products in the US all the time. It's a very misleading scare tactic, but it's sadly effective. The main difference that makes the US versions worse is the obscene amounts of added sugars in the food.
That's not all, the FDA has more stringent rules when it comes to labeling ingredients.
@derp derpin The worst part to me is how they will use/list different kinds of sugars so it can be further down the ingredients list since they're sorted by volume. IIRC there's a few different names they can use for high fructose corn syrup alone. It's a very deceptive tactic to me.
Reminds me of the dihydrogen monoxide meme. People were warning that -insert food company- was putting dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical used in making yoga mats and cooling nuclear power plants, in their products.
It’s just water lol
What you Europeans think "South American" is is actually Central American or Mexican or even Caribbean. I didn't realize how many Europeans think North America stops at the border of Mexico and US.
Rude ass quit giving us A bad name were not all rude like you😑🤣
North America does stop at the border. Mexico is Latin America
Edit: I live there
@@Tommy2shoe811 That doesn't make Mexico South America as these guys probably think it is. Latin America is just a grouping of countries in the Americas that speak mostly Spanish or Portuguese. For example, there are three countries in South America that aren't Latin. Also, Mexico was part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
@@Tommy2shoe811 Latin America is a section of North America its not its own continent. the border or North America ends between Panamá and Colombia
@@Tommy2shoe811 so you live in Latin America which is located in North America therefore you are North America.
If you go to a McDonald's in a small town or suburb they always get the order right, but if you go to one in a not so great area of a city they will 9 times out of 10 fuck up something lol
Depends how busy that one is. Plus always pays to check before driving off just in case. They only human.
I live in a small town every damn time it's a screw up...I don't eat McDonald's but my kids like McChicken sandwich and fries.
I live in a community that provides potatoes to all major companies, for fries and chips. The only time people stay away from the fields they are grown in, is when they are killing off the plants before harvest in the fall. When the potatoes are being graded or sorted for shipping and storage, all the workers wear jeans, flannels, some work gloves, usually the same worn by construction crews. There aren't people wandering around in hazmat suits or special gear. I just wanted to share! Keep up the great reactions!
Whenever I hear "scones"
I think about one thing :
He's a lumberjack and he's ok
He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory.
On Wednesdays I go shopping and have buttered scones for tea.
Yes, most US potato crops are sprayed with pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides at least a dozen times. I've seen the farmers in their air-conditioned, positively pressurized tractor cabs that allow air out but not in, wearing hazmat suits. Breathing those chemicals can kill you in a minute or two as they are potent neurotoxins. That is why many potato farms use aerial spraying by plane. For those doubters below take a look at Potato Grower magazine and the nasty stuff they all use:
www.potatogrower.com/2013/06/potato-growers-pesticides-buyers
Weighing the fries seems a little lazy for a test. I don't know about you guys, but the amount of fries they put in the carton is significantly different depending on who is stuffing them. Would have been a better test if they'd averaged out five orders or something like that.
the small fries in UK are whats in a childs happy meal here in america. well if you get fries you can also get apple slices instead. big mac sauce is thousand island dressing btw. i only get mcdonalds once a week, i usually get the deluxe chicken sandwich (17:51 this) with large fries and large diet coke (to cancel all the calories ofc😜) otherwise known as a "large number 4" off the menu. ooooh shamrock shake, love those!! only available around st patricks day though
the small fries are also happy meal in the UK
Kids work at our Micky D’s as well. Our minimum wage here in Maryland, USA is $11.75. It was supposed to be $15 but they pushed it out to the year 2025. I have never seen hazmat suits worn to dig up potatoes.
McDonald's in America you can get, 2 - 10 piece chicken nuggets for $5 (20 chicken nuggets for $5) + a medium drink! Which is absolutely insane
The drinks are bigger because they fill them to the top with ice. Displacement pretty much makes them equal.
The best thing as a poor college student in the US was the McGangbang. To make it, you first have to buy a McChicken and a McDouble. You then separate the McDouble, place the entire McChicken (bun and all) between the two patties of the McDouble, close it up, and enjoy. It's amazing!
The best part was both the McChicken and McDouble were on the dollar menu (I'm not sure they still are), so you could get a ton of food for $2 + tax.
The us biscuit is nothing like a scone, except in looks. And yes, you guys are missing out pretty much every us city has an amazing taco truck that’s basically just Mexican-American home cooking
McDonald's in America uses 3 different kinds of potato in their fries. :)
So McDonald’s in the US no longer serves salads, yogurt parfait, buttermilk chicken, grilled chicken, donut sticks or snack wraps. They recently introduced a new crispy chicken sandwich, plain or spicy, and bakery items- a blueberry muffin, apple fritter and cinnamon roll.
@15:00; BurgerKing has the Impossible burger, but if you don’t want it cooked in the same grill you have to ask for it (not sure what they do, maybe just microwave it; as they aren’t going to clean off the grill every time).
A large sweet tea at McDonalds can be given to like 3 to 4 people to drink, just to share in the USA. The portion sizes are insane.
Our drink sizes are big, but it’s mostly ice haha.
Though the ingredients are similar a scone and a biscuit are definitely not the same
Can I send you guys a McGriddle and send it to you, so you can try it 3 months later and see what you think about it? 🤣🤣
In the US, our biscuits and scones are 2 different things. Biscuits don't get soft either
i heard the us has to breakdown ingredients by law...besides that, theyre pretty much the same ingredients in both...
If your country doesn't enforce that law then you're probably eating poison lol
And yeah you'd be surprised how different shit is here
Tampico juice comes from Mexico, but here it's like 90% sugar and if you get in Mexico it's like 50% and has real fruit juice in it so it tastes completely different
with not having a 20 pc box, they used to. However, since they started selling 10pc portions, it is cheaper to just order more 10pc boxes rather than having larger boxes and trying to manage having enough.
They wear white suits when Messing with potatoes because if the risk of microscopic dust.
They are basically the same (thicker for durability) suits electricians wear in clean environments. Though for opposite reasons.
The uk portions were the us portions back in the 90’s
I can just see a McDonalds in the US serving beer. Drunks throwing up on the playground, asking if Ronald McDonald actually lives here. LMFAO
The potatoes are sprayed with a chemical on the field. To stop them getting brown bits on them. Apparently nobody is allowed near the field for 6 week after because it is so hazardous.
Doughnut sticks must be regional in the US, I've never seen them.
Mcgriddles are my saviors during road trips.
Love the channel and your dynamic
Also I like to point out that the only McDonald’s in the world, which is located in Orlando Florida in the U.S., serve pasta and Belgian waffles in addition to pizza
Yep I ordered a meatball sub there
And they have a game room upstairs
@@jaylarae9425 I know I’ve been there
Jilly's bloody rockworld! what a throwback, knew the second you said it you was gonna mention the green maccies on oxford road. Love it hahah
A Whataburger large is way bigger than the McDonalds large. Scones and biscuits are not the same .
The milkshakes here in America in the Mcdonalds are really good
I love ranch dressing so much. It's so good imo. Like ranch doritos? So good too.
Mc Donald's and other fast food joints for along time was considered to be a ideal highschool jobs for 17 and up so they can learn job skills only recently with the dawn of the internet has that stance changed over here in the us.
@21:01 no you can't trust me, once you try a fresh one you'll want another and another.....its like heaven in your mouth.
American fries are usually made with something like a Yukon Gold, or Gold Rush potato. Never seen hazmat suites on the farmers. I worked as a potato farmer in Wisconsin for 3 years. The farm that I worked at was one of the biggest potato farms in the state. The potato farm that I worked at grew the seed potatoes for Lays ( Lays potato chips ). Potatoes are stored in large dark warehouses with lots of air blowing threw them. If the potatoes gets a hot spot in the pile it will turn to mush so keeping them cool is a must. I have heard that green potatoes are poisonous. You get a green potato if the part of the potato is not covered with dirt and is exposed to sunlight.
Yeah, I'd be genuinely curious as to where he heard this, just so it could be corrected by whomever originally said this. Honestly, Dave should have known immediately this wasn't true, if nothing else than on the basis of how ridiculous it sounds, but he seems somewhat inclined to believe a lot of quite frankly 'strange' things that would usually be recognized as clear falsehoods by most people. This is definitely the most extreme example I've heard from him, but he says things like this quite often.
@@willsofer3679 go easy on Dave, he doesn't know.
@@disciple16 Fair enough. Though if I sounded snarky, it wasn't meant that way. My apologies. Just an observation. And I guess a bit surprised. If you don't know, you don't know. That's fair enough. But there's a difference between that, and uncritically believing something obviously sketchy.
He probably saw that video going around a couple of years ago. It got debunked soon after, but people only want to hear the sensational stuff and the truth becomes secondary.
Oh and McDonald's uses Russet potatoes
A lot of the extra things on the list of US food that sounds like chemicals are just vitamins if you look up their generic names. The FDA in the US also requires a lot of breakdown on ingredients in comparison.
I've noticed when traveling in other countries, McDonald's may have unique items on the menu (like poutine in Canada)and as you commented beer in some European countries. Also, even states can have regional favorites. When we were in Hawaii, there was Spam on the menu, like Spam and rice, etc. (This was in 2007.) They love their Spam in Hawaii. It's a WWII thing that was carried over afterwards.
I can assure you they aren't harvesting potatoes in haxmat suits lol
Sometimes big businesses like McDonald’s and Walmart have farms on contract and these farms sell exclusively to these companies.
McGriddles are the greatest! You don't know what you've been missing!
Sunny side up means cooked on one side, the yolk being the sun. Over easy means flipped over once and cooked a little bit, and over hard means flipped over and cooked through.
Oh and American biscuits are 1000% not scones. Scones are more crumbly and biscuits are buttery and flakey.
ps the us host was being totally sarcastic. Ironic that the brits say americans don’t get irony!
Where I come from we just call over-hard eggs fried eggs.
@@rlbrooksssg I would say a fried egg is crispy around the edges, whites cooked through but the yolk still runny
Daz’s comment about the surly attitude of servers or order takers in the UK reminded me of a restaurant near the University of Texas in Austin where the servers had a shtick of being rude to the customers. The food was great, but the restaurant was extremely popular because everyone would get the G-M Steakhouse treatment of berating and insulting the customers. People loved it because it was funny, even though the insults could be quite harsh, but there was always a line to go inside. Even though the restaurant is now gone, the shtick is still used by some restaurants in other cities across the US.
Unfortunately McDonalds discontinued the Southwest Salad. Which came with Newmans Southwest dressing that was exclusive to McDonalds.They don’t have vegetarian sandwiches here either.
They recently added smoothies and slushies to the drink menu.
Dave is the only one of the three that seems to feel the need to defend his home when something slightly negative is said about it or something positive is said about the US. It's not that serious.
FAX😂💯
They do a Domino's Pizza one as well and there the American host digs into the food so I think this is genuine from him
How do you like your eggs?
Um, cooked.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
14:55 Funny that you mention that, because Lav Luka (another UK reactor) reacted to this video and said he used to work at McDonald's, and they fried that vegetarian item in the same fryer. Lol
The "natural beef flavor" is used to replace the beef fat they used to use back in the day, which set them apart in flavor. Because beef fat is supposedly unhealthy they started using chemical beef fat for that delicious beef fat flavor. Mmmm mmm! I still love their chemical fries!
do the whole series please!!! here in Murica we make buscuits the way they are in case we need more ammunition, they can handle the force that propels them to the enemy. plus they're nutritious if you believe hard enough😁
source- me who was a mcdonalds employee and put the butter on the biscuits. They're super cold and hard and put in a oven for a short time and come out ready for humans to put in their mouth holes.
ps: in america we've become a society that demands to know what food is made up, all of the ingredients which most are ok and don't hurt your health. We have to preserve food for travel and longer shelf lives, and people have pushed for laws that demand transparency. So our list of ingredients is generally much higher but there's no way the same restaurant in another country will only use a few ingredients, usually other nations don't have laws that require the company list all the ingredients. At least we know lol, doesn't change my order of nuggets. The potatoes are grown with pesticides and chemicals that get rid of diseases and pests, that's why we can grow so much and they don't spoil from natural causes. Due to our population and consumption amount it's required to supply all needs.
I don't know which country has the best McDonald's, but I think it's pretty clear which country has the best presenter. 🇺🇸
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
A Biscuit IS NOT a scone.
Biscuits are salty/savory and flaky.
Scones are relatively sweet and crumbly.
Wherever you are, check your order before you leave. It's the nature of the fast-food beast.
Sausage, egg & cheese mcgriddle with 2 hashbrowns is what I usually get in the morning at McDonald's
GMO is genetic, not pesticide. They don’t wear hazmat suites in Idaho, but they do sometimes use liquid fertilizer which requires some protective gear
1) McGriddles are fucking incredible. 2) American biscuits are very different than scones...similar in texture maybe but flakey and buttery (kinda salty but only if you’re comparing them to scones which are typically sweet)
Scones are a lot sweeter and more dense than biscuits and biscuits are a lot more buttery, fluffy, and flaky
Subway...Any Subway sandwich goes to the next level with "SWEET ONION' SAUCE"...trust ME?
A scone I no where near the same as a biscuit, imagine a cake but replace the sugar with butter
Don't know about now but when I worked at McDs some years ago we had separate fryers for potatoes, fish, and chicken.
American McDonalds is hard to beat. Except I hear its good in Indonesia and Singapore with the McSpicy.
They are made from potato flakes, and as one other commenter said it is labeling laws, the UK is not actually listing ALL of he ingredients.
Portions sizes here in the states are massive lol. Didnt really how much different they were until I saw this video a couple days ago.
American Biscuits are flaky and not sweet, like a much more dense croissant, often doughy or "fluffy" in the center. The dough often uses buttermilk for richness. They are a staple of southern american cousine and were used to fend off starvation during the Great Depression. Because they are dense and caloric, they helped poor americans survive the 1930s. This is why we often put ANYTHING on a biscuit. Gravy, butter, chicken, cinnimon-sugar, jellyies and jams, ham, eggs and bacon etc.