Which Would You Rather? 🇺🇸🇬🇧American vs British Food🥘 UK vs USA 🍔
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Which Food Would You Rather? 🇺🇸🇬🇧American vs British 🥘 UK vs USA 🍔
This is a simple one.British food knocks American food into a cocked hat. No contest full stop.
You complain about the cream in a Victoria sponge cake being too sweet then prefer waffles drenched in maple syrup???
I don't understand the American culinary habit of combining sweet and savoury but still calling it savoury. Chicken with waffles, syrup and a dusting of sugar - wtf? Sweet potato and marshmallows served with turkey (probably deep fried), gravy, vegetables etc? Just no. Pancakes, syrup, yes please. Bacon, yes please. Together on the same plate? Yuk.
And let's not get into the abhorration Americans call gravy. It's not gravy. It's not even close. It's a poor man's bechamel with bits of mushed up sausagemeat. Gravy is the gorgeous meat juices, maybe with a drop of wine, thickened until it's velvety and delicious. They are not the same.
THAT'S NOT A BISCUIT or GRAVY. It's a scone & some kind of cream sauce.
@@melvincain5012 Actually it is a biscuit as they are lighter and slimmer than scones.
But I agree with you that is not gravy, it's more of a sauce.
US 2 - UK 12
Yes, I'm from the UK. Details for if you're bored:
Hot Dog < Sausage Roll (unless you use real sausage in the hot dog as well).
Red Velvet < Victoria Sponge because no artificial colo(u)rs for me.
Chicken and Waffles = Pie and Mash as I can't decide as it probably depends on the pie.
Chocolate chip Cookie < Shortbread as both are good but the shortbread has a long shelf life.
Cheeseburger < Fish and Chips although it is cheaper which is nice so I actually alternate between the two.
Pumpkin Pie = Sticky Toffee Pudding as I can't remember what either of these are like.
Sweet Potato Casserole < Roast Potato as they are even better than chips.
Hot Fudge Sundae > 99 Flake as soft serve ice cream is mostly air.
Pancakes and Bacon < Full English although I won't finish the plate.
Cheesecake > Bread and Butter Pudding as I really like cheesecake especially if the base is good.
Cornbread < Crumpets actually I've never tried cornbread but I know crumpets are really good.
"Biscuits" and Gravy < Baked Beans on Toast as I don't know how anyone can eat those "biscuits".
Meatloaf < Bangers and Mash as you can't beat a good banger (works in a bun as well).
Twinkies < Iced Buns as while iced buns are a little plain twinkies are just too artificial.
Streaky Bacon < Back Bacon as who wants all of that fat?
Hershey < Dairy Milk as the former shouldn't even be called chocolate.
Not surprising as Hershey is made from sour out of date vomit flavoured.
It's definitely not chocolate.
Dairy Milk before it was taken over by Kraft.
Belgian chocolate.
Hot dogs are not food. Cream cheese on a cake is just wrong. Chicken and waffles are another case where America confuse savoury food with dessert. Chocolate chip cookie is the first one where I would eat both options, but nothing bears shortbread. Cheeseburgers aren't good, especially with the low quality meat in the US. Pumpkin has no flavour and pumpkin pie is awful. That sweet potato casserole looks disgusting. The hot fudge sundae looks less horrible than most US foods, but Americans do fudge badly, so I'd avoid it. American pancakes are like coasters and half as enjoyable and Anerican bacon is burnt and oversalted. I hate even British cheesecakes. I've never tried cornbread, but there's no way they can be better than crumpet. Those are not biscuits and that is not gravy. Meatloaf looks bad even before you factor in the low quality meat. I ate a Twinkie once. Dry, hard to swallow and with a chemical taste. British bacon tasted of pig. Americans just hate meat flavours. Hershry's tastes of vomit. UK all the way, for me.
When I make Victoria sandwich I only put jam in it, preferably home made jam.
your not comparing like with like, fried chicken on a sweet waffle with a sweet syrup sound disgusting.
It was not made clear but I think this is a reaction to an existing food choice video.
I don't disagree with you.
I tried it once. Found it to be actually very nice
I'm at a loss to understand why you would see the cream in a Victoria sponge as sweet. Maybe it's because it's sandwiched with jam which IS sweet thus producing a confusion of flavours. The cream inside a Victoria would be either whipping cream or double (heavy) cream whipped up, but neither is sweet. The only 'sweet' cream is possibly Chantilly cream, which is cream with sugar added, but Chantilly cream isn't put in a Victoria sponge.
@@chrisaskin6144 Was the filling buttercream rather than real cream?
@@raindancer6111Yes, I wondered if it was buttercream. Whipped cream is _rich_, but it _cuts_ sweetness rather than adding to it.
I'm a Brit in America, I love sausage rolls, I like hot dogs as long as its a real sausage in that roll and not a wiener. Neither cake does it for me. Pie n Mash yes, but I do Love Southern Fried Chicken, just not with waffles, I'm not into waffles or American Pancakes. A Soft Choc Chip cookie is the one for me, never been into shortbread. Fish N Chips no question about that. Not into Pumpkin pie or sticky toffee pudding, Love Treacle Pudding. Roast potatoes, yum. 99 has to have it, I miss them so much, nothing wrong with a hot fudge sundae but you've got to try a 99 or even a double 99.
I don't like black pudding or tomatoes but the rest of the British breakfast is great, I just wish the British breakfast had two eggs, I don't like Pancakes but I do like both British and American Bacon, I just wish Brits would learn what real American hash brown are, they are Not those potato cakes you get served in the UK, that's a cheap fast food potato cake version.
Cheesecake and Bread n butter pudding, I like neither. Crumpets Hands down. Beans on Toast Yes. Bangers n Mash Yes. Iced buns O.M.G. I cant believe they are even on this, they are my favourite. Bacon love both, miss the British stuff so much. Dairy Milk, Hershey is so poor but popular here as you know. I think you did, honest at least.
Full disclosure: I'm a Brit and I live in the UK. My preferences were USA: 2, UK:14.
I have to go with the hot fudge sundae over the 99 ice cream, although I'm not sure how fair the comparison is. The first you would usually have as a dessert in a restaurant, and the second you might buy from a shop or an ice cream van, so the context is quite different.
Choc chip cookies vs shortbread was close, but really good butter shortbread has no equal.
I detest bread-and-butter pudding, so I went with the New York cheesecake there.
If you had compared the full English breakfast with huevos rancheros (which is a great breakfast dish although I know it's Tex-Mex and perhaps not truly from the USA) I would have gone with the latter. Chicken pancakes are too sweet for breakfast, IMO (or any other meal, really), so the full English won in that case.
Every time I've had a burger in the USA the bun has disintegrated in my hand because the bread is so soft. They are a completely impractical form of food unless you can eat them in under a minute. Fish and chips every time!
Fried chicken with maple syrup and waffles? Sounds disgusting. Bacon with pancakes too. Just seems odd mixing savoury, meaty food with sweet stuff.
Yes, Americans seem to do that a lot. They like to get sugar into everything! One day I want to make peanut butter using only salted peanuts and butter. That is what I thought it was until I tried it.
@@PhiyedoughAmericans have way too much fructose corn syrup in everything.
It's not good for you as it builds up as fat in your liver.
In general American food is completely unhealthy.
When the kids were young we went to Florida and everything we ate was sweet. Yes even savoury dishes . Now I have a sweet tooth but it was sickly eating so much sugar. So it wasn't a surprise to learn wuffles and bacon with syrup is a thing on the USA
There are a couple things I just don't comprehend about what Americans eat.
1. Why do they add cheese in almost everything?
2. How can they complain about sweet things in Britain when everything is so sweet in America.
Don't understand adding a sweet syrup to a savoury dish such as bacon
I intensely dislike cornbread. I also can't see how some of these things could be compared.
I kind of agree with your point 2, but have you ever had bacon with maple syrup in Canada? I have to say that is remarkably good!
@@ceejay0137no but there, again I've never been to Canada.
I don’t think the two foods you compared are really comparable. So there were several times when I would not be able to make a decision.
thats not gravy
I find the US dishes tend to be far too sweet. The thought of chicken with maple syrup - yuck!
The difference being many of those US options we can also get in the UK, but it’s not the same for Americans with UK foods.
You get someone who isn't British or American that as tasted food from both sides.
Cadbury's milk chocolate
Hello… I got more British shocker 😂 but I do like some of the American items that come up even though I preferred the British equivalent. Love New York cheesecake. Love ten velvet cake never knew that was American tbh. Hate anything with pumpkins in 🤮 the one thing I’ve always wondered what it tastes like is the biscuits & gravy. It looks like a pale scone with no currents etc in it with a white liquid. But you say it’s really good. I need to taste it tbh, great video hun. Lots of love & best wishes as always from Lyn in Liverpool UK 🇬🇧
Pie and mash
British foods are usually healthier though. We don't have as many additives or preservatives as the US. Have you seen this YT vid - 'US vs UK McDonald's | Food Wars'
The best Hot Dog in Britain is the Wimpy Bender, a Frankfurter partially cut through so it curls into a ring when deep fried, served in a toasted bap with fried onions, tomato sauce and mild mustard. I was always smuggling them into the local Odeon Cinema as knocked their pathetic boiled one with boiled onions into oblivion.
Wimpy are the original British Burger Restaurant from the 50's to today, McDonald's don't go anywhere near their quality.
Hot dog v sausage roll... mmm odd direct comparison I think, but there you go. Keep up the reactions. Cheers
I thought that, we do have hot dogs in UK so why not compare like with like?
A hot dog Is Not a sausage ROLL😢😢😢
Sticky toffee pudding
You’re not really comparing like for like- how can you compare chicken,waffle and maple syrup with a meat pie,mash and peas? Doesn’t make sense mixing sweet and savoury
how can you compare american bacon (loads of fat with a little meat) to british back bacon (loads of meat with little fat)?
Roast potatoes
My preferences are all the UK options as they're tastier and less processed. Two caveats: I'm not a fan of mashed potatoes so would prefer chips, roast or boiled potatoes instead and both biscuits and gravy and baked beans make me feel ill just to look at them! Dont like sweet potatoes either. I wouldn't have chicken and waffles, but do like bacon or fruit, waffles and maple syrup. But they have to be Belgian waffles...
Bangers and mash
Shortbread
It should be butter cream (butter and sugar) in a Victoria sponge according to Buckingham parlance not cream.
No cream just raspberry jam
Bread and butter pudding
I'd have pie and mash first and waffles and chicken for pudding.
Mines all British 👍
The list of American foods, I've heard about 80% of them. I've only ever eaten one, that's the hotdog but an Australian version so it's a hotdog, bacon, fried onions and sauce of your choice yum. Australia still has a bias towards British foods.
English breakfast
Let's remove all dishes which use ingredients banned in, or produced by methods banned in, the other country and see what's left to compare.
So first off everyone should know I’m British but I’ve been living in America now for 24 years so here’s my opinion and my reasons
Hot dog vs sausage roll, sausage roll because I love pastry, hot dogs are good but it’ll never beat the sausage roll
Victoria sponge, the red velvet cake is far to sickly, the cream in a Victorian sponge shoulder be that sweet
Pie and mash once again the pastry wins for me with the pie plus I absolutely love mash
Shortbread butter shortbread won’t beat a chocolate chip cookie, I love cookies but no
,shortbread every time
Sorry fish and chips v burgers are great but I love beef but fish and chips saturated wit salt and vinegar is far too good especially with mushy peas and curry sauce or even gravy
Absolutely sticky toffee pudding I also don’t like pumpkin and yes pumpkin pies do look like there filled with poo so sticky toffee pudding for me but if it had been a chocolate lava cake then the sticky toffee pudding would have lost
Roast potatoes, not a sweet potato fan at all,
Unfair, I love 99s ice cream are the best in Britain with a flake but has to be the hot fudge Sunday there too damn good
Full English, sorry pancakes are good and bacon is good but not together, plus the full English has black pudding and beans but it must have streaky bacon
Cheese cake, never was a big fan of bread and butter pudding, it’s ok but I love cheese cake of any kind
Crumpets/piklets , I do like cornbread but crumpets are better loaded with fresh melting butter
How can I choose between baked beans on toast and biscuits and gravy, I hate this, I’d probably go for the beans on toast but only if it’s good beans, but I do love biscuits and gravy so damn much too, I call unfair question never try this with American beans they suck
Bangers and mash, the sweet horrible ketchup based coating on meatloaf doesn’t work for me so bangers and mash absolutely
Iced buns, twinkies are so processed I can taste the chemical preservatives in them, ice buns are the right amount of sweet and neutral bread there perfect and no chemicals
Now I love the good old British bacon but it has to be American bacon or streaky bacon in Britain
Your not serious Hershey vs Cadbury, no puke chocolate for me if I can help it, Cadbury every time
So there ya go even after 24 years here I’d still go mostly British, I’m just glad they didn’t try to compare green bean casserole with anything British, green bean casserole should be tried by the British, I think it would be a winner in Britain is so bloody good
In Hungary I used to buy 1kg packs of hot dog sausages for the dog as they did not cost much more than dog food.
Ok Victorian sponge is made traditionally without fat. The eggs are whisked until white and creamy. This gives the sponge a lighter than air texture. As for the filling this has to be whipped cream with no sugar and halved fresh strawberries. So the description of a Victorian sponge being heavy and too sweet cannot be further from the truth.
I’ve never had American food except pizza.
Dont tell the Italians 😁
Liking something better must be due to the cost of US health care.
Iced buns
Red velvet sponge
British.
I can't stomach all the artificial and banned American ingredients.
99 ice cream
I thought they all looked nice tbh, except the pumpkin pie and the sweet potato casserole… so 🇬🇧 wins for me.
Crumpets
Fish and chips
Hiya. British. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Well, so much of this is subjective. US biscuits and gravy are not very attractive to me at all.
You wot mate!? She insulted the full English
How please do you think our cream is sweet then you have waffle with maple syrup and sugar you must be wrong in the head LOL NOOOOOOOOO
Sausage roll
Chicken and waffles are vile
I've never tried American food but it does sound gross!
Beans on toast
Sorry maple syrup with fried chicken..
You need to try purchasing a roll of Cumberland Sausage.
Then a part cooked Baguette that needs 10 minutes in the Oven.
You put in either One or Two lengths of Sausage into the Baguette so it does not taste of all bread. The Cumberland Sausage has a unique flavour. Try it first before adding ketchup, English Mustard or Brown Sauce.
Some people spread English Butter on the Baguette first. That'll blow your taste buds..
syrup pudding is better you must try that.
"British" bacon