Summer 2018. With the family in New York. We are from the Netherlands. We went to the Mac the first day. Next day. All headaches and my wife was really sick. It took us a while to realize that we were not used to the additions that are not allowed here in the EU.
You should have listened to Vizzini (The Princess Bride). Poison yourself just a little every day and over the years you will develop an immunity to it. ;)
The additions are vitamins B2-B12 . With very few being “ preservatives” to keep the potatoes and meat fresh during shipping across the country. Just because you see a scary chemical formula name doesn’t mean it’s something the human body can’t quickly flush from your system or need in the case of vitamins… Europe can get away with not needing the preservatives because the distances shipping the products are not so great that they would spoil quickly without them.
@@emanymton713 from where in all those ingredients did you get vitamins? Perhaps very few are preservatives, but they point still stands, some of the ingredients if you could even call them that, are illegal in the EU, not because of distance, but because they shouldn't be in food in the first place! Those are tested as bad for the body or in some cases are banned because of safety, as in unsure what it does to the body.
Not a vegetarian myself but I sometimes like to order vegetarian food for a change. And I have to say the McDonald's veggie menu is pretty good at least in Finland nowadays. They have also improved a lot over the years when the meat substitute industry has improved their products.
Yea, but meat substitute are still junk food, same as meat itself. There are many documentaries that can motivate you to change your habits. Some are even free on YT, like PlantPure Nation. None the less, its a very interesting topic that many people are never going to learn about and most people after learning all this stuff have initial reaction of "how did i not hear about this earlier?!?"😂Have fun!
@@frog382 Mostly I choose at student cafeteria the food that looks or sounds better no matter if it's vegetarian or not. Also both options are usually pretty healthy with good side salad options. I do not eat that much junk food but when I do I like to change it up too. I know they are both bad at me but everything is fine in moderation. And since the whole video was about McD food... 😏
@@edwardfletcher7790 I had the same opinion, but i changed it, because of the supply and demand aspect. If you buy more plant based options from the companies that produce both plant and animal products, they will start adding more variants of that and make more people interested in trying one of them, which can lead some people to considering switching to plant based diet, which is good for the animals. But its still a lazy solution to eat at Mcdo, no matter what you eat and very unhealthy and expensive for what you really get.
Do you guys know this? - Every few months I get cravings for McDonalds. The process is always the same. First there is the McDonalds hunger that makes you forget your reservations. And once you walk in there and smell the stuff, it lets you greedily choose the large portions. During the meal, the McDonalds eating frenzy sets in, which lets you eat all the stuff in record time and wich makes me want to order and eat even more. Then comes the Mcdonalds sickness that goes hand in hand with the McDonalds brick in your stomach and the McDonald's guilty conscience because you know that you really haven't done your body a favor. Lastly comes te McDonalds regret wich is enough to keep my hands off the stuff for a few months, until at some point everything negative is forgotten and the whole thing starts all over again.
I ate two times in my life something at Mc Donalds, it was sooo disgusting. We never went to it with our daughter and at the age of 9 she was invented to it to the birthday party of her best friend. In the evening after the party she got abdominal pain and vomited and she also never ever wanted to eat something from Mc Donalds. Our whole family hate this fast food!
For me, I get an urge about once a year. The problem is, I live 20 minutes from my McDonalds and by the time I get home it's cold and tastes about half as good. Interestingly, same distance for Subway, sandwich is also hot when I leave, but cold when I get back, yet it still taste SO GOOD. That has me wondering about the quality of McDOnalds food. Good food doesn't often taste significantly worse just because it's cold to me.
I've never eaten at a McDonald's, and decided not to ever (just went to bruger king once and got sick because of it, also i don't support fast food chains because of ethical reasons)
@@nelerhabarber5602 I think this is key. Do not feed children fast food and they will never crave it as adults. I grew up in Eastern Europe before fast food, and now I hardly ever eat it, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't enjoy it. I never got sick from it, but I do feel physically "odd". Can't explain it, but there is a physical reaction that is not positive. Plus it's worth it to spend a few extra dollars and get a real burger, from a local restaurant that makes real food.
Fructose is the sugar that is present naturally in fruits and plants. So glucose-fructose, also called sucrose is standard table sugar. The difference in the two basically come down to how they are broken up in human body. And yes, it is still not good for you in excess but corn syrup is the worst offender. Also I think they list the ingredient in the order of how much each ingredient is in the product and that tells you a lot also.
From wikipedia: High-fructose corn syrup, also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes.
Not exactly. Standard table sugar is a double sugar or biose. It ius a milecule that is made of glucose and fructose. So you have a ratio of 50:50. Glucose-fructose syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose. So there is no chemical bond between them. It has more than 50% of fructose which can go up to 90% of fructose. Common high corn syrups are HFCS-55 and HFSC-42 which contain 55% or 42% of fructose.
There is actually a burger I crave so much, because it’s only available in January-February in Austria and probably Germany/Switzerland (?)… the Big Rösti. It’s a burger with a special cheesy-mustard-mayonnaise sauce, hash browns, Emmentaler cheese and bacon. It would be nice to eat some specials of other countries. I’m not a fan of fastfood, but as long as you don’t eat it on a regular basis, it should be ok. We have a saying here „Genieße in Maßen, nicht in Massen“ literal translation: „enjoy in moderation not in bulk“. In German it forms a nice play on words, because both „in Maßen“ (in moderation) and „in Massen“ (in bulk) sound pretty similar (other emphasis). So if you eat something only every other day or once in a while, it stays special and you can appreciate it much more. I like this attitude.
Where I live we have our own very special burger, where the meat is ræst, or in a state of being half rotten is what some would call it, it has basically been wind drying for quite some time until its eventually cooked. For the burgers the meat will generally always be lamb. (It may sound weird to some but I'm sure enough countries out there has something similar even if the results never become the same due to various differences in weather and location and so on.)
UK Scone recipe: 350g self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 85g butter, cut into cubes 3 tbsp caster sugar 175ml milk 1 tsp vanilla extract beaten egg, to glaze jam and clotted cream, to serve You can leave out the sugar and vanilla to make a savory version, add some grated cheddar cheese instead. My UK based american friends say they're pretty similar to your biscuits
Here in Sweden I've never met anyone who makes scones with sugar, vanilla or anything like it. This is the first time I've ever seen a recipe that includes that.
In Germany the McRib is not a seasonal item but available all year round. Same goes for the Filet O Fish (often called Fish-Mac) which resulted from a flopped burger called the Hula Burger (pineapple on a burger)
The bean patty was obviously tasty enough to stick around! There's a bunch of coloring agents that are either left out or outright forbidden in Europe because they're either bad for you or can cover up spoiled ingredients. Of *course* no one would ever dream of using meat that's slightly past the best before date, but if you can hide it by injecting it with... I forgot what it's called. Save to say, the temptation will be there and you know someone will do it. And that's why most of that is not allowed in Europe. People just don't expect their food to look quite as marvelous as it does in the commercials.
"Our biscuits aren't like scones, because they're less sweet" - one of the funniest things I've heard. Yes, you CAN add as much sugar and or fruit in them as you desire... or cheese, or plain, or with bacon, or whatever
Based on what? I've eaten maccies in Paris, Barcelona and in Tenerife and they've been no better or worse than the UK . I'd say in Europe they're pretty even, ahead of the US in quality and ingredients
Being able to hear the video you are trying to learn from is usually a good thing. Also, some of these facts are shocking. I think US KFC fries have 30 ingredients... Why do you need 30 ingredients in a freaking potato? Also, I can see the TV show now. Hail Heidi tries McDonalds in every country! Then the next TV show you showed up on would be like My 700 lbs Life. :D
I've only been to McD's a few times in my life. In the street food or fast food category, I prefer gyros, kebabs, rice rolls or sandwiches from local kiosks/buffets because they offer more different taste options than fast food chains.
Here in Germany, we've had a few hygiene scandals at Burger King and McDonalds in recent years, but fortunately I rarely went there anyway because I prefer to cook (healthy) meals at home. But since these hygiene scandals I don't go to any of these fast food chains anymore. If at all then I prefer to go to the Turkish store around the corner for a falafel (but rarely).
In Europe there are pretty fancy things available in McD's. Especially in German, Nederlands. Fun fact Finland has McD's, but more south of Finland you go less you see McDonald's. Because here Hesburger is a competitor. And a g9od one of that
We're similar to the U.K.s lists here in New Zealand. They also only use free range eggs *edit* Are biscuits like scones? oh yep, he says this later. We have a unique burger here too called The Kiwi Burger (really original right?!) The Kiwiburger is a hamburger sold at McDonald's restaurants in New Zealand. It consists of a four-ounce beef patty, griddle egg, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, cheese, onions, mustard, and ketchup on a toasted bun
youre soooo cool, you dont eat food thats just food like any other food, youre so cool you only eat store bought food or food from other resturants which definitely doesnt souce all their ingredients from the same places... i swear you pseudoscience people think theres some magic wizards putting curses on fast food, its not magic, its just cheap ingredients used to make simple foods at high economies of scale, its ironically safer to eat than the food in a lot of countries because its so heavily regulated exceedingly low chance of food being contaminated with E.coli, salmonella etc
@@WookieWarriorz I eat junk food and burgers, but the stuff they serve at MCD and these big fast food chains is so over processed it not worth eating. The burger at one of our local gas stations is miles better than anything MCD serve.
@@HailHeidi Not sure how this person figured I don't eat junk food from my comment. Kind of funny as I bought about 50 pizzas from Peppes in 2022, one of the big pizza chains here in Norway :D I'm just lazy and hate to cook dinner...
I will never forget when I saw the KCAL on a "beverage" from (US)Starbucks. 16xx KCAL 😲 That is more or less what an adult needs to consume in a day, depending on activity. (Edit, added the US in front of Starbucks).
Don't often eat in a McDonalds (maybe once a year) but after trying the vegie nuggets, they are the only thing I'd go for now. I think they're very tasty.
Love your reactions! Hi from germany. Nevertheless Mc Donalds food is unhealthy all over the world. Or fast food in general for that matter. But we also have a saying here: The quantity makes the poison. 😉
I live in the UK and used to travel to the USA regularly, I found the McDonalds too sweet and generally bought Burger King when I could . My Son is a team Leader for a large McDonalds on one of our Motorways and informs me the UK also does Chicken Salad bowls. Finally on the subject of scones, we have sweet and we have savoury scones that are available plain or baked with cheese
I went to McD often when I was a student, because it was pretty cheap back then. Today it's so expensive that going to a real restaurant where you get a better quality burger costs about the same, and you support your local community with it.
@@invisiblelathatatlan because in the UK the "homemade burger" would be healthy with only simple ingredients. Sometimes in a restaurant I'll order the burger too when I want something simple and plain, it will come with chips and a nice side salad
Locally for me mcd is still the cheapest fast food restaurant, or any other restaurant that sells hamburgers. You get a limited edition meal for 10€, while in "real" restaurants the burger costs that much and if you want fries and a soda with it it's at least another 5€.
What’s Glucose and Fructose? Well, if you eat normal sugar, this breaks down to equal part of Glucose and Fructose. Glucose is burned by your organs and muscles. Fructose can only be burned by your liver, where most of the Fructose surplus is transformed and stored as fat. Thus, high-fructose corn syrup is the last you want to eat if to stay in shape. Fructose from full fruits is on a low level that the liver can handle, but not even fruit juice is good to you given the concentration of fructose you’ll get.
i never understodd why... no one goes to mcdonalds to eat healthy. so pretending to make healthy food is just wasted time. yeah its veggie.. but that doesnt make it healthy in any way shape or form.
Lololol @HailHeidi, just be glad they didnt compare the french mc donalds to the us mc donalds 😛😛😛 And yeah the extras are totally *cough cough* illegal *cough* 😛🤪😅😅😅
In continental Europe, bad cooks get punished for their sins with English food. So, if this is already much better than the American McD, you can expect an even greater difference in the rest of Europe.
How to put so much calories in the meals? Easy, add sugar in the bins, sugar in the meat, sugar in the sauce. He is proud of buttermilk chicken burger? Buttermilk is usually used to make bad meat tast better.
"Normal" white sugar (i.e. sucrose, from sugar beet or sugar cane etc.) is a double-sugar molecule called disaccharide, so it can be broken into two parts: 1 part glucose (which is not very sweet) and 1 part fructose (which is very sweet). This is done in your stomach, but can also be done by cheap bacteria enzyme processes in the industry. To achieve a certain level of sweetness (which is important to keep people hungry and addicted) the industry adds cheap sweet fructose, in the US made of corn syrup (starch) by converting glucose to fructose by a different bacteria/enzyme. But: In nature we normally digest a more or less 1:1 mixture of glucose and fructose. That's important, because the human body has some problems with fructose in higher amounts and many people don't really tolerate fructose that good. High levels of fructose in you guts will likely damage the intestinal flora and often leads to osmotic diarrhea. The absorption of glucose is completely different, to put it (very) simply: Your body needs one molecule of glucose to process one molecule of fructose. If you ate sucrose (normal white sugar) this is fine, because one molecule of sucrose gives a 1:1 ratio of glucose:fructose. If you split sucrose into its parts, you get a glucose-fructose-mixture of about 1:1. But if you convert corn syrup into fructose, you get a much sweeter (!) mixture with more fructose than glucose (or other sugars). The sequence of words is important here: a fructose-glucose-mixture has more fructose than glucose (fructose is named before glucose) and vice versa. A glucose-fructose-mixture is normally tolerated by most people's guts (more glucose than fructose) while the opposite fructose-glucose-mixtures can make some people sick. So it's a very good idea to avoid any food that contains high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), but the US food industry still has a very strong lobby, so you won't get any warnings about HFCS in the USA whereas the European Food Safety Authority has finally some warnings now, see "Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars" by EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens, 2/2022. Or short: Just avoid any added sugar, and fructose is the bad guy among all common sugars.
Why is the American dude so proud that America has bigger portions of food that slowly kill someone if they eat it constantly, that’s nothing to be proud of, lol.😂😅
The visual illusions are actually the opoosite. The US ones are made to look almost twice as small in comparison to the UK, not the opposite. Look at the drink portion sizes for example. they are made to look about same size, but the US ones are double the size of UK ones
Here in the UK, the wrap of the day is extremely popular. It's usually ordered alongside a normal meal and eaten the next day or before the rest of the meal but the wraps are very popular. Also I feel like McDonald's/Maccies here are partly lower in calories and more healthy due to a lot colleges/sixth forms (11th and 12 grade) being placed directly next to McDonald's in a town so everyone goes there for lunch.
"How do they even fit all those calories in there?" Sugar. HFCS and sugar. There's a reason Europeans who try US fast food (and some diner food) react to the sweetness.
When I went to McDonald's in the past I often said "I am going to McD., I am craving this sick feeling afterwards." (Which actually was always meant literally ... compared to our everyday food, this type of fast food is, ehm ........... ) This said, I heard from colleagues from the US, that the quality of our McD food is better by far, esp. the meat. And seemingly also less depending on where the restaurant (sigh) is located, compared to the US. Germany has also excellent fast food choices, like Currywurst (curry sausage, served with an excellent sauce, curry powder and fries or bread) and the famous Döner Kebab , a turkish-german invention (kebab, onions, tomatoes, all kind of salat and garlic, curry or safran and hot/spicy chili sauce in a nice special bread). Also, fresh bread rolls with all kind of toppings and Pizza is very popular, among many other street food choices, in this regard, Germany is quite multicultural. So, burgers have to be quite good to compete. And since American fast food has always had a really bad reputation over here, as being very unhealthy, in comparison to local food, I guess they tried to do things differently over here, starting with smaller portions, probably less sugar, no corn syrup, less calories etc. ... (And with the McCafe area idea, where everything tries to be a bit classier, with porcelain plates and mugs, real glasses, metal flatware etc., where you can get actually nice sweet pastries and coffee.) And I guess, if you open up a McD in, say Paris, you have to have excellent quality for sure, French cuisine is hard to beat. (Actually, food quality in Europe is really high in general. Guaranteed by EU and country regulations.)
The milkshakes, mc flurry and caramel Sundays are all the same products. The only difference is temperature. The colder it gets the thicker it becomes. Transforming it for milkshake to ice-cream 😉
Scones shouldn't be sweet. They have maybe a tiny amount of sugar in them, but they're basically neutral. It's sweet when you add jam on them. Fresh scones with butter is amazing.
8:53 Some of us are vegetarian, and that sounds exciting to me. Unfortunatly we *don't* have those in McDonalds here in Norway. 😕 Not the same thing, but I've had bean patties from other companies here and yes, they're delicious. Can't comment on the UK McDonalds ones though...
The soft drinks presentation is, if anything, biased towards the US since the large is twice the juice but it doesn't look like it. Love your content ❤️
High fructose corn syrup isn't in our Canadian food or drinks, yet the same items are available in our two countries. Americans don't seem to care how much poison is in their food :p
It’s 2008 highway to Washington and me and my boss entered to MC on the way. Just 15 sec. and changed to Burger King. MC was so dirty! Only in Austria and here in Poland MC’s I found them clean. Mostly drink cafe in MC Cafe now.
I only eat McDonalds for convenience when driving maybe once every 2-3 years, almost anything else is preferable. They are about the lowest quality food around, I prefer an actual hamburger.
Although not a huge fan of McD's (I'm more of a BK person), I always make a point of trying McD in every country I visit for the first time. While mostly they're all pretty similar, I found that the US had the tastiest (probably because of more salt/sugar/flavourings etc), and Romania had the least tasty. I did get to try McD in Russia, before it was removed relatively recently, and it was fairly standard. Anyway, give me BK every time... well, almost every time - sometimes I just want a McD!!! 😁
I've been tasting Mc Donalds innevery country i been. Just out of curiosity. From Nordic countriest to Far East. 1988 BigMac was different in Italy than now days. Even in US the taste is different in New York than McAllen Texsas.
McDonal's etc are not seen as a good food source in the UK.I never took my kids there. And people often sound apologetic when they say the eat McD's.(BW, in the UK, there is no such thing as an English Breakfast muffin!)
hey, that was cool and interesting to see the differences...but...!F*CK!... now my brain is forcing me to get dressed...due to the "stimulus" this clip triggers in me, grab my car keys and drive to McD...thanks for that Heidi....hmmmmmpf🤣🤣🤣😜
'the supplements' youre just spouting pseudoscience. Theres no magic in mcdonalds thats makes it addictive more than any other food its just cheap and convenient food made at high economies of scale. Sugar, fat, caffeine etc are inherently addictive, you're probably massively addicted to all 3 like most of the world is, mcdonalds isnt doing anything special its just high calorie food which in excess is bad for you as is excess calories from any source.
I'm going to play devil's advocate for once. It's crazy that the US versions "need" all the aditives, but the names of those products are sometimes just scary to people not used to organic chemistry naming conventions. Basicly, all molecules that are composed with carbon have these convoluted names that sometimes make them sound like lab produced poisons. In reality almost everything coming from the living world is carbon based and has one of those scary names. For instance "Propylene glycol alginate" is a complex sugar extracted from brown algae, not saying that it is safe for consuption, I don't know, but the scientific names can sometimes dramatise things.
I go rarely to McDonalds nowadays, more ofte so in my earlierer years. I am Austrian and somehow grew to like the taste (from time to time). Then my family and I visited London. And our budget told us (besides of the taste of genuine british citchen we tried once) to stick to McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut. And it tasted not different. And once in Beijing, we visisted McDonalds. That was in the late 90es of the last century. Our Guide told us, only children visit that, but there were a lot of grownups cued up, and only after some people left new ones were allowed to enter. The taste was definitely the same as here, only the Fries were sooo much better!
It's funny how you switch the vowels of the channels name 😅 The European in me finds it funny... ...until the point I need to say it to an American, when I'd do the same. Still funny. If you ever find yourself from Finland, I'll treat you your first MickyD. What I remember from childhood, the US McD was tasty, but after me and my brother had tummy ache. Plus it was all very sweet. Luckily you got to drink as much as you wanted, because really needed the water after. Just ordered from McD, because of the weather and your video. Still a tasty burger, but once month is often enough for me.
About nuggets and also cheeseburgers. A fun fact, i lived in Latvia, Denmark and Sweden, everywhere is same. Double cheeseburger costs more than double than a single cheeseburger, so you get more for buying 2 regular cheeseburgers. And about nuggets, buying 2 sets of 4, its cheaper than buying a set of 6 or set of 8, and actually extremely cheaper. Like here in latvia a set of 4 nuggets costs 1.2 eur, a set of 6 is 2.5 eur, and a set of 8 is 3.9 eur. So you buy 2x4, and you save nearly half of price. I wonder hows it in usa.
Hm .. now i definitely need to make "research" trip to local McD .. Nothing bad if you don't overdo it. And with your figure .. i think you'r safe for long time ;) Greetings from Estonia!
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. So it's the same thing, but diffrent names.
The most baffling thing about Mcd is that how can anyone say the food looks appetizing or good in any way? It looks absolute appalling, even when compared to other junk food. Also just about every country I've ever been to have a local burger chain that offers far tastier and higher quality junk food than mcd does.
Correct me if I am wrong. Fructose and Glucose is a product directly from plants via photosynthesis, completely natural and they've been bound together. High-Fructose corn syrup is more or less the same, I think the categorization of the names differ between the countries on the % of fructose(55% for Fructose-Glucose in UK and 45-55% for High-Fructose in US).
You really don't look like someone who goes frequently to McDonald :) I myself never go there, the only fast food I occasionally buy is shaorma or kebab from small shaorma restaurants. They are more expensive, but a tad healthier, or this is what I like to believe :))
I recommend that you look at the different items on offer in an Australian "Macca's"(MacDonalds to the rest of the world) starting with the triple cheeseburger, the Brekkie Burger(Breakfast) the Angus burger which permanent item here. The MacCafe also offers a huge range of cakes and pastries etc etc...Cheers!
We get the triple cheesburger here inthe uk and the double quarterpounder, I suppose the brekkie burger would be like the mc muffins here which have sausage and egg or bacon and egg
Hail Haidi, 5:59 a good burger just need only Ketchup, Mayonnaise or Mustard, the Rest of Chemicals are used to make first you want more and second to don't let you know how bad the meat is... 1:40, they don't need to have it look bigger, it's close to double... 14:54 I doubt your BMI will not support either, each McDonalds or in Each Country...
Sometimes they have indonesian food themed burgers at the dutch McDonalds, spicy and or sate based. Besides that they sometimes have special dutch flavoured milk shakes like bitter koekjes milkshake or hopjes milkshake.. Unfortuantely those special themed food are always too short on offer.
7:10 Simple ! Just a bunch of sugar. When I used to count calories when I was trying to gain weight, it made me realize the difference of calories of getting a soda VS not getting a soda is quite a lot.
The vegetarian options are not likely to taste the way the name makes you think. It is usually named after the protein source, i.e. beans, but often is "designed" to taste similar to other menu items. As a "long term" vegetarian I can't tell you if it tastes similar to the meat version, nor would I care if they weren't, but they often try to get it similar so meat eaters will also purchase it from time to time. I have not tried many of those, both due to the above comment and the fact I haven't been to the UK in... over a decade(?), so I can't tell you how different UK and US taste. Then again I haven't been to the US in years and don't think I'd have hit a McD's on "every" trip so no idea how long it has been since I ate the US version either.
I never eat at Macca’s anymore, due to the high sodium levels in every item, including milkshakes, soft serve cones and coffees, which are all way too high in sodium!
comparing french and US burger king here. the US sandwiches end up dripping so much grease the paper has like 3mm of grease deposited at the bottom, while the french sandwich almost doesn't drip at all, as it seems it is composed of much more meat contents
I’m by no means an McDonalds expert. If I should eat junk food I’d rather go to Burger King but during a business stay in China, I discovered that the local McDonalds there was a bit more spicy. Denmark vs England was pretty much the same in size and taste, but then I’d rather go to the local fish’n’chips shop to get some exotic food. 🤷🏼♂️
the cups are about _twice_ the content size and HH notes they put the us ones in front and that makes them look bigger. That's such an American defence. ;)
I wouldn't even call McDonalds food. If everything but the lettuce stays EXACTLY the same in 20 years(!!!!!) it can't be called food anymore. (edit) What I mean by 20 years: someone tested the McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's and a bunch of other fastfood chains burgers, kept them IN THE EXACT SAME wrapping for 20 YEARS and the only thing that had deteriorated was the lettuce! The buns were exactly the same, the meat still "looked" the same, even the sauce was exactly the same after 20 years!
I'm just glad we don't have as many chemicals in ours. And the buns are better for you. The chicken legend is delicious. In fact, I would take one rather than a Big Mac. The American guy said, "That will never catch on" the next minute he is showing you a Chickenburger that is not as good.
I wouldn't be too hard on the camera aspect as they are shooting in different locations probably on different equipment, so doing it exactly the same probably isn't realistic. I don't think it is meant to make the US look worse intentionally, particularly as both presenters like burgers and such.
Everything is bigger in US McDonald's than UK except workers' salary...😂😂
£4.81 for those teens working at McDonald's in the UK lol
@@vkdrk Are all workers between 16 - 17?
@@jupehe5703 When I was last in McDonald's they were advertising vacancies at £10.35 ($12.61).
Well, in UK the workers are just poorly paid. In the States the workers we in the rest of the civilisations call slaves!
@@vkdrk .
They have to also be in part time education or training.
Summer 2018. With the family in New York. We are from the Netherlands. We went to the Mac the first day. Next day. All headaches and my wife was really sick. It took us a while to realize that we were not used to the additions that are not allowed here in the EU.
You should have listened to Vizzini (The Princess Bride).
Poison yourself just a little every day and over the years you will develop an immunity to it. ;)
That is disgusting...
The additions are vitamins B2-B12 . With very few being “ preservatives” to keep the potatoes and meat fresh during shipping across the country. Just because you see a scary chemical formula name doesn’t mean it’s something the human body can’t quickly flush from your system or need in the case of vitamins… Europe can get away with not needing the preservatives because the distances shipping the products are not so great that they would spoil quickly without them.
@@emanymton713 from where in all those ingredients did you get vitamins?
Perhaps very few are preservatives, but they point still stands, some of the ingredients if you could even call them that, are illegal in the EU, not because of distance, but because they shouldn't be in food in the first place! Those are tested as bad for the body or in some cases are banned because of safety, as in unsure what it does to the body.
Wow, that's really telling.
Not a vegetarian myself but I sometimes like to order vegetarian food for a change. And I have to say the McDonald's veggie menu is pretty good at least in Finland nowadays. They have also improved a lot over the years when the meat substitute industry has improved their products.
Yea, but meat substitute are still junk food, same as meat itself. There are many documentaries that can motivate you to change your habits. Some are even free on YT, like PlantPure Nation. None the less, its a very interesting topic that many people are never going to learn about and most people after learning all this stuff have initial reaction of "how did i not hear about this earlier?!?"😂Have fun!
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@@frog382 Mostly I choose at student cafeteria the food that looks or sounds better no matter if it's vegetarian or not. Also both options are usually pretty healthy with good side salad options. I do not eat that much junk food but when I do I like to change it up too. I know they are both bad at me but everything is fine in moderation. And since the whole video was about McD food... 😏
Only a fake vegetarian would eat McD's ..... jeeeezuz, they're the worst company in the planet for animal welfare !!
@@edwardfletcher7790 I had the same opinion, but i changed it, because of the supply and demand aspect. If you buy more plant based options from the companies that produce both plant and animal products, they will start adding more variants of that and make more people interested in trying one of them, which can lead some people to considering switching to plant based diet, which is good for the animals. But its still a lazy solution to eat at Mcdo, no matter what you eat and very unhealthy and expensive for what you really get.
Do you guys know this? - Every few months I get cravings for McDonalds. The process is always the same. First there is the McDonalds hunger that makes you forget your reservations. And once you walk in there and smell the stuff, it lets you greedily choose the large portions. During the meal, the McDonalds eating frenzy sets in, which lets you eat all the stuff in record time and wich makes me want to order and eat even more. Then comes the Mcdonalds sickness that goes hand in hand with the McDonalds brick in your stomach and the McDonald's guilty conscience because you know that you really haven't done your body a favor. Lastly comes te McDonalds regret wich is enough to keep my hands off the stuff for a few months, until at some point everything negative is forgotten and the whole thing starts all over again.
🤣 This is great.
I ate two times in my life something at Mc Donalds, it was sooo disgusting. We never went to it with our daughter and at the age of 9 she was invented to it to the birthday party of her best friend. In the evening after the party she got abdominal pain and vomited and she also never ever wanted to eat something from Mc Donalds. Our whole family hate this fast food!
For me, I get an urge about once a year. The problem is, I live 20 minutes from my McDonalds and by the time I get home it's cold and tastes about half as good.
Interestingly, same distance for Subway, sandwich is also hot when I leave, but cold when I get back, yet it still taste SO GOOD. That has me wondering about the quality of McDOnalds food. Good food doesn't often taste significantly worse just because it's cold to me.
I've never eaten at a McDonald's, and decided not to ever (just went to bruger king once and got sick because of it, also i don't support fast food chains because of ethical reasons)
@@nelerhabarber5602 I think this is key. Do not feed children fast food and they will never crave it as adults. I grew up in Eastern Europe before fast food, and now I hardly ever eat it, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't enjoy it. I never got sick from it, but I do feel physically "odd". Can't explain it, but there is a physical reaction that is not positive. Plus it's worth it to spend a few extra dollars and get a real burger, from a local restaurant that makes real food.
Fructose is the sugar that is present naturally in fruits and plants. So glucose-fructose, also called sucrose is standard table sugar. The difference in the two basically come down to how they are broken up in human body. And yes, it is still not good for you in excess but corn syrup is the worst offender. Also I think they list the ingredient in the order of how much each ingredient is in the product and that tells you a lot also.
From wikipedia:
High-fructose corn syrup, also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes.
Not exactly.
Standard table sugar is a double sugar or biose. It ius a milecule that is made of glucose and fructose. So you have a ratio of 50:50.
Glucose-fructose syrup is a mixture of glucose and fructose. So there is no chemical bond between them.
It has more than 50% of fructose which can go up to 90% of fructose.
Common high corn syrups are HFCS-55 and HFSC-42 which contain 55% or 42% of fructose.
There is actually a burger I crave so much, because it’s only available in January-February in Austria and probably Germany/Switzerland (?)… the Big Rösti. It’s a burger with a special cheesy-mustard-mayonnaise sauce, hash browns, Emmentaler cheese and bacon. It would be nice to eat some specials of other countries.
I’m not a fan of fastfood, but as long as you don’t eat it on a regular basis, it should be ok. We have a saying here „Genieße in Maßen, nicht in Massen“ literal translation: „enjoy in moderation not in bulk“. In German it forms a nice play on words, because both „in Maßen“ (in moderation) and „in Massen“ (in bulk) sound pretty similar (other emphasis). So if you eat something only every other day or once in a while, it stays special and you can appreciate it much more. I like this attitude.
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Ngl, that honestly sounds amazing. We don't have that in Denmark. 🙁
Where I live we have our own very special burger, where the meat is ræst, or in a state of being half rotten is what some would call it, it has basically been wind drying for quite some time until its eventually cooked.
For the burgers the meat will generally always be lamb.
(It may sound weird to some but I'm sure enough countries out there has something similar even if the results never become the same due to various differences in weather and location and so on.)
i feel ya omgaush i live in Liechtenstein but im from Austria because of my family and i LOVE that burger and always eat it when its on the menu❤❤
Jaaa big-Rösti
UK Scone recipe:
350g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
85g butter, cut into cubes
3 tbsp caster sugar
175ml milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
beaten egg, to glaze
jam and clotted cream, to serve
You can leave out the sugar and vanilla to make a savory version, add some grated cheddar cheese instead. My UK based american friends say they're pretty similar to your biscuits
Here in Sweden I've never met anyone who makes scones with sugar, vanilla or anything like it. This is the first time I've ever seen a recipe that includes that.
I LOVE to hear that you adjust after learning!!
Admirable!
In Germany the McRib is not a seasonal item but available all year round. Same goes for the Filet O Fish (often called Fish-Mac) which resulted from a flopped burger called the Hula Burger (pineapple on a burger)
The bean patty was obviously tasty enough to stick around!
There's a bunch of coloring agents that are either left out or outright forbidden in Europe because they're either bad for you or can cover up spoiled ingredients.
Of *course* no one would ever dream of using meat that's slightly past the best before date, but if you can hide it by injecting it with... I forgot what it's called. Save to say, the temptation will be there and you know someone will do it. And that's why most of that is not allowed in Europe. People just don't expect their food to look quite as marvelous as it does in the commercials.
"Our biscuits aren't like scones, because they're less sweet" - one of the funniest things I've heard. Yes, you CAN add as much sugar and or fruit in them as you desire... or cheese, or plain, or with bacon, or whatever
Just want to say that the UK Mc Donalds is one of the worst in Europe, so if that one is already better than the US one, then... Oh my.
Yeah, just like when they compared UK vs US chocolate and they said UK chocolate was better, it's still regarded as very meh in the rest of Europe.
Based on what? I've eaten maccies in Paris, Barcelona and in Tenerife and they've been no better or worse than the UK . I'd say in Europe they're pretty even, ahead of the US in quality and ingredients
@@NukedStar no beer or cheesecakes in the UK McDonald's and many other things
German McDonald's is better than british McDonald's 😊
@@vkdrk McDonald's serves beer? Which country are you from if i may ask?
Being able to hear the video you are trying to learn from is usually a good thing. Also, some of these facts are shocking. I think US KFC fries have 30 ingredients... Why do you need 30 ingredients in a freaking potato?
Also, I can see the TV show now. Hail Heidi tries McDonalds in every country! Then the next TV show you showed up on would be like My 700 lbs Life. :D
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When you hit your diabetic coma,make sure you are somewhere with universal healthcare.
I'm so surprised you don't have the Mc Wraps too, they are quite popular here (the Netherlands)
They have loads of Taco Bell's and other c/wrap fastfood chains...
Pretty sure if adding a wrap to the menu wouldn't work.
Portugal has them too.
I've only been to McD's a few times in my life. In the street food or fast food category, I prefer gyros, kebabs, rice rolls or sandwiches from local kiosks/buffets because they offer more different taste options than fast food chains.
Let's take a guess ... Germany? 🙂 (gyros and kebab are so popular here)
@@imcrazedandconfused No a country next to Germany. Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Here in Germany, we've had a few hygiene scandals at Burger King and McDonalds in recent years, but fortunately I rarely went there anyway because I prefer to cook (healthy) meals at home. But since these hygiene scandals I don't go to any of these fast food chains anymore. If at all then I prefer to go to the Turkish store around the corner for a falafel (but rarely).
Macdonalds are franchises so hygiene is about who owns them
In Europe there are pretty fancy things available in McD's. Especially in German, Nederlands. Fun fact Finland has McD's, but more south of Finland you go less you see McDonald's. Because here Hesburger is a competitor. And a g9od one of that
So much salt and sugar in those burgers... That breakfast burrito looked exactly how I'd expect a breakfast burrito to taste! x)
We're similar to the U.K.s lists here in New Zealand. They also only use free range eggs
*edit* Are biscuits like scones? oh yep, he says this later. We have a unique burger here too called The Kiwi Burger (really original right?!)
The Kiwiburger is a hamburger sold at McDonald's restaurants in New Zealand. It consists of a four-ounce beef patty, griddle egg, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, cheese, onions, mustard, and ketchup on a toasted bun
My stomach was just turning and twisting as if it wanted to hide :D
Haven't had anything from MCD og BK in probably 20+ years at this point.
youre soooo cool, you dont eat food thats just food like any other food, youre so cool you only eat store bought food or food from other resturants which definitely doesnt souce all their ingredients from the same places...
i swear you pseudoscience people think theres some magic wizards putting curses on fast food, its not magic, its just cheap ingredients used to make simple foods at high economies of scale, its ironically safer to eat than the food in a lot of countries because its so heavily regulated exceedingly low chance of food being contaminated with E.coli, salmonella etc
I don't think it's wrong to not eat fast food. No need to judge.
@@WookieWarriorz I eat junk food and burgers, but the stuff they serve at MCD and these big fast food chains is so over processed it not worth eating.
The burger at one of our local gas stations is miles better than anything MCD serve.
@@HailHeidi Not sure how this person figured I don't eat junk food from my comment.
Kind of funny as I bought about 50 pizzas from Peppes in 2022, one of the big pizza chains here in Norway :D
I'm just lazy and hate to cook dinner...
I will never forget when I saw the KCAL on a "beverage" from (US)Starbucks. 16xx KCAL 😲 That is more or less what an adult needs to consume in a day, depending on activity. (Edit, added the US in front of Starbucks).
Don't often eat in a McDonalds (maybe once a year) but after trying the vegie nuggets, they are the only thing I'd go for now. I think they're very tasty.
Scones can be savoury too. The most common savoury version are cheese scones. But scones are usually sweet here.
I don't know, if the US have them but in Germany we have McCafé where you can have different types of coffee, like Starbucks but 200% better!
Love your reactions! Hi from germany. Nevertheless Mc Donalds food is unhealthy all over the world. Or fast food in general for that matter. But we also have a saying here: The quantity makes the poison. 😉
I live in the UK and used to travel to the USA regularly, I found the McDonalds too sweet and generally bought Burger King when I could . My Son is a team Leader for a large McDonalds on one of our Motorways and informs me the UK also does Chicken Salad bowls. Finally on the subject of scones, we have sweet and we have savoury scones that are available plain or baked with cheese
Oh and scones in the UK can be plain, sweet or savoury (most commonly, cheese scones).
I went to McD often when I was a student, because it was pretty cheap back then. Today it's so expensive that going to a real restaurant where you get a better quality burger costs about the same, and you support your local community with it.
If you go to a normal restaurant, why do you eat a hamburger and not some normal food or, god forbid, something special?😳
@@invisiblelathatatlan because in the UK the "homemade burger" would be healthy with only simple ingredients. Sometimes in a restaurant I'll order the burger too when I want something simple and plain, it will come with chips and a nice side salad
@@MrSpergen bro thats just you, you can make restaurant quality burgers easy at home
bruh you get a double cheeseburger for £1.50 and a regular hamburger for £1 what are you on about, even a big tasty meal is only £7.
Locally for me mcd is still the cheapest fast food restaurant, or any other restaurant that sells hamburgers. You get a limited edition meal for 10€, while in "real" restaurants the burger costs that much and if you want fries and a soda with it it's at least another 5€.
What’s Glucose and Fructose? Well, if you eat normal sugar, this breaks down to equal part of Glucose and Fructose. Glucose is burned by your organs and muscles. Fructose can only be burned by your liver, where most of the Fructose surplus is transformed and stored as fat. Thus, high-fructose corn syrup is the last you want to eat if to stay in shape. Fructose from full fruits is on a low level that the liver can handle, but not even fruit juice is good to you given the concentration of fructose you’ll get.
Veggie and Wraps you can get also in German McDonalds. Last years the menus began more healthy and fresh. Of course also salats.
i never understodd why... no one goes to mcdonalds to eat healthy. so pretending to make healthy food is just wasted time. yeah its veggie.. but that doesnt make it healthy in any way shape or form.
Lololol @HailHeidi, just be glad they didnt compare the french mc donalds to the us mc donalds 😛😛😛
And yeah the extras are totally *cough cough* illegal *cough* 😛🤪😅😅😅
In continental Europe, bad cooks get punished for their sins with English food.
So, if this is already much better than the American McD, you can expect an even greater difference in the rest of Europe.
How to put so much calories in the meals? Easy, add sugar in the bins, sugar in the meat, sugar in the sauce.
He is proud of buttermilk chicken burger? Buttermilk is usually used to make bad meat tast better.
"Normal" white sugar (i.e. sucrose, from sugar beet or sugar cane etc.) is a double-sugar molecule called disaccharide, so it can be broken into two parts: 1 part glucose (which is not very sweet) and 1 part fructose (which is very sweet). This is done in your stomach, but can also be done by cheap bacteria enzyme processes in the industry. To achieve a certain level of sweetness (which is important to keep people hungry and addicted) the industry adds cheap sweet fructose, in the US made of corn syrup (starch) by converting glucose to fructose by a different bacteria/enzyme. But: In nature we normally digest a more or less 1:1 mixture of glucose and fructose. That's important, because the human body has some problems with fructose in higher amounts and many people don't really tolerate fructose that good. High levels of fructose in you guts will likely damage the intestinal flora and often leads to osmotic diarrhea. The absorption of glucose is completely different, to put it (very) simply: Your body needs one molecule of glucose to process one molecule of fructose. If you ate sucrose (normal white sugar) this is fine, because one molecule of sucrose gives a 1:1 ratio of glucose:fructose.
If you split sucrose into its parts, you get a glucose-fructose-mixture of about 1:1. But if you convert corn syrup into fructose, you get a much sweeter (!) mixture with more fructose than glucose (or other sugars). The sequence of words is important here: a fructose-glucose-mixture has more fructose than glucose (fructose is named before glucose) and vice versa. A glucose-fructose-mixture is normally tolerated by most people's guts (more glucose than fructose) while the opposite fructose-glucose-mixtures can make some people sick. So it's a very good idea to avoid any food that contains high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), but the US food industry still has a very strong lobby, so you won't get any warnings about HFCS in the USA whereas the European Food Safety Authority has finally some warnings now, see "Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars" by EFSA Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens, 2/2022.
Or short: Just avoid any added sugar, and fructose is the bad guy among all common sugars.
I'm getting diabetes, just from hearing about that McGriddle thing. XD
Why is the American dude so proud that America has bigger portions of food that slowly kill someone if they eat it constantly, that’s nothing to be proud of, lol.😂😅
The visual illusions are actually the opoosite. The US ones are made to look almost twice as small in comparison to the UK, not the opposite. Look at the drink portion sizes for example. they are made to look about same size, but the US ones are double the size of UK ones
When he said " only in the U.S. baby!" I was like nope most of those are in Canada.
Here in the UK, the wrap of the day is extremely popular. It's usually ordered alongside a normal meal and eaten the next day or before the rest of the meal but the wraps are very popular. Also I feel like McDonald's/Maccies here are partly lower in calories and more healthy due to a lot colleges/sixth forms (11th and 12 grade) being placed directly next to McDonald's in a town so everyone goes there for lunch.
Great reaction again 😊 greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
What I miss was the unique themed franchises. Sadly they almost all closed down in the late 90s/2000s.
Over here in the UK the salad was (not sure if it still is) one of the worst things for salt and calories. It was actually the sauce that did it.
"How do they even fit all those calories in there?" Sugar. HFCS and sugar. There's a reason Europeans who try US fast food (and some diner food) react to the sweetness.
Nothing compares to the mobile Bratwurst van that toured town when we were stationed in Germany. I still put mayo on my chips (fries in UK)
04:14 --- the remnants lo Lettuce is really insignificant to the overall weight
198g is the average weight in both countries
⭕ The average weight of a Big Mac in Australia is 198g
The ingredients in Mcdonalds' BigMac in AUSTRALIA include:
BIG MAC BUN:
Wheat Flour (Vitamins (Thiamin - Folate - Niacin - Iron - Riboflavin) - Enzymes)
- Water - Sugar - Canola Oil - Sesame Seeds - Potato Starch - Wheat Gluten
- Glaze - Iodised Salt - Yeast - Sourdough Fermented Wheat Flour
- Natural Flavours - Preservative (282)
- Emulsifiers (471 - 472e)
- Improver ( Wheat Flour - Malted Wheat Flour - Antioxidant (300)
- Enzymes)
BEEF PATTIES:
Beef.
LETTUCE: Iceberg Lettuce.
BIG MAC SAUCE: Soybean Oil (Antioxidant (330)) - Water
- Relish [ Pickles - Sugar - High Fructose Corn Syrup
- Distilled Vinegar - Corn Syrup - Salt - Thickener (415)
- Preservative (202) - Spice Extract - Emulsifier (433)]
- Mustard [Water - Vinegar - Mustard Seed - Salt - Sugar
- Colours (100 - 150d) - Spice] - Salted Egg Yolks - Distilled Vinegar
- Onion - Thickeners (1442 - 415 - 405) - Spices - Sugar - Salt
- Hydrolysed Protein (Corn - Gluten - Wheat - Soy)
- Colours (160c - 150d - 100) - Preservative (211) - Emulsifier (433)
- Garlic - Antioxidant (385)
CHEESE:
Cheese (Milk - Salt - Culture - Enzymes (Rennet - Lipase)) - Water
- Milk Solids - Butter - Emulsifiers (340 - 452 - 331) - Salt
- Acidity Regulators (260 - 330 - 339) - Colours (160b - 160c)
- Preservative (200) - Soy Lecithin
PICKLES:
Cucumber - Water - Vinegar - Salt - Preservatives (202 - 211)
- Flavour.ONION: Water - Dehydrated White Onion.Contains gluten - egg
- milk - soy and sesame seeds.
BIG MAC BUNS:
Buns are produced on equipment that also produces products containing soy.
BEEF PATTY seasoned on grill
Seasoning: Salt - Pepper.
BEEF PATTY may be cooked on the same grill as egg or products containing
gluten - milk or soy.
Calories 249 PER 100g
When I went to McDonald's in the past I often said "I am going to McD., I am craving this sick feeling afterwards." (Which actually was always meant literally ... compared to our everyday food, this type of fast food is, ehm ........... )
This said, I heard from colleagues from the US, that the quality of our McD food is better by far, esp. the meat. And seemingly also less depending on where the restaurant (sigh) is located, compared to the US.
Germany has also excellent fast food choices, like Currywurst (curry sausage, served with an excellent sauce, curry powder and fries or bread) and the famous Döner Kebab , a turkish-german invention (kebab, onions, tomatoes, all kind of salat and garlic, curry or safran and hot/spicy chili sauce in a nice special bread). Also, fresh bread rolls with all kind of toppings and Pizza is very popular, among many other street food choices, in this regard, Germany is quite multicultural.
So, burgers have to be quite good to compete. And since American fast food has always had a really bad reputation over here, as being very unhealthy, in comparison to local food, I guess they tried to do things differently over here, starting with smaller portions, probably less sugar, no corn syrup, less calories etc. ... (And with the McCafe area idea, where everything tries to be a bit classier, with porcelain plates and mugs, real glasses, metal flatware etc., where you can get actually nice sweet pastries and coffee.)
And I guess, if you open up a McD in, say Paris, you have to have excellent quality for sure, French cuisine is hard to beat.
(Actually, food quality in Europe is really high in general. Guaranteed by EU and country regulations.)
Soy lecithin is an emulsifier. It makes sure that after you mix all of these things, you get one paste instead of a glob of different ingredients.
The milkshakes, mc flurry and caramel Sundays are all the same products.
The only difference is temperature. The colder it gets the thicker it becomes. Transforming it for milkshake to ice-cream 😉
Fucking no shit Einstein.
When it is colder you need more sugar to make it tasty! So I don't think they are the same!
Scones shouldn't be sweet. They have maybe a tiny amount of sugar in them, but they're basically neutral. It's sweet when you add jam on them. Fresh scones with butter is amazing.
The fries with the sweet curry dip is beyond glorious
sweet curry isn't uk only, we have that in germany as well
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Some of us are vegetarian, and that sounds exciting to me.
Unfortunatly we *don't* have those in McDonalds here in Norway. 😕
Not the same thing, but I've had bean patties from other companies here and yes, they're delicious.
Can't comment on the UK McDonalds ones though...
Me the McDonald's in New Castle England, in Venice, Paris And in the Netherlands of course.
The soft drinks presentation is, if anything, biased towards the US since the large is twice the juice but it doesn't look like it. Love your content ❤️
High fructose corn syrup isn't in our Canadian food or drinks, yet the same items are available in our two countries. Americans don't seem to care how much poison is in their food :p
It’s 2008 highway to Washington and me and my boss entered to MC on the way. Just 15 sec. and changed to Burger King. MC was so dirty! Only in Austria and here in Poland MC’s I found them clean. Mostly drink cafe in MC Cafe now.
I only eat McDonalds for convenience when driving maybe once every 2-3 years, almost anything else is preferable. They are about the lowest quality food around, I prefer an actual hamburger.
Although not a huge fan of McD's (I'm more of a BK person), I always make a point of trying McD in every country I visit for the first time. While mostly they're all pretty similar, I found that the US had the tastiest (probably because of more salt/sugar/flavourings etc), and Romania had the least tasty. I did get to try McD in Russia, before it was removed relatively recently, and it was fairly standard. Anyway, give me BK every time... well, almost every time - sometimes I just want a McD!!! 😁
I've been tasting Mc Donalds innevery country i been. Just out of curiosity. From Nordic countriest to Far East. 1988 BigMac was different in Italy than now days. Even in US the taste is different in New York than McAllen Texsas.
McDonal's etc are not seen as a good food source in the UK.I never took my kids there. And people often sound apologetic when they say the eat McD's.(BW, in the UK, there is no such thing as an English Breakfast muffin!)
hey, that was cool and interesting to see the differences...but...!F*CK!... now my brain is forcing me to get dressed...due to the "stimulus" this clip triggers in me, grab my car keys and drive to McD...thanks for that Heidi....hmmmmmpf🤣🤣🤣😜
The problem with McDonald's is that the supplements can cause addiction. (Not to mention anything else.)
'the supplements' youre just spouting pseudoscience. Theres no magic in mcdonalds thats makes it addictive more than any other food its just cheap and convenient food made at high economies of scale. Sugar, fat, caffeine etc are inherently addictive, you're probably massively addicted to all 3 like most of the world is, mcdonalds isnt doing anything special its just high calorie food which in excess is bad for you as is excess calories from any source.
I'm going to play devil's advocate for once. It's crazy that the US versions "need" all the aditives, but the names of those products are sometimes just scary to people not used to organic chemistry naming conventions. Basicly, all molecules that are composed with carbon have these convoluted names that sometimes make them sound like lab produced poisons. In reality almost everything coming from the living world is carbon based and has one of those scary names. For instance "Propylene glycol alginate" is a complex sugar extracted from brown algae, not saying that it is safe for consuption, I don't know, but the scientific names can sometimes dramatise things.
I go rarely to McDonalds nowadays, more ofte so in my earlierer years. I am Austrian and somehow grew to like the taste (from time to time). Then my family and I visited London. And our budget told us (besides of the taste of genuine british citchen we tried once) to stick to McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Hut. And it tasted not different. And once in Beijing, we visisted McDonalds. That was in the late 90es of the last century. Our Guide told us, only children visit that, but there were a lot of grownups cued up, and only after some people left new ones were allowed to enter. The taste was definitely the same as here, only the Fries were sooo much better!
It's funny how you switch the vowels of the channels name 😅 The European in me finds it funny... ...until the point I need to say it to an American, when I'd do the same. Still funny.
If you ever find yourself from Finland, I'll treat you your first MickyD.
What I remember from childhood, the US McD was tasty, but after me and my brother had tummy ache. Plus it was all very sweet. Luckily you got to drink as much as you wanted, because really needed the water after.
Just ordered from McD, because of the weather and your video. Still a tasty burger, but once month is often enough for me.
US food just looks radioactive 😂
Cheese scones used as a bun actually would be epic.
About nuggets and also cheeseburgers. A fun fact, i lived in Latvia, Denmark and Sweden, everywhere is same. Double cheeseburger costs more than double than a single cheeseburger, so you get more for buying 2 regular cheeseburgers. And about nuggets, buying 2 sets of 4, its cheaper than buying a set of 6 or set of 8, and actually extremely cheaper. Like here in latvia a set of 4 nuggets costs 1.2 eur, a set of 6 is 2.5 eur, and a set of 8 is 3.9 eur. So you buy 2x4, and you save nearly half of price. I wonder hows it in usa.
The word biscuit actually means twice cooked and originated in Europe, hence biscotti in Italy = twice cooked. Similarly, terra cotta = cooked earth.
In Germany, a Biskuit is a cake base (or bottoms - plural for tarts) made from fluffy cake batter.
Hm .. now i definitely need to make "research" trip to local McD ..
Nothing bad if you don't overdo it.
And with your figure .. i think you'r safe for long time ;)
Greetings from Estonia!
McDonald's in Sweden has 100% healthy and environment-friendly alternatives. Changing your fries to carrot sticks is one alternative among many.
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. So it's the same thing, but diffrent names.
11:53 I could not imagine starting my day with that much sugar.
Give me a cuppa and some beans on toast
The most baffling thing about Mcd is that how can anyone say the food looks appetizing or good in any way? It looks absolute appalling, even when compared to other junk food. Also just about every country I've ever been to have a local burger chain that offers far tastier and higher quality junk food than mcd does.
Correct me if I am wrong.
Fructose and Glucose is a product directly from plants via photosynthesis, completely natural and they've been bound together.
High-Fructose corn syrup is more or less the same,
I think the categorization of the names differ between the countries on the % of fructose(55% for Fructose-Glucose in UK and 45-55% for High-Fructose in US).
you can get savoury scones, cheese scones being my fave.
You really don't look like someone who goes frequently to McDonald :) I myself never go there, the only fast food I occasionally buy is shaorma or kebab from small shaorma restaurants. They are more expensive, but a tad healthier, or this is what I like to believe :))
I recommend that you look at the different items on offer in an Australian "Macca's"(MacDonalds to the rest of the world) starting with the triple cheeseburger, the Brekkie Burger(Breakfast) the Angus burger which permanent item here. The MacCafe also offers a huge range of cakes and pastries etc etc...Cheers!
We get the triple cheesburger here inthe uk and the double quarterpounder, I suppose the brekkie burger would be like the mc muffins here which have sausage and egg or bacon and egg
@@jord001 The Big Brekkie Burger is a couple of beef patties with bacon egg hash brown cheese and BBQ sauce and pretty good value!
@@clivegilbertson6542 god that sounds horrible!.......give me 10
OMG I'm hungry now! Kitchen next...
Hail Haidi, 5:59 a good burger just need only Ketchup, Mayonnaise or Mustard, the Rest of Chemicals are used to make first you want more and second to don't let you know how bad the meat is...
1:40, they don't need to have it look bigger, it's close to double... 14:54 I doubt your BMI will not support either, each McDonalds or in Each Country...
Sometimes they have indonesian food themed burgers at the dutch McDonalds, spicy and or sate based. Besides that they sometimes have special dutch flavoured milk shakes like bitter koekjes milkshake or hopjes milkshake.. Unfortuantely those special themed food are always too short on offer.
7:10 Simple ! Just a bunch of sugar.
When I used to count calories when I was trying to gain weight, it made me realize the difference of calories of getting a soda VS not getting a soda is quite a lot.
With US food your safest bet is always on sugar. Or syrup. And an additional different type of syrup. And extra sugar mixed in the syrup. ;)
The vegetarian options are not likely to taste the way the name makes you think. It is usually named after the protein source, i.e. beans, but often is "designed" to taste similar to other menu items. As a "long term" vegetarian I can't tell you if it tastes similar to the meat version, nor would I care if they weren't, but they often try to get it similar so meat eaters will also purchase it from time to time.
I have not tried many of those, both due to the above comment and the fact I haven't been to the UK in... over a decade(?), so I can't tell you how different UK and US taste. Then again I haven't been to the US in years and don't think I'd have hit a McD's on "every" trip so no idea how long it has been since I ate the US version either.
I never eat at Macca’s anymore, due to the high sodium levels in every item, including milkshakes, soft serve cones and coffees, which are all way too high in sodium!
comparing french and US burger king here. the US sandwiches end up dripping so much grease the paper has like 3mm of grease deposited at the bottom, while the french sandwich almost doesn't drip at all, as it seems it is composed of much more meat contents
I'm halfway through the reaction Heidi and you haven't yawned yet,!
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I’m by no means an McDonalds expert. If I should eat junk food I’d rather go to Burger King but during a business stay in China, I discovered that the local McDonalds there was a bit more spicy.
Denmark vs England was pretty much the same in size and taste, but then I’d rather go to the local fish’n’chips shop to get some exotic food. 🤷🏼♂️
the cups are about _twice_ the content size and HH notes they put the us ones in front and that makes them look bigger. That's such an American defence. ;)
You should check out,
USA v’s U.K. KFC and
USA v’s U.K. Subway.
Both videos are on UA-cam channel, Food Wars.
I wouldn't even call McDonalds food. If everything but the lettuce stays EXACTLY the same in 20 years(!!!!!) it can't be called food anymore.
(edit) What I mean by 20 years: someone tested the McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's and a bunch of other fastfood chains burgers, kept them IN THE EXACT SAME wrapping for 20 YEARS and the only thing that had deteriorated was the lettuce! The buns were exactly the same, the meat still "looked" the same, even the sauce was exactly the same after 20 years!
My fav type of scones are savory ones with cheese and bacon bits through out them... Plain scones are great to have with sweet things or savory things
-gets a weird look on my face..... Didnt know 20 nuggets was for sharing XDD
UK Milkshake: *Clack*
US Milkshake: *BONK!!!*
Note - UK use free ranged eggs
The large drink looked bigger cos it was twice the size lol :) x
They always compare biscuits to scones but those idiots don't realize they're 2 completely different foods. They aren't even the same ingredients
Eating doughnuts for breakfast is just something that I'll never understand.
I eat a bowl of yogurt and a sandwich for breakfast.
I'm just glad we don't have as many chemicals in ours. And the buns are better for you. The chicken legend is delicious. In fact, I would take one rather than a Big Mac. The American guy said, "That will never catch on" the next minute he is showing you a Chickenburger that is not as good.
I wouldn't be too hard on the camera aspect as they are shooting in different locations probably on different equipment, so doing it exactly the same probably isn't realistic. I don't think it is meant to make the US look worse intentionally, particularly as both presenters like burgers and such.
There is no Milkshake at McD in Spain, I was so surprised when visiting, they had no idea what it is :))