Root beer is flavoured with wintergreen. In the UK, wintergreen is a component of quite a few medicinal ointments and rubs, as well as some mouthwashes. So, to Brits, the taste is surpringly similar to these products - the major reason why root beer isn't popular over here, even though you can find it in some supermarkets.
When McDonald’s first opened in the UK Root Beer was on the menu. I tried it once but it seemed like drinking a chewing gum flavoured soda! No thanks… Strangely it wasn’t liked in the UK and disappeared! 😳👎👀
He's right about the Hersheys' - it really does taste exactly like old stale chocolate. Hershey have bought out Cadbury, and now market it in the States, but it's just the same old Hershey recipe in Cadbury packaging. Presumably, it was aquired to avoid Cadbury chocolate importing their far superior chocolate, and wiping out the vastly inferior Hershey brand. Bleedin' Yanks - if you can't beat it, buy it. Ha!
No: before Kraft bought Cadbury's they reached a licensing agreement with Hersheys to manufacture chocolate in the USA under the Cadbury brand. It was simply a profit-maximizing strategy which did not involve Cadbury expending vast marketing budgets on the US market.
@@allenwilliams1306 Kraft were allowed by UK government to buy Cadbury on the understanding they would not move production outside UK and closing UK factories... soon as they had the keys Kraft broke that agreement. The Kraft CEO refused to attend a UK parliament inquiry. Cadbury chocolate is terrible now
@@realbruckshot4163 What? "Peng" is a Jamaican slang adjective used exclusively for people, not things. My apologies if you're writing about Alfred Hershey, the microbiologist. He was a smart guy, but not very "peng" IMO.
I’ve spent a lot of time in the US and there’s some stuff I do really like, but a lot of it tastes really ‘artificial’ to our taste buds - even bread tastes like it has sugar in, because it does
Sounds like French bread sold in their Supermarkets. Not the bakers. My brother, who lives in France asked the local Supermarket to see if they could get bread like they have in the UK. They managed to, one problem, you have to buy early, because the locals were buying it all up. He still buys from the Bakers, especially the Baguettes.
America does great steak , pizza , ribs and cheesecake ohh and a million flavours of ice cream 👍🏻👍🏻♥️ I also prefer their sodas , milkshakes and being a nation of coffee drinkers their coffee is great . But snacks , candy and chocolate is nowhere near as good as the UK .
@@thornbird6768 As a Brit living in Texas, I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. There are things that America gets right, and we don't give them enough credit for that with our British palates. :)
@@thornbird6768 the breakfast cereal is also shit in America, there is absolutely so reason to put that much sugar in your breakfast and honestly all the US cereal taste like shit rolled in sugar
Don’t be offended. I have watched Americans react to British snacks the same way. It’s the “taste I’m used to” situation. I used to live and work in Virginia and I liked some snacks and not others. 😀
Agreed. When you’re used to a certain range of tastes, when trying something different, it comes off as ‘foreign’, and ‘foreign’ is often a polite way to say ‘inferior’.
Fun fact A&W root beer is now banned in many parts of the uk due to illegal chemicals in it. It’s the same thing with a lot of other American snacks,sweets and drinks. Also American pop tarts. Americans have no problems with adding artificial items to snacks whereas here they’re frowned upon. Hershey and indeed ALL American mass produced chocolate contains PARAFFIN which is why it’s so waxy and shiny. It’s also got a much lower cocoa content that if it was made here it would be deemed NOT to be chocolate but “chocolate flavoured”
I have to agree with them on the Twinkies. I used to hear about these all the time on US tv shows and always wanted to try them. Bought some a few years ago and I was so disappointed 😅 They taste like an out of date sponge cake 😂😂 Nah not for me, I kinda like Reece’s, But wouldn’t be my 1st choice of chocolate 🍫😀
I'm pretty sure I've seen something similar to twinkies before which had jam in them as well as cream, it was years ago though so I don't think they exist anymore.
@@Aloyus_Knightno there is there’s these cake roll things my mum buys like tiny cake rolls w cream and a tiny bit of jam which I’m guessing would taste similar to Twinkie’s but the British ones are probably better because of the jam
Josh and Ollie who run Jolly also have Korean Englishman channel and they started the Fire Noodle challenge way back, which these same high schoolers did. Always entertaining and pretty high quality.
Don't be too upset about them not liking root beer, it's just a taste we're not used to over here. Although I wouldn't agree it tastes like mouthwash, I do find it reminiscent of something medicinal.
I'm definitely with you on that one, @@imagik2446, and the one and only time that I ever tried it was in Canada many years ago. It's vile and as I remember it tasted something like the cooled vegetable water that you get after someone had boiled beetroots in it. Yuk!
"interesting is like a really English way of saying bad", so true, i say interesting when i mean somethings bad or weird all the time. i love how you said that guy was making you offended ( i know you're kidding) cause i found everything he said really funny. all these guys are really funny
Mouthwash wasn't always minty. In fact, Listerine was one of the most medicinal mouthwashes on the market in the 70s. It was a highly held belief that "minty" mouthwash was mostly sugar water and not good for oral health. The original Listerine flavor, IMO, tasted like a cross btwn Jägermeister n Rumple Mintze. 😁
to be fair you could probably get a better clean from using some jaeger lol, but yeah it's a relatively new thing having 'minty fresh' toothpaste/mouth wash etc.
In fact the kid who was really actually insulting was the one that used the qualification of BTEC as an insult as being a worse version. That is actually snobbish and elitist.
You have to realise that not many brits are accustomed to having corn syrup in things, and it can come across as medical tasting, such as cough syrup etc.
I’m sorry but American confectionery doesn’t come close to British confectionery. The amount of additives added in Usa are dreadful. I do like Cheetos though
I had an American girlfriend back in the early 70's and we had Hershey bars, err, they were disgusting so I introduced her to Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Galaxy, she loved them. Her name was Rebecca Jane N.... and when she left the UK to go back home she bought another case which was full of British chocolate. Later she wrote to me and her family and friends became fans of British chocolate.
Root beer was sold in UK McDonald's when they first opened in the UK. I was around 10 years old and I loved it. It was dropped after a few years. You can buy root beer still, you just have to look for it.
Working through your stuff and I gotta say - this one gets a like from me. Watching an American reacting to Brits reacting to your food and you getting all kinda uptight - priceless.
When I worked in McDonalds in the 1980s (UK) on MORE THAN one occasions we would have a livid/panicked parent running up to the counter shouting that their child's coke had disinfectant in it. Turned out we had given them root beer instead of coke (or "McDonalds cola" as it was at the time). root beer was taken off the menu in late 80s.
I'm actually quite impressed because you knew that "zed" means Z. Not a lot of Americans know that. Anyway, this is fun because I remember watching the original video a few weeks ago
Be honest, its only a 'zed' to cover themselves legally for the total lack of cheese in the product. Cheez Whiz springs to mind at this point. We do the same here!!
The general thing is British stuff tries to use natural flavours. A cheese snack will probably be made with actual cheese, not a chemical flavouring. The way the labelling uses flavour, and flavoured, or neither tells you if it’s actually cheese, flavoured with cheese, or flavoured with a chemical that tastes vaguely cheese like.
Hershey's say on the wrapper "chocolate flavour" a bit of confusion as its a flavour of chocolate so what defines chocolate ? we call cadburys in the uk just chocolate Lindts bars are called chocolate and nestle.the only thing i can compare to Hersheys offerings is those nasty tasting chocolates you hung on a christmas tree if you can still find them .living in the US with a large company like hershey you will find its always been the standard bearer in chocolate as its home produced but untill you taste belgium ..swiss chocolate & UK cadburys theres no comparison. just like US snacks its what youre use too. US cadbury products i believe are blended different to the UK versions. this again is for american tastes its different depending where you live.
My very first job in 1982 was in a chocolate factory in the midlands we made Xmas decorations and Easter eggs depending on the time of year. Some weeks the production was “ compound chocolate” don’t ask me what the compound was because I worked on the production line. What I can tell you is that it was vile. The kind of cheap Easter egg you get from a skinflint/ doesn’t like you relative. Other weeks production was called “ Chocolate” and it was proper. My favorite was the white chocolate Danger mouse egg.
I can honestly say you do the best reaction videos on UA-cam. You are funny,, honest, open minded, interested, knowledgeable and very entertaining and confident. I'm really very impressed.
I sometimes I think I'm 1 of only 3 people in the UK who love Root Beer. It absolutely does taste of germoline that we used to use on cuts and grazes but I don't care, it's lovely
Germoline! I LOVED the smell of it. Why don’t we get it anymore? I don’t like minty toothpaste so use Euthymol which I think is a bit like Germoline. Maybe I should look for root beer. 😂
Soda it may be but it still taste like Germolene. Thats an antiseptic cream used for cuts/ spots and scrapes. I tried it once many years ago, never to try it again.
British teen boys, clearly going be the most cynical scathing creatures on the planet, well done for taking it - I had to bring one up, Gawd love 'im, ^oo^
I don't know about these, but sour sweets/candies are usually just loaded with citric acid - more acid, more sour. The acid is often dusted onto the outside, so it disappears quickly when you eat one.
Love your reaction to this Joel. Your expressions when they were being really critical were funny 😁. When I was in the States I liked the root beer but hated Hershey’s and Dr. Pepper.
First time I visited America I was so excited to get a root beer and a corn dog! Root beer tastes like cough medicine 🤮🤮 and just no to the corn dogs, they were weird 🤮
The amount of people who actually drink root beer is far and few between. The kind of corn dogs you have to get are the ones you find at fairs/festivals or theme parks.
Love how offended you looked to their reactions 🤣 I always find US snacks extreme. Ie they’re never sweet; they’re REALLY sweet. Never spicy; they’re VERY spicy. Never hot; MOUTHBURNING hot. I’d happily send you some UK snacks if you got a PO Box. Would make a great video.
Great reaction Joel, don’t be offended; although I don’t think you are really. I used to work for a food company and the recipes for our brands were tweaked depending on what country they were being exported to.
When I visited America I found the takeaways to be godly. Even a Pizza Hut seemed to taste incredible to me and so much better than over here. And doughnuts, cookies, any junk food was amazing. Everything is just so salty and sugary and cheesey. What I hated was the sweets and chocolate. American purple sweets are grape flavour, in the U.K. purple sweets are blackcurrant flavour. All the sweets had a weird aftertaste to me that I guess you have to grow up with to enjoy.
Ate a lot of Hershey's travelling in the US. Believe it is due to fact that the farms tend to be a loooooong way from anywhere, they do something to the milk to make it last longer. Ends up with butyric acid in the flavour - which some people get quite addicted to, and then it has to actually be added to imported chocolate. The vomit taste.
I think maybe they're thinking of the particular red mouthwash that dentists use when they're drilling out a filling or whatever, that you rinse your mouth out with. Not minty, hard to describe.
When British teenagers, a demographic notoriously known for its poor nutritional habits, pans your product, you need to reevaluate what the hell you're doing.
it looks as though the Hershey's bar was bought in the UK, if you look closely it says milk chocolate flavour (spelt correctly). this is because in the UK to advertise something as chocolate it needs to contain a certain percentage of Cocoa, as Hershey's contain less than this it can only be advertised as chocolate flavour
Root beer, while it is available in the UK it is not a common drink and most people didn't grow up drinking it in the same quantity of Coke, Fanta, Lemonade, Ginger Beer etc so it has an unusual flavour when trying it for the first time.
Snack popularity always seems to be very localised. Root beer is a very odd flavour for Brits which probably accounts for the reactions it got. I'd imagine you'd probably have weird reactions to a typically British drink like Dandelion & Burdock which also has a kind of unique flavour.
One of the chemicals present in American chocolate is the same chemical in vomit. That's why a lot of people in Europe will say how American chocolate tastes like vomit.
When I first saw Twinkies, I was told they are thus named because they used to come in packs of two so I asked "Does that mean one of them would be called a "twink" and I got told off ...for some reason!
Snacks for next time: Tootsie Pops, Kit Kat Bars, Pixie Stix, Beef Jerky, Oreo's, Candy Corn, Pork Rinds, and to wash it all down, an American classic that tastes like fizzy, cherry cough syrup: Moxie. .. Also, I think the "zed" they were referring to is when there's a zero in a nutritional category, like 0% Fat. Personally, I think the best snacks come from the 4 basic food groups: Sugar, Salt, Trans Fat, and Cholesterol.
I once tried Hershies cookie and cream and that was pretty good. Was bought in an English supermarket so I'm not sure if the recipe had to be remade to fit British requirements. Heard bad things about Hershies so if I see it I generally stay away.
9:36 A&W! I love this root beer! Got some in the fridge! Got it from the American foods shop that I never remember the name of. I'm kinda fussy with the root beers, there are some I don't like, but there is one other that I like which is made by Tropical Sun.
I must admit, I’m not a fan of the American chocolate I’ve had. Kind of tastes a little like low quality cooking chocolate to me. I’ve heard about Takis though. I’m all for spicy, so I’d like to try those. Root beer is definitely an American ‘acquired’ taste. Not a flavour we’re used to in the U.K, although some supermarkets do sell it. I suppose the nearest thing we have to it would be Dandelion & Burdock, or maybe a ginger beer. Also, be aware that any British brands of sweets and chocolate you get hold of in America won’t actually be exactly the same as what’s available here. Even those are tweaked to suit American tastes. It’s a pity you didn’t have a P.O. Box so you could try stuff that is really authentic.
Ah, that's it: cooking chocolate! For the 7 years I lived in China the only chocolate available was Hershey's and, though I have periods of actually craving chocolate, after the first 6 months I never bought chocolate for the rest of the time I was there. Couldn't describe the taste before, but bland, chemically composed 'cooking chocolate' is it!
Im an English expat living in Canada. I barely snack now, as the quality is horrendously poor. They do have Cadburys chocolate here, but it's a hugely downgraded recipe. :-(
It’s just what everyone gets used to the taste of their own foods. So when trying slightly different ones , maybe less salt or whatever can make foods taste bland.
I agree with that Hershey's is nice but not the best chocolate I have had. English, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, Belgian, Polish, Romanian, Norwegian and Swiss chocolates are way better.
Great reaction video, Joel. The blonde lad, with the curtain hairstyle, was determined to dislike everything, lol. I did chuckle when he said, " I was so looking forward to my first Twinkie ". 'Twink/Twinkie' in gay parlance is a cute young guy in the 18 - 25 age bracket, hahaha. As for Reece's peanut butter cups/bars, absolutely delicious, love 'em. But then I adore peanut butter. I haven't sampled a vast range of US sweets/candy but I'm guessing they, like most US produce, are packed full of enhancers, preservatives, E-numbers, artificial colourings etc which may not be present in many UK sweets. Root beer IS an acquired taste and is enhanced by adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I recently tried Fentiman's fizzy drinks, curiosity cola is, erm, different, lol. But the Cream Soda pineapple flavour is to die for.
But he's right. Even if he is a typical teenager about it. I tried a twinkie, but didn't finish it. I liked the idea of it, though - just not the artificial, yet bland, taste.
Why did you not give them butter fingers?! I'm a brit that grew up in the forces & snacs from the USA are part of my 'good' childhood memories...along with German foods.
josh and ollie = jolly have 2 channels this one and korean englishmen , i am subscribed to them both they did a lot of vlogs with the boys trying korean foods ...the best cutest EVER you tube vlog is when ollies daughter was born and they introduced the viewers to her at about 1 week old
There's definitely a bug trend at the moment towards American snacks and entire shops dedicated to them. The local 24 hour store around the corner from me has recently been refurbished and they now have an entire unit about 5x 10ft dedicated to US imported snacks, crisps, drinks etc etc. Not UK made versions of US drinks, but US products imported direct from USA.
You can tell if they've been made here on licence or imported because the imported stuff has ingredients stickers on the back to comply with our food standards laws - and most stuff has warnings about them causing hyperactivity in children - and GMOs. I was shocked at how much stuff has GMOs in, until I realised it is because of the corn syrup used in everything in the US - we don't use it here.
Thing is with snacks is they are varied for a reason. Everyone's tastes are different, so its difficult to combine all snacks into "American" or "British". The only way you could do that really is by comparing like for like, such as Cadbury's Dairy Milk to Hershey's. For example, there is a great British snack called Twiglets but not everyone in Britain likes them. They're basically Marmite flavoured, so they're obviously made for those of us who love Marmite. If your taste is more for sweet things and less for salty/savoury you are just never going to like them. The reason I thin British snacks are so good is not so much because I love eating all of them, but because they are so varied. America has like 4 flavours of "Potato Chip" - cheesy, Jalapeño, salted, BBQ. That's more or less it. The UK has Roast Chicken, Prawn Cocktail, Salt n Vinegar, Beef, Honey Roasted Ham, Cheese & Onion, Sour Cream & Chive, Pickled Onion ... so many more, as well as those standard American flavours. The only "snack" flavour I think America really caters for better than the UK is the spicy stuff. We do have spicy snacks, but not on the same level as Americans, which is kind of weird because whilst Americans love spicy food because of the Mexican connection, Brits do love spicy food because of our India connections.
When he said that “even Pizza had a z in it” it was an example of British humour.
Root beer is flavoured with wintergreen.
In the UK, wintergreen is a component of quite a few medicinal ointments and rubs, as well as some mouthwashes.
So, to Brits, the taste is surpringly similar to these products - the major reason why root beer isn't popular over here, even though you can find it in some supermarkets.
Interesting. What is wintergreen? Like kale or somesuch?
@@allycouling6137,
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen
When McDonald’s first opened in the UK Root Beer was on the menu. I tried it once but it seemed like drinking a chewing gum flavoured soda! No thanks… Strangely it wasn’t liked in the UK and disappeared! 😳👎👀
Yep, tastes like TCP! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_(antiseptic)
@@AlexPinkney, and Germolene
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germolene
He's right about the Hersheys' - it really does taste exactly like old stale chocolate. Hershey have bought out Cadbury, and now market it in the States, but it's just the same old Hershey recipe in Cadbury packaging. Presumably, it was aquired to avoid Cadbury chocolate importing their far superior chocolate, and wiping out the vastly inferior Hershey brand. Bleedin' Yanks - if you can't beat it, buy it. Ha!
No: before Kraft bought Cadbury's they reached a licensing agreement with Hersheys to manufacture chocolate in the USA under the Cadbury brand. It was simply a profit-maximizing strategy which did not involve Cadbury expending vast marketing budgets on the US market.
@@allenwilliams1306 thanks
@@allenwilliams1306 Kraft were allowed by UK government to buy Cadbury on the understanding they would not move production outside UK and closing UK factories... soon as they had the keys Kraft broke that agreement. The Kraft CEO refused to attend a UK parliament inquiry. Cadbury chocolate is terrible now
Hershy is peng
@@realbruckshot4163 What? "Peng" is a Jamaican slang adjective used exclusively for people, not things. My apologies if you're writing about Alfred Hershey, the microbiologist. He was a smart guy, but not very "peng" IMO.
I’ve spent a lot of time in the US and there’s some stuff I do really like, but a lot of it tastes really ‘artificial’ to our taste buds - even bread tastes like it has sugar in, because it does
i think you're confused, you meant to say that the sugar tastes like bread because they put flour in it :D
Sounds like French bread sold in their Supermarkets. Not the bakers. My brother, who lives in France asked the local Supermarket to see if they could get bread like they have in the UK. They managed to, one problem, you have to buy early, because the locals were buying it all up. He still buys from the Bakers, especially the Baguettes.
America does great steak , pizza , ribs and cheesecake ohh and a million flavours of ice cream 👍🏻👍🏻♥️ I also prefer their sodas , milkshakes and being a nation of coffee drinkers their coffee is great . But snacks , candy and chocolate is nowhere near as good as the UK .
@@thornbird6768 As a Brit living in Texas, I wholeheartedly agree with this comment. There are things that America gets right, and we don't give them enough credit for that with our British palates. :)
@@thornbird6768 the breakfast cereal is also shit in America, there is absolutely so reason to put that much sugar in your breakfast and honestly all the US cereal taste like shit rolled in sugar
Don’t be offended. I have watched Americans react to British snacks the same way. It’s the “taste I’m used to” situation. I used to live and work in Virginia and I liked some snacks and not others. 😀
Agreed. When you’re used to a certain range of tastes, when trying something different, it comes off as ‘foreign’, and ‘foreign’ is often a polite way to say ‘inferior’.
Fun fact A&W root beer is now banned in many parts of the uk due to illegal chemicals in it. It’s the same thing with a lot of other American snacks,sweets and drinks. Also American pop tarts. Americans have no problems with adding artificial items to snacks whereas here they’re frowned upon. Hershey and indeed ALL American mass produced chocolate contains PARAFFIN which is why it’s so waxy and shiny. It’s also got a much lower cocoa content that if it was made here it would be deemed NOT to be chocolate but “chocolate flavoured”
I heard that Sarsparilla is now banned, on account of it being a Poison.... Bloody Hell! I drank loads of that soda growing up..... 😵💫
Uggh!! That explains a lot... do any Brits remember Goodies Chocolate Buttons? Grim and greasy 😐
American chocolate can't be sold in Canada either due to the additives US companies put in their chocolate.
I have to agree with them on the Twinkies. I used to hear about these all the time on US tv shows and always wanted to try them. Bought some a few years ago and I was so disappointed 😅 They taste like an out of date sponge cake 😂😂 Nah not for me, I kinda like Reece’s, But wouldn’t be my 1st choice of chocolate 🍫😀
Twinkies were much better in the early 2000's ,the original recipe changed when the company who made them were sold to a different company
I'm pretty sure I've seen something similar to twinkies before which had jam in them as well as cream, it was years ago though so I don't think they exist anymore.
Never tried them I used to work in retail (in England) and was an American isle never even wanted to try twinkies just looks dull.
@@Aloyus_Knightno there is there’s these cake roll things my mum buys like tiny cake rolls w cream and a tiny bit of jam which I’m guessing would taste similar to Twinkie’s but the British ones are probably better because of the jam
Same they're rank. But I don't think I've seen a single vid of an American tasting a Tunnocks teacake and not like it. They always love them.
I agree to the people who suggested you get a PO box mate! You reacting to snacks sent to you by Brits would make for some excellent content!
It'll be another video of British chocolate dunking on American chocolate lol
British chocolate was a lot better before the “upgrade”
Josh and Ollie who run Jolly also have Korean Englishman channel and they started the Fire Noodle challenge way back, which these same high schoolers did. Always entertaining and pretty high quality.
Don't be too upset about them not liking root beer, it's just a taste we're not used to over here. Although I wouldn't agree it tastes like mouthwash, I do find it reminiscent of something medicinal.
Cough syrup
@@mkboulton3093 Without the effects 🥴
Root beer is beyond gross.
I'm definitely with you on that one, @@imagik2446, and the one and only time that I ever tried it was in Canada many years ago. It's vile and as I remember it tasted something like the cooled vegetable water that you get after someone had boiled beetroots in it. Yuk!
I,personally,dont mind it,as I think some UK branches of KFC and MacDonalds used to sell it.
"interesting is like a really English way of saying bad", so true, i say interesting when i mean somethings bad or weird all the time. i love how you said that guy was making you offended ( i know you're kidding) cause i found everything he said really funny.
all these guys are really funny
He was genuinely offended lol
Dont think he got the British humour 😄 that lad was dripping sarcasm.
One of your best videos yet! But hats off to you Joel, you squirmed but you took it on the chin mate!
And that's quite a chin right there...
To be fair we have to put up with americans pronouncing Jaffa Cakes "JOFFA CAKES"
Mouthwash wasn't always minty. In fact, Listerine was one of the most medicinal mouthwashes on the market in the 70s. It was a highly held belief that "minty" mouthwash was mostly sugar water and not good for oral health. The original Listerine flavor, IMO, tasted like a cross btwn Jägermeister n Rumple Mintze. 😁
to be fair you could probably get a better clean from using some jaeger lol, but yeah it's a relatively new thing having 'minty fresh' toothpaste/mouth wash etc.
Listerine was originally a household cleaning aid.
I lived in Canada. The guy nailed it when he said the sweets there taste like medicine.
As a Brit even I was getting pissed off at the mop head pizza boy, he was coming across as such an elitist snob 🤣
glad to see im not the only one lol
In fact the kid who was really actually insulting was the one that used the qualification of BTEC as an insult as being a worse version. That is actually snobbish and elitist.
@@Lotsielots It was snobbish and elitist. Also true though.
How can anyone will such a stupid haircut criticise anything take s good look in the mirror mate
He's just a kid. I thought he personified British humor very well.
All the way through this video, I was like "Calm down, Joel. Calm down." 😂
That long haired kid is hilarious, he should be a comedian 😂😂😂 I love your reactions to some of their comments too, great video!
I think he came over as very arrogant!
There are hundreds of vids with Americans eating British snacks on UA-cam, but these school guys were so spot on 💕💕💕
Root beer tastes like germolene, which is probably why they got the thought of medicine when they drank it.
Two items I adore.
sarparilla root in rootbeer which taste like cough medicine, IBC rootbeer has no saparilla root in it and it has naural cane sugar too.
You have to realise that not many brits are accustomed to having corn syrup in things, and it can come across as medical tasting, such as cough syrup etc.
Corn syrup doesn't taste of much. It's the flavouring of root beer that tastes like cough medicine.
Oh my god you're reacting to Korean Englishman/Jolly! I did not expect this. One of my favourite channels.
Same, I've never clicked this fast!! Don't you think Joel looks a lot like Josh??
I’m sorry but American confectionery doesn’t come close to British confectionery. The amount of additives added in Usa are dreadful.
I do like Cheetos though
100% .i tried their regular white bread was awful 200% fortified with calcium 😃
Hey Joel, Jolly is a great channel. You should react to them trying American cereals :)
Love them too
@@madilynprior6403 i love the one just after junos birth so cute
I had an American girlfriend back in the early 70's and we had Hershey bars, err, they were disgusting so I introduced her to Cadbury's Dairy Milk and Galaxy, she loved them. Her name was Rebecca Jane N.... and when she left the UK to go back home she bought another case which was full of British chocolate. Later she wrote to me and her family and friends became fans of British chocolate.
yeah, if there’s anything to say about british vs american snacks it’s that we definitely do chocolate better
Root beer was sold in UK McDonald's when they first opened in the UK. I was around 10 years old and I loved it. It was dropped after a few years. You can buy root beer still, you just have to look for it.
" i dont want any disrespect to American snacks"
Every American that reacts to British snacks
"Eww it tastes weird"
Working through your stuff and I gotta say - this one gets a like from me. Watching an American reacting to Brits reacting to your food and you getting all kinda uptight - priceless.
This video made me laugh! I love being British!
When I worked in McDonalds in the 1980s (UK) on MORE THAN one occasions we would have a livid/panicked parent running up to the counter shouting that their child's coke had disinfectant in it. Turned out we had given them root beer instead of coke (or "McDonalds cola" as it was at the time). root beer was taken off the menu in late 80s.
I'm actually quite impressed because you knew that "zed" means Z. Not a lot of Americans know that. Anyway, this is fun because I remember watching the original video a few weeks ago
Be honest, its only a 'zed' to cover themselves legally for the total lack of cheese in the product. Cheez Whiz springs to mind at this point.
We do the same here!!
The general thing is British stuff tries to use natural flavours. A cheese snack will probably be made with actual cheese, not a chemical flavouring. The way the labelling uses flavour, and flavoured, or neither tells you if it’s actually cheese, flavoured with cheese, or flavoured with a chemical that tastes vaguely cheese like.
This video should be called "American gets triggered by British teen-agers" 🤣🤣🤣
That was entertaining and funny. Great fun watching their reactions and yours too Joel.
JOLLY... Best channel there is :D edit: they also did the fire noodle challenge with those Boys it's funny ;)
Hershey's say on the wrapper "chocolate flavour" a bit of confusion as its a flavour of chocolate so what defines chocolate ? we call cadburys in the uk just chocolate Lindts bars are called chocolate and nestle.the only thing i can compare to Hersheys offerings is those nasty tasting chocolates you hung on a christmas tree if you can still find them .living in the US with a large company like hershey you will find its always been the standard bearer in chocolate as its home produced but untill you taste belgium ..swiss chocolate & UK cadburys theres no comparison. just like US snacks its what youre use too. US cadbury products i believe are blended different to the UK versions. this again is for american tastes its different depending where you live.
My very first job in 1982 was in a chocolate factory in the midlands we made Xmas decorations and Easter eggs depending on the time of year. Some weeks the production was “ compound chocolate” don’t ask me what the compound was because I worked on the production line. What I can tell you is that it was vile. The kind of cheap Easter egg you get from a skinflint/ doesn’t like you relative.
Other weeks production was called “ Chocolate” and it was proper. My favorite was the white chocolate Danger mouse egg.
@@allycouling6137 So right on those cheapo easter eggs and sometimes a cheap chocolate santa was just as vile.
Your face when they were talking about root beer 🤣😂 they’re right though it’s nasty!!
some of those guys have made my early 1990s "curtains" hairstyle back in style. Interesting.
I noticed that too. Thought that naff hair went out with the 90s.
I can honestly say you do the best reaction videos on UA-cam. You are funny,, honest, open minded, interested, knowledgeable and very entertaining and confident. I'm really very impressed.
I sometimes I think I'm 1 of only 3 people in the UK who love Root Beer.
It absolutely does taste of germoline that we used to use on cuts and grazes but I don't care, it's lovely
Germoline! I LOVED the smell of it. Why don’t we get it anymore? I don’t like minty toothpaste so use Euthymol which I think is a bit like Germoline. Maybe I should look for root beer. 😂
You can still get Germolene. Go to a chemist if it's not in the supermarket.
Soda it may be but it still taste like Germolene. Thats an antiseptic cream used for cuts/ spots and scrapes. I tried it once many years ago, never to try it again.
British teen boys, clearly going be the most cynical scathing creatures on the planet, well done for taking it - I had to bring one up, Gawd love 'im, ^oo^
Lol but some weren’t like that like Armand,max, Orlando, ray,Harvey,Jermaine they were 16-17 years old eating Korean food they were respectful
I would be interested in an American trying Twiglets which are my favourite snack.
That's just cruel. 😆😆😆
I hatetwiglets!
I don't know about these, but sour sweets/candies are usually just loaded with citric acid - more acid, more sour. The acid is often dusted onto the outside, so it disappears quickly when you eat one.
These kids are so English we are so sarcastic! Don’t get offended we talk like this to everyone all day
The lads were great! Some very honest reactions there! LOL!!
They were different reacting to Korean food…
Love your reaction to this Joel. Your expressions when they were being really critical were funny 😁. When I was in the States I liked the root beer but hated Hershey’s and Dr. Pepper.
When I was living for a few months in Arizona, I discovered Payday bars, I bought one every day to have with my afternoon coffee. I loved them,
Paydays are the best American chocolate
@@vaudevillian7 so true
@@vaudevillian7 There is NO chocolate in Paydays.
That one kid was determined not to like anything lol
First time I visited America I was so excited to get a root beer and a corn dog! Root beer tastes like cough medicine 🤮🤮 and just no to the corn dogs, they were weird 🤮
The amount of people who actually drink root beer is far and few between. The kind of corn dogs you have to get are the ones you find at fairs/festivals or theme parks.
You may had this a lot, but I just want to add, that you have a beautiful smile!
Great video!
You found a jolly, they are awesome.
Great video, great reaction, looking forward to your rebuttal. 😁
We definitely have those War Head extreme sour things in the UK. Or used to. I haven't seen them in years.
He was being sarcastic about the zed in pizza😁
Love how offended you looked to their reactions 🤣
I always find US snacks extreme. Ie they’re never sweet; they’re REALLY sweet. Never spicy; they’re VERY spicy. Never hot; MOUTHBURNING hot.
I’d happily send you some UK snacks if you got a PO Box. Would make a great video.
Here's a tip for those of you who have water with hot or spicy snacks for the 1st time. DON'T HAVE WATER! Have milk or milk shake.
Unless you can't drink milk ... Then you need to get creative. Not tequila, never tequila.
Sweet drinks help the burn...anything with sugar in..well it helps me...
I was always told bread for spicy food
Great reaction Joel, don’t be offended; although I don’t think you are really. I used to work for a food company and the recipes for our brands were tweaked depending on what country they were being exported to.
When I visited America I found the takeaways to be godly. Even a Pizza Hut seemed to taste incredible to me and so much better than over here. And doughnuts, cookies, any junk food was amazing. Everything is just so salty and sugary and cheesey.
What I hated was the sweets and chocolate. American purple sweets are grape flavour, in the U.K. purple sweets are blackcurrant flavour. All the sweets had a weird aftertaste to me that I guess you have to grow up with to enjoy.
Oh man I love American grape flavour stuff.. Welchs.. 😋
Ate a lot of Hershey's travelling in the US. Believe it is due to fact that the farms tend to be a loooooong way from anywhere, they do something to the milk to make it last longer. Ends up with butyric acid in the flavour - which some people get quite addicted to, and then it has to actually be added to imported chocolate. The vomit taste.
The British snack test always includes Twiglets
Joel, there,s a British candy called "Munchies", a chocolate specifically designed for post-cannabis syndrome!
I think maybe they're thinking of the particular red mouthwash that dentists use when they're drilling out a filling or whatever, that you rinse your mouth out with. Not minty, hard to describe.
When British teenagers, a demographic notoriously known for its poor nutritional habits, pans your product, you need to reevaluate what the hell you're doing.
it looks as though the Hershey's bar was bought in the UK, if you look closely it says milk chocolate flavour (spelt correctly). this is because in the UK to advertise something as chocolate it needs to contain a certain percentage of Cocoa, as Hershey's contain less than this it can only be advertised as chocolate flavour
Root beer, while it is available in the UK it is not a common drink and most people didn't grow up drinking it in the same quantity of Coke, Fanta, Lemonade, Ginger Beer etc so it has an unusual flavour when trying it for the first time.
The blond, mini "Oscar Wilde" is destined to be a wonderful eccentric. I hope no one squashes him into a mould.
try a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk now that's smooth.
Dairy Milk bars in the US are made by Hershey's not Cadbury
Why Hershey's Chocolate Tastes Like ... Well, Vomit. The presence of something called butyric acid (which is also in puke) is to blame.
I lived in the US for 13 years and loved many snacks (and root beer) . I can tell you that we have some VILE snacks too! I love Hershey chocolate too.
No one likes vomit chocolate but keep telling yourself that it's good 😂😂
Loved the mop head lad. He was spot on
Love the School Boy series - and it's especially funny because I know Malachi
Snack popularity always seems to be very localised.
Root beer is a very odd flavour for Brits which probably accounts for the reactions it got. I'd imagine you'd probably have weird reactions to a typically British drink like Dandelion & Burdock which also has a kind of unique flavour.
some of the ingredients used to flavour root beer are used here in the UK to flavour some medicine and mouthwashes
Watched you for a little while now mate, enjoy your reactions!
The Z thing is true....look at Lazer. The S in Laser actually stands for Stimulated (for example). lol
Hostess Twinkies are available in most supermarkets, seen them in Tesco and Asda, nice too
One of the chemicals present in American chocolate is the same chemical in vomit. That's why a lot of people in Europe will say how American chocolate tastes like vomit.
I knew when I seen his face in the thumbnail he’d be offended but everything lol 😂
Getting to watch your videos + you reacting to Jolly (one of my favourite UA-camrs) You have just made my day! :))
When I first saw Twinkies, I was told they are thus named because they used to come in packs of two
so I asked "Does that mean one of them would be called a "twink" and I got told off ...for some reason!
Cadburry! I loved that chocolate when I was in England...
Snacks for next time:
Tootsie Pops, Kit Kat Bars, Pixie Stix, Beef Jerky, Oreo's, Candy Corn, Pork Rinds, and to wash it all down, an American classic that tastes like fizzy, cherry cough syrup: Moxie.
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Also, I think the "zed" they were referring to is when there's a zero in a nutritional category, like 0% Fat. Personally, I think the best snacks come from the 4 basic food groups: Sugar, Salt, Trans Fat, and Cholesterol.
I once tried Hershies cookie and cream and that was pretty good. Was bought in an English supermarket so I'm not sure if the recipe had to be remade to fit British requirements. Heard bad things about Hershies so if I see it I generally stay away.
I tried that, as a treat. I took two bites and threw the rest away. If that was made for British tastes, it didn't catch on.
9:36 A&W! I love this root beer! Got some in the fridge! Got it from the American foods shop that I never remember the name of. I'm kinda fussy with the root beers, there are some I don't like, but there is one other that I like which is made by Tropical Sun.
We have very similar snacks to goldfish normally eaten as party food.
I must admit, I’m not a fan of the American chocolate I’ve had. Kind of tastes a little like low quality cooking chocolate to me.
I’ve heard about Takis though. I’m all for spicy, so I’d like to try those.
Root beer is definitely an American ‘acquired’ taste. Not a flavour we’re used to in the U.K, although some supermarkets do sell it. I suppose the nearest thing we have to it would be Dandelion & Burdock, or maybe a ginger beer.
Also, be aware that any British brands of sweets and chocolate you get hold of in America won’t actually be exactly the same as what’s available here. Even those are tweaked to suit American tastes. It’s a pity you didn’t have a P.O. Box so you could try stuff that is really authentic.
Ah, that's it: cooking chocolate! For the 7 years I lived in China the only chocolate available was Hershey's and, though I have periods of actually craving chocolate, after the first 6 months I never bought chocolate for the rest of the time I was there. Couldn't describe the taste before, but bland, chemically composed 'cooking chocolate' is it!
Takis is a Mexican snack
Im an English expat living in Canada. I barely snack now, as the quality is horrendously poor. They do have Cadburys chocolate here, but it's a hugely downgraded recipe. :-(
Think pink medicinal Germolene ointment and that gives you an idea about the Root Beer flavour.
It’s just what everyone gets used to the taste of their own foods. So when trying slightly different ones , maybe less salt or whatever can make foods taste bland.
Some people in the UK want American made chocolate renamed as Chocolate flavoured candy
I agree with that Hershey's is nice but not the best chocolate I have had. English, Scottish, Welsh, Spanish, Belgian, Polish, Romanian, Norwegian and Swiss chocolates are way better.
We need someone British to react to this reaction to a reaction.
Great reaction video, Joel. The blonde lad, with the curtain hairstyle, was determined to dislike everything, lol. I did chuckle when he said, " I was so looking forward to my first Twinkie ". 'Twink/Twinkie' in gay parlance is a cute young guy in the 18 - 25 age bracket, hahaha. As for Reece's peanut butter cups/bars, absolutely delicious, love 'em. But then I adore peanut butter. I haven't sampled a vast range of US sweets/candy but I'm guessing they, like most US produce, are packed full of enhancers, preservatives, E-numbers, artificial colourings etc which may not be present in many UK sweets. Root beer IS an acquired taste and is enhanced by adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I recently tried Fentiman's fizzy drinks, curiosity cola is, erm, different, lol. But the Cream Soda pineapple flavour is to die for.
But he's right. Even if he is a typical teenager about it. I tried a twinkie, but didn't finish it. I liked the idea of it, though - just not the artificial, yet bland, taste.
Why did you not give them butter fingers?! I'm a brit that grew up in the forces & snacs from the USA are part of my 'good' childhood memories...along with German foods.
josh and ollie = jolly have 2 channels this one and korean englishmen , i am subscribed to them both they did a lot of vlogs with the boys trying korean foods ...the best cutest EVER you tube vlog is when ollies daughter was born and they introduced the viewers to her at about 1 week old
I love A&W root beer is the boom we get it delivered regularly
Parcels from my Aunt in US sent parcels of sweets to us in UK in the 50's ,they all tasted like toothpaste to us children.
Same in Germany. Root beer tastes like medicine. You can buy it over here but I don‘t know anybody who drinks it.
There's definitely a bug trend at the moment towards American snacks and entire shops dedicated to them.
The local 24 hour store around the corner from me has recently been refurbished and they now have an entire unit about 5x 10ft dedicated to US imported snacks, crisps, drinks etc etc.
Not UK made versions of US drinks, but US products imported direct from USA.
You can tell if they've been made here on licence or imported because the imported stuff has ingredients stickers on the back to comply with our food standards laws - and most stuff
has warnings about them causing hyperactivity in children - and GMOs.
I was shocked at how much stuff has GMOs in, until I realised it is because of the corn syrup used in everything in the US - we don't use it here.
Thing is with snacks is they are varied for a reason. Everyone's tastes are different, so its difficult to combine all snacks into "American" or "British". The only way you could do that really is by comparing like for like, such as Cadbury's Dairy Milk to Hershey's. For example, there is a great British snack called Twiglets but not everyone in Britain likes them. They're basically Marmite flavoured, so they're obviously made for those of us who love Marmite. If your taste is more for sweet things and less for salty/savoury you are just never going to like them. The reason I thin British snacks are so good is not so much because I love eating all of them, but because they are so varied. America has like 4 flavours of "Potato Chip" - cheesy, Jalapeño, salted, BBQ. That's more or less it. The UK has Roast Chicken, Prawn Cocktail, Salt n Vinegar, Beef, Honey Roasted Ham, Cheese & Onion, Sour Cream & Chive, Pickled Onion ... so many more, as well as those standard American flavours. The only "snack" flavour I think America really caters for better than the UK is the spicy stuff. We do have spicy snacks, but not on the same level as Americans, which is kind of weird because whilst Americans love spicy food because of the Mexican connection, Brits do love spicy food because of our India connections.
A very good stereo type of american reaction "Wow oh my god" funny lol