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.

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!

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. 😀

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 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 Bought some a few years ago and I was so disappointed 😅 They taste like an out of date sponge cake 😂😂 Nah not for me, I kinda like Reece’s, But wouldn’t be my 1st choice of chocolate 🍫😀

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 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!

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.

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.

As a Brit even I was getting pissed off at the mop head pizza boy, he was coming across as such an elitist snob 🤣

I lived in Canada. The guy nailed it when he said the sweets there taste like medicine.

"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. 😁

Different tastes and stuff. My American friends love a sugary cereal for breakfast, but just the idea of it makes me feel queasy. On the other hand, my American friend said that food in the UK tastes bland, because he's used to very sugary food. It's just what we grew up tasting. Although one or two kids in the video just seemed to want to look edgy in front of KZfaq and their classmates.

One of your best videos yet! But hats off to you Joel, you squirmed but you took it on the chin mate!

All the way through this video, I was like "Calm down, Joel. Calm down." 😂

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

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 dont want any disrespect to American snacks" Every American that reacts to British snacks "Eww it tastes weird"

Oh my god you're reacting to Korean Englishman/Jolly! I did not expect this. One of my favourite channels.

Root beer tastes like germolene, which is probably why they got the thought of medicine when they drank it.

Hey Joel, Jolly is a great channel. You should react to them trying American cereals :)

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 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.

There are hundreds of vids with Americans eating British snacks on KZfaq, but these school guys were so spot on 💕💕💕

That long haired kid is hilarious, he should be a comedian 😂😂😂 I love your reactions to some of their comments too, great video!

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.

JOLLY... Best channel there is :D edit: they also did the fire noodle challenge with those Boys it's funny ;)

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.

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.

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

That was entertaining and funny. Great fun watching their reactions and yours too Joel.

some of those guys have made my early 1990s "curtains" hairstyle back in style. Interesting.

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 🤮

I can honestly say you do the best reaction videos on KZfaq. You are funny,, honest, open minded, interested, knowledgeable and very entertaining and confident. I'm really very impressed.

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.

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

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^

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.

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.

Watched you for a little while now mate, enjoy your reactions!

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.

This video should be called "American gets triggered by British teen-agers" 🤣🤣🤣

These kids are so English we are so sarcastic! Don’t get offended we talk like this to everyone all day

He was being sarcastic about the zed in pizza😁

You found a jolly, they are awesome.

This video made me laugh! I love being British!

Joel great vid man I watch most ure content is 👍😉

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,

Getting to watch your videos + you reacting to Jolly (one of my favourite KZfaqrs) You have just made my day! :))

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.

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.

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.

Loved your reaction 😂

The lads were great! Some very honest reactions there! LOL!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

You may had this a lot, but I just want to add, that you have a beautiful smile! Great video!

Great video 😄🇬🇧

Love those guys! I thought they only made videos on Korean food/culture though so definitely gonna check more of them out

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.

some of the ingredients used to flavour root beer are used here in the UK to flavour some medicine and mouthwashes

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.

try a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk now that's smooth.

I would be interested in an American trying Twiglets which are my favourite snack.

Another enjoyable video. You must get a PO Box, you would soon be able to do a reaction video from the snacks etc. people would send you from the UK.

Hostess Twinkies are available in most supermarkets, seen them in Tesco and Asda, nice too

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.

Love the School Boy series - and it's especially funny because I know Malachi

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.

The Z thing is true....look at Lazer. The S in Laser actually stands for Stimulated (for example). lol

The British snack test always includes Twiglets

That one kid was determined not to like anything lol

5:41 Azi with the burn! I completely agree with him there!

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

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.

We need someone British to react to this reaction to a reaction.

Joel, there,s a British candy called "Munchies", a chocolate specifically designed for post-cannabis syndrome!

Your face when they were talking about root beer 🤣😂 they’re right though it’s nasty!!

Oxford Street in central London is lined with sweet/candy shops almost every hundred bloody yards !.Mostly American,and selling most of these products. So Joel,if and when you come to Blighty (nickname for Britain) and to the capitol,head down Oxford Street if you get a pine of home grown candy?

Cadburry! I loved that chocolate when I was in England...

We have very similar snacks to goldfish normally eaten as party food.

i had a root beer out of Macdonald's over 20 years ago took one sip then threw it as far as i could, it was disgusting, there's no excuses about us not being used to the taste its just wrong, (as smell and taste are linked,) it tasted like a medicated cream or drink you get from a pharmacy to treat infection, the lad with the long blond hair i could listen to him Analysing stuff all day long he's has that dry humour touch that's really funny, as for Hershey's words fail me, some one said Hershey's are the owners Cadburys now, so enjoy the chocs while you can folks before it tastes like American chocolate, as there already tinkering with the world famous recipe

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.

that was a funny video. i liked it a lot.

The blond, mini "Oscar Wilde" is destined to be a wonderful eccentric. I hope no one squashes him into a mould.

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!

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.

Why Hershey's Chocolate Tastes Like ... Well, Vomit. The presence of something called butyric acid (which is also in puke) is to blame.

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

I knew when I seen his face in the thumbnail he’d be offended but everything lol 😂

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.

Great vid. I used to like McDonald's root beer, when they sold it here in the 1980s. Tasted like a popular childs cough mixture. Benylin.

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.