And do Americans even know what 'good' cheese should taste like? (And NOT those 'plastic' squares that get thrown on burgers or hot dogs in the US)... Just saying! lol 😎

like yoga mat material in bread ...

@@stewedfishproductions7959 no one in the US ,but cheese on hotdogs and We do have imported cheeses in the US, all travelers got to the wrong section to look for cheese, Hint, it is not in the fridge section here, where all visits see it, it is at the stores Deli, and it is sliced to order, I never buy it in grocer store myself, as I live 4 miles from the Crowley Cheese factory and I get all my cheese there.

​@@marydavis5234 did you know cheddar is a British cheese? And proper cheddar is a creamy white colour not orange, the British orange cheddar is called coloured cheddar, but the normal one is more popular.

Whilst their McDonald's fries do have a longer ingredients list (it isn't close to 27 ingredients long though, and the US list is inflated because they use several types of vegetable oil, but in the US they list each type of vegetable oil individually, rather than in the UK where they just put "Vegetable oil" so they can claim three ingredients)... They also taste so much better than our McDonald's fries. Anybody old enough to remember what McDonald's fries in the UK tasted like in the 1970s and/or 80s, back when McDonald's used to fry in a beef tallow, will understand what I'm talking about. And that is the primary difference in the ingredients, to create that beef flavour that you don't get from plain vegetable oil. Personally, given the choice, I'd like to see them go back to frying in beef tallow, but that just will not happen in the UK. Frankly, the US fries don't have anything in them that should scare you... That isn't true of all food in the US, or the UK. I'm just fed up of people spreading food fears by spreading the endless lies that still circulate on the Internet about McDonald's fries in the US.

Italy is high in carbs,why do woman suddenly balloon in size.

​@@michaelayling8855 I don't think so honestly, I'm from Italy and very few women are balloon/like cause of carbs, instead is a biological thing, please check it out with more attention the next time you'll visit Italy, you'll probably change your idea about it...

That’s not true. We live on mostly local fresh food. We grow our own vegetables and fruit. Buy local meat etc.

True its just compairing fatland n1 and 2..

I'm a Portuguese living in Spain and though you are right, I don't think Spain is even healthy since everything is fried xp

i dont think brittens weight problem its their mc donalds or other fastfood chainsi think its the overall britisch traditional foods indian butter chicken english breakfeast they eat like its an ice age

@@YukiTheOkami You should visit and learn the language.

Yes, well, the typical British breakfast is basically flavored fat. I'll never understand how people can stuff beans and sausages away in the morning.

@@jbird4478 no worse than fried chicken covered in sugar I suppose

@@101steel4 lol...ya...or do it the american way...grew those chickens on a high fat and antibiotics dietput the cadavers in a vacume chamber and inject a bunch of chemicals so thay look lovly an juicy...roll them in sugar and fry...

White flour (high in rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, low in fibers) and cheese (high in saturated fat) isn't exactly healthy though. That little bit of tomato and a leaf of basil won't save the day. It sure won't kill you (as opposed to the Pappa Joes), but you should consider throwing in a pizza quattro stagioni every once in a while to get some vitamins ;-)

@@berndbrotify hate to break this to you, but cheese is hardly the main ingredient of a decent Italian pizza (hey, many of us don't even eat cheese on pizza, but prefer it in its tomatesque glory as a marinara). I'm sorry for whatever surrogate you were made to eat.

@@berndbrotify 😂😂😂 We don't feed uniquely on pizza, you know

@@berndbrotify carbs are essential to a healthy diet and it’s not like a pizza is made only of carbs and fat. It’s made of around 750-800 kcal with plenty of other possibilities of integrating the rest of nutrients via the rest of the daily calories intake.

@@setsukasakurazuka414 I'm pretty sure the Pizza I had in Naples and Rome last year was pretty decent, even though my host in Naples told me that Pizza Romana is cazzo ;-) As I said, eating a pizza once in a while (as opposed to the stuff they showed in the video) won't kill you. But that doesn't make it exactly healthy either.

100% agree. I’m from the Netherlands and after hearing about the craze years ago, I ordered a Frappuccino and the only thing I’ve ordered since is a plain black coffee. I don’t even like sugar in my coffee, so I don’t know what I was thinking. People complain about red bulls being unhealthy, but in comparison to Starbucks it’s basically a salad. People over here generally drink water or tea during the day, with maybe a soft drink with lunch or whatever. I can imagine getting obese if four drinks put you at the recommended intake per day.

I went to Starbucks once, didn't finish my coffee and never went back.....

@@AnagramGinger I'm Dutch too and love my coffee strong and black without anything in it. Usually all places you can get coffee here the coffee isn't strong enough to my taste anyway I always prefer my own homemade coffee.

Starbucks capuccino is actualy just sugar and cream.... I don t like it. I love coffee but black...

you can have my espresso, I want a small cold mocha please 😁😁 (I LOOOOVE Starbucks)

I just looked it up. A normal italian pizza starts at around 800 calories. That explains a lot. It even explains why it tastes better in my opinion. The easiest way to ruin a pizza is by putting too much stuff on it, yet everybody does it..

Yeah but you can't compare real Italian pizza to the garbage at these fast food places.

You should know by now that the only thing the US american pizza shares with the real italian pizza is the name. 😄

@@Mindcrawler23 It's not just the amount of stuff on it. It's also the quality of the stuff that's on it. These fast food type pizza are just packed with highly processed junk.

A world without pizza would not be worth living. Great and everlasting thanks to the great Italy! 🍕❤

So true. UK is known for a rather high obesity rate. Imagine they would compare the USA to the one in EU with the lowest rate (don't know which of the countries would be that but there must be a statistic out there) ;-) (Edited typo)

​@@nothingTVatYT lowest obesity rates in Europe; Italy with 10,7%, Romania 10,8% and Bulgaria 11,9% (compared to UK with 25,9%)

Yes, everything that is bad with American food is imported from the UK from the start. It's just that Americans have managed to make in even more unhealthier.

true, I can't imagine sharing a pizza :D

I cut them in 4 but more for the convenience of eating it.

It's not a problem. Italian pizza is just as big, but American pizza has a much thicker crust, except for the tons of "cheese" (or what they think it is). I wouldn't be able to make half of one.

In Europe, we all eat a whole one person pizza. In the US, the one person pizza is enough for two adults used to European food portions. A friend of mine went on vacation in Florida with three of his friends. They were super hungry one day, and ordered a big pig pizz. They couldn't believe the size of the thing! The medium size pizza would have been more than enough for those four extremely hungry and food loving young men.

@@mordador2702 I cut them in 8 pieces, partly beause it is easy cut the 4rd into 8ths. but also it's a very easier way to eat. Änd you get more pieces in your ref for the second däy (we Europeans, and Finland is also a European country, we are in NATO now, for fuck's sake, don't like to eat the whole pizza at once). We save some of it to "Dagen efter or kankkuseen or in American (English) Hangover".

I saw a video these days from a German vlogger living in San Diego. He said, one of the things he misses is walking to and visiting a random restaurant with friends, because the food quality in some restaurants in the USA isn't that good. So the people prefer visiting big fast food chains, because the food quality is better there. Getting too many calories is a side effect of this. Additionally many fast food restaurants are not in walkable distance, so they have to use the car. The vlogger himself cooks a lot for himself at home. 🖐👴

@@OpaSpielt so sad

Yes. As a non American I very rarely eat out. I prefer to cook.

They don't know how to use a Stove, the first question they ask on, House Hunters, And house Hunters International. Where is the Closest reataurant.. The Toyota Camry Sold in America, is Sold With Fat Seats, compared to the rest of the world..

@@graemejohnson9025 true, my cousin lives on one of those gated communities in florida. They run a cafe and also deliver food to the residents. Many go in every day, if not get it delivered. He did say their ovens look brand new 🤣

There is sugar in everything even meat meals. Thats's the reason I cook for myself I want to know what's inside.

I think the amount of trans fats / saturated fats are a big part of the problem though, together with sugar, corn starch/syrup and too many additives.

@@aichohvee no, fat saturates. keto couldn't work without a big part of calory intake via fat and you lose weight with keto. fat is necessary to solve crucial vitamins which you couldn't absorb otherwise. sugar is completely unnecessary and just a treat .. untill taken in too high amounts (pretty much everyone eats too much of it) then it becomes a serious problem for the body

If it was sugar it was a lesser problem, but it is corn sirup

@@kasper2970 yes it's worse (fructose) because it's metabolized in the liver (leading to fatty liver disease 1:1 as if you're a strong alcoholic) but it's still sugar and that alone is already enough of a problem. i.e. i ate 95% of the days in the last 26 months low carb .. and lost 22 kilo weight .. started to eat carbs on the regular again 2 months ago and gained 6 kilo

100 gr. of pasta al pomodoro are just 380 calories.

Almost all Italian food has less calories than that milk shake... Probably even our pizza. Maybe kerosene too...

hey a half gallon of ice cream and a cream and extra sugar is the taste of freedom! XD

....all that fat and sugar will probably put you in a wheelchair ......now that's freedom , isn't it 😂😂😂😂😂

Yeeaaahhhh... The cups definitely have plastic in them. Don't throw them in the paper trash.

Sorry, I messed up things while being partically asleep while writing (we get the Mehrweg-cup option to go). Thank you for the correction! The newer cups from mc donalds come with descreased plastic compared to the US and only 1 thin lining (mostly "bio-plastic") inside to make recycling a lot easier (mc donalds normally takes the used cups back and turns them into books and things with their internal system to reuse most of them). My brain was stuck on the paper lids ours offer at the moment which can go into the blue bin, brainfart. ^^"

You need to be carefull with paper packages, when it comes to liquids or aromas. The have to have a metal or plastic lining inside, to contain the liquid / aroma. If its organic plastic it might, be better (not sure about that) but the recycling of thes compostit materials is much more difficult than is simple plastic one. Imprints ( colors) are often problematic as well.

While I totally agree on saving on plastic, there are things that were are from plastic for a reason. Ever tried to drink a milkshake through a paper straw? I also still have plastic shopping bags. For the simple reason that they are reusable. And can get wet without disintegrating.

Yep. Coffee maker at home, no milk, no sugar. Though I do use coffee cream sometimes.

Starbucks coffee is just brown water compared to what Europeans drink

@@UltraCasualPenguin I make it Turkish style with sugar at home

@@kmeanxneth For real... 12 years ago, when Starbucks was fresh in Romania, I went with some friends to test it... omg, such a garbage taste. I couldn't drink it, I just threw it away. I used to drink Illy when I lived there. Strong real coffee...

oh yeah, my espresso maker is OP, dont know how I could live without it.. 2 cups in the morning into my to go cup and I am ready..

Even the cappuccino in McCaffees or in any train station tastes significantly better than this stuff. In our case, there are also only young people in there who love sweet stuff.

I also had the worst iced coffee I have ever tasted. It was so full of ice I felt I was drinking coffee flavoured water.

Like this uggly Bubble teas, my daughters where addicted for 2 years, new shops. Shugarwater with chemical Bubbles🤦

I bought one Starbucks drink, it was huge and I couldn't drink all of it, it was so sweet I thought I was going to have a seizure or something.. 👎🏻

It is by definition not even coffee.....

In the US at one point it was revealed that the ground "meat" at Taco Bell had a large percentage of sand as a filler. The "chicken" in one of the Subway chicken sandwiches (the one that was formed to look like a flat chicken breast) contained only about 1/2 real chicken. You really have troubles trusting the contents of USA foods, in general. When available, make sure you check the labels.

"Often times the calories count is not the worst part. Comparing the actual ingredients is where it gets super scary." McDo wouldn't be allowed to sell their US fries in the EU. Skittles are different in the EU and US due to the colouring ingredients. If I'm not mistaken, the US still has 1 colour that European simply do not have. American bread must be labelled as cake in the EU due to the amount of sugar. While not a perfect institution by any means, I'm happy the EU exists.

In the US cities are made to be car convenient (don't know a better word) while where I live for example (Netherlands) cities are made to deter car driving (meaning you get somewhere quicker with a bicycle than a car) and you end up with more people walking, less traffic and alot of people on bikes. And also public transport is alot quicker because there are less cars on the roads in cities and ofcourse you have the metros and trams.

We also tend to eat fast food less often in europe.

HARIBO. Fat free pork gelatin snacks since 1920!

There are also gelantin from fishs and beefs. But mostly from pork here in Germany.

If you live in Japan, why the fuck do you go to a McDonald ?

After two days in the US my body and mind demanded veggies and fruit! Fresh stuff! Not the juice from green oranges with six table spoons of sugar to mask the sour taste. I eat an apple in between, or a pear, they eat candy bars!

A big cup contains two espresso shots, it's just diluted with cream and sugar, but it still has the coffee and the caffeine.

Our food standards are much higher than America with much tighter controls and lots of banned ingredients that are no banned in America

I remember visiting US and using a lot of salt on the bread during hotel breakfast. One day they pulled a joke on us and hid all the salt.

I am English and I’m horrified that you eat it with a knife and fork. I was teaching young Italian students English in the summer holidays in the 70s. I had been eating pizza with a knife and fork, and then felt very embarrassed when I saw them eating it by the slice . I just think of it is as Italian finger food. I’m also appalled to have just found out that chips are often served on top of pizzas in Italy. In Italy. !!! Crime against Italian foid.

I live in Veneto, near Venice, and we all eat pizzas with the hands (especially if at home), there are only a few who uses the knife and the fork only because they don't want to dirt their hands. I agree that in restaurants it may be different but even then, I mostly just saw people eat with their hands.

Try the crunch burger

But that's a proper pizza. Not the rubbish America serves up.

Here in Greece you can get both types. I just can't eat the American style pizza. My stomach can't process that stuff. It's so heavy!!! I easily eat a whole Italian pizza funghi e prosciutto, but with the American style "Margherita" I can't even eat half and I'm stuffed. So much fat!!!

aka sugar? or corn syrup in that case.

No that dont exist. You only get fat if eat to much kcal in form of macros (carbs, fat, Protein). And esspecialy Short carbs raise the Insulin level Quick, like sugar/pasta/syrup/etc. But all in all get only fat if eat to much kcal, how matter if it's to much Pizza oder to much fruits like bannana/Avocado/etc

Yesss exactly I love the smokey taste of the BK patties that you don't get in maccas. The UK is like the America of Europe.

Me, i Can. But i'm a 190cm and 120kg man

Look up what a 'Big Gulp' is.

there isnt a italian style, there are italians regions styles and yeah, they are different

@@gabrieledna7609 You’re right, but ‘my’ pizzeria sells either American or Italian, with your own choice of toppings, and there’s no way the Italian crust with some mozzarella ground meat, fresh tomatoes, pine nuts and fresh herbs gets to an intake of calories that could sustain me for two days….

I’m actually watching this sitting in my local bar/pizzeria (al forno) in Calabria Italy and I’m wondering what crap they are putting on your pizzas . Here it’s fresh handmade dough , fresh tomato passata , mozzarella with toppings of your choice . For a pizza margarita is less than $5

@@margreetanceaux3906 nah italian food it's not that fat like the americans, it's a lot healthier and nothing Is ogm

@@steveosborne2297 Ma infatti, tutto quello che toccano loro diventa uno schifo dio buono.

In Poland 1173 calories vs 1400 calories in UK. I think the UK have the biggest portions in Europe.

Yeah, we have it once or twice a month.

@@ivylasangrienta6093 in Europe once, twice a month.. In the Usa 5 times a week!

@@M.C.K.111 7

I live in Greece and my kids don't like MC Donalds. They'll eat it if they have to, but if they get to choose their take away fast food they will go for souvlaki or a burger from a small local burger place.

Haha reminds me of me when I was a kid and shopping with my mom. Usually she'd go to McDonalds after with my brothers but I always asked if we could just go home and make some burgers there or go to a snackbar which is cheaper, tastier and more healthy and fresh. My oldest brother also hated McDonalds and called it plastic garbage.

The real expense is what it does to bodies. Low income people have to depend on the highly processed foods for their diets, since they are the only things they can afford. That, in turn, shortens their life expectancy due to poor health and limited access to affordable medical care. A vicious cycle, all to support corporate America.

Let's be real processed food is often easier to get and also often cheaper then their healthier counterparts. You can see it too the poor and lower middle class is more overweight then those having lots of money. It's a vicious cycle too because the more overweight you become the less energy and motivation you have to spent time and energy to look for healthy food that you can afford. Another big factor imho is that if you start to get overweight that usually makes people a bit sad making them more depressed, depressed people start to eat more. Sugar and fat foods enhances your mood. Making you more fat and sad. Luring you to eat more to look for comfort... You get the picture. It's not easy to break out of that cycle and certainly easier said then done.

​@@randar1969 I dont understand where the notion comes from that unhealthy food Was cheap??? As a Single Student living in Germany, the only food I can afford are selfmade meals, cooked from fresh or canned vegetables with Rice, bread, potatoes or Pasta, sometimes with cheese, sometimes with tuna, often with eggs. I pay 1,60€ on average per meal. That's cheaper than a frozen Pizza and has more calories. Also, I can save on energy and money by not even buying a freezer in the first place.

In the US, eating fast food is often cheaper than cooking a healthy meal at home, hence why so many people eat fast food. I lived there for over 11 years. 20 years ago, I would pay $4 for 3 large organic tomatoes, as an example (Florida). I made my own bread every day from the beginning, and went to an organic bulk store for most things. There are many who could not afford it. Also, many people are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet and they just do not have the time. They have 'food deserts' over there in some places, where there are ZERO supermarkets, only fast food places.

I had the reverse reaction. Never seen so many fat women as I did in Italy. I think it's more of a gene thing. They get to about 30 and balloon up.

@@101steel4 in Italy?!

It's not only Australia, every country that has a strong coffee culture laughs at Starbucks.

I'm from the Netherlands and am always suprised by how many people go to the McDonalds here. We have tons of snackbars that are alot cheaper and much better in terms of quality and taste but somehow alot of people still go to McDonalds. My favourite snackbar here even make their own snacks themselves and have their own butcher.

@@erwinj9697 We have quite a few small stands in Stockholm that serve great street food. Anything from hot dogs, burgers and my favorite, the "tunnbrödrulle".

@@Steffe Cool we somehow don't have alot of hotdogs we have alot of local snacks though so maybe that is why and ofcourse fish. I love a nice raw herring once in a while, fried fish or smoked eel, really nice on some rye bread too but you can't buy it like that on the street I don't think. And ofcourse we have alot of Turkish kebab shops but I think that is a common thing in Europe.

@@erwinj9697 Flat bread with mashed potatoes and herring is also popular here. The most famous place for that can be found in the old town in Stockholm.

@@Steffe I love fish, I should visit Sweden one day. Always has been one of the countries I want to travel to.

I couldnt agree more! One pizza for a whole family? Like, what the f.... :D