Italian vs. American MCDONALD's

hi i'm harper we are on the road headed to a very special destination or at least an unusual destination for us you see we've been here in italy for about what a month and a half uh yes more or less we're about to head back to the u.s but we're using the opportunity of our trip to test a rumor we've heard you see italy doesn't have a whole lot of fast food at least compared to the u.s but there are a few exceptions namely mcdonald's you can certainly find mcdonald's here especially in the big cities but we've heard that italian mcdonald's and american mcdonald's are very very different do you think that's true i never went to an american mcdonald's so my only experience about this kind of food is italian mcdonald's do i like it let's say that is not my favorite food but there is one or two things that maybe we have and they are pretty edible well i've never been to an italian mcdonald's i've only been to american mcdonald's so since we're about to leave for the u.s we're gonna stop at an italian mcdonald's then make our way to the u.s and as soon as we land go to an american mcdonald's so that we can try them side by side in as short a time span as possible and get to the bottom of what is the difference between italian and american mcdonald's [Music] so they have big macs so we have a big mac variation the special selection with bbq chicken pepper and also ciag bacon and here we have also oliver lascala fried olives see okay now i'm torn between wanting to try like classic mcdonald's stuff and also like new mcdonald's stuff i've never seen before i definitely want a big mac what's a grand big mac is it like a royale with cheese okay i'll just do a normal big mac what is this my selection bbq my selection asiago d orp and bacon because we are in italy so we use also italian product and my selection chicken pepper do you have chicken pepper i don't think so okay i feel like we should try at least like sort of one specialty burger let's do the asiago dop okay i just need to see what this is okay chicken nuggets that looks pretty normal they have like poutine is that what i think it is no this is with bacon on top you're right they have fried olives and also they have parmigiana you can just order a hunk of parmigiano mccrunchy bread wow bread with nutella what was this what is a mctoast this is my choice every time that i'm in a mcdonald's so you're gonna get a mick toast yes that's your favorite thing at mcdonald's yes okay well we gotta try one okay i feel like the other thing that i need to try are the chicken nuggets to see if those are different at all because that's like a classic you know mcdonald's menu option which sauce do you want um i'm always a fan of barbecue pancakes pancakes i don't know if we have pancakes okay so do you think we're good yes [Applause] okay we just ordered we're waiting for our italian mcdonald's there is a good thing about mcdonald's that we can't ignore and the good thing is that no matter where you are in the world you can be us you can be in italy you can be in china you can be in africa you can be in australia you know what you are expecting you can expect because i bet that a big mac is the same here and there in the other side of the world it's always a big mac i would have believed you three minutes ago until i just walked into a mcdonald's where you can order just a piece of parmigiano-reggiano so all bets are off i'm not convinced that mcdonald's is the same everywhere we'll see we have our tray now i feel like we should start with this specialty burger here just because it's completely exposed and it will get cold the fastest and i want to point out that is a selection by joe basia i didn't notice that so joe basia needs to select them so you're in my restaurant what would you pay for that 15 15. since this is my first italian mcdonald's do you mind if i take the first bite absolutely not it's like your pleasure okay bon appetito okay i'm gonna withhold detailed thoughts so that i don't color your perception of american mcdonald's when we have it so i won't say everything until the end but this gives me a pretty big clue as to what direction we're going in here you want to try bon appetit do you taste the asiago the italian asiago no neither do i i don't taste it in fact i don't really taste any cheese i will say i could keep eating it i seem to prefer panini should we try some one of my favorites as a kid some chicken nuggets mcnuggets did you ever like eat these sometimes maybe in the past when i was i don't know like 10 years old 12 years old maybe yes this will be very telling because chicken mcnuggets have like a really distinct taste it's one of those mcdonald's items that like it doesn't taste like normal fried chicken it has just its own taste its own smell you want some barbecue sauce no okay it tastes like fish it tastes like fish there's like whiskey instead of chicken i agree that it doesn't really taste like chicken but i don't know if it tastes any more like fish than it does chicken once again i know exactly where we're going with this i'm not gonna say anything though until until you have a chance to try the american one now here's the one i'm most curious about this is apparently your favorite mcdonald's item and it's something we do not have in the u.s it's the mctoast this is the only edible things at mcdonald's so i know how it tastes because it's the only thing that usually i buy when i go to a mcdonald's as you can see it's a very simple toast well well no because what you call a toast in italy we would not call it toast it's what we would call like a grilled cheese or a melt or something it's the saddest looking thing it looks like two dry pancakes with some like craft singles melted inside it looks very very sad potato oh there's ham inside so it's like a ham and cheese melt oh that's actually really good you know appearances can be deceiving the cheese actually tastes good these weird dry pancakes are actually pretty good i understand why that's your go-to finally we have the king of all mcdonald's products the big mac this will be the most telling of all because i mean this is like this is the standard mcdonald's order right this should be the same or else it's not really mcdonald's i don't really know harper because i never had a big mac in my life you've never had a big mac no i'm not a fan of mcdonald's okay well then you get to take the first bite i will say it's a hearty looking big mac it's not like a big mac i'm not going to say anything it smells very very bad anyways what do you think see i don't know if this space is because of just big mac in general or if it's because italian big macs suck i don't know i'm about to find out okay okay i don't know if he keeps he's keeping eating because he loves junk food no i'm trying to be sure of something there are some interesting things happening there that i need to be sure of excuse me one moment okay starting to form some important conclusions in my mind but to be absolutely sure we need to go to america we had our lunch here in italy [Music] okay so we just got to the airport and i also just realized that i made a huge mistake i completely forgot to get french fries at italian mcdonald's see i thought i had i misunderstood the italian menu i thought i had ordered like a meal with one of the burgers that came with fries but i didn't and by the time the food arrived i just completely forgotten about it i'm hoping though that there might be a mcdonald's in the airport so i get a second chance i don't know [Music] alright [Music] so [Music] got all the bags i have all the bags for you took forever yeah ironically uh it took me the u.s citizen much longer to go through customs than it did ava by the way you guys might be wondering uh why we have so much luggage uh we're bringing back some stuff from italy uh it's mostly cheese the u.s customs guys they know us by name at this point if you guys want to find out exactly what we brought back uh hit the subscribe button because that'll probably be our next video all right you ready to find a mickey d's yes [Music] ava the mcrib is back the mcrib is back i will take uh one mcrib just a sandwich uh i will take uh one big mac a uh small order of uh chicken nuggets uh do you by any chance carry a mctoast okay uh that'll be it for us thank you mcrib is back it's a magical day it's a magical day i'm actually very excited for this mcdonald's meal because okay like when you start a voyage a trip with mcdonald's it's not very good it's greasy you just feel kind of gross but ending a trip with mcdonald's that's another story see because i already had the italian mcdonald's and i've had american mcdonald's many times i know what's about to happen i know what secrets will be revealed you don't yet which is fun for me some chicken mcnuggets that i didn't like in italy do they smell any different to you no they smell the same bon appetito they taste exactly the same a hundred percent the same all right next we're going to try our burger the big mac so you don't have the bassinet selection no they didn't have any like uh uh specialty burgers on the menu right now which is a little odd normally they have something but don't worry the mcrib is back there she is an american big mac this is gonna blow your mind you think you've had a big mac before you don't know what's coming ava that's a big boy can you handle it i don't know i don't think so does it look any different no it looks the same exactly the same bon appetito one at the tip though before you say anything let me take a bite to confirm my suspicions is the same 100 the same it's exactly the same exactly no difference whatsoever i don't know i don't know where this rumor came from that mcdonald's is so different country to country i don't get it i'm not seeing it at all however what is different are some of the menu offerings for instance american mcdonald's doesn't have a mctoast we don't have fried olives and italy doesn't have a mcrib this is a very magical sandwich that they only put back on their menu every now and then and it's like this rib cutlet uh with like barbecue sauce and it's super great and you might you might like it it tastes like a big mac what's the difference number one it's pork i think i assume ah you think you assume you should be powered because it's ribs it's got barbecue sauce the pickles the onions it's totally different than a big mac in between this and the big mac i like more the big mac even if i don't like the big mac which means that this is more for me well mcribs and mctose aside i think we've established that italian mcdonald's is the same as american mcdonald's for better or for worse and i think maybe i finally found the first food where you can't say italians do it better appear wait a moment because i have an idea before ava proceeds with a very interesting experiment a quick word from today's video sponsor we love our mise and chef 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percent off your first order a big thank you to mizin for sponsoring today's video good [Music] [Applause] [Music] do introducing the micknochi bolognese out of all the many very silly things we've done here on pasta grammar this might be the silliest absolutely i agree but they don't look bad they don't look bad no it looks like gnocchi with a hearty bolognese sauce they is mad like mcdonald's he keep smelling like mcdonald's let's see if it tastes like mcdonald's bon appetito well it still tastes like mcdonald's they have to make monkey but it's the best mcdonald's i've ever had honestly the bolognese it tastes like big mac and now it's possible but it tastes like big bag yeah it has that unmistakable mcdonald's flavor but if this were on the mcdonald's menu and i went to a mcdonald's i would order this maybe we find the new way for at least italian mcdonald's yeah mcdonald's italia if you're watching and if for any reason you you know maybe joe bastianich isn't available for your next uh select menu apostagramer's available we can help create some new menu items guys we hope you enjoyed this video we'd love to hear from people uh in other countries what your mcdonald's is like if you have any interesting menu options if you'd like how to learn how to make real gnocchi uh check out the link below to our complete guide to homemade pasta able will teach you there how to make the real thing give this video a thumbs up hit the subscribe button if you haven't already and we'll see you next time

Channel: Pasta Grammar

Views: 147,125

Keywords: mcdonalds, mcdonald, big mac, mcrib, italian, american, foreign, country, french fries, burger, cheeseburger, gnocchi, mcgnocchi, bolognese, mctoast, fried olives, eva, harper, italian snack, eating every single italian snack, pewdiepie

Id: i6O2TrBxTlo

Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 14 2021