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from calorie count to portion sizes we wanted to find out all the differences between mcdonald's in japan and the u.s this is food wars hey guys joe from food wars we're doing a new season we're comparing the u.s to japan in order to do that i want to introduce you to co-host and my man in japan george hello guys i'm george i'm from japan and i like mcdonald's [Music] so in japan our mcdonald's sodas come in three sizes this is small small and this is japan's medium medium and this one is japan's large large in japan our chicken mcnuggets come in 5 and 15 pieces our chicken mcnuggets come in 4 6 10 20 or 40 piece look at all those nuggets oh they've been sitting for a while japan mcdonald's fries come in three sizes small medium and large in the u.s you get your fries in four sizes kids small medium and large this little guy look at this little guy so this is largest fries and i'm gonna weight them we are going to also weigh a large mcdonald's fry wow okay so so far our largest are the same yeah wow that worked perfectly the thing i just did there great job joe go home go now let's measure the medium why not our mediums are smaller interesting so this is a japanese big mug [Music] so this is a japanese big mac this is an american big mac and we're going to weigh it as well now we've got a heftier big mac here in the u.s it's more like it in japan the big mac value set which is a big mix and medium fries and a medium drink comes out to 690 yen or six dollars 21 cents in the u.s that same meal costs 8.54 cents or 948.46 japanese yen that's a 37.52 increase in price in the us what the heck so here is everything you can only get at japan's mcdonald's you can not get in the u.s and this is everything you can get at a u.s mcdonald's that you cannot get in japan so we're gonna start with waffle cons right here so we got plain so plain means it's like rich milk taste and next one is strawberry strawberry personally i like this and next one is chocolate and almond right there it's not melting good job buddy so here we've got mcflows so much fruits means there is soda and on top of that there's ice cream that's it that's it and this is mac fruits melon itadakimasu it's too sweet this is great coffee mug floats and the last one we've got coke mcfloats oh joe you'll definitely try this yes absolutely i'm trying that when i go to japan that looks real good let me think here hang on a second okay we do not have mcfloats here in the u.s so i'm going to make my own on the way over here i was looking for grape soda it's actually harder to find than i thought fanta is not very popular in the united states but we got this this is midnight grape kickstarter mountain dew it's grape [Music] ha ha left over from the ben and jerry shoot stuff is frozen there we go [Music] yeah i'm into this these would do well in the u.s our cold drinks a little bit different uh we have two exclusive slushies that you can't get in japan one is pink lemonade strawberry watermelon yeah dude it looks real good yes they do have mcflurries and ice cream in japan the one mcflurry you can get in the u.s is this one an m m's mcflurry sorry it's since melted but it's like those uh those mini m m's i went to one of the few mcdonald's in the country where the ice cream machine was working hot caramel sundae and the classic fudge sundae so let's go with soft drinks right here found the grape and here is fanta melon and this one is japanese vegetable juice and there is i guess more than 20 or 30 vegetables in it and it's good for health for sure itadakimasu we've got cool white grape so can be so can we just like a japanese blended tea it's healthy and japanese people drink this on a daily basis so next one we've got earl grey iced tea let me show you wait there is something there's a mosquito i have to make a complaint japan mcdonald's next one we've got tea so this is not actually japanese tea it's a chinese tea that's good for health as well for health we do have a mango pineapple smoothie and a banana strawberry smoothie smoothies have fruit in it right oh yeah i can just feel the nutrients coursing through my veins so let's start with this hawaiian menu this is limited this one right here is cheese locomotive oh it's messy it's a damn glass sauce man and it's also got round egg right there beef patty and some cheese i'm hungry actually oh this is good oh this is home to niumai which means really really delicious first next one we've got garlic shrimp and it's also got interesting bun there is sesame on there and um deep fried shrimp hawaiian barbecue potato and beef demi-glass sauce again it's gonna be good this is called barbecue burger right but i don't taste burping cattle alright so next one we've got hawaiian pancake with triple berry sauce two pancakes mmm smells so sweet let's go [Music] too sweet mac face blue hawaii wow it has bright blue color this is mac face cassis and orange i will get this i will get this so congratulations this is the worst okay breakfast time this is a breakfast burrito oh neon yellow egg mexican style salsa not to be confused with what canadian salsa this is actually the same burrito from the us uk thing we shot over a year ago so let's go on to these breakfast sandwiches here japan does have the mcgriddles which are favorite of mine so unfortunately we will not be talking about those today sad face i love you mcgriddles so what they don't have and also the uk did not have were our breakfast biscuit sandwiches i don't know how to describe a biscuit other than it's dry it's baked maybe they're made with cornmeal according to the internet this is not a scone so there you go sausage egg and cheese our egg is like this fluffy folded scrambled egg egg so there's like sunny side up ours are scrambled i can tell this was like folded over you can see like the fold lines there this is how we do in the u.s bacon egg and cheese is there a better breakfast combination in the world i don't think there is then they just have the sausage no egg no cheese just sausage and biscuit we have regular sized hotcakes and we have a hot cake and sausage combo of course it comes with syrup and butter very natural pose very natural feeling right now always up for report yes breakfast is served oatmeal on the side to be mixed in cranberries and raisins and diced oh diced apples here we've got mega muffin pork patties that's huge one mini pancakes oh cute it comes with apple cream sauce [Music] this is perfect for breakfast i will get it bacon egg mac sandwich so it's got bacon and round egg and cheddar cheese that's it and you might be surprised we've got phil fish ta-da so phil fish is on the breakfast menu i guess japanese people tend to eat fish for breakfast three exclusive burgers here in the us are variations on the quarter pounder with cheese yes we've all seen pulp fiction we know about the whole quarter ponder thing does not exist outside of the u.s i don't think so probably why they don't have quarter ponders in japan the classic quarter pounder with cheese look at this guy i mean this was maybe my go-to one for a decade the quarter pounder with cheese deluxe i don't know i feel like this is pretty close to a whopper i'm not a big whopper guy but there you go a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese the double quarter powder with cheese look at the size of this thing yes sir japan's exclusive burgers teriyaki mug burger which is my most favorite one my body is made of bacteria butter [Laughter] so it's got a mayo right there and lettuce pork patties dip it into delicious terry excels and it's covering whole pork patties perfectly joe when you come to japan please try this you will thank me later everything that they have looks so good and sounds so good man when i go to tokyo first stop i'm going to mcdonald's sushi ramen get it out of my face i want the teriyaki burger that's the first thing i'm getting when i get there i'm getting full actually i'm looking for boob slide on george we got a lot of food to cover welcome to food was baby alright so we've got bacon lettuce burger right here it looks sad egg cheeseburger but we also call it eguchi egg is an abbreviation for egg cheeseburger japanese people love abbreviation it's got ketchup and pickle round egg and cheddar cheese and beef patties next one spicy beef burger oh look at this oh it looks so spicy you spicy mayo or something like that so here we've got samurai muk samurai samurai mac yo that sounds awesome and this blue one is called roasted soy sauce double thick beef we've got roasted soy sauce bacon tomato thick beef so if you want a little bit more like healthy veggies go for it uh yeah george i don't know if that makes that much healthier there because it also has twice as much meat and cheese if you're looking to be healthy at a mcdonald's in japan i'd stick with the vegetable juice and this one right here is called carrier key chicken filet o wow so much sauce so next one we've got eb philio abby means shrimp so it's a shrimp filet o oh yeah it's got oral sauce ora sauce is like a ketchup and mayonnaise so it's got a lot of shrimp in there hmm so good so good in the u.s we have about four uh exclusive chicken sandwiches specifically i didn't see this on the menu but apparently you guys don't have a mcchicken which is just chicken sandwich uh regular bun mayo chicken [Music] yeah we also have check this out spicy mcchicken so pretty much the same with chicken but like they put spicy coating on the breading on the chicken every fast food chain in america right now is having what we're calling the fried chicken sandwich wars popeyes uh burger king of course mcdonald's all of them are at this arms race to have the best chicken sandwich i think cause chick-fil-a's edged everyone out these are the three that are currently available i don't know for how long there's a crispy chicken sandwich things as a brioche bun uh pickles and no sauce which i think is strange like the whole flavor is just just the chicken spicy chicken sandwich same deal but of course spicy sauce and the spicy chicken deluxe which to george's point has more vegetables on it you know to be healthier okay so when it comes to side menus we've got shaka shaka chicken and we have two flavors oh two flavors can you hear that sunder thunder thunder because it's raining season in japan the sunny season here in southern california and here is red pepper and this one is cheddar cheese [Music] founder stop so all you have to do is just put the powder into the back and shake it and the powder should be covering the whole shotgun chicken big one like this this i've seen before this i want that's the thing i want the most of the japanese mcdonald's us mcdonald's we have the bags we have the chicken just get the spice packets throw one in we've got side salad and it comes with this roasted sesame dressing let's go oh was cool now put it all in the garbage we've got edamame and corn yogurt and there is cow cow exclusive sauces it's sauce talk time sauce talk we have sweet and sour sauce they gave me hot mustard this would be honey mustard you guys have hot mustard i know you don't have honey mustard of course ranch uh ooh spicy buffalo now these might be promotions because of that uh singing group bts but we have right now a cajun sauce and a sweet chili sauce this sauce is fantastic this is the sauce this has to stay in the morning so these two are new ones this one right here is soy sauce based sauce man this is fantastic good job very good taste so this one right here is called louisiana jostos oh it does look like very spicy one [Music] this is not spicy at all actually we were supposed to have buy burger options but unfortunately you can only get them from 5 30 p.m but let me explain what by burger is bai simply means double in japanese so if you order a normal big mug it has two big patties right but if you order buy big mug it has four beef patties but not only big mac but all burgers and adopts the buy burger options that's funny you can only get double the meat after 5 30. that's really funny that would not stand in this country at all people would lose their minds four i once big mac so after shooting this video i'm gonna order buy big mug and then buy by health you ain't gotta tell me george bye health all right here are all the ingredients for u.s big mac oh god the bun it has enriched flour which is wheat flour vinegar and contains wheat onto the beef patty 100 pure usda inspected beef no fillers no extenders prepared on the grill with seasoning salt and black pepper there you go there you go shredded lettuce ingredients lettuce nice the big mac sauce ingredients soybean oil [Laughter] extractives of paprika soy lecithin the pickle slice ingredients cucumbers water distilled vinegar salt calcium chloride alum potassium sorbates preservative natural flavors polysorbidae extractives of turmeric for color onion ingredients onions there you go a few things i want to note alum is used to dissolve steel holly's orbit 80 has been linked to colon cancer and mice cue the dancing mice and caramel color is on california's list of chemicals that may cause cancer and reproductive toxicity good good counterpoint they all taste fantastic so mcdonald's japan doesn't disclose their ingredients in the big mug however they do tell us where the ingredients come from if you order a big mug in japan you'll eat beef from australia or new zealand buns made from wheat imported from the usa canada and australia and pickles made from cucumbers grown in turkey sri lanka or india onions grown in the usa or india sliced cheddar cheese made in new zealand australia the usa or japan and lettuce grown in japan taiwan the usa or malaysia the only ingredients that come from japan are the cheese and the lettuce and even then mcdonald's still imports some lettuce and cheese from other countries so this is a very international burger thank you world so in japan our big mac is 525 calories and 28.3 grams of fat and 1007 milligrams of sodium and 41.8 grams of carbs and 26 grams of protein in the us our big mac is 550 calories 30 grams of fat 1010 milligrams of sodium 45 grams of carbs and 25 grams of protein so the u.s has a slight increase on everything except protein so in japan our five piece nuggets is 270 calories and 17.2 grams of fat and 506 milligrams of sodium and 13.1 grams of carbs and 15.8 grams of protein broken down each nugget is 54 calories we don't have a five piece here in the us but we do have this a 10 piece let's get those stats on the screen go ahead and divide everything by two and yes now we have the stats for a five piece pretty smart eh if we want to divide all that by i think five you'll get the stats for one nugget this is so exhausting in japan if you order a big mac meal with large fries and a medium chocolate shake the grand total will be 1405 calories in in the u.s adding medium fries and a medium chocolate shake to a big mac the grand total is 1660 calories and that is a calorie increase of 18.14 if you're wondering why we're using a large fried but a medium chocolate shake turns out that in japan you can't get a large chocolate shake the only salty and medium i'm assuming because i don't want you eating that much ice cream from calorie count to portion sizes we wanted to find out all the differences between cafes in japan and the u.s this is food awards so the fries at the cafes in japan come in three sizes so this is small and next one is back again then we've got a box now let's weigh our largest prize [Laughter] i'm shook as the kids say by that information i want to say though that theirs is like a box that thing is like made to be eaten by more than one person i'm assuming but this clearly this is for a person so in japan we have three drink sizes so we have a small in the us our drinks come in medium and we got a large large so in japan cafe doesn't disclose how much liquid is in each of the sizes why so i will help you kelsey we will measure the cups right now let's go so now let's measure our large and just to make sure it's accurate we didn't clean the measuring cup go home so at the cafes in japan you can order your chicken pieces in one piece two pieces three pieces four pieces and six pieces and eight pieces and 10 pieces and 12 pieces kfc in the u.s our chicken portion sizes start as a two-piece combo by the way come on guys this isn't whatever whatever it's supposed to be then the three piece right in front of me here that's the exact opposite i went extra crispy for this look at the size of these chicken pieces yes yes to these and the four piece this is somewhere in the middle and each combo comes with a biscuit your choice of potato either fries or mashed with gravy and all of them come with a medium drink but we don't stop there we go now to buckets where you can get an eight-piece bucket 12-piece bucket or 16-piece bucket so now we are going to weigh our 8-piece chicken to compare the weights in each country oh yo it's pretty close considering all the variables of size of chicken bone density batter i don't know what i'm talking about but that's surprisingly close so in japan a two piece of original chicken which are breast and wing and small fries and a medium drink cost 800 yen or 7.27 so japan actually kfc is considered a little bit more expensive compared to other fast food chains like mcdonald's so it's a classic fast food in japan that same meal is about 8.99 or in japanese yen 992.27 so that's about a 24 cost increase in the us in japan to make chicken at kfc you must be certified as a chicken specialist and certification takes three months and your knowledge and skills are tested every year alright so let's take chicken specialist test right now right george let's do this number one for the original chicken 100 percent domestic that's kind [Music] head on this one i don't even know what that means all right so just now i've got all of the five answers so let's check the answers gold chicken circulation [Applause] says not kfc material it's a picture of colonel sanders giving me the finger so i'm gonna assume i did not pass it but anyway i've got a goal i'm the champion i am very surprised by that i think i could work for kfc i mean i kind of look like colonel sanders right look at this guy i'm a younger colonel sanders kfc is doing any sort of the adventures of young colonel sanders ad campaign is this a face they can sell chicken yeah haven't you guys ever read the secret i'm putting the energy that i want out into the universe and it comes back to me and it's called manifesting so here is everything you can only find on the menu at the cafes in japan but not in the us and here is everything you can find and the menu in a us kfc you cannot get in japan here we've got cafe biscuits both places have biscuits but their biscuit has a hole in it it looks a lot fluffier right our biscuit on the other hand is just this southern style not exactly a scone but kind of looks like one from a distance dry cornmeal biscuit it comes with honey maple cafe this is good the maple is a little bit sweet for me mac and cheese i can't believe you guys do not have macaroni and cheese love mac and cheese mashed potatoes and gravy you don't have that in japan guys guys demand this from your japanese kfc you want the mashed potatoes and gravy so we also have deep packs it's got kernel crispy um some nuggets and boneless kentucky and some original chicken so this deep pack it comes with this price and also these three dipping sauces and now for the quickest sauce talk ever saute kfc sauce i think the kfc sauce is like a brown mustard mayo yeah that sauce is good so we've got barbecue sauce and mustard and this pink one is called mentaiko mayo mentaiko means is like spicy cod roll and very popular taste in japan this is actually great i'll dip this it tastes fantastic winner so if you want to have a little bigger one you can order deep burial i mean it's double amount of this deep pack so it's gonna be very big so this one right here is called four piece red hot chicken box and it comes with a pie and fry and the medium drink and actually we have other box options like four piece half hot and half original box and it comes with fries as well and six piece half hot and half original box it comes with fries again so in japan we have tori no that means chicken day it's on every 28th of the month and two stands for ni and eight stands for and it becomes niwa and niwa is synonymous with newaturi newa 3 means so that's why it's called chicken day kfc in america has extra crispy chicken this is the best type of chick i mean look at this i don't know what they do to this but the skin is practically falling off is so crispy and so delicious i love extra crispy so much i got this little guy the chicken little look at this guy huh that's a little guy comes with pickles mayo the pot pie that they have here they're not kidding when they say pie in the pot pie how thick this is speaking of big dishes of stuff the famous bowl once upon a time a kfc employee was like i could have put everything into one dish and call it a day and ta-da the famous bowl was born this has to be like three pounds all right so here we've got two special twisters so this one right here is called pepper mayonnaise twister [Music] it looks great nine out of ten kfc thank you thank you for making me happy so next we got ooh teriyaki twister should be great it's kind of gross it's got mayo and kernel crispy some veggies and i hope this is teriyaki sauce it looks gross but it tastes incredible 10 out of 10. congratulations it means delicious look how tiny those twisters are i could eat like three of those easily easily all right so we have nuggets we have three pieces five pieces and they come with only ketchup also the uskfc that you can't get in japan are wings you can get wings at the kfc and units of 6 12 24 or 48. i believe the three wing flavors that i got here are standard buffalo the honey barbecue and if you're a total wuss on sauce what's wrong with you yeah very sketchy you can also get them in a limited time nashville hot sauce now we have special sandwiches this one right here is called japanese style chicken cut sandwich so let's take a look inside it's got mayo and it's got cabbage and chicken cuts right there oh this sauce is like soy sauce-based sauce and it's a little bit sweet and this mayo is also great with the sauce this looks really small but it has huge amount of chicken so if you eat this you're gonna be full and next one we've got chicken fillet wow this is also huge all right so this one right here is called black hot sandwich [Music] look at this it's like pepper mayo i just tasted this paper mayo but it has a little like spiciness oh man it's too strong i wouldn't get it be careful now of course the u.s has a chicken sandwich but our chicken sandwich and their chicken sandwich as you can see is way different you can also get it spicy or classic this is classic all right so this one right here is called chrono crispy is it only in japan i cannot confirm the difference between a kernel crispy and a kfc chicken tender they call their tenders kernel crispies and we call our colonel crispies chicken tenders it's been a while since i ordered this one but it still has crispy bits good job japanese kfc's technology state of the art we currently have a nashville hot chicken and hot tenders i went ahead with the tenders i've just been informed this was a big tick tock thing for a minute something about biting and crunching it i don't know anything about that i can say just by holding this there's no way these are crispy well it's not that spicy that's kind of spicy i do like this a lot i'm gonna stop eating them oh that's catching up with me slow burn slow builds on the heat so here we've got japanese exclusive drinks this one right here is water right but it comes with this assam tea pack it's supposed to be hot but it's cold and next one we've got coffee this one right here is rusted rich coffee it's a little bit better than that normal coffee and here we got all gray iced tea it's not sweet at all and next one is melon soda it has bright green color horrible it's too sweet here is ginger ale nothing special and the last one is nacho refreshing orange fountain drinks there's a few that we can get that you guys cannot over there in japan the first one is a beverage that i have yet to make one human being who enjoys it of course i'm talking about sierra mist maybe grossest soda ever oh it's so bad another drink that you can get at kfc that you can't get at japan and here it is right here mountain is great when i was in college i worked at a pizza place i drink so much mountain dew i threw up and now i'm drinking mountain dew let's see if i can do it again my favorite beverage mountain dew sweet lightning so good so good the drinks are just normal nothing special but chickens are finger licking good dessert to the us kfc you can get this chocolate chip cookie recognize that guy it just looks just like this guy and finally a chocolate chip cake so let's talk about christmas in japan so christmas is one of the biggest events in japan even though about one percent of japanese people are christians we just enjoy christmas as just a fun event and as for kfc for christmas in japan back in 1970s japan kfc launched a hugely successful advertising campaign called kentuckino christmas that's kentucky for christmas and with that strong marketing campaign it became so popular to have kfc for christmas in japan and now about 3.6 million japanese families eat caffeine for christmas and talking about my personal experiences yes when i was young i would eat caffeine for christmas with my family but when you started dating you know christmas makes the transformation from a family event to couples event and i'm looking for the one who can enjoy kfc for christmas with me in japan one drum stick of so in japan one drum stick of original chicken on average has 237 calories chicken's looking a little limp there george in the u.s one stiff drumstick of original recipe is 130 calories but according to kfc's u.s site that's for a 53 gram piece now adjusting for the 87 gram piece like that of japan the calories go up to 210. does that make sense great now take this bad boy and make them extra crispy you got 270 calories so japan have two pieces of original chickens and a small fry and dummy drink is roughly 717 calories a u.s two-piece individual fry and medium drink comes out to be 990 calories so a lot more it's too many calories mmm not enough calories if you ask me but finger licking good i think kfc got to george he keeps dropping that slogan are they paying george i think i think george is getting some money on the side from kfc oh my god if the george turns out to be colonel sanders i will lose my mind so kfc in japan doesn't disclose their ingredients so we emailed their customer support and this is what they told us in the us our original recipe chicken ingredients are first with the fresh chicken it is marinated with salt sodium phosphate and monosodium glutamate onto the breading it's breaded with wheat flour like calcium phosphate maltodextrin triglycerides natural flavor kernels secret original recipe seasoning they also said our fries are made of potatoes obviously and vegetable oil and what the butter is made of rice flour vegetables and dextrose and our fries which contain sea salt monosodium glutamate try calcium phosphate hydrolyzed soy protein potassium chloride potatoes salts good d germs yellow cornmeal sodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate to maintain natural color what's more natural than disodium diohydrin pyrophosphate rolls up the tongue and one thing i have to say is that our fries are imported from both america and belgium and some of the belgium fries are made with potatoes from france so our fries are truly truly french bonjour in the u.s we have four chicken shapes in japan we have five chicken shapes let me explain so we have this one it's called kale kale is like chicken's breath right here i'm going to say chicken's chest [Music] heel is like chicken's chest right there first one is the breast this is the big piece of chicken your dad gets and also we got wing it's a as you know chicken wing this is supposed to be a wing this is laughably small and we got this one it's called rib chickens have ribs so rib is like under the chest right here and we got this one thigh thigh is like chicken's lower back and the next piece is this which i think is the thigh and of course the next piece everyone knows the drum and this is a chicken's leg from calorie count to portion sizes we wanted to find out all the differences between starbucks in japan and the us this is food wars in japan our hot coffee comes in four sizes short short coal tall grande the grande and vendi and of course living mmm [Music] starbucks episode i'm taking a sip of everything in japan our iced coffee comes in four sizes short so we start with vital toll too good and grande grande and benti now when we get to the ice venti size it gets a little bit different so our ice venti ain't 20 it's 24 ounces and then we have a bigger size the trenta which is 30 fluid ounces for your iced coffee aficionados who also hate your bladder this is the one for you so in japan we have this handy coffee traveler it's 12 cups of coffee so you just take this off and set the cup right here itadakimasu i'm disappointed because our coffee traveler box is this it's 96 fluid ounces so this peels off which is nice this is finer than ours i like that one look this is like [Music] we got this boring box look at this ugh it's like a caveman so here is everything you can only find on the menu at starbucks in japan and here is everything you can get at a u.s starbucks you cannot get in japan holy a bit of clarification we know that starbucks will customize drink orders and there's thousands of variations of special secret menu items plus now thanks to tic tac there are endless new drinks so these are things on the official starbucks menu in japan and the us so japan starbucks update their menu very often so by the time this video is released they might not be available sorry this one is called gold peach frappuccino [Music] i really love peach and this is good seven out of ten noise gold pineapple frappuccino pink frozen lemonade and passion tea it's a little bit sour use citrus and tea it's the worst what happened to you one out of ten hojicha classic latte so hojicha is roasted japanese green tea that originated in kyoto 100 years ago this is good fantastic i'll give this nine out of ten chai chocolate frappuccino what too sweet espresso affogato so affogato is the process of pouring espresso shot onto ice cream [Music] again it's too sweet we've got dark mocha chip cream i'm so sorry i spilt most of it the last one we've got mango passion tea and as you can imagine this has strong mango taste i feel like i'm hitting the wall here guys and you know what would help that the us does not have as many exclusives as they do in japan at least not as frequently but at the time of shooting this it is the fall you know that means starbucks usa fans pumpkin spice latte every fall the entire country loses their mind and they go buy pumpkins and they get themselves this which is pretty much a latte that tastes like pumpkin pie as basic as it is it is pretty good starbucks has decided to introduce a new fall beverage to their lineup and that is this the apple crisp macchiato let's check it out [Music] what is this oh man that's terrible what's wrong with you guys you thought this can compete with the pumpkin spice latte not at all does it sound like i'm like losing my mind because i'm like really cute up right now i'm going to do my best to pretend like i'm not unhinged starbucks in the u.s is this moving on flat white what is a flat white this is a flat white frappuccinos strawberry funnel cake frappuccino that is really sweet and a scale of one to ten that gets like ten joes jozio's that's how i'm writing them i cannot imagine any time of the day wanting that but wtmoc what is that eight years chai cream oh god come on the caramel ribbon crunch yeah it's still really bad java chip frappuccino nope last one thank you god double chocolatey chip cream frappuccino [Music] that's not nearly as chocolatey as the other one that's like less chocolate and there's double on the title and we also got limited tea this one is called youth berry so youth berry is citrus white tea featuring mango pineapple and acai wow so should be healthy and next one we have roasted green tea we drink this on a daily basis with breakfast lunch dinner anytime you want it's our go-to drink also in the u.s you can get iced black teas can't get those in japan i don't know why you can get these varieties an iced royal english breakfast tea latte tea sucks so i have very low expectations for this expectations met the next one you have here is an iced london fog tea i don't know what makes it foggy i don't know and you can also get an iced matcha lemonade other ice black teas i cannot get my hands on is the iced guava black tea and iced peach green tea oh i bet that peach one's pretty good cold brews and nitro cold brews you can get yourself a nitro cold brew right here and also a salted caramel cream cold broom vanilla sweet cream cold brew when i say i was taking a sip of everyone i'm taking a sip everyone i'm like caffeine drunk i bet that was good four hours ago you get yourself an iced shaken espresso is that what this is does it sound like i'm like losing my mind [Music] all right the honey almond milk flat white it's so terrible it tastes plasticky so here is starbucks origami starbucks origami is one cup drip coffee system so it's got six origamis and this is what it looks like you unfold it like this so you just put this over a cup and let's add some hot water easy peasy japanese and starbucks coffee is served refreshers refreshers what are refreshes you ask i'm not quite sure they look like juice oh it's like stuff floating in these fruit and stuff kiwi starfish no star fruit that'd be worth their starfish in this these were a good idea good call starbucks ooh mango dragon fruits here we go blended strawberry lemonade very good and this is the strawberry side lemonade refresher not as good iced pineapple matcha i don't want this at all so here is all the food you can only get at starbucks in japan so many here's exclusive food you can get in the u.s you can't get in japan breakfast sandwiches i'm going in turkey bacon sandwich double smoked bacon cheddar and egg i think yes impossible breakfast sandwich sausage egg and cheese classic spinach feta wrap oh yeah this is the bacon gouda sandwich you get yourself an avocado spread these little guys are egg bites bacon and greer egg white roasted red pepper also these that i bet are not any good the kale and portobello mushroom egg bites no thanks now moving on to bagels so what they were able to give me was cinnamon raisin plain bagel you can also get cheese onion and garlic bagels everything bagels and sprouted grain bagels and of course they come with a cream cheese spread so i've got this shrimp avocado salad wrap consider chicken salad so it's a root vegetable chicken salad wrap onion pepper pan and onion we've got caesar chicken focaccia grilled vegetable and soy beans hambagu hambagu is like hamburger beef patty nice combination i didn't expect that so let's go to the next one egg sandwiches pork patty and english muffin egg and ham sandwich [Music] sandwich it's got chicken tomato sauce smells nice and next one big sausage we got the crispy grilled cheese should i even open it it's just grilled cheese right bread and cheese you get it the tomato mozzarella panini turkey pesto sandwich are we gl are we happy i did that ham and swiss panini oh the chicken caprese panini yeah now we're talking yeah that's right got the italian flag in one sandwich right there uh this one is the chicken bacon panini let's open it up you can also get yourself protein boxes there's a bunch of them the one i wanted didn't have any you can also get a chicken and quinoa protein bowl so here we've got baked goods all right so let's start with this one it's a biscuit we've got this waffle which really looks great this cute strawberry cake pump it's just like art red bean paste and butter a red bean is really popular in japan i know it's kind of strange but when you come to japan please try this alright next one we've got this matcha cake which looks very beautiful it makes me wanna post this on instagram lemon cake also looks great the chocolate scone and tea scone are you going to put hari's face on this hello harry and next one we've got baked cheese tart this is so cute look how small it is cake pops yeah their cake pops are big eyes are tiny double chocolate brownie chocolate chip cookie and although they're pretty popular they were out when we went in you can get yourself a marshmallow dream bar croissants croissants almond croissant butter croissant here we go chocolate croissant hammond swiss croissant loaves and cakes banana nut loaf this is the pumpkin loaf cinnamon coffee cake soybean the iced lemon loaf cheese danish blueberry muffin and of course blueberry scone can we get harry's face on that so here we've got packaged foods so this one is avocado cream cheese tortilla chips i will definitely get this with beer no coffee i need a beer let's go to the next one in japanese we say baa mokuhen but this is german right [Music] but i'm curious this matcha it has really strong much flavor i love this wow thank you for coming into my life chocolate and nuts for timber and this one is cheese and fruits protein bar if you take a bite you're gonna be so we've got this yogurt and banana granola this one right here is berry yogurt and berry granola [Music] we got here they got their barbecue chips hippies organic chickpeas popcorn yes organic fruit puree just eat the fruit that grow in the tree i put in plastic first almonds ooh chocolate covered espresso beans biscottis madelines and sweet potato chips that wasn't enough you can also get pre-packaged shortbread cookies dark chocolate grams rip van waffles and justin's dark chocolate peanut butter cups sorry justin they weren't there so here we've got this dessert section it all looks great right let's start with this oreo cookie cake cinnamon bun chocolate donut oreo cookie doughnut with this white chocolate glazed donut it's so sticky we've got this jeremy soup peach tart and this one is lemon tart we've got this banana cake and next one cheesecake all right so last one they've got strawberry tart which looks very great but i don't have sweet tooth so i'm going to give all of these to my friends in japan a venti latte with non-fat milk is 205 calories 0.6 grams of fat 30.2 grams of carbs 20.6 grams of protein 280 milligrams of sodium and 225 milligrams of caffeine in the u.s the same venti cafe latte contains 170 calories 0.4 grams of fat 25 grams of carbs 16 grams of protein 190 milligrams of sodium and 115 milligrams of that sweet sweet caffeine our venti mocha has 541 calories too much arventi mocha has 450 calories ah yes venti milk adult hot chocolate this is a venti caramel frappuccino in japan ours has 487 calories it looks really bad so i'm going to put whipped cream [Music] ah [Music] [Laughter] [Music] itadakimasu [Music] george your whipped creams look a little wimpy there buddy gotta do how we do in the usa check this out boom take that environment in the u.s ours has less calories only 470. i brought reusable straws i don't get it this is so bad what about the cost this venti frappuccino is 627 yen or 5.69 us can you put the price down please in the u.s a camel frappuccino is 5.45 which is around 600 japanese yen it's kind of close but you must consider the us venti is four fluid ounces bigger so let's do that math looks like it's a bit cheaper in the us so here is my favorite frappuccino this is called matcha frappuccino do you have this in the u.s yes george we do in fact have the matcha frappuccino here in the us too i don't recall putting that in the script so i think you pulled a fast one and got us to buy you a frappuccino so enjoy it this is delicious excellent [Music] japan starbucks doesn't disclose their ingredients so we emailed their customer support but as of today they haven't gotten back to us what are you doing in starbucks you know just respond to george so here is what we do know our cappuccino is made of espresso steamed milk and foam milk in the u.s our cappuccino is made up of milk and brewed espresso not a lot of info in this section going on something that's not a lot we don't appreciate being left on red starbucks our caramel frappuccino is made of blended eyes with milk whipped cream real caramel and espresso i taste the way perfume smells you know in the u.s our caramel frappuccino is made up of ice milk carrageenan vanilla syrup coffee obviously and the caramel syrup is made up of sugar water natural flavor citric acid potassium potassium sorbet salt monodiglycerides soy lecithin and sulfates a japanese caramel macchiato contains vanilla syrup milk espresso and original caramel sauce and ours in the u.s contains milk brewed espresso vanilla syrup which is made of sugar water natural flavors potassium sorbet citric acid corn syrup butter cream salt mono diglycerides soy lecithin and sulfates from calorie count to portion sizes we wanted to find out all the differences between pizza hut in japan and the u.s this is food wars in japan a pizza hut pizza comes in three sizes the smallest comes in a my box order and is approximately 15 centimeters [Music] our small can only be made on a gluten-free crust check it out looks like something you would get in your high school cafeteria and it measures 10 inches or 25.4 centimeters our next size up is a medium which is 26 centimeters going to take this little guy this pizza is so good dude and our large pizza is 14 inches or 35.5 centimeters this my box pizza deal includes fries and chicken nuggets for 1080 yen or at a basket cheesecake for 1290 yen or get three my boxes for 3 000 yen and you can get a free style menu item like a 1.5 liters of coca-cola also for those wanting a little alcohol you can get a my box deal with an alcoholic beverage for 1100 yen it's called being tipsy [Music] now we're going to the boxes baby our next size up is a 13 dinner box it is a medium one topping pizza bread sticks and cinnamon sticks this is the best idea if i had to go into an office this would be my briefcase this is what i take to work every day now you're probably thinking ah joe i want more food in a box well pizza hut of course has you covered with the big dinner box um oh it is the big dinner box this is two one topping pizzas with wings or breadsticks that's what i get of course you could also get pasta and breadsticks you can also get k poppas and breadsticks or just a third pizza all for 23.99 to 24.99 man dinner is served you can get chicken on the wall in two pieces four pieces and eight pieces that's really cute japan two wings in the u.s our wing orders start at 6 12 18 and the biggest order you can get 36. well that's that's the hardest wing street you gotta hire a spice expert because this is nothing dude i've had spicier lacroix here is a japan large basic pizza we call our cheese pizza basic and it is 2030 yen or 18.39 us and it has a surface area of 754.77 centimeters so that is about 0.024 or 2.63 yen per square centimeter the u.s large cheese pizza is 13.99 or 1544 japanese yen it has a surface area of 989.9 square centimeters which breaks down to .014 cents per square centimeter or 1.54 japanese yen much cheaper here in the u.s so here are two large basic pizzas this one right here is hand tossed dough and this one right here is a palm pizza here are two large u.s cheese pizzas one of them has the pan crust and one of them has the hand toss crust both are the same size and the same price we want to find out which gives you more pizza for your money let's weigh a slice of each and compare go so winner is ham toss no oh wow that's like that's crazy how good i did just here same price 25 more pizza [Music] look at this here's everything you can get at japanese pizza hat you cannot get in the u.s and here is everything you get at a u.s pizza you can't get in japan japan makes cooking pizzas okay so i got everything on here in half and half and a medium size on hand tossed grass all right so let's start with this one so i got this toku uma bulgogi tokuguma means special delicious so it's special delicious bulgogi and this one is menta potato mayo bacon menta means spicy cold roll and it looks good so next one we've got double shrimp with special lobster sauce and this one is ground barbecue asparagus bacon and this one is potato sausage mayo next one we've got crumbling food pork and next one spicy pulled pork selected cheese and thick cut iberico and this one is super supreme mexican carapeno kara means it's like spicy so spicy jalapeno on there and next one is snappy potato sausage and this one is green and yellow veggie pizza shrimp mayo men daisy and this one is addictive anchovy and black olive first exclusive u.s pizza pizza is this one right here is the meat lovers pizza look at this thing you see that this thing is pepperoni italian sausage ham bacon seasoned pork and beef that's every meat that's every meat in the store i think uh this one right here is the hawaiian chicken pizza this looks like one bite would like send me to my grave this at least has a vegetable on it and the green peppers were a mistake this one right here chicken bacon parmesan chicken bacon tomatoes and a parmesan crust oh yeah dude look at the crust on this they bake the cheese right in the crust i just love that pizza it's like we gotta cover the every surface with cheese god forbid you can take a bite doesn't have cheese in it in japan you can get a pizza with four different topping areas called the four series so let's start with this one it's called gochisso4 gochiso means feast and next one we've got bulgogi festa four so let's move on to the next one we've got numbers 4 lovers what is this for this beef it's gonna be horrible and this one is called kodawari four kodawari means authentic and this one in front of me is gourmet mania 4. what did i do to you pizza hut it's burnt look at this all right next one and the last one is classic or this is classic yes this one right here the backyard barbecue pizza barbecue sauce instead of pizza sauce i think and it comes with a barbecue honey shall i i think i shall oh yeah i think i'm gonna like this don't sleep on the pizza at honey barbecue this is really good i think this is buffalo chicken pizza tangy buffalo sauce exact opposite problem i think the sauce ruins this too strong skip the sauce so this one right here is a japan only pizza so this is a pizza with uh sausage crust with bulgogi teriyaki chicken camembert cheese gouda cheese green chili sauce shrimp squid tuna mayo broccoli corn basil sauce and anchovies too much but let's give it a try look at this it's too much [Music] it's disgusting in the first place i hate anchovies don't put anchovies it's just i picked out that pizza for you george sorry my man gotta do it for the show here is a usa only pizza it is a pizza with toppings and sauces and cheeses you can only get in the u.s and not in japan first got the gluten-free crust remember that that really sad looking crust uh we can have a creamy garlic parmesan barbecue or buffalo sauce as a base i went with the creamy garlic parmesan got meatballs banana peppers and for the crust i pretty sure i want the garlic parmesan [Music] it's not awful when you order food and you're like really hungry so something sounds like it's gonna be really good but then we start eating you're like i think i screwed up this is definitely like descriptive so here we've got japan's exclusive size we've got chicken nuggets and this is four pieces eight pieces 16 pieces and we also have plain flavor and spicy flavor let's try this please this is everything is plain spicy very spicy nuggets and next one we've got honey cheese balls so cheese balls there and we've got honey syrup so next one we've got japanese style pasta chicken so this chicken is marinated in soy sauce and rolled in potato starch instead of wheat flour and deep fried let's talk about u.s exclusive sides can't get these in japan pizza hut also got pasta referred to at one point is pasta hut you can get two of these baked pastas at our pizza huts one is the tosca toscani what would i say fine no tuscany is to us and why they sell this one with t-u-s-c-a-n-i no come on i'm looking it up keep wrong now with pizza hut get a family size to scanning pasta in your face just an absolute abuse of italian culture here is the toscani chicken alfredo pasta and the toscani meaty marinara pasta if i can't put a fine enough point on it i do not want to eat this at all this looks like a tv dinner like this is what you eat in your apartment sitting on a folding chair one light bulb hanging from the ceiling eating this just right out of the oven staring at a wall looking at like cockroaches running up and down your one window has a view of a brick wall the calendar on the walls from three years ago nobody wants this k-pop what are k-pop as you ask i don't know they got jalapenos and stuff in them so they're kind of like spicy tater tots these to me are like quintessential pizza hut sides we got breadsticks and we got cheese sticks they both come with the marinara sauce we also have a marinara sauce you guys can have sauce talk so here is extra sauces so if you want you can get green chili sauce or honey syrup so the wing street wings you can get a pizza hut also come in exclusive flavors you can't get in japan here all the sauces spicy garlic is really good joe's sauce seal of approval teriyaki this seems like a no-brainer but we're not going to leave it to chance no oh that's not correct this is terrible it doesn't pass garlic parmesan oh look there's like parmesan like on top of it oh yeah that might be the best one lemon pepper dry rub why do i have to apply it yeah not into that man i don't get it i know what drake's going on about man lemon pepper's not very good crucify me internet i don't like lemon pepper dry rub wings should i i think maybe i should be rubbing it that's what i'm doing wrong is that too much whoops yep you're right too much that's good also sauces real quick we got blue cheese we got ranch so here is japan's exclusive desserts here we've got basque cheesecake we've got lady burton vanilla ice cream and last one we've got lady burton chocolate ice cream desserts we got him in the u.s you can get yourself this a set of six cinnabon cinnamon rolls this is the triple chocolate brownie i'm starting to lose it guys all that pizza it just hit me this right here is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie this is pretty funny they should cut this like a pizza cinnamon sticks they also come with a thing of icing maybe my obituary photo i can't believe how good that is this is the cinnabon thing i want to try it now since i had it before i want to see that compares to that cinnabon is still better in japan our fountain drinks are coca-cola products in the u.s our soft drinks are pepsi products you know what that means this is soda wars in japan we have coke coke zero and fanta grape and green tea orange juice look at this face [Music] it has light orange taste classic pepsi cherry pepsi diet pepsi orange oh yeah crushed right yeah orange crush mountain dew and of course sierra mist which is like mountain dew only so much worse so a full pizza is 2256 calories 112.8 of your daily recommended value too many calories in the us our large cheese pan pizza has eight slices and each slice is 360 calories so for the total pizza that's 2880 calories that's 144 of your daily calories and both the fat and the sodium are each over 200 percent of your daily allowance japan splurge pepperoni spring with plum bread crust is 228 calories per slice or 2736 calories for the entire thing which is 136.8 percent of your daily calories even more calories this is a large u.s pepperoni with the pan crust that's a thick guy one slice 370 calories that makes the whole pizza 2 930 calories and that is 146.5 percent of your daily allowance now i would like to point out that the large pepperoni pizza is the most popular pizza hut pizza in the us but not japan online it rakes about the 14th most popular in japan one of the pizzas we enjoy is the seafood mix it's one of pizza hut's best sellers for over 20 years wow the japan's most calorific pizza is the large toku uma bulgogi and i forgot to order large tokuma bulgogi sorry about that but this one is toku uma bulgogi and this one is smaller but large sliced pizza is 285 calories which makes the entire large pizza on plum breadcrust 3420 calories 3420 calories in the u.s our most calorific pizza is the meat lovers i also was supposed to get the large this is a medium if someone graphics could just make this pizza much bigger or me much smaller one slice is 470 calories making the total pizza which should be eight slices 3760 calories that's more than double your daily fat and triple your daily sodium i am a glutton for punishments but i'm not going to bite into this pizza it looks like a knife there's a few ingredients to watch out for at the pizza huts in the u.s one is an ingredient found in our salad croutons it is called azo dicarbonamidate azo azo dicarbonid or ada it is a substance used for making vinyl foam plastics for things like yoga mats and it's also in our croutons i'm not quite sure why the use of this additive surprisingly enough is not permitted in japan what that's just horrible both yoga mats and salads have a connection to health but u.s salad proteins have actually plastic yoga mat plastic how ironic also in the u.s you're going to want to watch out for yellow number five aka tartrazine which appears in these cinnabon mini rolls oops already ate one according to the european union this chemical quote may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children and quote it is banned in the eu it's not banned here in america and it is at least not allowed at any of the pizza huts in japan totally you can totally get this here in america let's get some deficit on that attention may have adverse effect on activity and tension in children i mean it's having a horrible effect to my attention as an adult i stopped paying attention to what was coming out of my mouth moments ago so the do got yellow number five as well orange crush has yellow number six and red number forty remember those are bad too all the color things are bad i have to say this is also terrible why the hell american fast food chains put harmful chemicals into their foods do they make their food in a chemistry laboratory or something use the kitchen from calorie count to portion sizes we wanted to find out the biggest differences between subway and japan and the u.s this is food wars [Music] in japan our sandwiches come in three sizes this one is regular and here we've got fulong sub and this one right here is party tray this is party tray a which is three regular sandwiches cut into 12 pieces or we can also get a purty tray that's three full long subs in the us you have three sizes six inch foot long and the party tray this is five foot longs cut into three sections giving us 15 sandwiches not enough partying that part of platter subway's got you covered here in the us you can also get a three foot party sub whoa yes yes time to give this sandwich an exam dude are you kidding me look at this i'm saying ham i'm seeing turkey i'm seeing cheese and also we have a giant sub let me show you oh i got this and this is what it looks like this is too big [Music] in japan our fountain drinks come in three sizes this one is small and medium large here in the us subway the website says it is small but i talked to the subway manager and they assured me they don't have a small so apparently art fountain drinks are just two sizes medium which makes no sense because there's no small and large [Music] at subway i had to fill up myself the fountain drinks which of course i don't mind so any inaccuracies rest on my shoulders and my shoulders alone 40 what not even close and that was like i filled this up to the brim i'm looking through this i'm seeing 33 maybe we'll be generous look at them 34. they still missed it by six six fluid ounces you guys are skimping on us you get a good shot of that is that real is that really six missing ounces do we think that six ounces of fluid roasting there you better believe i'm on a high horse right now this is infuriating i'm really hungry that has a lot to do with it too on the surface both country sandwiches look the same but we wanted to get a closer look here we have a foot long on white turkey with lettuce tomato black olives and onions all right i've got the same one so i'm gonna weigh this wow so pretty close scientific accuracy is really important in the food wars so now let's open it up and see what's inside huh only a 10 gram difference but ours had a lot more turkey and a lot less vegetables [Music] so here are all the subway menu items you can get in japan but not in the us and here is everything you get a u.s subway you cannot get in japan so let's start with new exclusive sandwiches so here we've got thunder chicken sandwich the chicken itself is tender nine out of ten congrats so next one we've got tokumori tandoori chicken sandwich tokumori means extra large so extra large pondering chicken sandwich we've got spicy egg shrimp so next one we've got chocolates chicken and cheese sandwich this is not good it doesn't have any taste man what the fudge so first thing i have this huge pile of sandwiches here i'll just try and do some hits here is of course steak and cheese buffalo chicken yeah i don't know maybe it's because they put all the veggies on here too they kind of just did the standard ones that i don't think this looks very good ooh the cali turkey looks like spinach on here oh and bacon yeah okay not bad they're ruined with the cucumbers the cold cut combo this is like the sandwich right if we were playing family feud and the category was subway sandwiches i feel like the cold cut combo would be number one right oh the baja steak everybody straight from baja california you know their blast now try their steak everyone in the room just groaned [Laughter] i have to know how far is that bathroom here they really loaded with the vegetables again why would you want all these gross veggies and i want the meatball and i want the sauce and the cheese i don't want cucumbers maple sandwich is ruined i'm sneaking a meatball yeah the italian bmt come on this is like the most popular one so you get the meat there nice looking meat right glad nice looking meat they lift up the meat boo boo who ruined the sandwich of vegetables it is the spicy italian looks like the bmt but yeah dude in subway's defense these sandwiches were made what three hours ago at this point so here are japan's exclusive regular menu items so let's start with this pizza bacon italiana itadakimasu i would rate this seven out of ten so next one we've got prosciutto mascarpone shrimp avocado and i love avocado next we've got turkey bacon egg turkey as you can see bacon right here an egg paste vimeo it's not that great and next we've got chili chicken sandwich this is terrible how dare you okay i'm getting full but let's keep going here we got avocado vegetables [Music] next we've got egg sandwich all right one thing i have to mention is that most of these sandwiches can be a solid so if you like salad go ahead but jill wouldn't get this for sure what did subway get a panini press or something like look at these they took these sandwiches and like grilled them or whatever okay this one right here is the bmt so i'm just guessing for the melts they do it on the white bread and they add a bunch of cheese and they just grill it right i mean i can't even open it's like it's locked buffalo chicken melts maybe there's less vegetables in it so maybe i do want this and i don't realize it steak and cheese a philly cheesesteak right yeah i know this one i know this one tuna melts turkey milk yeah i guess i mean i gotta say like i haven't tasted them but the effort in these are just like what are you guys doing i mean they just like flatten them ham melts what's sp again it should be s-i but it's sp for spicy right that's why i'm like wait a second is this the spaghetti one we've been talking about meatball melts what do they do they flatten the meatballs in there right it's better less vegetables right this is the chicken bacon melt so this is the japan only sandwich everything on here you can't get in the us it's a six inch on sesame bread with tundra chicken mascarpone cream cheese egg salad shrimp chili sauce and wasabi soy sauce this is a mystery sandwich itadakimasu i said wasabi soy sauce right i got wasabi attack it's hard to me it's got too many flavors and it makes me confused this here is the usa only sandwich a sandwich comprised of only ingredients you get in the united states and not in japan so let's start with the jalapeno cheese bread as meatballs american cheese pepper jack cheese provolone cheese banana peppers god spinach ranch sriracha and pepperoni here we go oh it's actually pretty good i really like this dude oh cool it's not too spicy the jalapeno breads really good the meatballs and the pepperoni work really well together like i said the banana peppers are actually welcome in this it kind of makes a little sweeter then they're gonna bite yeah subway put this on your menu this is really good i challenge you all the viewers in the united states start ordering this sandwich let's put the pressure on subway to make this uh make this like a featured sandwich this is good so here we've got snack sandwiches but this one right here is uncle sandwich and anko is a staple of traditional japanese sweets the taste can be enjoyed alone or as a compliment to other japanese flavors such as matcha and here we've got anko and mascarpone i have an announcement to make subway has breakfast i'm just as surprised as all you specifically they have four breakfast sandwiches here in the u.s a bacon egg and cheese a black forest ham egg and cheese egg and cheese and steak egg and cheese i don't know which one is which i think this is the steak egg and cheese oh it's flatbread too so i can kind of this looks like a cartoon look at this look at the eggs are you kidding me with this in a subway in the u.s you can get just about any one of their sandwiches as a protein bowl from what i can tell that's their way of calling this a salad so you know my feelings on salad i hate them just an example though we got what looks to be a turkey one everything that comes in a sandwich which is instead of bread this bowl then once you're done you can throw it in the ocean kill a sea turtle who cares right it's a waste it's an absolute waste just eat a sandwich like a normal person there's nothing wrong with bread just eat it it's a sandwich yeah and it's like the shredded lettuce too it's not like you know like leafy lettuce or spinach it's that shredded they put in the sandwich so here is japan's exclusive size this one right here is coral poro potatoes original flavor and next one we've got coco cotta potatoes triple cheese flavor coral coral potatoes herb salt flavor the korokoro means it's like rolling over and over like rolling over and over and last one we've got corn cream chowder yeah chips chips chips get yourself to bake lays i mean the undisputed chip champion in the united states right here baby nacho cheese doritos a favorite a classic glaze we just want to see what potato chips are like in the 50s get yourself a bag of classic lace vickies jalapeno and lime cracked pepper i don't think i've had the lime cracked pepper these are so good sun chips i hate sun chips here's a side that you can get in the u.s you can't get in japan i'm gonna go muscle man's applesauce so here is japan's exclusive drinks this one right here is ascii and pepsi melon soda oolong tea which is chinese tea iced coffee soy cocoa and this one right here is vegetable and fruit juice which has 11 kinds of vegetables and three kinds of fruits and this one right here is pepsi zero and this one is mocha that's coffee olay and this one right here is ginger ale and soy latte soy mango mango orange mango juice mocha and milk tea cocoa hot black tea and herb tea in the u.s as you notice we have coke and coke products at our subways so we have coke and they also have to go bottles so i went ahead and got diet coke sprites and gatorade the fruit punch all right sauce talk sauce talk i couldn't get any of them on the side but we have exclusive sauces here at the subway in the u.s we can get a red wine vinegar a yellow mustard a creamy sriracha a buffalo sauce of course we also have ranch chipotle southwest marinara sauce sweet onion sauce and mvp parmesan the most valuable parmesan apparently i was surprised to learn that the japanese subway doesn't have cookies the cookies are actually pretty good in the u.s you can get a chocolate chip cookie an oatmeal raisin cookie a raspberry cheesecake cookie and a white chip macadamia nut cooking alright so let's move on to japan's exclusive sweets so let's start with this one chocolate brownie we've got cheese tart and this one right here is cream soda float and this one right here is cream latte float and coffee food [Music] in japan a six inch turkey sub on white bread is 261 calories and the us that same turkey sub is 270 calories so pretty close but i did notice ours has much less sodium like 26 percent less our 6 inch tuna sub is 361 calories in our tuna it's 430 so a little more but much more fat i have not eaten turkey a tuna anything on purpose ever it smells like cat food don't you think it smells i guess most cat food is tuna so yeah this looks super gross but i have to try it right let's see if like my distaste is misplaced no i hate that man do you like calories in japan our most calorie fake sandwich is the pizza bacon italiana 1 6 inch is 436 calories in the u.s our most calorific sandwich is the chicken and bacon ranch just six inches of this bad boy is 500 calories so footlong is a thousand calories in japan our regular sandwich with a small drink and small serving of potatoes the total calories for this meal is 498 calories in the u.s a six inch turkey sandwich with a small drink which the subway i went to said they do not have and a bag of chips i went with the classic lace is 750 calories in japan this meal total is 790 yen or 7.23 cents u.s in the us that same meal is 9.14 or about 998.26 japanese yen roughly twenty six point four percent increase in japan we focus on having a healthy diet or chol cuts meals tokatsu means having a healthy diet that contains a lot of dietary fiber in order to keep your intestinal environment healthy and it's getting common in japan to have tall cats meals at home or even at restaurants because a lot of japanese people have a constipation problem due to a lot of stress and lack of exercise so subway offers a special meal called chokats chicken and cheese sandwich which contains a lot of dietary fiber so it's going to help you return to regular bowel movements and you can start your day with a number two so we don't have anything like that but i can only speak for myself that if you're experiencing constipation in the united states may i recommend the steak and cheese at subway the subway in japan does not disclose all the raw ingredients but they did provide the main raw ingredients for their breads japan subway flatbread contains wheat flour yeast vegetable fat and oils skim milk powder wheat protein salt sugar barley malt powder etc well our subway in the us does give us the ingredients and our flatbread contains all of events now there's a few similar ingredients and there's a bunch that are pretty close that etc in the japan flatbread that gives me pause i mean if that's supposed to represent all of this other stuff that is a huge dot dot dot or to be continued or yadda yadda yadda that japan's throwing at their uh their customers i mean if the america has proven anything it's like you can tell us what's in the food we don't care we'll still eat it so i don't know what's up with the etc guys subways tuna was a bit controversial here in the u.s starting in january where a class-action lawsuit made false claims about their tuna meet the drama continue when a new york times article claiming to have had a lab analyzed 60 inches worth of subway tuna shared the results saying they could not identify a species of fish and no amplifiable tuna dna was present in the sample subway responded of course saying it uses 100 wild caught tuna and even launched a website subway tunafacts.com to give everyone a clear and transparent look into their tuna process furthermore usa today did their own fact-checking and had its doubts about how the times tested the tuna samples and pointed out the lab tested for five tuna species out of 15 and concluded the tuna was too processed or that there was no tuna dna different tests have detected tuna in subway sandwiches and experts say canned tuna can become denatured when cooked then i did my own scientific research to find out what denature means and the scientists at dictionary.com said dear joe thanks for reaching out to dictionary.com the word denature means to destroy the characteristic properties of a protein or biological micromolecule by heat acidity or other effects that disrupt its molecular confirmation they went on to say for further definition inquiries please just use the search function on the home page as that is what's there for don't email us so believe we want another subway ingredient controversy that's a bit more clean cut at least for the good people ireland is that an irish court ruled subway cannot call their bread bread due to its high sugar content in ireland for bread to be considered bread the amount of sugar in the dough must be two percent the flour's weight subway is bread however the sugar content is nine point two percent from calorie count to portion sizes we wanted to find out all the differences between taco bell in japan and the u.s this is footworks in japan taco bell standard tacos come in orders of one two tacos with fries and a drink or you can get five pack or you can get 10 pack in the us our standard taco bell tacos come in orders of one three with a medium drink or this the twelve taco party pack check this out i mean they're not kid ones as a party you roll into any party with this you are you are the party winner right so this is a beef taco spring he measures five inches our beef taco supreme that's falling apart because i'm an idiot is exactly five and three-fourths inches and let's weigh this and it weighs it weighs 100 grams looks like about 120 grams and this one is our burrito in japan and let's measure it five inches our bean burrito is six and three eighths inches long and it weighs good it weighs 220 grams just a a hair over 250 grams yeah ours weighs more hooray here's our current rough spring he measures six inches across let's go he weighs exactly 250 grams a personal favorite the crunch wraps oh man oh guys i mean you get the idea but it's just it's just like a thing of beauty when they have the whole thing folded properly plus also now all my everything inside's kind of exposed across it's exactly six inches huh illuminati stuff coming at you six sides six inches we're onto them here they come if we go point to point it is the less interesting six and a half inches so we'll lay it you have no idea how bad i just want to take a huge bite out of this thing it weighs a respectable 300 grams that to me sounds exactly right at the japanese talk about the biggest menu item is [Music] the variety setback it includes two grilled burritos which is chicken and two chick stars which is fried chicken crunch wrap screen and here is four crunch tacos which is b and here is natchez all for 5 000 yen or around 45 45.49 us did george just say 45.49 for the just the largest menu item that can't be right that is so much money everything on this end is 157 just their largest thing it was almost 46 bucks that's wild the biggest single menu item we have here in the united states is the before mentioned taco bell party box this is exactly what it looks like is a pack of 12 tacos and in america this runs you 22.99 or around 2526.80 japanese yen so here is everything you can only get at taco bell in japan you cannot get in the u.s and here's everything you can get at a u.s taco bell you can't get in japan probably i'm very confused i don't know what half of this stuff is so these are japan's special menu items but before getting started i gotta mention one thing is that i have never tried taco bell before this is my first time i'm so excited george i can't believe this is your first time trying taco bell uh congratulations and i'm sorry so here is naked chicken taco i don't know why it's called naked let me try it this shell is not a usual taco shell it's actually chicken shell you rock my wall so here is diy tack kit i'm gonna make my own special tacos which is called george's special tacos g s g yo i'm gonna go with this crunchy shell i don't have spoons so i have to do like this one more time you gotta be gentle i'm going to use this one i have a good idea i gotcha for some letters for some cheese tomato i prefer mild this is what we call gst itadakimasu [Music] george just made his special taco and it is like the most average taco he was like he was like meat cheese tomatoes and so i hate to break it to you george but you made like you just made a uh it's like a soft shell taco what would my taco be what would my joe's signature taco bell taco dorito shell right everyone's not in the head follow me so far rap in the gordita right then the steak okay then tapatio i don't know if that's on the menu there that queso from chipotle that's good right i could put that on there guacamole there's a taco chain in the midwest called taco john's and they have these little potato things called potato olay so i put some potato olays from taco john's on there so we have it then we deep fry it i need a dipping sauce what would i what would i uh what if i was to dip what would i dip it in give me a sauce sour cream you're out of your mind terrible what do you think you guys are terrible you know what i'm talking about as a ranch we'll go with ranch spicy mayo this guy's criminal over here like that's taco bell guys get real there's joe's and only joe's signature taco get it going there's got to collab with chipotle and taco john's usa exclusive tacos at the taco bell taco bell or doritos or both had the brilliant idea of going why don't we make our shell like a dorito and for some strange reason they still have non-doritos shell tacos which i don't understand why because it is far superior to any other regular taco shell they have on their menu look at this thing look at this thing i'm salivating looking at this nothing including oranges are this orange naturally this is just a whole level of food chemical engineering and i applaud it doritos taco bell here we go oh my gosh so good george you got to come to america you got to try this chalupa supreme i'm assuming that's this the black bean chalupa well we always saw that yeah it doesn't look like itself the cantina crispy melts it has a deep fried shell and the other nasty beans all the veggies and then this must be a crispy melt the gorditas crunches are they take a regular taco covered in melted cheese nacho cheese and then wrap a tortilla around it taco bell answered my prayers by making a gordita crunch that has in fact the doritos shell inside of it they use yeah and they use cheese to melt it to the hard shell best idea ever gotta know something stuffed in something with melted cheese is everything i want is it good yeah are you a vegetarian is that why you had it no what would you get not meat at taco bell okay i understand all right to each their own the spicy potato soft taco i hear from a very good source very reliable sources this is good so gotta know oh god dude this is good what's the sausage on here we do not have available the loaded chicken flatbread or the loaded black bean flatbread uh they are on the website they weren't available here we've got cheesy core burrito we've got cheesy beef burrito we've got chick star which is fried chicken crunch wrap spring burritos i'm already tired quesorito beefy five-layer burrito burrito supreme black bean crunch up supreme cheesy roll did we see the chicken chipotle melt yeah those one ripped open was a chicken chipotle melt so here is japan's only cider menu we've got crispy chicken our taco bell in the u.s you can get a side of black beans and rice or guacamole so here are few menu items that are the same but so different between japan and ios our notches come like this the chips and toppings are separate i got two avocado sauce and tomato and cheese and sour cream and in the u.s and also mexico i assume you get your nachos with everything already piled on the chips up until recently i thought one of the key descriptors of nachos is that it's chips with stuff piled on it but in japan they give you the chips as you can see and they have like each ingredient in a cup and you can kind of mix it i think that is ridiculous this is what nachos i know this like these are taco bell nachos they also have the make your own taco kits and then they get to make your own uh nacho kits but don't do that we call our chips mexican chips and they are tortilla chips that are flavored doing a complete 180 i am very jealous that japan has flavored tortilla chips i like tortilla chips just fine um the nacho cheese at taco bell i'm gonna be honest with you it's just okay but i think flavored chips with this cheese would actually be really good we'll take an l on that one but it's the only one we've taken this whole video so that's fine our loaded fries in japan are topped with beef and cheese and sour cream and here in the u.s our loaded fries are not existence wasn't on the menu the one i went at they are on the website i don't know if it's just a southern california taco bell thing our load of fries have beef lettuce ranch red strips cheese and tomatoes sounds very good we were supposed to have taco bell desserts as well but the store i went to didn't have them so here's a list ice cream premium ice cream cinnamon tostada and chocodia i want to try chocodia that's all i can say our desserts we have these little guys cinnabon delights we all know what cinnabon is we all like to be delighted looks like a little munchkin that may or may not be cinnabun flavored let's find that together holy sh so these are japan only drinks we've got coke and coke zero drinks sip sip baby look at all these colorful drinks you eat and drink with your eyes so i've been told so naturally the whole color of the banned chemical rainbow right in front of me here with every yellow number this red number there blue in the whatever so i'm gonna assume none of these are in japan because of whatever's inside of them i'm just gonna list i'll just do like a few hits pepsi we know that right they got coke we got pepsi see our mist i hate that so much baja blast oh god this is mountain dew baja blast right here more on this in a moment oh good god also we have here is mountain dew kickstarter orange this actually rules so this uh urine pantone color beverage can only mean one thing that it was swiped up the side of a dewy mountain ladies and gentlemen mountain dew i will go to my grave knowing that flavor all too well i don't know why this don't have regular fruit punch if the gatorade the g2 gatorade fruit punch pink lemonade so i heard that pink lemonade is just lemonade that's dyed pink this is like lemony what's in pink lemonade that makes it pink it was it was originally like it was invented by i think like a traveling circus and they just did it kind of like to get people to buy it like it was a novelty it was pink instead of regular lemon in color but i'm assuming now they do some they must do something in pink lemonade to make a taste that's limited what makes pink lemonade different from lemonade i want to know our taco bell also has coffee and iced coffee and although i would never drink this unsweetened iced tea taco bell's got breakfast in the u.s and i have to say i think that their breakfast menu is fantastic if it looks a little scarce it is because i don't think they gave me everything and i'm confused on what some of these things are because everything's kind of wrapped they used to have like uh then they used to have like a waffle taco maybe maybe i'm just imagining that they got a cheesy toasted breakfast burrito and a cheesy toasted breakfast burrito with potato and of course they have a hash brown toasted breakfast burrito which i think is this hashbrown toasted breakfast burrito with steak which is right here and of course the grand toasted breakfast burrito which is right here and of course they have the grand toasted breakfast burrito with steak and then they have a breakfast crunch wrap yo this one has eggs and potato in it it looks ridiculous but for real when these are hot and like 9 30 in the morning you can't beat this as a matter of fact this is so good you've been sitting out for a couple hours it's still awesome taco bell's breakfast is great it's there no mcgriddles but if a mcdonald's isn't available i go right to taco bell breakfast you can also get hash brown can you see them breakfast salsas these are really good orange juice the homies over tropicana hold it down let's talk about nutrition in japan a beef crunchy taco is 164.4 calories it has 87.2 grams of protein 5.5 grams of fat 14.7 grams of carbs and 293 milligrams of sodium in the u.s our standard beef crunchy taco is 170 calories 8 grams of protein 9 grams of fat 13 grams of carbs and 310 milligrams of sodium so we lead in calories fat and sodium where japan has more protein and carbs the next one is the chicken quesadilla ours has 492 492.51 calories this one has 510 calories one thing to note that in both countries one of these quesadillas hovers around half of your daily sodium sodium at taco bell appears to be such an issue that the us menu online certain combos and items like this one right here are labeled with sodium warnings in japan a crunchwrap spring has 1290 milligrams of sodium that's 56 of your daily allowance our crunchwrap supreme is 52 your daily sodium that's more than half right man so both countries way too much sodium are you looking for the most calories in one menu item in japan it's our loaded fries one order is 718 calories it has a third of your daily calories almost half your daily fat and 66 of your daily sodium in the u.s the biggest thing you should look out for are the nachos the very popular nachos belgrande i love you guys is 740 calories 1050 milligrams of sodium okay now the cinnabon delights do have more calories 930 but technically that's a 12 pack which is supposed to be for four people i'm certain if you're like me you're getting 12 and you're not sharing them some do most don't but obviously the natchez bell grande is for one person but the most calories line an item that's on taco bell's cantina menu which is only available at certain locations here in the u.s there you can get something called the grande beef nachos which has 1 120 calories which is more than half of your daily allowance and 68 of your daily sodium now it's just not the food at taco bell you also have to watch out for the drinks here it is everyone 30 fluid ounces of mountain dew ba ha blast a beverage that answers the question what if we combine mountain dew's bold refreshing tropical flavor with crystal meth this totally logical 30 fluid ounces of nightmare fuel is 420 calories very cool and 110 grams of sugar i'm sorry this stuff is making me delirious in the us there are few ingredients in our taco bell you should look out for both are in the beverages on the taco bell's cantina menu first is brominated vegetable oil aka bvo which is banned in japan bvo is an emulsifier found in citrus flavored sodas and is specifically used with citrus oils and it's considered a health risk when ingested in large amounts it was brought to public attention when it was discovered in popular beverages like mountain dew and powerade but due to public pressure it was removed from coke and pepsi products in 2014 which is good now unfortunately you can still find this ingredient in three cantina menu freezes the beach berry freeze the ginger mule freeze and the party punch freeze luckily they weren't any of the freezes you find in the regular menu only on the cantina menu okay when it comes to citrus flavored soda we have cc lemon that's one of the most popular citrus flavored soda in japan cc lemon contains the following sugars which is fructose glucose syrup and sugar and lemon juice flavoring vitamin c a sealant sunflower dye calcium pantothenate vitamin b6 carotene pigment that's it see it doesn't have brominated vegetable oil it tastes really good so that means you can make it delicious without b v o the last one party punch freeze also contains yellow number five aka tartrazine which is subject to restrictions outside of the us in places like the eu and japan as it may have adverse effect and activity and attention in children what the hell you can tell this color is yellow right so why don't you use something else that isn't harmful just like c c lemon see you soon see you soon

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Published: Sun Jan 02 2022