Harry: From Croissant
Stuffers to festive pizzas to gingerbread lattes,
we wanted to find out all of the fast-food Christmas menu items in the UK, Japan, and the US. This is "Food Wars." Here in the UK, we have
several festive drink options at Starbucks, all of which are hot. We'll start with this one, which is the very festive
gingerbread latte. I'll do a Joe and try
and sip all of these. Actually not bad. Next up, we have this one, which is a caramel waffle latte. Then we have this one, which is a fudge brownie hot chocolate. Oh. Ooh, I don't like that. That's bad. We also have this one,
which is a toffee nut latte. Are toffee or nuts
particularly Christmassy? I'm not really convinced. It's very nutty. That is nutty. Then finally we have this one, which is a venti eggnog latte. I think the last time I tried eggnog was actually our last Christmas special, and I haven't touched it since. I've kind of forgotten
everything about it. I'll try it again. No. What? This isn't a British thing. Do people in America
actually drink eggnog? If you want to get your
Starbucks fix at home, then UK Starbucks also offer beans. These come in the form
of a Christmas roast and also a blond Christmas roast. So, we have lots of delicious
Starbucks holiday drinks, such as gingerbread latte. This is perfect for winter season. It warms me up. Not only my body, but also my heart. You should definitely try this. Next one: toasted white
chocolate Frappuccino. Hm. It's a little bit sweet,
but I'd say it's very good. Every Santa Claus would love this. We've got toasted white chocolate mocha. Itadakimasu! I'd say it's totally the same as this one, but that means it's very good. And last one, we've got crème brûlée latte. Ooh, it's too sweet! It's too sweet! We also have the three
whole-coffee-bean options. We've got Christmas blend and Christmas blond roast and Christmas espresso roast. Take a look at this. It says, "Christmas" ... blah, blah, blah. But it's not Christmassy at all. Starbucks, you should
make it more Christmassy, just like this. This. This is so perfect. And in the US, our
holiday Starbucks drinks include all of these. You know what we doing. First one, of course, is the
venti crème brûlée latte. I like crème brûlée. Let's make it a latte. Yeah, that's very good. Toasted white chocolate mocha. Holy s---. That might be the best one.
That's the one to beat. Irish cream cold brew. Whoa, first miss. Mm-mm. All right, next one. A sugar cookie almond milk latte, iced. I think everything settled to the bottom. Nope, yeah, that's OK. Chestnut pralines latte. Does anyone know what a pralines is? I don't. Well, whatever it is, it's good. Yo, Starbucks is on it this year. They did not have a peppermint mocha at the Starbucks we
went to, unfortunately, but that is also available. Also at Starbucks you can
get the bean blends to go. We have the peppermint mocha blend, have the Christmas blend, and the holiday blend. One holiday drink to
look out for in the UK is the venti eggnog latte. One of these contains 476 calories as well as a whopping
54 grams of added sugar. Please. In the US, we
have three holiday drinks that have 60 grams or more of added sugar. The venti crème brûlée latte
rocks 60 grams of added sugar, while the venti peppermint mocha has 68 grams of added sugar, and the venti toasted
white chocolate mocha has 69 grams of sugar. 69! Careful, Santa can read your thoughts. That means at least two drinks
during the holiday season make the fourth- and
fifth-most sugary drinks on the Starbucks menu. Japanese Starbucks didn't tell me how much sugar is in
these Christmas drinks, but we do have a calorie count. A venti gingerbread
latte has 488 calories, and a venti crème brûlée
latte has 497 calories, and tall toasted white
chocolate Frappuccino is 403 calories. The most calories award goes to the venti toasted
white chocolate mocha. It has 669 calories. What have you done? Very good. What about the food? Well, in the UK, we have
a bunch of new items, as well as some classic favorites. First up we have this one,
the Festive Feast panini. Next up is the 'Tis the
Season turkey sandwich. Two new additions include a chocolate and orange s'mores toastie as well as a blue cheese
and chutney toastie. Our last two sandwiches are
a Toastie To Be Thankful For, lots going on, and then finally a Very
Merry Beyond Meat sandwich. Then we're on to some
of the baked options, starting with my favorite, South Pole Sam. He's making a return. He was in the last episode. I love him. He's still my son. Look at him! He's adorable!
How could you eat this? Come on, look at him. Not only is South Pole
Sam still on the menu, but he's been really busy this year, 'cause he's come back with a girlfriend! This is North Pole Nat. Maybe supposed to be a polar bear. Not 100% sure. So not only is it kind
of a forbidden romance, it's also a very
long-distance relationship between South Pole Sam and North Pole Nat, but their love is just that strong. It carries them through. And I for one really hope
it works out for them. In less adorable but
still very delicious news, the Christmas tree brownie is
back at Starbucks in the UK. Another returning favorite
is the Cranmerry muffin. It's basically just a cranberry muffin with I think some either icing
or custard in the middle. It's pretty good. Then we have two new additions, starting with the toffee
nut latte cupcake. This is a coffee-flavored cupcake topped with some chopped
nuts and a chocolate star. And, finally, we have
a red velvet loaf cake. As the name suggests,
it's a red velvet loaf, and then it's topped with some icing as well as some very
festive-colored sprinkles. In Japan, we have several
sweet holiday options, which are a cranberry bliss bar and a chocolate pound cake. They also have gingerbread
cookies and a stollen, which are currently unavailable. So sad. A stollen is a classic holiday bread with red cranberries, green pistachios, white powdered sugar, raisins, almonds, walnuts, orange
peels, and marzipan. And also you can get a holiday cheesecake, baked cheese tart, and
a chocolate forest cake. But online order only. It's a new era. It's not like grandma's cookies. Here in the US, get yourself
a reindeer cake pop, this little guy right here. Turns out he's delicious. Snowman cookie. Personal favorite, cranberry bliss bar. Now, you can get a slice of the bar or the bar tray to go. And also this year they have
the sugarplum cheese Danish, which the Starbucks we went to
did not have, unfortunately. In the UK, our KFC exclusives are mostly focused on the gravy. First up, we've got this
gravy burger box meal. This comes with a gravy burger,
a chicken tender to dip, a side of fries, and a side of gravy. If you're wondering
what a gravy burger is, it's basically a chicken sandwich with some cheese and some gravy mayo, but then it's also got
this hash brown on top, into which they've kind of
pressed a circular divot. The idea is that you pour
more gravy on top of it, it kind of holds it in there,
so that when you bite into it, you get a lot of gravy in your bite. So I've poured a small amount of gravy. As you can see, it's
holding it nicely in place. But we're not here for
a small amount of gravy in "Food Wars." Now, that is a gravy burger. If that's somehow not
enough gravy for you, you can also get a range of gravy bucket meals from a UK KFC. Firstly, you can get a
double gravy bucket meal, which contains six pieces
of chicken, a large drink, four orders of gravy,
four orders of fries, one order of popcorn chicken, and then you can choose
between either eight hot wings or six boneless chicken strips. If you don't want to choose
between the wings or the strips, you can also upgrade to
a triple bucket meal, which contains them both
for a reasonable price of 23 pounds 99 pence. Also, I know that's only three orders of gravy instead of four, but one of them exploded
in the delivery transit. Now, we're guessing that the
bucket meals aren't designed to be eaten by one person, but
the box meal definitely is. One of these box meals
contains 1,075 calories, which is 53.75% of your daily allowance. There's also 107.8% of
your daily sodium in here. One culprit for the high
sodium might be the gravy. According to KFC, one portion of the gravy contains 480 milligrams of sodium, which is around 20% of
the total meal's value. KFC is very popular in
Japan around Christmastime. Ever since the '70s, KFC has been a part of the
Christmas tradition in Japan because of a popular KFC
marketing campaign called or Kentucky for Christmas. And now it's become so normal
to have KFC on Christmas. And also very small percentage of Japanese people are Christians. So Christmas is just fun event
to spend with your family, or if you're dating, you spend Christmas with your boyfriend or girlfriend. And now, even now, I'm still looking for the one who can enjoy Christmas with me. Message me. I'm on the nice list. Since KFC for Christmas is so popular, KFC requires you to reserve
your Christmas specials weeks in advance to be picked
up closer to Christmas. Unfortunately, at the
time of this recording, the food isn't yet available. I wanted to try them. So, KFC offers party barrels, which are either an
eight-piece original chicken or a four-piece original chicken with four chicken tenders. Both barrel meals include
a minced chicken lasagna, glaçage chocolate cake, and seasonal buckets and plates. Wow! And also you can get
roast chicken and gravy and roasted garlic thighs and chicken breast with cheese sauce and barbecue chicken. Oh, by the way, if you haven't watched KFC episode USA versus Japan, you should definitely watch, watch, watch after watching this video. Here in the US, KFC,
for a very limited time, and it totally got past me, has a very slick, very cool Finger Lickin' Chicken
Mitten Bucket Hugger. Apparently you had to preorder one by, like, before November 13. Anyway, it's a knitted sweater, like, I don't know, Koozie for your KFC bucket. It has mittens sewn into it. It is hilarious. Couldn't get my hands on one, but if we could have
someone in graphics go ahead and just put it on there for me. Yeah! That's what it looks like. Pretty cool, huh? What is available in
much larger quantities is this, the KFC festive-design
Christmas bucket. It even has a little top there. That fun? [crash] In the UK, McDonald's is featuring two sandwich options for Christmas, a festive stack and also a
festive crispy chicken sandwich. In the UK, the festive stack
contains some beef patties, some cheddar cheese, a white cheese sauce, some bacon, some lettuce,
as well as some red onions, whereas the festive crispy
chicken is a crispy chicken patty with some bacon, some cheddar cheese, I think there's some sage
and onion mayo in there, as well as some cranberry sauce. McDonald's in the UK has one festive side, and it's these cheese melt dippers. These are little disks
of Camembert cheese, which are then breaded and fried, and they look and smell
really good, I gotta say. And they also come with
this tangy tomato sauce, which also looks pretty good. I think it's just kind
of like a fancy ketchup. And we have two dessert options, including a Celebrations
McFlurry and a festive pie. I'll get into a little bit more detail on Celebrations later, but what it is, is a
selection box in the UK. It's all of the kind of Mars brand candy, so it's things like
Snickers and Maltesers. And they put little bits
of them into a McFlurry, and it's pretty good. The festive pie is basically
the apple pie shell, but instead of the apple filling, it comes with a mincemeat
and custard filling. Now, for those of you who aren't versed in stunning British cuisine, mincemeat is not actually beef. Please don't freak out. We're not putting beef
and custard together. That would be weird. Mincemeat in the festive context refers to a mixture of fruits, things like raisins, little pieces of apple,
and things like that, which are simmered down in some sugar to create a kind of sweet, fruity mixture and then added to things
like this or mince pies. Then, finally, we have
two hot drink options. We have a choco fudge latte, and our final seasonal McDonald's item is this hot chocolate deluxe. In the US, our McDonald's
only has one exclusive drink, the peppermint mocha, which
unfortunately was not available when we went to that McDonald's to get it. What they did have, thankfully,
is this holiday pie. I don't know what's in it. Mystery pie about to be solved. It tastes exactly like a sugar cookie. Very disappointing. In the US and the UK from December 13 to Christmas Eve, McDonald's has partnered up with the queen of Christmas music, that's right, Mariah Carey, for the Mariah menu. Check this out. See that? Starting on the 13th, if you spend over $1
on the McDonald's app, there will be an exclusive
free menu item you can have. It's nice. It's kind of like
a McDonald's Advent calendar. It's a pretty good idea. Japan McDonald's is offering two exclusive nugget dipping sauces from now until next year. We've got lobster and tomato cream sauce. In a nutshell, this is so good. It's got strong lobster flavor. 10 out of 10. Thank you. Let's try kokuuma steak sauce. So, koku means richness, and uma is deliciousness. And this steak sauce is a
Japanese-style steak sauce based on soy sauce. This is so good. I could eat rice with this. Like, forever. These new exclusive sauces,
Santa Claus love them. In the UK, Pizza Hut only
has one festive offering, and it's this one, the hog roast pizza. This is topped with
pulled pork, red onion, a sage and onion stuffing,
and an applesauce drizzle. I'm really intrigued by
the applesauce drizzle, so I'm going to have to give this a try. Honestly, I'm kind of impressed by this. I thought the applesauce would ruin it, 'cause I don't normally want
sweet things on my pizza, but, yeah, it kind of all works. Hog roast pizza. Does
what it says on the tin. Our Pizza Hut in the US is offering this very
festive triple treat box. Now, what this is, is a box, obviously, with two medium one-topping pizzas, five breadsticks, and Cinnabon mini rolls. A-plus for presentation with Pizza Hut. Wait a second. What? Aw! This is not what's on the website! There was a thing that had,
like, shelves and stuff! Show what it looks like on the website. And this is just, like, three pizza boxes. I am so mad that this is what they did. This is not at all what I
thought this was going to be. So everyone can see how
disappointing this is. Oh, this looks all beat up and stuff. The whole point was it was
supposed to be a fun box! This isn't that fun! This is regular. Bah humbug. We have a special deal based
on Pizza Hut's mascots, Kazu and Mook. Kazu is one of the most
famous comedians in Japan, and also, Mook is one of the most
famous characters in Japan. And recently they have been appointed as Pizza Hut's ambassadors. And this Christmas, you can get Kazu and Mook's Blissful
Half and Half pizza. Ta-da! One half is for Kazu's favorite, Camembert and mozzarella, and another half is for Mook's favorite, meat sauce, thick-sliced
Ibérico, and margherita. And also you can get a family
side set with this pizza that includes a chicken combo set. Wow! Festive. In the UK, Domino's has
one Christmas pizza, and it's called The Festive One. This one comes with
sage- and onion-marinated turkey breast, some bacon, some sausage, and some onion. Let's try it out. A little bit dry maybe. Maybe Domino's can redeem themselves with these After Eight cookies. For those of you who don't know, After Eights are a chocolate
and mint combination which are generally kind of eaten at the end of dinner parties. That was the marketing back in the day. Obviously we are filming
this before 8 p.m., so it's not a strictly enforced rule. Let's give these a try. OK, yeah, these are actually really good. It tastes exactly like
the After Eight filling, as I guess I'd expect. And yeah, just a really good
dark chocolate and mint cookie. Our Domino's offer the
Christmas premium quattro, which is separated into four sections. We have smoked chicken with basil sauce, charcoal roast beef, Italian juicy roast pork, and shrimp and scallop with crab sauce. For dessert, we've got a cool mille crepe. This is what it looks like. Hm. It's actually a huge one. Not only these, but also
Domino's will be offering premium roast chicken soon. It's gonna be festive! Subway in the UK is featuring something called a Tiger Pig sandwich
for Christmas this year. It's basically a giant pig
in a blanket in a roll. So, a pig in a blanket in the UK is not the same as it is in the US. In the UK, it is a
sausage wrapped in bacon. Whereas in the US, I think
it's, like, a hot dog in pastry. That is correct, Harry. In the US, our pigs in a blanket are normally tiny hot dogs
wrapped in croissant dough. And they're usually hors d'oeuvres or what picky kids eat
at holiday parties. So. That looks real gross. Another festive sandwich
filling from a UK Subway is Brie cheese. And then finally we have a festive dessert option at UK Subways, which is a chocolate orange cookie. Chocolate and orange are a
really popular combination around Christmastime in the UK. I'm not really sure
where it originated from, but there's a brand called
Terry's Chocolate Orange, who do these kind of balls
of chocolate and orange. Those are super popular
around Christmastime. I think this is Subway's attempt to kind of get in on the act there. Now, one Christmas
tradition we have in the UK when it comes to sweets
are selection boxes. These are little tubs
filled with small sweets, usually all from one brand. So, for example, you have Heroes, which are owned by Cadbury, or you have Celebrations,
which are owned by Mars. I'm not sure where the
association between Christmas and selection boxes started in the UK, but I know it's been going on for years, because I think Quality
Street and Roses in particular have been around for decades. One last thing to check before I hand over is the contents of the Quality Street tin. It's become quite a divisive
topic in the UK recently because people feel shortchanged when they don't get enough
of the good ones in there. I think the good ones
are generally considered to be, like, the purple ones,
maybe the green triangles. So let's count them out and see how many we're actually getting. So, we got four green triangles, five of the orange chocolate crunch, six of the caramel sticks, six of the toffee pennies, seven of the orange creams, eight of the fudge, five of the purple ones, five of the milk choc blocks, eight of the caramel swirls, six of the coconut eclairs, and seven of the strawberry delights. Make of that what you will. In the US, just about every candy brand has a Christmassy-themed candy flavor, shape, and/or package. There are too many to name in this video, so I just went ahead
with some of the hits. We got a Reese's peanut butter snowman, Reese's holiday lights. How do we think this is? Do you think it's actually on a string? It's not! What? What?! Correct me if I'm wrong,
but they're connected by a string like lights, right? They just gave me these! They're just chocolate eggs! Thank you. Reese's, you are on the naughty list. Reese's peanut butter trees. This is kind of like a Rorschach test. What do you see? I bet nobody said tree. This is sooner to be my parents
fighting than it is a tree, as far as what I see in here. Nutcracker shape. I mean,
everything's suspect now. OK, they actually did it. Congrats, you got one right. They also have white trees. One exclusive is Reese's peanut
butter cups, peanut brittle. I just saw these at Target on the fly. They got gingerbread cookie
KitKats here in the US. Oreos, Oreos, Oreos. You can get yourself a
white-fudge-covered Oreo. So I guess that's supposed to be snow. Gingerbread Oreos. M&M's, M&M's, M&M's. So, M&M's has, this year
they're doing snowballs, which looks to be white
chocolate pretzel M&M's. Pretzel M&M's are so good. Before I had them, I was like, who cares? They're so good. And this one is just a white
chocolate sugar cookie. Holy s---. I know it sounds stupid, but it tastes exactly like a sugar cookie. These are really good. This caught me by surprise. I'd never even heard of
this. I saw it at Target. I had to get it and show it to you guys. Sour Patch Kids Xtreme cookie chalet. Cookie house? No, sir. Chalet. Look at this thing. This is either delicious or terrible. Either way, I love it. Good call on this one,
Sour Patch Kids. I love it. So many other candy brands are featuring various holiday specials. We couldn't cover them all. So a few others you
might want to check out are York Peppermint Patties, Dove, Hershey Kisses, Blow Pops, Tootsie Rolls, Rolos, Cadbury. They're all doing something for Christmas. There's also a few holiday sodas. Two specific holiday sodas are this, the Mountain Dew Gingerbread Snap'd soda, and one I could not get my hands on was the spiced cranberry Sprite. Cranberry Sprite sounds
actually pretty nice. Gingerbread Mountain Dew does not. It's not bad. I'm not gonna lie. It's growing on me. Yeah, so it's just OK. My adorable kids right here. Look at this. A famous Japanese chocolate
brand called Tirol Choco has two Christmas exclusives. Ooh! And this one too, open it up. Ooh! All right, so this is Tirol Choco, and it's so Christmassy. Look at this. How cute! You are so adorable. It's got white chocolate. Mm! Not only white chocolate, but
they've got milk chocolate, strawberry chocolate, coffee chocolate, and white chocolate and
something else, yeah. And merry Christmas for you. Thank you for watching. Happy holidays. Christmas jokes with Harry. Why did the turkey join the band? He already had the drumsticks. What do polar bears like to eat? Iceberg-ers. Who hides in the bakery at Christmas? Mince spies. Hello, guys. I'm George Japan. Thank you for watching, and I wish you all merry Christmas. That's it, guys. Merry Christmas.
