Americans React to "Europe BANNED these American foods, here's why" 

and to be fair,.. as a consumer.. i like the EU approach more,....

The way you described it reminds me of similiar argument in law systems, guilty under proven innocent or innocent until proven guilty. Seems someone got the subjects confused tho, mixed up food and people, set loose the wrong element.

@@MariachiMak You are so correct with this statement. If we apply the innocent until proven guilty logic to EU/UK consumerism. In the US there are so many things, not just food, but even medication that you can just buy from television adverts that have a huge list of side effects and such but until the company is taken to court and loses the case proving that their product is harmful, it will just remain in the market for consumption. Whereas in the EU/UK products need to prove they are safe for consumption prior to being released to the general public. Your analogy is so unbelievably apt and you have my utmost respect and +10 imaginary internet points, do with them what you will.

Daaaahhhhh

😂 I think you'll find europe Australia Asia etc do prove it with scientific testing and research thats why it's banned 😂 yet USA banned ribena which isn't even bad for you.

Klaus I'm from England and we are the same, anything bright coloured and your mind just goes, chemicals. I think we and probably most of Europe also see bright coloured foods/drinks as targeting children, and also know that certain E numbers means the kids will take hours to come down from being hyperactive.

I remember as a child my parents would refuse to let me eat ice slushies and smurf ice cream as both have verry strong clearly artificial colors. They were fine with me ocassionly eating normal ice cream or even fast food but a line was drawn for these colorfull foods.

Same in Portugal

Exactly. If someone was advertising glow-in-the-dark food? Does not seem like a good idea. The logic is the same (if a bit less outragous).

Same in Spain, bright colours in food and drinks are usually a no-no

Evan gets at least 99% of things wrong.

Only an American would think these are flavours 😂

Also a common misconception that E-number = bad. It's just a list of food additives which incidentally includes almost every vitamin your body needs.

Exactly. They are often artificially flavoured or flavoured with fruit concentrates. Beetroot, spinach etc are for the colours.

@@tomj819yeah, E numbers exist because Europe has a lot of languages and the single market. It would be impossible for someone with an allergy to remember every name for the allergen in each language when goods are sold across borders. There’s this whole ‘natural wellness’ movement though that thinks ‘all chemicals are bad’ and is mostly a pseudoscientific grift. It frustrates me because it makes it harder to get actual bad food practices banned.

One thing that I noticed when I went south from Sweden (Germany, Austria, Italy and then back home through Switzerland and Germany) is that bread is much sweeter than here in Sweden. Are you saying that US bread is EVEN SWEETER than that? 😮😲🫨 Edit: Corrected two brutal spelling errors (or rather swipe-autocorrect-errors): trust → that beard → bread

@@johnnyrosenberg9522 it’s can be similar to a brioche 😂 it is vile.

@@johnnyrosenberg9522 Now I am confused, I am Czech and when I lived in Sweden (Skövde) I, and my family, complained that most bread was too sweet for us. I would thought that German bread should be closer to ours, but maybe we talk about different types of breads?

​@@sharkt.6135That's confusing to me too. Well, we have more than one type of bread, of course, some are indeed sweet, some are not. When I was on a road trip to Italy, at one hotel (a small one, looked more like a flat) in northern Italy we were asked what we wanted for breakfast, they said that Scandinavians were known to not like sweet breakfasts very much, which they said was very common in southern Europe, so that's where I got that information from, plus our own observations at all the hotels we stayed at (a different one each night).

Yea, Mediterranean hotels like put up sweet breads and pastry for breakfast and I think a lot of hotels in other parts too for some reason.. Personally, I was talking more about what I can buy from stores on daily basis, like the more typical types of rye breads or Swedish Limpa and could find any non-dark or wholegrain that wasn’t at least little bit sweet, but maybe I gave up to quickly @@johnnyrosenberg9522

And guns 😂

Because it s all about politics. Kinder was a foreign company bringing competition to Hershey on the chocolate market. Hershey just petitionned some corrupt politicians to find any way to imper Kinder. No one at any point cared about the kids' health.

The brand „Kinder“ is owned by the Italian Company „Ferrero“ so there is nothing American😂🙏 By the way, Ferrero is one of the biggest Food producing Companies worldwide…but with Italian quality, not the shit states quality

For most Americans "history" is just the last Michael Jackson album. Indeed, education seems almost hopeless, that's why JPS is such a refreshing exception 🙂

At least the New York in America is older than the New York in England!

@@B-A-L new York was originally called new Amsterdam until the British bought it from the Dutch and named it "New" York after the 2000 year old Roman town of York in Northern England. Jps has some great videos on York and he loves the place. The US is not 2000 years old. It's barely a tenth of that age. Can you guess why New England is called "New" England?

America is just a 200 year old baby

@@potatusha793 that'll be the Wikipedia entry. I know it well I'm. 47. My father was born in Quainton, next door to California, Birmingham. I have my family tree dating back 1734 (primary source material in terms of history research). I grew up in Birmingham UK. My great great great gramdfather died in the Aston Union Workhouse in thr late 19th century..... .... Are you still sure about that wikipedia entry? Flavell made his money 20.years before the gold rush, which happened in 1840. He built the California Inn in 1822,which the village is named after. Hollywood Village, Birmingmam, built on top of the Holly Woods, whicj was the meeting place for the local. Witches coven, and gave the name to the village. Birmingham itself dates back to 6th century. Still sure about that Wikipedia entry? The California Inn was situated at the junction of Alwold Road and Barnes Hill. This building replaced the original pub *of the same name* which stood on the east side of Barnes Hill and was demolished in the 1930s. It has now been demolished with a petrol station built on the site. Still sure about that Wikipedia entry? Which part of Birmingham, UK are you from?

Exactly...well said!

italy here, usually bread is fine for a couple of day, after that i usually slice it and put on the grill on the fire - then a bit of oil and salt, in the owen or you can wet it too for a sort of salad

And in U.K. too. Or we make our own. Or we freeze the day we buy.

Our hens eggs are not washed, so the natural protection against bacteria is left in place until use. This is why we do not have to refrigerate eggs. We also inoculate our free range laying hens against salmonella, so the eggs they lay are safe. In the USA they wash the natural protection off the eggs and then have to refrigerate them. Go figure? Then, their chickens are battery raised (confined for life in a small area where they cannot even turn around - so cruel!) and once slaughtered and plucked they are given a chlorine bath prior to packaging and sale. Eugh!!!

You can also tell the quality in the yolk colour too. Has much more of the vitamins [esp. D3] and minerals in the egg.

When we had ducks, the shells of the eggs they laid had to be hit with the edge of a knife to open them. The eggshells were so firm. The ducks had the run of the back garden and were shut in a shed at night to protect them from the fox.

I get my eggs from a neighbour who keep chickens in their back garden.

Depends on where you live though. I live close to an industrial area so eating eggs from your own chickens is a no go here as they are contaminated with harmfull chemicals. I used to eat eggs from my aunts chickens as they live pretty much in farm country, but sadly they can't keep chickens anymore because off beech martens.

@@AVDB95 Well you shouldn't have farm animals [which are part of the food chain i.e. eggs in this case] anywhere near an industrial estate. Stands to reason and common sense!

We do have sodas in the US that uses cane sugar.

I only visited the US once but it’s crazy how fake everything tastes. It’s horrible.

@@marydavis5234 ...Ummm, which? And what is the percentage of standard sodas that use cane sugar to corn syrup?

@@2eleven48 no idea, I don’t drink soda.

@@marydavis5234 ....So funny. You don't drink soda, but still know with authority what the contents are of mainstream sodas. The percentage of cane sugar is minimal in comparison to corn syrup across all forms of soda in the US.

The added ingredient is actually a chemical that is found in vomit, which is why we associate Herseys and other US chocolate with vomit as it basically is 🤷🏼‍♀️🤢😬

Nah, I know this video. They are just comparing bad chocolate with even worse chocolate.

Steve and Lindsay in Reacting to my Roots, done a uk v us chocolate tasting, and UK won

They have to use that chemical because they use expired milk in the process of making chocolate

Wow.

Same in the EU. The cocktail effect isn t studied since it is just too complex/costly to do so (the number of combinations to experiment on just would require so many mices and cost so much that no one wants to do it. States can t afford it and don t want to make industrials pay for it either)

Stop spreading rumors, we are not taught that The US is the best country.

Oh yes you are ,I have many American friends and I know this to be a fact by the way they express and react to people who are not american ,and another thing Lots of people in the UK and Europe " resent the so called fact that the first powered flight happened in the all mighty USA ,we in Europe namely the Germans were the first ,they have cast iron proof and documentation ,and dont think it was invented by bicycle mechanics,and the so called congress of the time had the all mighty cheek to sanction it with a kittyhawk statue ! @@marydavis5234

​​@@marydavis5234you say the pledge every day at school and sing the national anthem for regular season domestic sports games 😂

@@Broodjemetbeleg wrong, the pledge of allegiance has not been done at schools ,since the 1970s, don’t believe everything that is on the internet for any country as being 100%true.

@@marydavis5234they were doing it in 2010 when I was at school

The U.S. is an ignorant corporate shithole unfortunately

Why???

the kind who know its bad but engage in docile compliance due to a false belief that nothing could be changed? ... thats not the kind of American you need more off!

If you ever visit the U.S., do not call anyone a yankee, as it’s an insult and racist to African Americans

This! The more people that learn, and spread awareness the less they'll be able to get away with it. More people will lean towards growing and rearing their own food. Eventually something will have to change.

"Did you have your 5 pieces of fruit today?" "I have 5 bowls of fruit loops. It counts. Has fruit in it"

My partner visited NYC to visit some US friends earlier this year and had the s**ts for the full 5 days there 😂😂😂 We wanted to take a trip to the US all together to take our little one Disney world but after seeing so much about food production we have decided to change our trip plans to Disney Tokyo where we'll be able to find safe food. It's sad 😢 but the best option for us.

Just look at their stomachs...

Every thing is sweeter as going back there was massive subsidys on corn, and as such corn syrup ended up in everything as a sweetener including bread and they don't use even use sugar in American coke it's corn syrup.

Isn't salted butter a thing everywhere? I've never heard of sweet butter but we have Salted butter in France

@@Psukhe_katharos Most butter is salted in the UK, but I don't think it is generally sweetened.

Greedy corporations.

Yes, people should always drink organic milk.

That's more or less it, and considering all the lobbying that goes on in the US, it's easy to see how corners are cut to boost profits, in other words, to hell with consumers interest, corporate profits is all that counts.

UK HAD very high food standards because of the EU. You could see the decline of all standards in the UK once it left the EU, including food standards. Now the UK has to provide phytosanitary certificates to export food items to the EU because of the deviations that the UK has made, or announced making, from the standards that govern in the EU.

​@@PDVism EU wants more off the UK purely and simply because we aren't in the EU. Every trade sector has been affected nothing to do with a drop in standards. It was the UK that pushed for a ban on moving livestock and improving animal welfare many EU countries were not in favour due to the expense to their farmers.

@@sarahwhyld5596 ROFLMAO sure mate, sure. The EU just can't wait to have fish from your shit filled rivers or want shell fish from your shores where your sewage companies dump raw sewage. IF the UK rules where BETTER than the EU then the EU would have no issue with it without additional certificates. Food safety is SO high in the UK that "by 15 March 2024, 300 salmonella cases have been reported in Estonia (n=3), Finland (n=98), France (n=16), Germany (n=2), Ireland (n=7), the Netherlands (n=1), and the UK (n=173)" Or to put differently, there have been more salmonella cases in the UK than all cases in the entire EU combined. No doubt you'll claim that it was the EU's fault.

I see the other guy left them.

@@phoenix-xu9xj yes Stefan,

​@@phoenix-xu9xjI believe it was mentioned once he has exams to do.

@@AmberPanda thank you, yes at the end of term.

US is socialist, they just get bad value for way they implement it (pay enough for public health, education, regulation but get crap outcomes).

I agree, and better driving standards too.

My daughter had/s a problem with E numbers. Can’t remember which ones. She’s still not allowed naughty sweets and Drinks. She’s 24. Her son, he’s only allowed ‘nice sweets’ and not naughty sweets’. His mum doesn’t agree. I only get him stuff I know won’t make him naughty. He loves grangran sweets! X

shhhhhhh

The chicken chlorination issue is widely misunderstood. It isn’t actually the chlorine wash itself that’s the main problem - though it’s bad enough - it’s the reason why it is required. The hygiene standards for raising battery hens in the US are much lower, so to compensate for that the carcasses have to be sterilised - thus the chlorine wash.

there's also a wide gap in the quantity of chlorine that the food industry is allowed to use in the US and the EU. If i remenber our allowed dosage in the EU is half of the american. The main problem with it isn't chlorine in itself, but the byproducts born from chemical reactions, they're called chloroforms. And you will be happy to learn that the whole salad and plant based industry is currently abandonning it in favor of acethic acid or peracethic acid.

Just made a loaf this morning with those ingredients. Yummy.

It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if this was the case (I’m from England as well)

@@JennyAmponsah it just seems to much of a coincidence to me. I dunno.. something seems off

@@TheJaxxT I agree with you. It’s terrible

@@JennyAmponsah it’s all very suspicious

The car industry, and the gun industry $$$$$ it’s all about the money NOT the people.

Mt dew is a lemon and lime soda.

I've had the American version. Just tastes of sugar and artificial crap. Not nice at all.

The reason for not washing raw chicken is that it will splash the harmfull bacteria around your kitchen potentially contaminating other things, cooking it kills the bacteria. Also without bacteria chicken would be completely tasteless so that's another good reason to not bleach it.

Just buy free-range organic