Americans React to US vs UK Cost of Groceries - Kroger vs Tesco Prices 

Yeah, based off the comments I'm seeing so far, those are definitely good things to point out! Love your channel and it's really cool to get to see a perspective from someone who lives both places equally. :)

@@reactingtomyroots thanks so much!

Hi.

I would agree, except that the lower 'clubcard' and equivalent prices are our normal prices and they basically made up those higher prices following the lockdowns to increase profits. Tesco and the others don't take away those 'Clubcard' prices because they would lose to many customers and have loads of complaints. The only 'special' prices in Tesco are when they match the cheaper Aldi prices and those do get moved to products as Aldi change theirs. Even though Lidl is generally just as cheap as Aldi in the UK.

I'm so glad they reacted to you because you are so right. Hugs 🤗

You don't pay VAT on unprocessed food.

Luxury food has VAT added on

@@trevorbromidge2076 makes no difference, the price you see in the UK is the price you pay. So all those products are even cheaper than she is saying in the video.

@@EarthlyEden1 I agree, but do the Americans pay tax on the final trolley load or are some foods tax free?

@@lindakirk698 define luxury!!

Just to add the loyalty cards for any store are free, these are not sale prices

Here in Cyprus pure honey(not mixed)one klo ia about 10Euros feeerange eggs are 3Euros predozen I am lucky becouse my nextdoor nabour gives me eggs chattergel cheese 13Euto per klo

​@@xarisstylianouthat's some expensive cheese wow 😯

That's expensive? @@madyottoyotto3055 That's dirt-cheap. Try some Ossau-Irraty @ 35 euro per kilo. Even Tesco Mature Cheddar is 20 euro per kilo.

The tomatoes we buy are usually in season in the summer months and are therefore UK grown as well as from the Netherlands, but out of season are more likely to come from places like Morocco.

Definitely!!

Sorry to burst your bubble, but whilst caged hens are banned across Europe (incl. the UK), the regulations are loose and Barn Eggs are the equivalent of the 'No Cage Eggs' in the US, as was mentioned here. For 'Free Range' a small area outside of a 'Barn' can allowed for the chicken to 'roam', though a small door in the side of a building, whether they do or not is a moot point. Only 'Organic Free Range' can be assumed to be from a hen with a large space outside to 'free range' as we expect it to be. Last year (and probably this) all hens had to be brought inside due to a risk they may be contanimated by wild birds carrying Bird Flu so we haveto take that into account, probably not a US problem as most wild birds don't cross the Atlanic or Pacific oceans. Caged, Barn, Free Range, Organic Free Range, Pasture Fed: marketing guys are assholes.

Pretty sure farm foods eggs are caged hens, used to buy them and they were tiny! Remember reading on the packet. Edit just looked it up and they are caged hens

@@definitelynotatroll246 I have never heard of Farm Foods before. Had to look them up. They haven't any shops near where I live. They have agreed to fall into line with the other supermarkets. Will stop selling eggs from caged hens by 2025.

@@grahamsmith9541 interesting I thought farm foods were nation wide. It’s kinda like another Iceland just mainly budget foods

Lindsey mentioned honey, which the US allows to contain so many pieces of bees or other products which have a maximum quantity of rodent faeces etc.

@TheGarryq ugh! How can that happen? I must remember to never buy American food, let alone eat it! Thanks for the warning ⚠️ 🙂

@@sueguyan8101 Cheaper Supermarket honey in Britain is usually a blend of EU honey. There are a lot of British local honeys freely available.

@@sueguyan8101 Also be warned about GMO's = Genetically Modified Organisms, invented in a petri dish in a lab and NOT natural. The main side effect as far as i know is ADHD/Hyperactivity, problems concentrating etc affecting kids but can also affect adults. I visited a friend in the US a while back and all FIVE of her kids were medicated for ADHD. The 1st thing they grabbed in the morning was a Twinkie ughhh!!!! Here in the UK Twinkies, well ALL Hostess cakes etc Reeces and Hershey products {{ actually, basically all American foods sold here }} have a WARNING on the boxes/wrappers that they can cause ADHD, Poor or Lack of Concentration, Hyperactivity etc. However, the FDA and companies like Hostess do not permit WARNINGS on the boxes/wrappers in the US. It's very scary btw..... While in the US I saw a guy in the garage 1 morning grab 4 Twinkie bars and say, "That should help me make it through the morning" 😵😵 So, the adults know the effect of what they eat, yet still allow their kids to eat it ughhh!!!! I found that shocking. Then the poor kids end up on some heavy duty meds, which have serious side effects. I took photos of the warnings and showed them to friends in the US, they were shocked that this was hidden from them. I thought i was letting my sons eat healthier foods by getting them cereals, HUGE mistake. When we got back home i researched and found that is where a lot of the GMOs get into foodstuffs, is via grains 😡. I have asked big companies like Kelloggs and Nestle about their use of GMO crops. I either got no reply or a response you would need a team of lawyers to unravel 🙈........ HEADS UP on the Honey, don't go spending huge sums on Manuka because experts have proven that LOCAL honey is just as good when it comes to it's health benefits. Mainly due to it not needing transported thousands of miles, losing it's potency. As you will know, it's also a fraction of the price of Manuka.

@@christiner302 I remember watching a programme on TV about the health benefits of honey. The experts on it said not to waste money on expensive Manuka honey as local honey was just as beneficial as Manuka for a fraction of the price.

You can also go a lot more expensive . She also compared standard chicken and beef to Americans organic versions. Not like for like

@@simonpe3trie102 given the differences in food standards, comparing to American organic products is probably the fairest comparison.

Tesco is a good middle of the road choice though. She could have gone more expensive OR cheaper, that's the point.

I mean, if we really wanted to go middle of the road, Sainsbury’s would’ve been the best bet and they do actually have an organic range

@@exeterman2 I mean in terms of quality standards maybe but this was also about price and that can drastically fluctuate when you go to organic massively that’s if she can even get hold of organic not to mention pasteurised

What I found was the homogeneised milk went rotten, not off when timed out. We went to a farm to get our milk fresh .

UK here, I agree, the crap that's allowed in US food is quite shocking, also I always thought/assumed US groceries were cheaper than our prices, etc. When I visited over there, it always seemed so odd not to have tax included within each retail price. It was always added on, afterwards at the checkout, when totalling your purchases? Bad additives & other substances/chemicals are allowed in their food that are banned in Europe & other countries, which is pretty shocking?

These days in the UK, the success of Lidl and Aldi have forced other supermarkets to ‘match’ prices on popular vegetables, like carrots.

@@ritamarshall2644maybe a little more than just the price of carrots tbf😅 I mean seeing 12 large carrots cost all of 50p there wasn’t much to work wit lol

@@ritamarshall2644 An old friend in his eighties who had a lifetime as a fruit and vegetables wholesaler told me that at Christmas, Tesco were selling sprouts at a loss of around 50p a bag. He knew the source and the pricing.

Though, getting them from Spain, is actually less distance than New York to Texas

@@pesmerga182 Bananas are imported from South America, so they definitely have a longer way to the UK.

Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Most bananas in the UK are Cavendish bananas originally developed there. Interesting fact!

New York to Texas is still domestic, so no import costs

As happened last year, importing fruit and veg from Southern Europe and Africa may become a thing of the past with Global Warming. We may end up looking like the Netherlands, acres and acres of glasshouses. As for crops that like frost such as Brassicas, forget it, Sprouts and Swede will never taste the same.

Apparently chlorinating food doesn't remove salmonella. The salmonella curls up out of sight and will be reactivated when prepared for cooking/eating. This particularly applies to raw chicken.

Either way we put it in the fridge anyways 😂

@@jasonhosein5328 In Europe eggs are kept unrefrigerated in stores and typically at home. That is the difference.

In the UK baby chicks are vaccinated against salmonella , not sure about the EU though. Look for the Lion mark if you're pregnant and want to eat eggs.

@@nurtureyourchild I think it is the same with the EU. These rules came out while UK was in EU.

American meat would be allowed to be sold in the UK. The "additives" that are added to cattle feed are mostly not allowed in the UK or EU.

What do you honestly believe that the UK put more chemicals in the water the only reason you don't see it is UK use numbers I grow all my veg in the UK I've had some apples from Tesco they have been in my fridge for 3 weeks and what about the 6500 sewerage leaks into the sea in a year

Really? Aspartame in drinks, that is highly toxic, packs of oranges, limes, lemons in ALL SUPERMARKETS including Home Bargins, and Iceland all have been treated with a cocktail of poisonous toxins for a longer shelf life. Its in small writing on all the labels. The loose fruit have no taste, no seeds, and no juice! Hexafluorasilic acid in our tap drinking water, toxic. Chlorine highly toxic, kills all bacteria including the good. Our food and air as being polluted, by heavy metals.

Better of buying straight from organic farms, better for us all to support the organic farmers

@@johnwaller4033”chemicals” the one they tend to add is flouride but even then its not all counties just some. Most people live near reservoirs/in the country as well so thats fresh fresh. All you need to do it look online and uoud see we have some of the best water in the word

When my cousin from Michigan visits us in NE Scotland she's out for real fish and chips also she says our mince is vastly better!

I think what is missing from this is US wages. Outside of the service sector US salaries are significantly higher than UK salaries.

​@archwombat9250 Exactly what comes to my mind when I see these types of videos. I'm a software engineer, so get a decent salary by British standards, but whenever I see the potential salary in America for a comparable role, I have a small heart attack 😂

@@Draiscor yup. I’m an Architect and my mate also an Architect recently moved to Atlanta with his American wife. His salary puts my (also decent) salary to shame. But his cost of living swallows up most of that increase.

@@archwombat9250 All of that extra wage goes on paying for exhobinant Healthcare insurance, that Brits have already paid for in taxes. So when comparing the two, you must look at all factors, not just how much is paid.

Bidenomics

​@@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066Bullshit. That ratio has been the same since before Obama. After COVID, prices are up 25% around the world.

Almost all foods.

To be fair, we are told that Americans earn at least 30% more than Brits so that may account for it.

@@mdcclxxviepluribusunum1066 Biden has brought inflation down in the US better than most other developed countries, so THAT is Bidenomics. We have all had inflation so please do not say that is Biden's fault. Covid hangover.

I’m drooling 😊

Can I come?😊

Leg is better cooked so it's still pink. Our local farm shop does lovely lamb and leave the fillet on. I sometimes buy the shoulder and take the fillet off, then I slow roast the shoulder so it can pull apart. I then quick cook the fillet leaving it pink so you get lamb cooked two ways.

red wine gravy? please can i have the recipe. cauliflower cheese though, I dunno.lamb is fatty and cheese with it might send the bloodclot ...sorry just had a stroke.

Don't forget we don't wash our eggs. As that removes the protective layer from the shell. So american eggs would be illegal to sell over here.

Eggs and salmonella The British Lion mark on eggs means that they have been laid by hens vaccinated against salmonella and they have been produced to the highest standards of food safety. Find out more about the story of the British Lion scheme.

@@THJahar Aren't UK laying hens vaccinated against salmonella, making washing un-neccesary?

⁠@@dougbrowning82 All of the eggs in the UK with the lion mark come from hens that are vaccinated against salmonella and flocks of hens are routinely tested.This has drastically reduced instances of this infection to very low levels. In the US the FDA states that there are around 142,000 reported instances of salmonella per year. Because eggs in the UK are not cleaned to protect the membrane this has driven higher hygiene & welfare standards to naturally produce a clean egg. In the US, chemical detergents and sanitizers are used which removes the dirt as well as the membrane. The downsides are that the cleaning water must be changed before it loses efficacy and when the refrigerated eggs are transported home they can get wet through condensation which may lead to bacterial growth. There is also a practice in 10% of production that coats the eggs with protective mineral oil, although it is in decline due to cost. The US producers state that inoculation against salmonella for laying hens would add 14 cents per egg to costs. Either process achieves a similar result. I personally prefer the UK/EU method as it avoids chemicals and results in better treatment of the hens. Common practice is when cracking raw eggs always wash your hands even though the eggs are usually very clean. Then again I would do the same in the US due to the chance of moisture allowing bacterial growth.

@@dougbrowning82 Yes the chickens are vaccinated as chicks but we also keep a check on the production facilities. As a person who was a cleaner in a chicken factory I know the standard of hygiene is high. I worked on the Truss Line which is where the prepared whole chicken is then "Tidied up" (the legs banded together and the wings tucked beneath the body so that they fit onto the food tray and are wrapped) which I had to wash and dry the dual stainless steel work counters ( total length 120 feet)and the central conveyor belt (total length135 feet) that ran down the length of the work area three times a day in a normal shift (usually when the girls were on break 15,30 and 10) The lab tech would take swab samples of the cleaned area on a regular basic which was then checked in the in house laboratory. This factory (1 of 7 owned by our boss) processed 110,000 chickens a day and it did not smell nor was any part dirty as even the exterior area was regularly swept by a road sweeper style machine. Great Job, smashing work mates (22 gals and 2 other blokes on my line) and a wonderful boss who came to the factory floor every day to check everything was ok. 5 years which were some of best in my working life. sorry for the length but only way I could explain.😃😃🧡

It is a sale price if you have a club price as it’s not that the discounted price is permanent . It changes about every 3 weeks.

Anyone can get a clubcard. It has nothing to do with loyalty.

And targets you based on the data they harvest from it! 😢

I'm a checkout operator in Tesco. Last xmas I had a customer who was buying GBP90 of Alcohol he didn't have a club card so we "borrowed" the card of following customer which knocked GBP30 off his bill, which he was very happy about and the owner of the club card accrued an extra 60 points everyone's a winner@@AzuraeLyonheart

It's intended to promote loyalty (although there is nothing to stop you joining a similar scheme for other supermarkets) @@Coolcarting

Because English can't add. They spend too much time in the dole queue and Wetherspoons.

don't forget to tip at your local Tesco before you leave

@SmearCampaignUK Horse? You mean tall cow. Don't go blaming Tesco for their French meat wholesalers fraudulently labelling their produce.

@SmearCampaignUK Honestly I really didn't care if my food goes moo or neigh, since horse meat is edible and there are no laws against it in the UK. The issue was not that horse meat was used, the real scandal was that Tesco was claiming horse meat to be beef and calling it a "beef lasagne" and not "lasagne", mostly because horse meat is less fatty than beef and thus circumvent certain UK laws restricting the fat content in ready meal products.

Shopped several times in the U.S, and taxes was added after the fact. Europe and the tax baked in. This woman is a dumbass.

Which makes British beef far less tasty. American beef is way better by far.

@@Coolcartingnot what I heard. I heard that all that hormones etc make the beef less tasty, but I hevent been to compare so I don’t know just what I’ve been told

​@@CoolcartingAmerican beef is dreadful, as is all their meat/poultry. Artificial tasting rubbish.

​@@kevinstewart1805you're correct. It really is flavourless.

@@kevinstewart1805 I lived in Florida for 25 years. Trust me.

Same here, I start off in Aldi and then go to Tesco for the rest.

I shop nearly exclusively at Lidl but drop into tesco and Sainsbury's for particular items, and to raid the yellow stickers if passing😂

@@vladd6787 👍

@@RollerbazAndCoasterDad 👍

indeed, but there are a whole load of shenanigans going on worldwide with honey, to the point where it is getting almost impossible for even scientists to determine if what they are looking at is honey or a fake!

If you're talking items like Greek Yoghurt vs "Greek Style Yoghurt", then yes but honey isn't the best example. Adulterated in many cases.

A study found 90% of the honey in uk was supposedly fake, but I might be wrong. Good video though!😊

You're putting too much trust into these retailers. Tesco isn't collecting the honey themselves, their suppliers could being doing anything. The vast majority of honey in the UK has been found to be fake

​@peonyblossominmay you can taste and feel the difference in real honey, also if you put real honey in the fridge it will become yellowish white, if it has syrup or any other thing it will not ... I don't know which study this is the results from m ... But what I know is, if a super market (grocery store) says that what your buying is real honey 100% and is not the consequences are so heavy and so bad for your business that no one will risk it to earn a little more money It's not that it can't happen bad not a lot will risk geting caught. ..... Real honey a jar 1L or 1kgr flower honey (that blonde) will be 15/25€ and wild honey (much darker colour) will be 20/30€ That's how you know it's real Farmermarket is even more expensive than that But last for a long time (even if you use it every day) aslo you can't rat as much bcs is heavy One last thing (I don't know if is a choice in the U.S.A ) in the ingredients list here it will say only thr tape of honey nothing else + info if you want to visit the bee(farm)

I only use Jersey milk, straight from the cow, buy it from a local famer @ £1 per 2 litres

​@@georgebarnes8163 You are so lucky, you can tell the high quality milk, a day in the fridge and you have that lovely cream in the neck of the bottle.

@@pauldurkee4764 I would not go back to shop milk again, I use the Jersey milk for cheese and butter, saves me a small fortune over the year with the added bonus in the fun making the cheese and butter. I am very lucky to have a few farm shops around me that sell top quality produce for peanut prices.

@@pauldurkee4764 Tesco also do a premier Jersey Milk, it is in a traditional Bottle shape and it's absolutely delicious, more expensive of course but well worth it.

@@stephensmith4480 I think they do their own brand, but also stock Graham's Channel Islands milk.

Same in the north of Scotland

​Most of Northern England too. The Pennines and North Yorkshire are sheep central​@@pamelaadam9207

Yes, sheep thrive on marshland too soft for cattle and rugged hilly terrain with little pasture as they will graze on bushes too.

@@pamelaadam9207 And the North of England, in fact, any where it is hilly and craggy and gnarly

It's the nicest of the meats but I personally can't eat much of it, mind you in a kebab I can finish the lot but as with beef and pig different parts of the animal taste different to other parts.

Yeh I think our farmed salmon is Scottish, but the wild stuff comes from Norway.

I don’t think baby potatoes are the same as new potatoes they are just small potatoes not the same thing at all 👍🤓🇬🇧

It says farmed in Norway if you zoom in

I know this is not mass production but i have seen oranges grown in a garden near Corsham, Wilts. I couldn't believe it but they looked great. They also had grapes and other fruits but i can't remember what, maybe peaches loll It was weird to see.

What?!?! I live here and I am grateful to have access to fairly affordable food, but good food?? Struggle to find that here (or where I live, anyway). I go to other European countries for good food.

I also live "here" but in a country of 67million "here" is subjective. We have the highest food standards in the world and also top 1/2 country's in the world for food affordability. @@sg-vp2qg

it's good standard off food @@sg-vp2qg

Interesting, it's true though half of what you said we do take for granted in the UK, without ever working anywhere else we have nothing to compare it too. The NHS has been a life saver for me, its true wages are low compared to other countries but my lad has been a type 1 diabetic since 5 years old and insulin/needles/dexcom is astronomical in price all paid for by the NHS, so definitely don't complain about being on lower wages

Private health insurance is way better.

​@@Brandon_letsgouk NHS system is expensive via national insurance and is terrible. USA pay less for insurance and get a much better speed of service and the highest quality in the world

@@Brandon_letsgo no, it’s not! I lived the majority of my life in a private run health care system and the only winners are insurance companies and their shareholders! If you think that because you have private health insurance in the UK then you are comparing apples and oranges. The only reason why private insurance is very cheap here is because everyone has free access to NHS. Privatisation will lead to massive increases in costs while not solving waiting times. We are seeing NHS doctors who run side businesses that would come to a grinding halt if the service was privatised.

​@@timothyshanks6799uhh...tou really think that? I've had American healthcare, it was... Shit, and expencive, and people with no medical knowledge tried to block my treatments when doctors requested it. I have a friend who is now disabled because an insurance company refused for years to allow her treatment that multipul doctors said was necessary, now its untreatable. The doctors I had frankly weren't good, a couple were nice but the rest had given up by the looks of it and genuinely didn't care about people anymore, it was the most depressing third world piece of shit I've seen

That’s why we buy fruits in season.

The strawberries are much better quality during the summer months .

And even cheaper if you go out to the strawberry farm and pick your own, I live in Kent and we have the best strawberries.

yeah and the easy peelers werent the cheap oranges.

They also compared a UK butter around half the size of their US version. So of course it's going to be around half the price. From a UK perspective most US produce is cheaper. Because the US $ is currently 27% cheaper than the UK £. They don't seem to factor that in. UK produce also tends to be inferior quality, with far more spoilage. In general UK grocery stores don't sell fresh quality produce. And farmers markets that sell good stuff are expensive. Greengrocers vanished long ago where I live.

British Strawberries are superior in taste, they develop naturally and get that lovely flavour, I never buy those forced Strawberries you see out of season, pale in colour and no taste.

Small US fruit tends to be forced hydroponic rubbish

The price of strawberries in the U.K. are dependent on the time of year. In the mid summer (during Wimbledon) and in the winter they’re more expensive than the rest of the year.

Scottland grows alot of strawberries and berries, suprising but in the summer we have alot of light 3.30am to 10pm but iv come out of a nightclub at 3am total day light odd eating a kebab in daylight.

English and Scottish Strawberries are the best in the world without a doubt.

While it is true that virtually all milk pasteurised (unpasteurised 'raw' milk can only be sold direct from the farm that produced it) it is also the case that the vast majority of milk is also homogenised. This is why, unlike in my childhood, the cream doesn't rise to the top of the bottle (which is the point of homogenisation--to spread the fat evenly through the milk). Channel Island (Jersey and Guernsey) milk tends to be both higher in fat content and unhomogenised. Back in the day of doorstep deliveries, this was denoted by the gold coloured foil caps.

Did you notice the price of butter remained the same but the package is smaller

@@MrPaulMorris Us old farts remember the days before homogenisation. The pints the milk man left on the door step had a thick glob of cream on the top which was delicious to us kids. Only problem was we had to get the pints in before the birds got to peck the bottle tops and slurp up all that creamy goodness.

I've seen a few of Ur videos and watched your video on Scottish new year earlier and commented. Now find myself commenting again to tell you that the cost of living in Scotland is cheaper in comparison to living in England.

And Gold Top !!!​@@Drew-Dastardly

Agree with this, my local farm does lovely double yolk eggs free range for 2 quid a half dozen.

If you have a local source it's the only sensible way to get your eggs.

Seriously! I HOPE AND I BET THAT YOUR EGGS TASTED GREAT TOO 👍!

UK here. It's the same down here in the "home counties" = fresh farm, free range eggs are cheaper than the supermarkets, whatever the size, which is great & we re-use/recycle our egg boxes, trays, etc, which helps the environment too

I have to admit I was very surprised, as having lived in NYC for 18 years I never spent as much money on food shopping in NY as I do in England! But then I thought about how I mostly ate out in NY, therefore I didn’t grocery shop very often.

Both milks are the same white, it’s just the picture. UK milk tastes normal, US milk tastes like it’s watered down

@@kathleenchilcote9127 aaah someone a little bitter… unlike you I can afford to travel and live everywhere… It’s know that Us milk has lower standards, even Canada won’t let it in… so enjoy your water bitter Kathleen 😂😂

@@adrianday That's true. I've been to the US several times and the milk is always watery and lacking flavour.

Appreciate that! :) Thanks for watching

That is the same in Australia - in fact, our agricultural industry was said to be 'built on the sheep's back'.

That is my favourite meal! My Nan made the best slow roasted leg of lamb 🥰

Lamb is also good on the BBQ.

@@russcattell955i Agreed, but to enter the lamb rabbit hole, personally I'd prefer a roast hands-down

Yep. Best roazt and also best curry and best kebabs

@@RollerbazAndCoasterDad Lamb's just a legend 😋

Yep. Super safe, even when it’s rotten when cracked open😏

Also, not sure why she compared 6 eggs UK to 12 eggs US. 2x6 eggs are always more expensive than 1x12 so she should have done a straight comparison using a 12 box in each country.

​@silverfireUK I agree I was like she could've of compared 12 eggs from each country

@@silverfireUK if this was a recent video, a lot of Tesco shops don’t currently stock a dozen eggs (supply issues I think). She could have done half a dozen in the US though.

​@@saieladythat's not salmonella

I filter mine as I live in a hard water area. Lime scale is a pain in the rear (my poor kettle, ☹).

Some parts of the UK does have fluoride in our water. The decision about whether to add fluoride to the water supply is made by individual local authorities.

"as a similar product doesn't seem to exist in US" - heavy cream?

​@simhedgesrex7097 my uncle married a woman from Minneapolis, my aunt says they aren't the same, it's more akin to what we call whipping cream

Double cream is almost half percentage fat

@@sharonkemp1454 Ah, so significantly lighter than double cream. Thanks.

Try getting half-n-half in the UK 😢

My daughter only really shops at Tesco (& Tesco Express), The Co-op, and other local shops such as Costcutter or our nearest "Deli" ...we use the Tesco Clubcard, and the Co-op Membership* card - but since becoming disabled, I don't go out to shop these days so I forget what that card* is called!!🤔) 😊❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🖖

I agree. We buy most of our groceries at Lidl, and then go on to Tesco for some things they stock that we particularly like.

LIDL are significantly cheaper than Walmart in the USA and they sell many products in smaller quantities. I was in Atlanta last year.

Shit goes out of date by the time you take it home tho lmao

No they aren't. Aldi very over rated. If you want no choice and short dates it is ok

I find most standard grocery items are pretty much exactly the same price at Lidl & Aldi as Tesco and Sainsburys. For the generic stuff like milk, bread, fruit, veg, mince, chicken breast, tinned goods etc etc The brands can vary but usually cheaper whoever is currently offering the special price and often that means even Waitrose is the cheapest! There are some things that are cheaper in the german discount stores sure, but not loads, alot if just price matched by the other supermarkets now.

As food is zero rated for VAT, most prices would be unchanged if we followed the US practice of not including sales tax on the advertised prices. I think only the toothpaste and toothbrush in this video actually attract VAT. I don't know if sales tax is charged on food in the US (or rather by the individual states as sales tax is not federally levied) or whether the original content creator took this into account.

I know what a bizarre concept!

Yeah those were ‘finest’ oranges

Peppers don't magically just change colour in the window. 😂😂😂 They're different kinds of peppers, some might not be fully ripe, but they're not going to magically change variety sitting in a window. That's the dumbest fucking thing I've heard in a long time.

Agreed, lamb is the king of meats 🥰🥰

That’s what I did for Christmas lunch. I had about 15 coming so I did two legs in the slow cooker the day before- one was traditional the other was a curry. Delicious !

Fruit and veg is GMO'd to death in the states. Huge and tasteless apparently.

I have them on my cereal every day when they are in season. SO delicious. I live on the south coast of England where they are in abundance for a little longer. 😊

Same here in France but it’s rare to find them in winter not even imported

Yes, it's worth adding this lady winters in Texas so I'd think local seasonal fruits would still have been quite plentiful when this video was made.

Can't beat a British strawberry 🍓 for taste

Absolutely one of my favourite meats

As a kid my mam used to do a lamb roast dinner for us every sunday. It was cheap new zealand lamb then the EU interfered n we had to stop getting it n the price rose rapidly !!! To this day a leg if lamb is a luxury compared to even the best cut of steak !!!

It’s a shame she didn’t compare breakfast cereals because they are CRAZY expensive in the U.S.

It is toxic waste from aluminium manufacturing.

@@LulaJakeeverything is waste from something else. Regardless of that it still has some benefits to human health

Add bonus those extra help reducing tooth decay 😂

​@@melissajane9652 why do they want to stop tooth decay when dentistry is such a money spinner!

Coming out of the EU has already affected the variety and quality of food available in the supermarkets. 5 years ago, it was excellent. Now its slowly getting worse. No more EU market & food quality regulations.

Living in Ca and Tx are two of the most expensive states with high cost of living.

@@gart9680yeah I miss horse meat in my burgers. EU standards? 😂

Bread was the most shocking thing in an American shop to me, when I was in Maine there were no loafs under $2. The cheapest loafs in the UK are like 20p.

Not far off cheapest I've found is 45p.

Appreciate the insight! Thanks :)

I was thinking the same thing like with the bread she didn’t point out that at the end of the aisle is a bakery with the fresh uncut bread.

Not in our supermarkets in my town . We have a large Tesco extra supermarket. No butcher, bakery (separate nice bread area ) fishmongers or deli . We did have them but no longer.

@@mair6406indeed - Sainsburys and Tesco stripped out all manned counters now to save money 🙄

Do you still have those departments in your Supermarkets? We don't in my area. Busy suburban area but all our big mega store versions of Tesco, Sainsburys, Waitrose and Asda have all closed their counters now. I thought that was across the board in uk but obviously not if you still have them. Lucky you!

Sushi takeaway has recently replaced the massive deli counter in my local big tescos. What your saying is a thing morrisons tried to make their unique selling point a little while back (Market street which i dont think has been/is/was super super successful) but the trend has certainly been away from the separate areas your talking about.

Can second this, Norfolk is very rural and there are a lot of farms you can directly buy produce from. There are also some shops around that tie in with local farmers, so sometimes you can even find them in local shops ands stores.

They used to - but then we left the European Union ... anything goes now While travelling to Scotland a couple of weeks ago, I stopped at a KFC ... I've done it many times for years .. But this time, I could tell it wasn't chicken I was eating - it was another animal done in batter and spices (and they were stingy on the spices this time, I noticed - which is how I could tell something was wrong)

@@jazzx251 that sounds horrible. I've only experienced dodgy diet Pepsi that was inported from outside the EU and had Arabic writing on the ingredients

In some places fluoride is added, but not in others. The maximum allowed is 1.5mg per litre. Most of England has under 0.5mg per litre.

Fluoride is not added to the water where I live, there is a big poster in my dentist saying so lol

In Scotland no public drinking water supply is currently fluoridated and naturally occurring fluoride, in general, is less than 0.1 mg/l.

I live in Scotland but have family in England. I don't like the taste of the water with fluoride in it. It tastes sweeter and metallic tasting.

According to the Scottish Water website, no public drinking water supply is currently fluoridated in Scotland. The initiative for fluoridation of any water supply lies with local NHS health boards. They have to undertake a full public consultation exercise before applying to Scottish Water to add fluoride to the water supply. The onus is on the NHS health boards to demonstrate that a significant majority are in favour of the proposal. In addition, there are significant practical and logistical issues which would need to be considered carefully by all parties involved,

I imagine so! It's pretty crazy, the difference

We had friends visit from North Carolina to travel around Northern Ireland for a week and when they walked around Asda they were blown away by the price difference. And it's only gotten worse over the past year for them..

I don't buy in Tesco. Not happy with the price or quality but mozzarella cheese can be as little as 50p and you can buy a loaf of bread for as little as 47p. Our milk is generally homogenised

I don't buy in Tesco either. I prefer Morrisons, Aldi ​@@gillfox9899

I can buy a case of 30 large eggs free range for under £4.

Most UK supermarkets have 12 and 15 packs of free range eggs, including Tesco.

Absolutely correct!

I really wiah the greengage season was longer. Definitely my favourite plum.

National Insurance does not pay for the NHS. It's just another income tax, but the gov uses it to determine your entitlement to certain benefits and the State Pension.

if you are working and earn over a certain amount you pay National Insurance. But all you need for free healthcare is to be a resident in the UK with an NI number - all UK Citizens have that. So if you have never worked in your life you can still access the NHS - for free. @@BobBroon-k2t

Groceries are zero rated we dont pay tax on food shopping in the uk

Depending on the state, there is no Tax on food. I know that Arizona and California there is no tax on food.

There’s no tax on food in MD, DE, or PA. Also, what store is Krogers? All of those prices seemed high to me.

regular groceries don't get taxed in the US

I would add that Harris Tweed (primarily woven in Lewis and which has the recognised Orb trademark) made from Scottish wools is an ongoing industry based on the islands although other tweeds have been added in the past 20 years. Also, Lewis lamb is spectacular in taste. They are basically free-range animals due to the type of husbandry applied in the islands. A diet of heather on the moors combined with hay from the crofts. It's taste is unique and differs from mainland scottish lamb and mutton. I know because I was born and raised there and had our own croft. I do remember NZ lamb flooding the country in the time period prior to the UK joining the EC (as it was known then). That import trade ended after EC membership.

Incomes in US alot.higher than UK so prices higher in US its all relative.

@@Herewithkop Not after you've spent half your salary on health care.

Lol you're wrong there, 25% of UK land area is used as cropped land already, and we produce 60% of our domestic food consumption, the rest is used as livestock areas but we are among the most fertile countries on earth, for our soil.

I’m sorry they don’t have a leg of lamb in the USA they are missing a great tasty treat

Yeah, that's really nice!

IMO lamb fat also makes the best roast potatoes

But soooo expensive

I love lamb but it is expensive so it is a treat I keep meaning to try Hoggit.

i'm sure she is a honey, but i don't think you should say that in front of her husband.

Ye things are tougher in uk now. However compared to America uk prices are still cheeper. RU-vidr Evan Edinger did a video on food prices in USA vs uk and near at the end of 2023 did a follow up & still prices in USA are more expensive than uk overall when you take the whole shop into account (rather than individual items).

@@EmilyCheethamTrue, but that video also showed the % change of the shop, which was much higher in the UK. So if you already struggling, a 10-15% increase will feel like it affects you alot more then a couple percent would.

Things have got considerable better over the last couple of months in the U.K. our big monthly shop went from around £90 to around £160 at the night and is back down to about £120 now.

The cost of living crisis is hitting all Western societies.

Our big supermarkets, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury's, asda, price match to Aldi & Lidl ( as they are cheaper)

The problem with farmed salmon is that it generally wipes out the wild salmon population in the area. Also the farmed salmon are packed into those pools and are often diseased or highly fatty. And we do colour the farmed salmon through their feed I'm afraid; they'd be grey without it.

We do colour our salmon by adding astaxanthin to the feed pellets. If we didn’t do this the salmon flesh would be white or greyish, wild salmon vary a lot in colour depending on their diet

Never buy farmed salmon. It’s still not on. Always buy WILD

Yes, most places colour the salmon here in the states... pretty gross!

It's not free range in a fish farm, they're crammed in and have lice, parasites and cancer which infects wild salmon and killing them off. They're fed unnatural food too and yes, sainsbury was caught dying salmon

As a U.K. gun owner that sounds like living to me lol

Not for us in Liverpool region. Mind you it's not all guns, machete seems to be the weapon of choice lately.

Would love to know which pub, so we could go and buy some?

@@Thurgosh_OG it's in Cadishead, Manchester.

I have hayfever but after eating locally produced honey from a bee keeper. I've found that I am less susceptible when the summer comes