Americans Try US vs UK Chocolate - Blindfolded Taste Test *Shocking* 

You can get dark chocolate orange and maltesrs, I have had reeces butter cup here in the uk which wasn't a favourite the chocolate is way to thick and hard this comes from a person who must be the only one who likes coffee chocolate 😉

Such a joy to watch, great fun. Best wishes from Belfast.

It’s really surprising to see that the ingredients for the chocolate orange are the same for both US and UK. And the fact that the US one is made in France 😂

i'm shocked by this.for me the essence of vomit in U.S chocolate is a firm no,but for people raised on it,it becomes natural. in some vids you say you look for better products,so maybe your not as honed on junk ingredients.

The elite way to eat chocolate is with a hot cup of tea…I might just join you…where’s my box of maltesers gone? 🤔

Who remembers when mars bars were the size of house bricks? I tell you one thing that is sadly not to be experienced this day... Snickers Crunchers.

Yeah i do remember Marathons ... they were bigger too. How is it that these bars like snickers and mars get smaller and smaller whilst dairy milks get bigger and bigger?

@@hardywatkins7737yep I remember marathons and opal fruits keep saying everything getting smaller!!! I had some wotsits the other day they have gone tiny!!

Have any of you seen how small the boost bar is now in the multi pack? It's not much bigger than a fun size.

Yupp. And "Marathon" was so much better a name that naming it after a derisive laugh.

When they did that I became a Galaxy girl can’t stand the taste of Cadbury now…

By UK law they still need to have a higher cocoa percentage to be callec chocolate compared to those required in the US

@@dukedex5043 For how much longer, I wonder ?

In Ireland, they didn't drop any of the ingredients, as far as I'm aware. I have heard irish cadbury tastes different, now I'm wondering if that's the reason why. Still love the taste of cadbury chocolate

@@russcattell955i Why do you think that?

Now that's a petition I can get behind 😂

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Absolutely right. When a couple of friends came over from the US to visit us, we would take them out (as they found our tiny, twisty roads really nerve-wracking). One time, feeling peckish, they bought some chocolate from a petrol station for a snack. The reaction was, much to our amusement, loud, joyous, Californian-style amazement. They bought more throughout their holiday and took some home for their daughter.

Truss me 😆🤣

Yeah Aldi stock one or two decent chocolate bars.

Sadly Aldi puts in more sugars than Thortons or Lidt, I am okay with a Cadbury bar from time to time (personal favourite is a wispa or gold wispa depending on day). However, it doesn't top for being the dogs bollocks, that goes too Lidt and Throtons, chocolate is just Divine and rich you feel fulfilled with a single bite for your chocoholic needs 😍

Aldi doesn't make the best dark chocolate, they ruined it with SO MUCH SUGAR, dark chocolate is delicious as an adult, as a kid though, I enjoyed original Cadbury milk chocolate till it got bought out by an American company -_- 😭

ew no, not a fan personally

Love chocolate as a brit..but you must try marabou chocolate ,its swedish but its soooo good 👍

And every time I hear about dove chocolate, I instantly gag a little because all I can think of is chocolate soap 😂

I bet our Dove Soap tastes better than US chocolate, 😂

​@@scottiebainbridge7871😂😂 yup!

It actually is here, too, so I'm not sure why they chose to name it that 😂

Galaxy Dove UK used to be ice-cream covered in galaxy chocolate.

It is due to there milk and having a lack of access to sugar, whilst Europe can easily import sugar, America can not, they use substitutes which is why you have a nasty after taste with American chocolate. When I ate a hershys bar, I just threw the part bitten bar straight into a bin, that taste of puke flavour 🤢 nah, our British chocolate doesn't have it. I will give it credit, corn syrup can be nice, just not in chocolate, us Brits enjoy corn syrup in certain products, yet it is a banned production product, has some health concerns including the possible risk of heightened blood sugar levels, hence natrual is best.

I remember watching an item on BBC News many years ago. They had two versions of British chocolate bars, one made in the UK and the second in Europe. They were at the Eurostar terminal at Gare du Nord in Paris. It was one of the times when the -Fourth Reich- EU were trying to alter the way we manufactured our food and chocolate. We were being told that to call it chocolate, the amount of cocoa solids had to be increased. The reporter was stood there and an assistant stood next to him with two plates. On each plate there was a chocolate bar (I think it was a Mars bar) cut into pieces. One of the people they stopped had a piece of each and savoured each piece. The reporter then asked which one he preferred. He smiled and replied “I know I’m supposed to say that one.” pointing at one of the plates. He continued in a much lower voice “But I prefer that one; I love British chocolate.” Turned out he was a Belgian chocolatier!

Yeah it's pretty amazing!

@@enkisdaughter4795 I wish we were still in the fourth reich. They were less influenced by the Murdoch extremists.

The milk used in some American chocolate contains butyric acid as a preservative. This is also present in Parmesan cheese and human vomit.

Thank you! Appreciate you watching :)

Always will Steve).@@reactingtomyroots

Lady wife 😂 is there a different kind of wife ?

Yes, a wife that is not a lady, and enough of those exist.@@misslday9848

Still banging though. Always liked Terrys chocolate over Nestles

I'm not a fan of the mint ones. It's just not very good mint chocolate as mint chocolate goes. The orange ones are still ok but i thought i noticed a change a couple of years back. They seemed more sickly and more of a perfume orange smell.

The same happened when the yanks brought Cadbury! Hardly any Cadburys is made in England anymore 😢

@@Aloh-od3ef….The country was up in arms when the Cadbury family sold their factory to an American buyer, the chocolate was much better under the original Cadbury owners. Unfortunately the corrupt U.K. governments under since Blair did nothing to stop our manufacturing closing down and moving abroad, encouraged in fact working with the E.U just to say we have 2% emissions.

@@Aloh-od3ef the Dairy Milk sold in the UK is produced in the UK, the factories around the world produce it for markets around the world.

Definitely. They do love an artificial flavour in the US 😂

Think it contains paraffin wax,too

That's a possibility! We did notice the orange oil is slightly further up in the ingredients list in the US version as well

Yeah I think so too. I think deep down she knew it was the US one as well 😂

That's a possibility! We did notice the orange oil is slightly further up in the ingredients list in the US version as well

​@@reactingtomyrootshi Steve, just wondering if you found the xmas card, note, and Harrods postcard I sent you. (The box with Bagpuss). 🙂

​@SmearCampaignUK the US is Orange Oil flavour, the UK version is Natural Orange Oil.

@SmearCampaignUK Wrong ...... Try again!

I see these in my local pharmacy now & again

in Canada we have spearmint chewy candies that look like leaves. we call them green leaves. but we are fortunate to have the sweets from both the US and the UK. i much prefer the UK versions too.

Got me through my A Levels

I remember the TV commercial with the white tees and green stripes 😂

In the US, all ingredients in sugar, salt and oils etc have to listed and in other countries they are not required to be listed.

Well that explains it! Definitely a noticeable difference.

Malteser chocolate is unique

@@ironmonger27 it's not, it's the same recipe

Did the Chocolate Treets get rebadged as Minstrels ? Peanut Treets were the absolute business. Are they now M&M's ?

Poppets?

Poppets

Treets were gorgeous 😍 now, Peanut M&Ms are very similar but not as chocolatey!

I still have two of the little boxes they came in, unfortunately the only two I ever got to eat. 😋

They were delicious! I had forgotten all about them until you jogged my memory 😋😋

They were gorgeous! I liked the Biarritz bars too, minty lush!

Yeah, definitely makes a difference!

I thought it was because UK used cane sugar where USA used high fructose corn syrup.

@@EmilyCheetham The UK doesn't use cane sugar, we use beet sugar.

@@epsleon fine. My point was we use proper sugar not high fructose corn syrup which is just far too freeking sweet.

Watched another video and the reason given why some British people think American chocolate tastes like vomit is something to do with something they add to the milk

Absolute rubbish! Its a matter of personal taste, like being a marmite lover/hater. Many prefer Cadbury's over Galaxy. Just because you prefer one over the other, does not mean everyone does.

She really enjoyed the Galaxy but says Cadbury is still her favorite overall :)

No way, I used to love Galaxy chocolate, but it doesn't taste as nice now

Galaxy is my preference too, it’s much creamier and smoother.

Cadbury all the way, whatever is in Galaxy bars leaves a burning sensation at the bk of my throat, but I'm OK with all other Mars chocolate

My mom, who was Belgian, would not agree with you. She always said the closest we got to the taste of Belgian chocolate was Bournville. Wonder what she would make of the new Cadbury's Darkmilk

Nestle are the biggest source of ruin in my opinion when they bought out Rowntree Mackintosh...Kit Kat, Lion, Rolo, Toffee Crisp, Yorkie to name but a few, not a shadow of their former selves...and the least said about Quality Street the better.

@@vallejomach6721 I have to agree about Quality Street at christmas as a kid I loved it now I can do without it, in fact the tin we got for xmas has only had a few taken and will last for months

When Nestlé took over Rowntree in the 80's, the flavour of Kit Kat definitely changed - the chocolate tasted less chocolatey but sweeter. I much preferred the Rowntree's Kit Kat.

I so agree , 😁👍

Rowntrees chocolate. Now that's a blast from the past for you 😉 Was never the same after Nestlé bought them

They did the same with trebor sharps.

I still use the phrase Rowntrees of York gives best in value for the colours of the rainbow.

@Tymbus .. I was thinking the same thing, when Steve had that 'blindfold' on.. It did indeed look like a bit of extra support for the lesser blessed ladies in the chesticles department.. LOL

yeah, when we went back and edited we thought the same thing lol

That’s why so many people stopped buying Cadbury cream eggs. They now use the same horrible chocolate as Hersheys

They said they’d got it wrong & change it, they didn’t! I think the same happened to Galaxy when they “improved” the flavour, I used to prefer it to Cadbury’s but it went all oily after they changed it

Yeah Galaxy is so much creamier than cadburys. Cadburys used to be so much better than it is now.

Yes I prefer Galaxy. So creamy mmmmhmm. My favourite chocolate though is Lindt.

Galaxy Chocolate is the best tasting bar against Dairy Milk and Yorkie in UK, probably because Mars haven't changed the recipe.

I was thinking the exact same thing 😂😅

Same thinking 😂 bless him

Lol guys! It reminded me of Weird Science!

Poor Steve, he does also look like Seth brundle from the fly 🪰

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i thought the blindfolds looked like tiny sports bras

​@@AndrewwarrenAndrewha ha!😂

haha yeah, Lindsay said the same thing :)

You can buy UK chocolate, or at least European chocolate, in the US in most places. I'm American and I prefer it, so I look for it. If all else fails, there's always Amazon.

@@cookielady7662 yes but as has been mentioned a lot .... there is UK chocolate manufactured in the US which is what you find on sale all over ,.... and there is UK Chocolate made in the UK to our own recipes which is the superior stuffs and is hard to get hold of in the US unless you pay through the nose or get someone to ship it out to you.

@@Garuthius Then Amazon. LOL.

We filmed this on our phone. A bit more hassle, but felt it was quite important for this video! :)

Steve, you need to keep it like this. From one Steve to another 😁

It definitely does! An upside down one

​@reactingtomyroots no its the right way round, a foam form t-shirt bra is what they're called in uk, it looks like a triple A cup, which is the smallest cup size in the UK, usually kept as starter bras, the weird thing us when you get past Acup and the bras get bigger the double letters indicate the larger sizes, but in A cups they're the smaller sizes. Dunno who thought that up, guessing they copied the batteries sizes 😂

Same - dark chocolate for me. I like Divine and Montezuma best. Both British brands. Even as a child I liked Terrys all gold, dark chocolate bounty, frys chocolate cream. Also caramac. Nearly all gone now. I did eat Cadbury fruit and nut sometimes. Now it's all popping candy and jelly bits. Bleurgh.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed this format :)

Yes, I remember the original 'Walnut Whips', with the walnut in the bottom - I loved the coffee ones, but used to give the nuts to my dad as I didn't like them back then! (PS I was born in 1960!)

Loved a walnut whip. Can you still get them?

@@Cleow33 Yes, if you're in the UK - Morrisons (on offer!), Iceland and B&M seem to stock them in a 6-pack!

@@Cleow33 I believe so, but I've not looked for them recently.

My uncle worked at Duncan's in Edinburgh and used to bring home bags of rejects. He never ate chocolate himself though. The coffee walnut whips were my favourite.

When I was a teacher I had a colleague who would give out Mars bars and Twix as prizes in quizzes. He had a never-ending supply; it turned out that his sister worked for Mars.

Hershey deny adding Butyric Acid to their chocolate. I think this is correct, but it contains Butyric Acid as a byproduct of Milton Hershey's method of preserving the milk and they don't really want to change a formula that has been so successful over many years.

I've used butyric acid as a flavouring for carp bait and it stinks of baby puke

Butyric acid is also found in a dog’s anal gland

US chocolate may actually have more cocoa solids but boy it tastes of disgustingly of sick 🤮

Is it butyric acid that starts the milk to cheese process? I know that rennet was used from the stomach's of calves for this process, and that smells of baby puke.

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@SmearCampaignUK you can visit the factory and see it from the outside/ walk the ground etx. York Chocolate story is a museum on the history of chocolate making in York and you can visit Goddard's house which was the Terry family home.

Milk Tray used to be a brilliant box of chocolates. Last time I bought some, the centres had changed and the chocolate was waxy and nasty. Such a shame.

Yeah UK snacks in general are far better in my opinion but US has some fast food places, that i would love to try i cant lie lol

I think Galaxy has been around a lot longer than Dove soap.

Dove soap came to the U.K. long after Galaxy chocolate.

@@abigail1st Actually Dove soap was launched in the UK in 1957, 3 years before Galaxy chocolate.

In Australia we have Dove soap and Dove chocolate, I don't know which recipe we get though.

Imagine asking for a bar of Dove in the UK, you would get a bar alright but of soap. I'm sure there are brand names in the US that don't translate as to what you think they are in UK. 🍫🧼

😂 Don't give her any ideas..

@@reactingtomyroots oops...... 😁

She commented they used a cellphone to film this video.

For 10 minutes I was thinking "something is different", and then the penny dropped. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I think I might go back to bed for an hour and use a respawn for today

There's a lot of ingredients that are substandard compared to other parts of the world. It's mainly due to the fact that the FDA have a philosophy of we'll allow the product and then if it's found to be bad we'll ban it, where other countries are prove that it's safe first, until then it's banned. Added with the fact that it's all about making as much as you can, when a brand gets bigger they are forced out or consumed by the big manufacturers. That's capitalism on steroids.

US food in general is bad.

​@@RottnwomanIt used to be better, but Bidenomics changed it!

All red could do was stuff his face - he ate everything in sight la la la la la la but good old blu he took the milky way

Lindsey commented they used a cellphone to film

Cheers for that

E476 is polyglycerol polyricinoleate. Other than the cocoa mass/liquor substitution, the key difference is that the US version has artificial flavours, the UK version natural flavour. No contest for me.

@@adriangoodrich4306 I'm surprised the lists are near identical: I'm not surprised to see vanilla in the US version though, I suppose it helps to add a richness and depth where the chocolate itself is 'thinner'

@@jeorjina It seems that in the US version the orange oil is merely a flavouring, whereas in the UK version it is actual orange oil.

I am Australian- we only ever buy Lindt.

Euh Hello 🖐 🇧🇪😂

Thorntons are British. I don't like Ferrero or lindt. Kinder is rubbish too. Nestle is poor and unethical.

@@emilydavison2053 Then try something from smaller factories. Like "Zotter" from Austria. Much better than lindt.

Thornton’s is British. Also, brands like Hotel Chocolat, Monty Bojangles and Lily O’Brien’s (the last one is Irish) easily hold up against anything continental Europe has to offer.

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Wait till he here's it back sorry Steve

😂😂 Yeah...playing it back during editing felt really awkward lol

Well it makes it good viewing

Same.

You and me both!

Campaign for return of our marathon bars officially underway

@@davidv.8655 way too late for that.

Snickers....knickers. 😆

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*reason not train... I don't know why it autocorrected to that

Sueing for emotional trauma 😂😂😂 true! Lol

I'm not sure that it's to do with the weather. Australia, which has similar summer temperatures to mainland USA, has much nicer chocolate than the USA

Glad you enjoyed it this way!