Is "AMERICAN FOOD" in the Netherlands any good? (an american food reaction video) 

We ate weird "American food" in the Netherlands so you don't have to. 😸 What kind of weird "American food" have y'all come across in your travels?

Putting "American" on food is not an advertisement. It's more a bit of a health warning ...

The Big American Pizza's name basically only reverts to the thick crust, there is even ones with Nacho's and Kebab in that line which is hardly American. The American Frites Sauce is just a copy of the Mc Donalds sauce you get for the fries here and since they obviously couldn't call it Mc Donalds sauce they probably just called it American sauce. Some of the bigger grocery stores do have some authentic US products like Skippy peanutbutter, Tabasco and A&W Root Beer (AH XL)

No poffertjes are poffertjes. Pancakes are pannenkoeken. And we have pannenkoeken thick and thin, the thin ones go in the direction of French crêpes. My mum used to make the thin ones, because they taste better.

Dutch pancakes are 12" and in a restaurant 16" and a 1/4" thick and the extras are baked into the batter. Poffertjes are a very different dough and 2" round and 1/2 thick Best regards Frits

American food in the Netherlands is food supposed to be typical American, adapted to the Dutch/European taste. Albert Heijn (Ahold Delhaize) although a Dutch company, realizes 2/3 of his turnover in the USA (e,g. Giant, stop&Shop, Food Lion, Hannaford). As the 5. grocery retailer of the States they know exactly what is the American food taste and where it differs from the European. 😎

Dutch pancakes are large, plate size, and thin. Meant for one person. They can be either sweet or savory. Poffertjes are small and thicker. Generally served with powder sugar.

2:32 - Alex: "... so it's a pepperoni pizza, from a legitimate doctor." Michelle: "We got a prescription for this." The unexpected pun in your dry delivery made be burst out a laugh 😀 Keep doing what you do.

I think it is absolutely criminal nobody commented on your excellent steve1989MREinfo cameo on 1:18. Made me laugh out loud!

You both are doing a great job Keep up the good work

This is realy fun to watch, cool video!😎

This was so fun to watch! I am dutch and recently got married to an American. He said the exact same things about the items you guys mentioned. I always thought American saus was indeed American. According to my husband it tastes like tartar saus 😆

Try some typical "traditional" Dutch foods next please! Hutspot, boerenkool, zuurkool, erwtensoep, sprouts, andijviestamppot, hete bliksem. After all of these junkfood videos you can probably use some vegetables 😉

McDonalds in the Netherlands had a special sauce for the fries. Every kid just assumed that this was american sauce, as you could not get it elsewhere. At some point, you could buy the sauce in the supermarket, I remember the bottle being white with red, blue and stars on it, and it was marketed as American sauce. Since they could not label it as McDonalds sauce, this is the branding they chose. And it worked. Kids loved to have a little bit of McDonalds at home. In the end i found out that the McDonalds sauce is not used at all in the US (everything is ketchup).

Watching multiple of your food tasting videos & I'm surprised HOW MUCH you guys can eat ! 🙂

Great Video ! ❤

Hi im new here,living in Haarlem. Love your channel. Such cute couple! Subbed and hope to see more soon. 🌷🌷

Hotdogs are always sold in a can here, not only the American variety. It has a longer shelf life this way. You can also buy “fresh” ones, which are vacuum sealed, but those only keep for a couple of weeks. The canned ones can be in your kitchen cabinet gor years.

Dr.Oetker is a multi-billion German Based company. As frozen pizza is original American, they name it American pizza and Texas refers to BIG. Everything which is bigger than normal European size could be called “American” . Pure marketing. 😊

The crown and monocle must have taken some serious editing skills to CGI in. Great touch. Great video.

We usually not eating Hotdogs, but Knakworst. I think that some supermarkets sell knakworst under the name of hotdog.

I'm Dutch, my girlfriend is American (LDR) and I've told her about the weird trend we have going on here where the marketing teams slap 'American' on something to make it more appealing. It's a thing they do and It seems to work! 90% of products I tell her about she tells me, nah, never heard of that in my life. Imagine my surprise to find out Philadelphia is American, too! I seriously had no idea! You'd think with the name, right? But names are no sure fire way to figure out where's something from anymore! In any case, glad you liked the pancakes they're my favorite too! Even bought myself some maple syrup (I hope? For some reason they call it acorn syrup in Dutch?) and by god are those things delicious. My favorite treat either she or other American friends have ever send me though? Hot tamales.

My personal favourite deep-freeze pizza are the Ristorante line of pizza's also by Dr. Oetker. but it's a personal thing. Is Alex a ventriloquist dummy professionally? doing a great job there in the pizza bit. What you might want to try though sometime is Filet Americain. Even though it has the "Americain" name it isn't american at all. Its raw ground up beef you put on bread. you can buy it at any supermarket. When you try the pannenkoeken keep in mind that the homemade stuff is 1000% better than the store bought stuff. ;) Welcome to Europe and enjoy your exploring! and thanks for the fun vids.

funny thing, the 'american' frites saus was introduces by McDonalds in the Netherlands cause we dutch are more a mayonaise loving country than ketchup, so they served their own take on mayonaise. it wasn't the same as our mayonaise so we called it american frites saus cause the McDonalds introduced it.

Love your video's. I live in the Netherlands. Shocked to hear that we have so much aspartaan in food. 40 years ago sugar was bad and it was exchanged with aspratan or another fake sugar. You should try the bockworsten. The amrican frietsaus is a dupe for the McDonalds frietsaus. And btw we love frietsaus of mayonaise with fries.

Pannenkoeken are the big ones and mostly made at home by yourself. The small poffertjes are mostly found at foodcars or at special events. People make them mostly not at home.

Lidl has country themed weeks, including American themed a couple of times a year. BTW: I noticed Aldi has regularly products from Trader’s Joe (at least the label says so).

Have you noticed the use of paprika? Oddly hotels put in their eggs. They also us it for “bbq”.

Dr.Oetker is such an amazing brand, we have it here in Sweden too and it honestly feels like they make everything food related. You find everything from waffle mix to cocktail berrys and I find that hilarious 😂. Great video !!!

It's true. I love everything with aspartame in it :O :P

Try American filet from the butcher👍👍 you'll love it😁

pannenkoek=large and thin, poffer= small and thick, american pancakes are fluffier thicker and smaller than dutch pannenkoeken

Greasy Pizza, that's your link to Texas: Oil (although I hope the one in/on the pizza is plant based😅)

Dr Oetker - pronounced "Utker" - is a German brand and I believe Europe 's largest frozen pizza brand. They produce 2.4 million pizza's a day in Germany alone!

To get your hotdog kicks, try Frankfurters. They have more of a bite to them.

nice video but now you are living in the Netherlands try the dutch food like poffertjes , pannenkoeken , the snacks like kroket , fricandel speciaal, bereklauw pindasaus and later the stampotten zuurkool and hutspot i'm looking out for that

My fav American food in NL (but without the Stars 'n Stripes): Beyond Meat products, Bragg's Apple Cider & Nutritional Yeast, Heinz Tomato Ketchup (the EU version) and Hellman's (vegan) mayonnaise (by Unilever which is Dutch but the product is American by origin and even that's not true, it's German, created by a German emigrant, never mind). Great video by the way, loved it!!!!

I did try the hot dogs in a can and thought they tasted like hot dogs. I too thought it was weird that they were in a can though. I also have had the Big Americans pizza which was ok for a frozen pizza but it was not big, it was actually small like a personal pizza. Funny that they wouldn’t market ketchup as American fry sauce since that is what we use on our fries. The other thing I found weird that a lot of Dutch thought was American was filet American. It is definitely not American but I personally loved it in crackers. I also didn’t realize until later in a funny way that it is raw meat like steak tartar.

I think the only food thing I miss when I'm overseas is Oscar Mayer hotdogs. In Honduras they had two similar looking hotdogs (along with the other various local sausages), but the flavor and especially the texture were 100% completely wrong.

The hotdogs are canned. A post war thing Europe is still doing. In the USA this has been changed to shrink wrap. When things are canned it’s cooked. So technically you can eat them straight out of the can. Canned food lasts much longer and is shelf stable.

Dr.Oetker has other lines of frozen pizzas, with thin crust (whci some call it the "italian" type). The "American" line is the one with the thick bread-like crust. Which I think is the best among the frozen ones available. , and then the fresh Now, that "Texas" you got, it's only probably named for the barbequeue sauce. Those "hotdogs" you got there from AH are really on the very cheap level. There are better avauilable, in plastic packing (shorter shelf life though). Quality Hotdog and burger buns are really hard to find. For quick hotdogs I prefer the kit at Hema (4 buns and 4 saucage, plus the hema yellow sauce).

As a rule, if food is being 'upsold' with flashy branding, like "american!", then the value is in the branding and packaging, not in the food.

Better use vacuum knakworst for hotdogs not the caned ones

Most of these marketing labels for the products of the big processed food conglomerates are decided by panels of consumers being asked what they associate the product with. Give an assortment of house wives, students, single dads and whatnots a slightly larger than than usual knackwurst in a bun... "American!!" . A pizza with a thick base? "American!" A sauce with pineapple? "Ame... oh... wait...Hawaiian!!" A sauce resembling McDonald's "American!!" Thick, smaller, but not poffertjes-sized pancakes? "American!!" The difference is only that Jan, apparently, does know how to make tasty pancakes. (I've had those and they are good, although obviously nowhere near as good as home made)

if you want real pannekoeken you need to go to a pannekoeken restaurant they have very good pancakes

I only consider food American, that's imported from the US. Otherwise it's just a name

Fritessaus is a cheap/simple version of mayonaise!

Is there a difference between knakworst and hotdogs?

Those Big Americans pizza's have cracked me up ever since they were introduced. Like no friggin' way an American would call those "big". Having said that I do think they're some of the best frozen pizza's you can get at the super.

Poffertjes are not Dutch pncakes. Dutch pancakes are bigger and thinner than American pancakes. Easy to make yourself, just mix flour, milk and eggs untill you have a smooth batter and then you can make Dutch pancakes. You can put bacon on them, cheese, ham, salami or all of the above mentioned. I love apple syrup on them.

I'm Dutch and I never eat "American" food here in the netherlands. I always get scared of something. Scared of the way it looks or the taste or even get scared of the label that says "Real American" because you know it is not. I never go to Mcdonald's or Burger King. The only "American" thing I eat is the Big Americans Pizza Pulled Pork. That one is delicious. But what's American? It's just a bunch of sugar, salt, grease. You're better off by going to a American steakhouse restaurant here. btw. You're absolutely right about the fake sugars like aspartame or the worst fake sugar is Sucralose, 600 times sweeter than sugar and no calories at all. You'll find it in almost everything here (mostly diet products) It is crazy.

The doctor was a German doctor,now Europa biggest company in frozen food

You can try filet american. What is range? We do not have that taste overhere. A range is a farm for me not a taste.

The first one, "American friet sauce", how could you think it could be ketchup when you see through the bottom it's yellow?

The thing is that you won't eat these if you are American ;-) OK you liked 1 🙂 These products are designed to fill a stereotype. Not to have American items available in the Netherlands. These are products for people that never been to the USA. Like the pizza Hawai is not representing Hawaiian cuisine ;-) Like the deep frozen pizza's do not represent Italian pizza's. It's like comparing Dutch pancakes with American pancakes: It is a complete different thing! Different ingredients, different purpose, one will never be the other. Poffertjes are NOT pancakes.. They're poffertjes. It's comparing Dollar notes to Euro notes. If you are used to the one you will be disappointed with the other. 😛

Do us a favour, and buy a jar of Meica Frankfurter saucages. Origin of the best 'hotdogs' IS Germany. Snappy and delish. We dutch people only give Knaks and such to our kids, but adults prefer generally the Bockwurst or Frankfurters.

I actually like that first sauce once in a while with my fries, luckily it's not acactually American because I very much dislike ketchup.😂

Immediately paused at 1:23 “Let’s get this out onto a tray” - if that wasn’t a Steve1989 shoutout…

Your very nice to say some nice thinks about the American food.. But your faces say otherwise.. Hahaha hahaha. Your very brave to eat the stuf.. chapeau.. 😂

It's all about marketing and try to sell more by the fancy label American. Those hotdogs are really awfull. Even with a lot of mustard and ketchup. Brrrrr. A no go.

Do the hot dogs taste like or seem like Plumpers hot dogs?

Yeah... the "American" is only advertisement I guess. Most Dutchies haven't been to the USA, neither have I, let alone stayed there long enough to know.

I have some of that American fry sauce in my fridge right now. There is nothing in America that tastes like that

I would not try the hotdogs, cause they aint hotdogs even tough the can says it is. Thay are the same as the Cheap knakworst but Americanized. I would try the other AH hotdogs, thay come in a package of four Hotdogs dry in a bag. Although I would probably buy the AH gerookte knakworst instead, cause thay come dry packed in 9 for the same price as the hotdogs. AH has some real american stuff, like Hellemann’s mayonaise, or Skippy and Jif peanutbutter. Doritos cool american is my favorite flavor, but I don’t see the american favour in it. Also I guess the hawaiian saus is probably based on eggs so not for using as a marinade, but a salade dressing possibly yes.

Fun fact Pancakes originated from China and Nepal. But we brought it back to the netherlands to Brabant. From there on out we spread it over the rest of the world. and other countries gave it their own twist. French pancakes crepes are more closer to the original Chinese and Nepal pancakes then our dutch pancakes. no our dutch pancakes are called pannenkoeken. poffertjes got nothing to do with it. poffertjes are poffertjes pancakes are pancakes. foreingers call it dutch pancakes but thats not correct. so you know

The nutrition organization wants us to eat less sugar and salt, it is healthier than too much sugar and salt

no we in the netherlands dont like fake sugar its the EU regulations that we have to follow. Aspartaam is not bad for you and it doesnt contain calories as well its just a replacement for real sugar. and it makes you less fat and less change of diabetes. we also have drinks that uses Stevia. a natural sugar thats 300 times stronger then sugar. it doesnt contain calories so you wont get fat if you consume it.

The American sauce,yes nobody knows it why only herbs inside

Sausage party😁

You missed Filet Americain!! Basically steak tartare. Not at all American.

Pancakes out of a pack are horrible

American pizza = thick soft breadlike crust and Italian pizza is thin hard crust. Furthermore Texas = meat. It is really that simple (and stupid)

I was expecting filet americain.

No, don’t do that. Disappointment waiting to happen. Even if inbox from the same international brand, everything is tested to local taste and mainly just a marketing thing. I’ve seen do many things abroad called Dutch this or that, up to Dutch cookies in South Korea, all totally foreign to me. And I’ve been around for a while.

Tbh Mustard is French. Not that crap American liquid you call mustard 🤣

Koop het rode blikje hotdogs / knakworsten in de Jumbo. They are real KNAKworstjes niet die zachte van unox. Ohnee jullie zijn vegan... of flexivegan because of cheese.

There are some decent American restaurants near Rotterdam tho. Please let go of your notions that because it said American it therefore is….. or you will be disappointed.

No, I do not eat hot dogs. Never had. 80% of what is an average supermarket I don’t buy, because it is too poisonous and has too little nutrition.

Thanks for sacrificing yourselfs....but ehm....we already knew that "American"' food is justawful.

We love aspartaam 😂

In The Netherlands you eat Dutch food!

What I can tell you is that people have eaten exectly the same food in the USA and Europe. When in the US people gained weight, the people in Europe lost weight. Food, with all the hormones and other additives used in the USA are banned in Europe. This has been very well researched and documented. The food that you are looking at now are only meaningless names. "American" is just a meaningless name probably. What else I can tell you is that the choice of food you have in the Netherlands is bigger than in any other country. And that's official. What I suggest you do is buy less fake American food and follow a more healthy diet. Dutch pancakes are not poffertjes. Go to a proper Dutch pancake house and you'll get full size pancakes with any filling, savoury or sweet. Take your time to learn about Dutch food. It will take you many years. What you seem to have been picking up is "named" junk fast food. And portions of everything sre smaller here. This is considered a good thing as you may notice that there are not so many obese people in the Netherlands, although the obesity problem is getting worse.Obesity amoungst other things is contributing to decreasing longevity in the US.

ugh... the countless amounts of copied and butchered/'adopted' foods that America produces and markets as being from a foreign origin often is way worse. So... yeah... there's that too. And a lot of 'American cuisine' is often an Americanized rip off of food from other cultures anyway. That's some food for thought.

Nope!

Dutch marketing makes no sense, nothing new there. When do you guys take the educated Dutch custom of eating food? Like, eating food. The stuf you are showing I hope is not exemplary for your habits, because it is not healthy stuff.

Not much American allowed here. Because it contains too many sugars or other chemicals that are prohibited here. American food is very bad.

Big amerikans piza made in Germanië dr oetker

Hot dogs bey a jar off frankfurters that tast beter