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Mind you that this is comparing the US with the UK, which is one of the fattest country in Europe, if compared with other countries, the differences are even bigger
i dont think brittens weight problem its their mc donalds or other fastfood chainsi think its the overall britisch traditional foods indian butter chicken english breakfeast they eat like its an ice age
@@101steel4 lol...ya...or do it the american way...grew those chickens on a high fat and antibiotics dietput the cadavers in a vacume chamber and inject a bunch of chemicals so thay look lovly an juicy...roll them in sugar and fry...
Ryan...forget the calories.....the most frightening thing in your food is the NON FOOD ingredients! You should check out your chemicals! Your USA McDonald's French Fries have 27 ingredients! They're just fried potatoes....or should be! Ours have 3 ingredients potatoes, vegetable oil and a bit of salt.
And do Americans even know what 'good' cheese should taste like? (And NOT those 'plastic' squares that get thrown on burgers or hot dogs in the US)... Just saying! lol 😎
@@stewedfishproductions7959 no one in the US ,but cheese on hotdogs and We do have imported cheeses in the US, all travelers got to the wrong section to look for cheese, Hint, it is not in the fridge section here, where all visits see it, it is at the stores Deli, and it is sliced to order, I never buy it in grocer store myself, as I live 4 miles from the Crowley Cheese factory and I get all my cheese there.
@@marydavis5234 did you know cheddar is a British cheese? And proper cheddar is a creamy white colour not orange, the British orange cheddar is called coloured cheddar, but the normal one is more popular.
Whilst their McDonald's fries do have a longer ingredients list (it isn't close to 27 ingredients long though, and the US list is inflated because they use several types of vegetable oil, but in the US they list each type of vegetable oil individually, rather than in the UK where they just put "Vegetable oil" so they can claim three ingredients)... They also taste so much better than our McDonald's fries. Anybody old enough to remember what McDonald's fries in the UK tasted like in the 1970s and/or 80s, back when McDonald's used to fry in a beef tallow, will understand what I'm talking about. And that is the primary difference in the ingredients, to create that beef flavour that you don't get from plain vegetable oil. Personally, given the choice, I'd like to see them go back to frying in beef tallow, but that just will not happen in the UK. Frankly, the US fries don't have anything in them that should scare you... That isn't true of all food in the US, or the UK. I'm just fed up of people spreading food fears by spreading the endless lies that still circulate on the Internet about McDonald's fries in the US.
@@michaelayling8855 I don't think so honestly, I'm from Italy and very few women are balloon/like cause of carbs, instead is a biological thing, please check it out with more attention the next time you'll visit Italy, you'll probably change your idea about it...
One proper pizza margherita in Italy has around 750 kcal. That is less than half the calories of Domino's pizza. That's why one eats the entire pizza himself over here. Ans it's healthy too!
White flour (high in rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, low in fibers) and cheese (high in saturated fat) isn't exactly healthy though. That little bit of tomato and a leaf of basil won't save the day. It sure won't kill you (as opposed to the Pappa Joes), but you should consider throwing in a pizza quattro stagioni every once in a while to get some vitamins ;-)
@@berndbrotify hate to break this to you, but cheese is hardly the main ingredient of a decent Italian pizza (hey, many of us don't even eat cheese on pizza, but prefer it in its tomatesque glory as a marinara). I'm sorry for whatever surrogate you were made to eat.
@@berndbrotify carbs are essential to a healthy diet and it’s not like a pizza is made only of carbs and fat. It’s made of around 750-800 kcal with plenty of other possibilities of integrating the rest of nutrients via the rest of the daily calories intake.
@@setsukasakurazuka414 I'm pretty sure the Pizza I had in Naples and Rome last year was pretty decent, even though my host in Naples told me that Pizza Romana is cazzo ;-) As I said, eating a pizza once in a while (as opposed to the stuff they showed in the video) won't kill you. But that doesn't make it exactly healthy either.
It's not a problem. Italian pizza is just as big, but American pizza has a much thicker crust, except for the tons of "cheese" (or what they think it is). I wouldn't be able to make half of one.
In Europe, we all eat a whole one person pizza. In the US, the one person pizza is enough for two adults used to European food portions. A friend of mine went on vacation in Florida with three of his friends. They were super hungry one day, and ordered a big pig pizz. They couldn't believe the size of the thing! The medium size pizza would have been more than enough for those four extremely hungry and food loving young men.
@@mordador2702 I cut them in 8 pieces, partly beause it is easy cut the 4rd into 8ths. but also it's a very easier way to eat. Änd you get more pieces in your ref for the second däy (we Europeans, and Finland is also a European country, we are in NATO now, for fuck's sake, don't like to eat the whole pizza at once). We save some of it to "Dagen efter or kankkuseen or in American (English) Hangover".
"Don't eat a whole pizza". Dude, when I was still working out i sometimes ate 2. And i was skinny. I'm from italy and people always eat the whole pizza. However a good italian pizza tends to be big in diameter, but slim with way less dough compared to those from most other places..
I just looked it up. A normal italian pizza starts at around 800 calories. That explains a lot. It even explains why it tastes better in my opinion. The easiest way to ruin a pizza is by putting too much stuff on it, yet everybody does it..
@@Mindcrawler23 It's not just the amount of stuff on it. It's also the quality of the stuff that's on it. These fast food type pizza are just packed with highly processed junk.
It's always funny when they compare the US with the UK, of all places. The most similar in Europe; it's like they don't wanna give them a heart-attack, so they ease them in with easy mode 😂
So true. UK is known for a rather high obesity rate. Imagine they would compare the USA to the one in EU with the lowest rate (don't know which of the countries would be that but there must be a statistic out there) ;-) (Edited typo)
Yes, everything that is bad with American food is imported from the UK from the start. It's just that Americans have managed to make in even more unhealthier.
I saw a video these days from a German vlogger living in San Diego. He said, one of the things he misses is walking to and visiting a random restaurant with friends, because the food quality in some restaurants in the USA isn't that good. So the people prefer visiting big fast food chains, because the food quality is better there. Getting too many calories is a side effect of this. Additionally many fast food restaurants are not in walkable distance, so they have to use the car. The vlogger himself cooks a lot for himself at home. 🖐👴
They don't know how to use a Stove, the first question they ask on, House Hunters, And house Hunters International. Where is the Closest reataurant.. The Toyota Camry Sold in America, is Sold With Fat Seats, compared to the rest of the world..
@@graemejohnson9025 true, my cousin lives on one of those gated communities in florida. They run a cafe and also deliver food to the residents. Many go in every day, if not get it delivered. He did say their ovens look brand new 🤣
I`m from Romania and the first time Starbucks opened shop here, in 2007-2008, one of my best friends, who used to work on cruise ships all over the Caribbean, convinced me to go and try a Venti Caramel Frappuccino, which was not cheap considering where Romania was economically back in 2008. I think I could have had a whole lunch meal for the price of that concoction. I had no idea that fraps are actually a form of liquid cake, certainly not a type of coffee. I had maybe half of it, I could not see myself finishing it, not even 4-5 hours later, it was simply too sweet. So sweet I could actually feel cavities forming in my teeth. Needless to say, I never bought another one again. Why do these things exist? Just have a nice cake instead AND an espresso.
100% agree. I’m from the Netherlands and after hearing about the craze years ago, I ordered a Frappuccino and the only thing I’ve ordered since is a plain black coffee. I don’t even like sugar in my coffee, so I don’t know what I was thinking. People complain about red bulls being unhealthy, but in comparison to Starbucks it’s basically a salad. People over here generally drink water or tea during the day, with maybe a soft drink with lunch or whatever. I can imagine getting obese if four drinks put you at the recommended intake per day.
@@AnagramGinger I'm Dutch too and love my coffee strong and black without anything in it. Usually all places you can get coffee here the coffee isn't strong enough to my taste anyway I always prefer my own homemade coffee.
@@aichohvee no, fat saturates. keto couldn't work without a big part of calory intake via fat and you lose weight with keto. fat is necessary to solve crucial vitamins which you couldn't absorb otherwise. sugar is completely unnecessary and just a treat .. untill taken in too high amounts (pretty much everyone eats too much of it) then it becomes a serious problem for the body
@@kasper2970 yes it's worse (fructose) because it's metabolized in the liver (leading to fatty liver disease 1:1 as if you're a strong alcoholic) but it's still sugar and that alone is already enough of a problem. i.e. i ate 95% of the days in the last 26 months low carb .. and lost 22 kilo weight .. started to eat carbs on the regular again 2 months ago and gained 6 kilo
Often times the calories count is not the worst part. Comparing the actual ingredients is where it gets super scary. Also to be fair, Europeans can get away with fast food etc more often as we tend to walk more (my daily average is 7-8 kilometers and that's just going to/from work, to a supermarket etc. Just the everyday things). In US you are way too dependent on your cars ( due to poor city planning mainly and absent public transport) so the extra calories have no way to be burned off and start to pile up.
In the US at one point it was revealed that the ground "meat" at Taco Bell had a large percentage of sand as a filler. The "chicken" in one of the Subway chicken sandwiches (the one that was formed to look like a flat chicken breast) contained only about 1/2 real chicken. You really have troubles trusting the contents of USA foods, in general. When available, make sure you check the labels.
"Often times the calories count is not the worst part. Comparing the actual ingredients is where it gets super scary." McDo wouldn't be allowed to sell their US fries in the EU. Skittles are different in the EU and US due to the colouring ingredients. If I'm not mistaken, the US still has 1 colour that European simply do not have. American bread must be labelled as cake in the EU due to the amount of sugar. While not a perfect institution by any means, I'm happy the EU exists.
In the US cities are made to be car convenient (don't know a better word) while where I live for example (Netherlands) cities are made to deter car driving (meaning you get somewhere quicker with a bicycle than a car) and you end up with more people walking, less traffic and alot of people on bikes. And also public transport is alot quicker because there are less cars on the roads in cities and ofcourse you have the metros and trams.
As for the cup difference of the milkshake: at least here in Germany we try to go plastic free. Ordered 4 McDonalds meals a little ago and was able to throw everything in the paperbin afterwards (wrappers, cups, straws, bags) which feels great. :)
Sorry, I messed up things while being partically asleep while writing (we get the Mehrweg-cup option to go). Thank you for the correction! The newer cups from mc donalds come with descreased plastic compared to the US and only 1 thin lining (mostly "bio-plastic") inside to make recycling a lot easier (mc donalds normally takes the used cups back and turns them into books and things with their internal system to reuse most of them). My brain was stuck on the paper lids ours offer at the moment which can go into the blue bin, brainfart. ^^"
You need to be carefull with paper packages, when it comes to liquids or aromas. The have to have a metal or plastic lining inside, to contain the liquid / aroma. If its organic plastic it might, be better (not sure about that) but the recycling of thes compostit materials is much more difficult than is simple plastic one. Imprints ( colors) are often problematic as well.
While I totally agree on saving on plastic, there are things that were are from plastic for a reason. Ever tried to drink a milkshake through a paper straw? I also still have plastic shopping bags. For the simple reason that they are reusable. And can get wet without disintegrating.
I'll never understand that Starbucks hype, it's horrible sugar drinks. As a teenager I thought Starbucks was cool but now I'm like, why the f would you drink that? There's plenty of good cafes in Germany with better coffee for less money - no sugar and still tastes so good.
Even the cappuccino in McCaffees or in any train station tastes significantly better than this stuff. In our case, there are also only young people in there who love sweet stuff.
You guys drink more Starbucks coffee than Europeans. We either make it at home or buy an espresso or a regular from a coffee shop. And you also tend to eat more often fast food meals. In the city where I live in Germany, we have just regular MC Donalds, no drive thru.
@@kmeanxneth For real... 12 years ago, when Starbucks was fresh in Romania, I went with some friends to test it... omg, such a garbage taste. I couldn't drink it, I just threw it away. I used to drink Illy when I lived there. Strong real coffee...
You can put on the pack of sugar "contains no fat". You're not saying anything wrong with that. But when you eat it, it turns into fat. That's where the problem arises.
You picked up a point about the cups in McDonalds. Here in the UK we are trying to move away from single use plastic cups, hence the old cardboard type cups.
After two days in the US my body and mind demanded veggies and fruit! Fresh stuff! Not the juice from green oranges with six table spoons of sugar to mask the sour taste. I eat an apple in between, or a pear, they eat candy bars!
It was a comparison between US and UK, not US - Europe. The reality is much more bad since UK is basically one of the unhealthiest countries in Europe when it comes to diet.
The difference between US and Europe is not only bigger portions, but also the ingredients. American food is usually more processed, contains more sugar, salt, and other things. I mean, your bread is really too sweet for my taste!
Using the words "eating healthy" and "McDonald's" in the same sentence is the biggest contradiction ever. Also, the UK is hardly an example of Europe as a whole, as your video title tries to imply.
The thing is I wouldn’t say the UK represents Europe. Yes, the UK was part of the EU, yes the UK is in Europe but that’s about it. Their food and their people are not comparable with continental Europe, the UK is often referred to as „little USA“ since the mindset and also food standards are kind of closer to the US than to continental Europe. You’d have to compare items from France, Spain, Germany, Austria and so on with the US to get a better picture
This is not what we really eat in Southern Europe (and probably anywhere besides the UK). Those American chains are oddities, the vast majority still goes for "tapas" and traditional Mediterranean food (that would be an embarrassing comparison if they make one).
Who eats a whole pizza? Italians. Here in Italy you eat a whole pizza, even the one with extra rich toppings. And sometimes you need something else to round it up properly. But it's quite a different meal, when I tried american-made take away pizza it was like cardboard with stringy grease and burnt stuff on top.
Here in Greece you can get both types. I just can't eat the American style pizza. My stomach can't process that stuff. It's so heavy!!! I easily eat a whole Italian pizza funghi e prosciutto, but with the American style "Margherita" I can't even eat half and I'm stuffed. So much fat!!!
The worst thing is people feed this over-processed junk food to their children, giving them a sweet tooth, and not introducing them to healthy options. Then they wonder why they grow up fat and unhealthy. Sadly, some parents in the UK are going down that path too.
Let's be real processed food is often easier to get and also often cheaper then their healthier counterparts. You can see it too the poor and lower middle class is more overweight then those having lots of money. It's a vicious cycle too because the more overweight you become the less energy and motivation you have to spent time and energy to look for healthy food that you can afford. Another big factor imho is that if you start to get overweight that usually makes people a bit sad making them more depressed, depressed people start to eat more. Sugar and fat foods enhances your mood. Making you more fat and sad. Luring you to eat more to look for comfort... You get the picture. It's not easy to break out of that cycle and certainly easier said then done.
@@randar1969 I dont understand where the notion comes from that unhealthy food Was cheap??? As a Single Student living in Germany, the only food I can afford are selfmade meals, cooked from fresh or canned vegetables with Rice, bread, potatoes or Pasta, sometimes with cheese, sometimes with tuna, often with eggs. I pay 1,60€ on average per meal. That's cheaper than a frozen Pizza and has more calories. Also, I can save on energy and money by not even buying a freezer in the first place.
In the US, eating fast food is often cheaper than cooking a healthy meal at home, hence why so many people eat fast food. I lived there for over 11 years. 20 years ago, I would pay $4 for 3 large organic tomatoes, as an example (Florida). I made my own bread every day from the beginning, and went to an organic bulk store for most things. There are many who could not afford it. Also, many people are working 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet and they just do not have the time. They have 'food deserts' over there in some places, where there are ZERO supermarkets, only fast food places.
Worth mentioning here: Even when they still were members of the EU. They were allowed to use stuff in their food that is banned in the EU. Best example for that I can think of is McDonald's. EU patty = minced 100% beef UK patty = minced meat scraps glued together with meat glue...same as in the U.S. That and the additives is why you feel sick after McDo. You won't feel that way in France or Germany after McDo...
UK is not quite representative regarding food. Btw. in Germany BK is quite popular! Nearly as strong as McD. Due to the roasty (?) grilled/BBQ taste and some stuff McD doesn't have. Like the Chili Cheese!! It's _heaven!_ And about "Who eats a whole Pizza?" In Europe everybody, I guess!.. It's normal/common here, 1 person - 1 Pizza.. (But normal/medium size; around 30cm)
@@gabrieledna7609 You’re right, but ‘my’ pizzeria sells either American or Italian, with your own choice of toppings, and there’s no way the Italian crust with some mozzarella ground meat, fresh tomatoes, pine nuts and fresh herbs gets to an intake of calories that could sustain me for two days….
I’m actually watching this sitting in my local bar/pizzeria (al forno) in Calabria Italy and I’m wondering what crap they are putting on your pizzas . Here it’s fresh handmade dough , fresh tomato passata , mozzarella with toppings of your choice . For a pizza margarita is less than $5
Speaking about who gets the better deal solely on food-to-money-ratio, when that deal includes being fat, getting diabetes while you have to pay for your own insulin, and in the end die earlier, sort of reflects the difference between American "All you can eat"-buffets and European "All you want to eat"-buffets.
As others have said, it's not the calories itself that are the most important here, it's that every 1 additive that a food has in Europe there's like 10+ for the US variant
Actually i’m from Italy and when i studied abroad in the UK I couldn’t believe my eyes cause i’d never seen so many fat people there. Can’t imagine what is like in the US… If this video would’ve compared US and a Mediterranean country like Italy or Spain the difference would be huge, let alone we hardly never eat fast food
In USA you do not pay employees fair amount of money. You do not have payed vacations, free medicare or anything else. In Finland we have free education, free healthcare, but you have gun violence instead. In Finland a 7 years old can safely travel to school. One can walk alone safely to school (up to 1 mile) , or go to school-taxi, or go to public buss.
No that dont exist. You only get fat if eat to much kcal in form of macros (carbs, fat, Protein). And esspecialy Short carbs raise the Insulin level Quick, like sugar/pasta/syrup/etc. But all in all get only fat if eat to much kcal, how matter if it's to much Pizza oder to much fruits like bannana/Avocado/etc
Sadly, but it's true. However, UK isn't the best example 😕 compared to the rest of the European countries where these numbers are even lower. When I was in France on holidays with my friends we met people from the US and one thing that sticked to my mind was when they said that they liked the food but they were always hungry. That was weird, but later on, I found out why. The portions here are much smaller and relatively lower on calories and amounts of added sugar, so basically, that wasn't enough for them. Someone actually mentioned here that your list of ingredients is toilet paper long compared to the same products made in Europe or any other country.
When I was in the US I was shocked about the amount of large milkshake/coffee/soda cups people carry while walking on the street: soooooo much sugar and soooooooo many needless calories 😅
Hey, burger king is actually my favourite burger place over here! Also, EU is banning single used plastics one at a time, so that's why we still use the cardboard drink cups.
By the way - tourists/visitors to ITALY - FYI: In Italy (and also Sicily) it's the 'NORM' for Italians to eat pizza with a KNIFE and FORK, in the house, at the table. It is GENERALLY expected in a formal restaurant and you would ONLY eat 'street pizza' (“al taglio”) from a stall, with your hands... Americans especially, often get it WRONG (but hey! Italians don't expect anything LESS - lol!). 😎
I am English and I’m horrified that you eat it with a knife and fork. I was teaching young Italian students English in the summer holidays in the 70s. I had been eating pizza with a knife and fork, and then felt very embarrassed when I saw them eating it by the slice . I just think of it is as Italian finger food. I’m also appalled to have just found out that chips are often served on top of pizzas in Italy. In Italy. !!! Crime against Italian foid.
I live in Veneto, near Venice, and we all eat pizzas with the hands (especially if at home), there are only a few who uses the knife and the fork only because they don't want to dirt their hands. I agree that in restaurants it may be different but even then, I mostly just saw people eat with their hands.
Sorry, but Starbucks don't make coffee. They make caffeinated sugar drinks. Go to a proper coffee house and you shall experience the difference. It's HUGE. In Norway we drink a lot of coffee, actually in the top of the world by capita. We don't drink Starbucks. Cus it's not coffee.
What's more shocking is that the American after all these years of knowing what's in their food is turning his nose UK to it. Food generally is more expensive in America, even after conversation to the pound.
The real expense is what it does to bodies. Low income people have to depend on the highly processed foods for their diets, since they are the only things they can afford. That, in turn, shortens their life expectancy due to poor health and limited access to affordable medical care. A vicious cycle, all to support corporate America.
three of the main differences between US and european food are: 1. Quality of ingredients: US relies heavily on GMOs (mostly banned in europe) and artificial ingredients, which have to be "sugarcoated" to taste like the original stuff. (so Potatoes need loads of stuff to taste like potatoes) 2. the quantity: US has larger sized portions 3. the preference: in europe there is more emphasis on local and regional cuisine, not just big international junk food chains.
That's interesting as in Australia same large Big Macmeal is 1156.5 cal (converted from kilojoules). We also have high food standards, portion control and only have fresh local ingredients. Also Starbucks failed here in Australia as we have a large coffee culture and high standards. We get barista made coffees from coffee shops/cafes and all our takeout/fuel stations are barista made coffees. I would say that more than half of our homes have a small barista style coffee machine of some variety in their home today but getting a takeout coffee on the go (big business here and has to be top quality to survive) or going to a Cafe or coffee shop is also very popular. Australia invented/started McCafe's inside our Macca's (McDonalds) stores and its even pretty damn good coffee from a fast food chain. Our equivalent of Burger King (Hungry Jack's) and now also has its own Coffee equivalent Cafe inside its stores called Jack's Cafe where you can also get good quality hot or cold barista coffee. Starbucks is only really starting to reopen some stores here, not for the locals as we sure won't drink that dishwater/sugar rush stuff, but for the tourists who are looking for that 'familiar comfort drink' while travelling in a foreign country.
I´ve never in my live not eaten a whole pizza myself and I´m German and think this is the only way to eat pizza. *Though I east self-made pizza or from an actual pizzeria - so probably different amount of calories.
I live in Greece and my kids don't like MC Donalds. They'll eat it if they have to, but if they get to choose their take away fast food they will go for souvlaki or a burger from a small local burger place.
Haha reminds me of me when I was a kid and shopping with my mom. Usually she'd go to McDonalds after with my brothers but I always asked if we could just go home and make some burgers there or go to a snackbar which is cheaper, tastier and more healthy and fresh. My oldest brother also hated McDonalds and called it plastic garbage.
It's not the calories, people just cook at home much more. Many people go to fast food restaurants once every few months or less. And when I do go personally, a meal that has 1600 cal is enough for the entire day. A plate of pasta with sauce (maybe some ground meat in it) and Parmigiano is not more than 500-600 cal.
I recently learned that the biggest drink size at McDonalds in Australia is smaller than the smallest in the US. I had to verify that, they were right 😮. I looked up our large Whopper meal as it was one easy to compare apples with apples. Ours is 1,357, so not great but less. On the other hand, a large pepperoni lovers from Pizza Hut (the best match I could find) was only 1,952. The slices were only about 50 cal lighter each and so I’m guessing your pizzas much just actually come down to huge sizes.
I finally tried Five Guys today in Cologne and now I get the hype. French fries with skin on, yes! Fried in peanut oil, that's interesting. Free unlimited mayo and ketchup!!!!! Made-to order burgers everything custom. And alongside IKEA, the only place I've been in Germany with free drink refills. They also have no straws, but a to-go coffee cup-type lid you can sip thru the hole. Both McDonalds and Burger King are offering drinks in Pfand cups you can return for 2Euros or keep for reuse. Also, when I moved to Germany Wuppertal had 2 Starbucks. Now there are NONE.
The calories are not the worst in this, but look active sugar content and all the stuff that’s not allowed in the EU. And as far as I know, McCafe was invented in Europe. Me when you drink at the McCafe in Europe (I think Europe, at least in Germany) you don’t get paper and plastic, but China cups and metal silverware.
Well - if at all, you'll find me at a Burger King rather than a McD. Personal preference, i'd say - it tastes WAY better than the stuff of McD, while being essentially the same. But, as i said, personal preference i guess. It should be mentioned that here in Germany we don't even get the crap you US citizens are fed; we at least get _meat_ from _known_animals_, even if it's fast food ;P
Your drink cup from Macca’s is made from single use plastics. That is illegal in Aus and probably the UK too. Everything is cardboard and our take away cutlery is wood. I take my own with me.
Funny thing to watch in Italy is seing american tourists complaining about the coffee, the pizza, the bread, just because it is different to what they are used too. And the reason is simple... because it is real coffee, real pizza, real bread! No wonder so many US "food" businesses don't do that well in Europe.
Eu laws, trying to get rid of plastic. In France u can’t even have plastic lids anymore. Btw. In Europe many people I know prefer Burger King. Much better food and more filling with a bit healthier than mc donalds
I think the bigger difference to europe is what you eat, not if the same food has more calories. In Germany, in my City the Starbucks closed, because people here prefere Italian coffee. McDonald's, Burger King and only a few KFCs are the only chains you see here. If you eat italian you usually go to a local family run restaurant.
Some of the calories will come from that weird stuff you call cheese. Especially with pizza. That's just fat, dyes and chemicals in America. And in the pizza dough are also things in it, which originally do not belong in it, but you prefer a thick fluffy dough, and not the thin with the thick edge, which there is at the original Italian. Apart from the tons of sugar everywhere in it.
The American cup looks better to you..... unlike the USA the rest of the world is trying not to use as many if any, disposable plastics in packaging. Plastic plates, cutlery, straws and containers have all been banned here in Aus
This is why Aussies hate Starbucks - we love coffee, but Starbucks sells desserts! Australia had McCafe long before anyone else, because Macca’s used us as their trial for great coffee and set McCafe up here first. Macca’s coffee from the food counter was terrible, but we loved the good coffee from McCafe!
Rule #1: if you can choose between a food chain and a family business, *always* go for the family business. The food is always better, while food chains are always the worst!
As people are saying, the UK isn't very good comparison. Other foods tend to be healthier outside of the US because we typically eat less processed foods. This includes cheese, milk, dough, oils, much less processed meat, etc. Also, for most countries outside of the US, chain fast food is maybe a once a week/twice a month max luxury.
Actually 'food calories' or 'large calories' are often just called 'calories', which can be confused with 'small calories'. A small calorie or cal is the energy required to heat 1g of water from 14,5°C to 15,5°C. A large calorie is 1000 cal or 1 kcal which is the energy required to heat *1kg* of water from 14,5°C to 15,5°C.
People CAN'T read labels and it shows (esp. on their body shape). I am addicted to sugar, but even I wouldn't take the first product in my mouth - it probably kills like heroin. I drink two coffees a day, each ~300 ml. I put in each: 1 teaspoon of instant coffee (1 tsp = 3 grams of coffee; I drink Nescafe Classic, Polish reaserch shows that there is 1,66-1,87 g of caffeine in 100 g of it; so 1 tsp of coffee = 50-56 mg of caffeine) and 2 teaspoons of sugar (because I really hate bitter taste; 1 tsp = 4,2 grams of sugar). Now let's look at the products, Google told me that Caramel Frappuccino Venti has 591 ml (so by volume, it's exactly my daily portion of coffee). In the UK, they put in one portion: 2,1-2,3 tsp of coffee (so this is my daily portion of coffee by caffeine) + 14,5 tsp of SUGAR (and nutritionists round 1 tsp of sugar to 4 grams (1 gram of sugar = 4 kcal), so they would tell you it has ~15,5 tsp of sugar). 1 glass contains 220 g of sugar; 61,1 g of sugar is 28% of glass. But it still nothing compared to the US, they have almost the same amount of caffeine but 73 g of sugar (1/3 glass of sugar, 17,5 tsp of sugar or ~18,5 tsp of sugar if 1 tsp = 4 g of sugar). My dear god, if they are not ill because of it, it is miracle. 150 g of jell-o no-bake strawberry cheesecake has 434 kcal and 61 g of sugar. At least we know it's a dessert and it doesn't troubles our body like water with sugar which doesn't have anything that slows down blood sugar spikes. I will not comment about the rest of the sugar trash that people are willingly puting into their mouth (30 onces of that Mountain piss = ~900 ml = 110 g of sugar, and you know now that it's 1/2 of kitchen glass or 27 teaspoons of sugar). By buying 1 kg of sugar and dissolving it in the right amount of water (shown in the video products) I can achieve the same result at minimal cost. My brain will be sluggish and everything will taste good, but diabetes and atherosclerosis will be guaranteed. Sick, sick, sick. Do you know that healthy dose of sugar should be a source of max. 10% of your daily kcal? And I'm far over that limit, that's why I know that I am a sugar addict. Also 7000 kcal over your limit makes 1 kg of body fat on the paper. Just add ONLY ~20 kcal daily over your limit and after 5 years you have ~5 kg more, over 20 years you have ~21 kg more of fat on your body.
You should compare what we consider in Europe as Fast Food with american fast food. It would be even more devastating. For Example barely anyone goes to Starbucks here (at least in Germany), if we want a coffee to go we usually drink a filter coffee, often black. McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subways, Dominos, Pizza Hut etc. are considered by most here in Germany as a novelty, basically no one eats there regularly. The most popular Fast Food here is Döner Kebap. We have more Kebap Stands then McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Starbucks, Dominos and Subways combines. We even have less Gas Stations then Döner Stands.
Calories are not really a selective criterion; the United States is overtaken by Ireland in terms of calorie consumption per person and is followed very closely by Belgium, Turkey, Austria, Iceland and most European countries. It is the origin of these calories that is decisive: 36.4% of the diet of American Americans consists of sugars and fats, more than any country in the world (Canada is 2nd with 33.7 %). On the other hand, the diet of the Icelanders consists of 20.3% meat and fish (world record), that of the Turks 42% cereals (world record), that of the Belgians 23.2% dairy products and butter (butter record) and that of the Czechs is composed of 10.6%... alcohol (world record). The problem for Americans is sugar!
When I was in the US for just two weeks I actually gained almost 5 pounds :( Granted, I didn't really hold back with the calories and just tried every food that I could because I wanted to get the full experience, but still. One thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was that there was no "respect" for my calories/health lol. Food was drenched in fat and stuffed with cheese. Keep in mind that all of these venues are American fast food chains who made it over to Europe. If I eat a fish bun at Anker or a chicken sandwich at der Mann in Vienna, it's a tiny fraction of the calories you'll find in this video for "one meal". A pizza from my favourite pizzaria has like 1200 kcal and already makes me feel bad about myself! I can't imagine eating one with almost 4000 kcal. That's actually insane. That shouldn't be a thing. It should be banned on both continents.
12:00 You're acutally paying less. I remember back in the 90's (Yes, it's been a while) I went to Florida and got McD mean for $2 or something like that. The same meal in Scandinavia was around $6. The prices have gone up of course but the ratio from US:EU prices have for the most part stayed the same.
The main issue with US food is the crap in it. Corn Syrup is in everything. You often have at least 3 diff types of sugar in one item that shouldn’t have sugar in it. It’s the high fructose corn syrup that’s giving diabetes on a massive scale. Then there’s all the chemicals which are 😮. Our MacDs fries - decent oil, potato, salt. That’s it. The list for the US fries is ludicrously long. There’s no excuse for it. Shouldn’t be happening
Ate small pizza yesderday, sadly due to strong meds not allowed to eat most what's in a pizza (it was a cheat day after several months with no pizza) usually i ate atleast 1(sometimes every other day) lare pizza every week and still had 6pack and perfect body (no jim and did not go to exersise or anything). I just walked and used public trantsportation to go everywhere, 15 to 30 000 steps a day and offered to do/carry/bring in the cargo/sellable/products every work day (i actually was a mid level worker and nothing to do with cargo/products) but i got a 30 min physical(all by hand to a second floor on stairs) and got few minimum hour work hours added to my normal wage. So yeah overall my lifestyle, the lower calory and cleaner foor (even more than the rest of Europe) was enought for me to help me get good fit body and keep it. My country has strict food quality laws and even stricer food preparation/making laws (aka cafees, restaurants and pubs and sutch).
Do you remember how Top Gear went to the North Pole? And how they were told that you need 5000 Cal a day to trek across the Arctic? Turns out you only need one Papa Jones pizza and a milkshake to be fully fed in order make that journey ON FOOT! :D ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WNkvASxfEWQ.html
I'm from Poland and I always eat whole pizza. Most often there is no choice and pizza is in just one standard size, if you can choose size then small is 30cm and big 40cm. The dough in pizzerias is much more thin than in pizza from dominos which is puffy, I eated pizza from there maybe 2-3 times and it's shitty af. When it comes to McDonalds, it's expensive in comparision to normal food and after eating you feel hungry in moment, stomach is hurting and you destroying a toilet afterall. I can go to "Bar Mleczny", eat a normal lunch, two times cheaper than mcdonald, two times less calories and i'm not hungry to the evening.
