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Harry Kersh: From calorie
count to portion sizes,
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we wanted to find out
the biggest differences
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between the UK and US McDonald's.
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This is what a small drink
looks like in the UK.
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Joe Avella: This is a US small.
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Harry: This is what a
medium drink looks like.
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Joe: This is a US medium.
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Harry: And this is a large.
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Joe: [grunts] And this is a US large.
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Harry: So, with our McNuggets in the UK,
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the default adult sizes on the menu
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are a box of six,
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a box of nine,
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or a share box of 20.
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Joe: Nuggets. You can get a box of four,
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or you can get a six piece,
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or 10.
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20, for "sharing."
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Or...ahh.
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40.
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And according to the three
McDonald's in the area,
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they don't have 20 or 40 boxes,
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they just do them in increments of 10,
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but this is on the menu.
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Harry: In the UK, we got
three sizes of fries.
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These are our small
fries in the paper bag.
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Joe: Here is the small fry.
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Harry: These are our medium
fries in the iconic carton.
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Joe: Here is the medium fry.
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Harry: And then these are our large fries.
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Joe: And here is the large fry.
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Harry: So, we couldn't find
the exact weight measurement
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for these fries online,
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so what we're gonna do
is weigh them ourselves.
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Just out of curiosity,
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gonna bring our trusty
friend, the scales, back,
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and we're gonna weigh the Big Mac
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and see if there is
any difference in size.
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I'm not sure there will
be, but let's find out.
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Joe: Hang on, hang on, hang on.
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Harry: So, while McDonald's
fries might look and taste
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pretty similar in the UK and the US,
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in the UK we only have three ingredients,
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which is oil, salt, and potatoes.
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Joe: The McDonald's
french fries in America
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have way more ingredients.
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These fries are made
from potatoes, obviously;
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a vegetable oil, which
has canola oil, corn oil,
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soybean oil, hydrogeni...
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hydrogenitated...genitated?
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Producer: Hydrogenated.
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Joe: Ha! Thank you.
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Hydrogenated soybean
oil, natural beef flavor,
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dextrose, sodium aspid...phosphitate?
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Phosphifi...phos...phiupp...pyrophosphate,
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pyrophosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate,
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which is used to maintain the color.
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Are they that much of a different
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color than the ones in the UK?
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Is it worth it?
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Can we get a side-by-side comparison?
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Are they that much more bright yellow
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we need to put sodium acid pyrophosphate
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or whatever it's called in it?
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Salt, and I should mention
that a natural beef flavor
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contains hydrolyzed
wheat and hydrolyzed milk
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as a starting ingredient, and of course
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I have no idea what that means.
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Harry: So, the biggest calorie
difference in a Big Mac
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actually comes from the sauce.
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In the US they've got about
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40 more calories than we do in the UK.
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We're not sure if this is
because there's more sauce
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or because the ingredients list in the UK
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is just a little bit more simple.
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Joe: Our sauce is made of soybean oil,
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sweet relish, which is
made of diced pickles,
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sugar, high-fructose corn syrup,
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distilled vinegar, salt, corn syrup,
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all right, two types of corn syrup,
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xanthan gum,
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hang on.
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Calcium chloride, spice extractives?
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Water. All right, I've heard of that.
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Egg yolks, distilled vinegar,
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spices, onion powder, salt,
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propylene glycol alginate?
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Garlic powder; vegetable protein,
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which has hydrolyzed corn, soy, and wheat;
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sugar; caramel color; turmeric;
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extractives of paprika; and, of course,
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soy...lechithen.
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Leechithen.
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Lecithin.
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I don't know which one it is.
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Harry: So, if you are
trying to eat healthily
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at McDonald's, it might actually be
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the drinks that you have to look out for.
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Joe: That's nothing, guys.
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Our chocolate shake? 840 calories.
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That's as many calories as
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two cheeseburgers and one hamburger.
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Harry: So, what does that all mean?
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If you were to walk into a UK McDonald's
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and order yourself a large
Big Mac meal with a milkshake,
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it would be around 1,400 calories.
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Joe: And if you were to
get the large Big Mac meal
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with a chocolate shake in America,
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the total here is 1,870 calories.
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So that's 1,870 calories,
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the daily calorie allowance
for an American dude
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is 2,500, OK.
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So you have 630 left.
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One McNugget is 55 calories, right?
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So you could also have 11 more nuggets,
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and there you go, that's
all you need for the day.
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Harry: Here's everything you can only get
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at a UK McDonald's.
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So, here we've got the
Veggie Deluxe burger,
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which is a veggie burger that's served
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with some mayo and some lettuce.
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Here we've got a Chicken Legend,
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which is a chicken burger,
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again served with mayo and lettuce.
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Joe: Chicken Legend, I don't
even know what that is.
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Not gonna catch on.
That can stay in the UK.
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Harry: We have a range of wraps
that you can get in the UK.
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We have a wrap of the day.
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Here we've got the fajita
crisp, which is some chicken,
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along with some veg and
some spicy fajita sauce.
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Here we've got some Veggie Dippers.
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These were actually introduced
at part of Veganuary
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in 2020 in the UK, but
they're stuck on the menu.
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So, these are Vegan Society-approved,
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and they're sort of like a
fried-bean-patty sort of thing.
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Joe: [sighs] Like, pick a more
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unappetizing thing to get at McDonald's.
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Veggie Dippers.
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Harry: And then finally we've
got some Mozzarella Dippers,
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which are just kind of
mozzarella sticks, really.
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Joe: Well, sucks to be in the UK,
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'cause everything you see
right here is USA only, baby.
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Haha, USA only!
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So, I'm gonna talk about
the coffee drinks real fast.
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Here in the US, we have
all the same coffee drinks
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they do in the UK, but every coffee drink
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has an iced version and also a caramel
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and/or French vanilla
and/or mocha version,
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depending on what you're getting.
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So, we in the US, of
course, have more variety.
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Shamrock Shake.
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The Shamrock Shake is, like,
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it's like vanilla and mint shake.
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Strawberry Sundae.
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This has recently been
discontinued in the UK.
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Sorry, guys.
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Still got it in the US.
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My favorite as a kid, the Caramel Sundae.
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Fruit and Yogurt Parfait,
maybe it's healthy,
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I have no idea, probably not.
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Those were the cold items I
wanted to get out of the way
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as they slowly melt under these lights.
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Got a lot more to go through.
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Harry, bear with me here, buddy.
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Buttermilk Crispy Chicken Sandwich.
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Yo, I think this was introduced
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when the chicken-sandwich
wars were really heating up
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when Chick-fil-A started taking over.
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Let's see what's under the hood.
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Look at that. Look at this.
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Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe.
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This is your fancy Quarter
Pounder with Cheese.
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This is for Sunday dinner.
When you have company over.
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Ah, there's so much.
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Sausage Breakfast Burrito.
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Even after it's, for a while, it's, like,
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still, like, glowing yellow. [laughs]
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Now, these are the Buttermilk
Crispy Chicken Tenders.
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These smell amazing. I wanna
just bite into these so bad.
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I wanna just take a big bite.
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Wanna talk about sauces real quick.
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OK, I'm at McDonald's, and I
go get me one of everything.
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I've heard from Harry and
the team over in the UK
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that some of these they don't have,
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including sweet 'n sour, honey mustard,
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what else don't you guys have?
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I don't think you guys have
ranch either, or buffalo.
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I gotta say, though, the
sauces are everything.
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Harry: We've got a couple of sauces that
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are kind of unique to the UK as well.
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We've got a sweet curry dipping sauce,
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and then we've also got
a salsa dip as well,
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which I didn't know existed until today.
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Joe: Oh, yes, Donut Sticks.
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These Donut Sticks also come
with a chocolate dipping sauce.
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Another thing I'm certain
they don't have in the UK.
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Yo ho ho ho ho ho ho!
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Breakfast is served!
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Look at this. Oh, yeah.
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Who's ready to start the day?
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[claps] It's McGriddle talk.
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[audience applause]
[jazzy music]
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So, for those of you in the UK
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who don't know what a McGriddle is,
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the United States McDonald's
had this genius idea:
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What if we took breakfast sandwiches,
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replaced the buns,
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and made them pancakes
and somehow injected
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some sort of syrup
flavor into the pancakes?
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And the McGriddle was born.
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And, I have to say, they're fantastic.
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This one right here, the bacon,
egg, and cheese McGriddle.
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This is the sausage.
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Yeah? Hi!
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Hey, hey.
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This is the sausage, egg,
and cheese McGriddle.
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American food engineering at its finest.
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Look at that.
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In the UK, you guys call
biscuits cookies. Here...no.
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So, in the UK, biscuits are cookies,
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what we call cookies.
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In the US, biscuits are what we call...
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uh...
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I don't know what else you can call them.
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Like, you bake them, and
they're from the South,
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and they're dry, and I
don't know what they are.
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Much like the McGriddles,
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we have a version of
every breakfast sandwich
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that instead of the regular
bun bread, it's biscuits.
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Not the cookie biscuits
like you guys have.
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These biscuits.
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Harry: Joe, you were so close on the whole
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cookie-biscuit thing.
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What you guys call biscuits,
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we would actually kind of call scones,
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or scones, depending on where you're from,
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and the thought of putting breakfast food
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in between them is kinda weird.
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They're usually reserved for
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cream and jam for an afternoon tea.
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Joe: Last, and,
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in my opinion, least,
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is this thing.
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The Southwest Grilled Chicken Salad.
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Producer: Yeah.
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Joe: Oh ho ho ho ho.
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Harry: Can I eat now?
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Yeah? Yeah? K, cool.
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I don't care how many calories,
it's just really good.
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Mm-hmm.
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