British and American "Food Wars" hosts Harry Kersh and Joe Avella swapped places to try each other’s Pizza Hut menu items and find all the differences between the two. This is "Food Wars: Foreign Exchange."
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00:00A Brit and an American swap countries to try each other's Pizza Hut.
00:03This is Food Wars for an Exchange.
00:09We'll start with a classic crust cheese pizza.
00:11This is a U.S. large.
00:12Visually, there's a few differences with the U.K. one, actually.
00:14I think the classic crust in the U.K. is actually more the pan crust.
00:19I'm liking the little bits of cheese that are kind of on the crust
00:22and are baked in a little bit there.
00:24In terms of the size, I actually don't think this is, like, ridiculously large.
00:27This looks maybe slightly bigger than a U.K. large might be.
00:30This pizza is also cut into eight slices.
00:32Here is the U.K. large classic cheese pizza, or as the Brits call it, a margarita.
00:37I would say this looks more like a U.S. medium.
00:40I've also noticed that this was cut into ten slices, where ours is probably eight.
00:45You guys have smaller slices and smaller pizzas.
00:50It's good. It's just a very standard cheese pizza.
00:52Like, when your brain kind of pictures what a cheese pizza should taste like,
00:55this is kind of it.
00:56Quite a thick layer of cheese.
00:58Quite like a little airy dough, but got like a satisfying chew to it.
01:02I like the sauce, actually. It's quite sweet.
01:04Smells all right.
01:05Has this dustiness on the crust. Does anyone know what this is?
01:10Pretty close to the American.
01:11The American definitely has a lot more flavor to it.
01:14I would say a stronger sauce flavor.
01:17This just tastes like cheese and bread, and it's not tasting the sauce at all.
01:20And let's see what's on the end here.
01:22That's good.
01:23I eat the crusts because I'm an adult, but I know some people don't for whatever reason.
01:31Here's everything at Pizza Hut in the U.K. I can't get in the U.S.
01:34And here is everything you'll find at Pizza Hut in the U.S. that we don't have in the U.K.
01:37Before we get into the preset pizzas, let's take a look at the exclusive customizable options on offer in the U.K.
01:44When it comes to the crust, the U.K. exclusive is a Cheesy Bites crust.
01:47And look at this thing.
01:48Yeah, this thing looks like a nightmare.
01:51Starting with the crust, the Cheesy Bites crust.
01:54Now, I'm not quite sure why this didn't take off in the U.S.
01:56We love hiding cheese in bread in pizza, so that actually doesn't really bother me that much.
02:03It's everything in the middle here.
02:04Exclusive toppings.
02:05We have vegan cheese, spicy pork, green chilies, the U.S.'s mixed peppers, red onion, sweet corn, and sun-blushed tomatoes.
02:14And we've combined all that into one pizza.
02:17That's absolutely horrifying.
02:19This is what I assume was floating in the sky that made everyone in the movie Bird Box go crazy.
02:30Isn't that very gollopy?
02:31Not that exciting.
02:33Not that flavorful.
02:34In the normal pizza consumption already, everyone take a look at this.
02:37So I'm like, oh, I totally ordered this on purpose.
02:39I think I'll get a slice while I'm hanging with people.
02:42I got to cut a knot in half to get it off.
02:45This other knot wasn't cut all the way through, so I lost knottage.
02:48Taking this off.
02:49And now, how the hell am I holding this?
02:54I think the thing that's throwing me off is the vegan cheese.
02:57It's not that it's bad.
02:59It's just like, I'm not tasting any cheese on this.
03:01Oh, yeah, it's actually spicy.
03:03I like the green chilies.
03:05So it looks more intimidating and awful than it really is.
03:08Your spicy pork tastes a lot like American sausage.
03:11More than your sausage.
03:12Yeah, that's the most flavorful sausage I've had since I've gotten to this island.
03:15It's on a Pizza Hut pizza.
03:21Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't eat any more of this, and I'm not going to.
03:25There's one exclusive crust option in the U.S., and it's this one, the Thin and Crispy.
03:28It does look pretty crispy around the outside.
03:30Neither country has an exclusive sauce base, but if you order a big New Yorker crust in the U.S.,
03:34then it does come with a slightly sweeter marinara sauce.
03:36Then they have a bunch of exclusive toppings in the U.S. that we can't get in the U.K.
03:40These include a crispy cupped pepperoni, Italian sausage, meatballs, black olives, banana peppers, and white onions.
03:48We have red in the U.K.
03:49And, of course, we combined all the exclusives except the pepperoni onto one pizza, the U.S. only.
03:54Not thrilled about the meatballs.
03:55Meatballs on pizza seems to be like a weirdly American fast food thing,
03:59and I just don't think the meatballs hold up well when they're kind of being baked onto a pizza.
04:04I will say, like, just looking at this one, it doesn't look quite so egregious compared to other U.S. only things that I've tried,
04:10so we'll give it a go.
04:12Most of this actually kind of worked.
04:14I'm still not a huge fan of the meatballs.
04:16I think they just end up being quite dry when you bake them on a pizza.
04:19But the Italian sauce is just pretty good.
04:20I like black olives.
04:22Banana peppers are actually kind of growing on me.
04:24I know Joe kind of gets fed up of, like, seeing them on U.S. fast food things,
04:27but I think they're kind of good.
04:28Then we're onto the exclusive preset pizza options.
04:31Surprisingly, there aren't that many preset options in the U.S.
04:34I think maybe there's just more emphasis on building your own.
04:36We'll start with this one, which is the hot honey double pepperoni pizza.
04:40That sounds really good.
04:41I want to see if it tastes good.
04:42This also has that other exclusive topping, that cupped pepperoni.
04:45It's not something that you see super often in the U.K., this type of pepperoni.
04:48It's like a slightly thinner sausage cut into really thin strips
04:51so that when you cook it, it kind of curls up
04:54and then kind of forms these, like, little cups.
04:56It's double pepperoni because you have the cups,
04:59but then you also just have regular pepperoni slices as well.
05:03There's definitely some heat to it.
05:04I think some of it is just from the pepperoni.
05:06Maybe the honey as well.
05:07It has a little bit of chili mixed in.
05:09I love these little pepperoni cups.
05:10They're, like, a little bit crispy around the outside.
05:12This one's also, I think, by default given to you on the pan crust,
05:16which I really like.
05:17Pizza in the U.K. has a lot of its own pre-set pizzas.
05:20I think that most of them look ridiculous.
05:22This one is the mushroom and sweet corn.
05:25Yeah.
05:26This terrifying thing over here is the mac and cheese pizza.
05:30Let's start with the mac and cheese.
05:31I have had mac and cheese pizza before.
05:33Not.
05:33This, to my knowledge, is the only, like, international chain
05:37that's done mac and cheese pizza.
05:38Usually, this is something you see at, like, a standalone pizzeria
05:41that wants to have, like, fun toppings.
05:42Oh, this one, they even gave us the cheesy crust.
05:44Did you know that?
05:45They were going to give it...
05:46I kind of like that.
05:49I don't know what cheese is on here.
05:51If you can see, yeah, the cheese is baked on.
05:53There's also, like, this, like, there's cheese inside the pasta.
05:56The noodles don't have, like, a real defined flavor,
05:59so I think it would taste cheesier if smaller, more smaller noodles.
06:03That's my note.
06:04But overall, I thought this was going to be, like,
06:07like, too rich or too, like, but actually balanced nicely.
06:11Next up, we have the meat lovers pizza.
06:13I'm pretty sure in the U.K. we have, like, meat feast
06:15or meaty one pizza options,
06:17which are kind of our version of this.
06:19It's different to our ones as well
06:20because it's got that Italian sausage.
06:21There's also some pepperoni, some bacon, and some ham.
06:25It's a meaty boy.
06:26I get a little bit of all of the meats in one bite.
06:29As far as meat pizzas go, it's pretty standard.
06:31I don't think the Italian sausage adds a ton
06:33compared to, like, the U.K. Meat Feast, for example.
06:36It's just kind of fine.
06:37So I'm going to just point out that, like,
06:40this one is different from this one,
06:41which is different from this one.
06:43This is the meaty one.
06:44This is the barbecue meat feast.
06:46And this one right here is the meat feast, probably.
06:49The ham and mushroom, it's like,
06:51it's just like a thing to get, like, two toppings.
06:54It's like no effort.
06:56Same with the mushroom and...
06:57But you guys are, like, really trying to offload mushrooms.
07:00I think if it's going to have a name,
07:02if it's going to be the whatever,
07:03bare minimum, three things.
07:06Three toppings.
07:07Meat Feast.
07:09All right, next.
07:10The barbecue meat feast,
07:12which I'm assuming has barbecue sauce on it.
07:15I think you think American barbecue sauce is very sweet,
07:18because I'm expecting this to be a lot sweeter.
07:21Tastes exactly the same.
07:23I think they gave us two of the meat feast.
07:24The meaty one.
07:25This is this with, and possibly this, with chicken.
07:30Okay.
07:31This one's somehow flavorless.
07:33So unless I got COVID 12 seconds ago,
07:35I can't taste anything on here.
07:36Such little flavor on the chicken,
07:38I wouldn't get any of these.
07:40If I had to.
07:42We also forgot the Texan barbecue,
07:44which is a barbecue sauce chicken and bacon pizza.
07:47Next up is the backyard barbecue chicken pizza.
07:50So this one has the barbecue sauce base option.
07:53There's also some bacon on there,
07:54some chicken, and some white onion.
07:56I'm just not a huge fan of barbecue sauce bases on pizza.
07:59I feel like the people who love it really love it,
08:01and the people who don't, don't.
08:03It's quite divisive.
08:05That's actually really not bad.
08:07As someone who, like I say,
08:08doesn't really love barbecue sauce as a base on a pizza,
08:11they've actually been, I'd say, quite restrained
08:13with the amount of barbecue sauce that they've used.
08:15It's not overpowering.
08:16It's not too sweet.
08:17Next up is this buffalo chicken pizza.
08:19Buffalo chicken pizzas seem to be a thing in America,
08:21whereas they are very much not a thing in the UK.
08:23I'm just not convinced of its merits
08:25as a base for a pizza.
08:28That's just really not for me.
08:29That's kind of bad.
08:30That's like a tiny bit of sweetness in there,
08:32but like not nearly enough to balance that out.
08:34And the chicken's just kind of there.
08:36That's, yeah.
08:37That's a whiff for me, I'm afraid.
08:39That's a big womp womp.
08:41And then the final option today
08:42is the Hawaiian chicken pizza.
08:44As the name suggests, it's Hawaiian,
08:45so it's got the pineapple and the ham.
08:47But then there's also some chicken and some green peppers on here.
08:49Hawaiian pizza is kind of growing on me.
08:51For some reason, my palate seems to be changing as I get older,
08:54or maybe it's just been completely destroyed
08:55by like four years of food wars.
08:57But yeah, I'm no longer like as much of a pineapple on pizza hater
09:00as I once was.
09:02Let's give it a go.
09:04That's really not too bad.
09:05I think the one thing that I'm a bit confused
09:07as to why they've included it is the green pepper,
09:09because for me that doesn't really work.
09:10The pineapple's fine.
09:12I think my mouth was also crying out for some sweetness
09:14after the abomination that was the buffalo chicken pizza.
09:16Then we have some sizzler pizzas,
09:18which are topped with green chilies,
09:19roquito peppers, jalapenos, and red onions,
09:22plus the toppings of your choosing.
09:23We got the Hawaiian sizzler and the veggie sizzler.
09:26There's also a beef sizzler and a chicken sizzler.
09:29Sizzler.
09:30I'm saying sizzler a lot.
09:31They're really generous with the peppers here,
09:32hence the sizzling aspect of it.
09:34As suspected, the green chilies and the jalapenos
09:37are doing all the sizzling.
09:39Look, I love spicy food.
09:41I do take issue with stuff like this,
09:45where they go, we have this thing.
09:47We have a spicy version.
09:49You're like, I'll take the spicy version.
09:50They're like, we just put peppers on it.
09:52Like, doesn't seem very considered.
09:54I defend Hawaiian pizza.
09:56I don't like food police telling me
09:58what can and can't go on a pizza.
10:00I get Hawaiian pizza regularly.
10:02I like pineapple on pizza.
10:03Okay, Italy, chill out.
10:05But I can't imagine Hawaiian and jalapeno
10:08going well together.
10:09So, here's how this could work.
10:13They need less jalapenos and green chilies on this
10:16and more pineapple.
10:17Like, if it was more considered
10:18instead of just throwing jalapenos and spicy peppers
10:21on an already pre-existing pizza,
10:24if it actually took the time for the balance,
10:25this could be killer.
10:27Good idea.
10:28Balance doesn't work.
10:30And we've got the veggie one.
10:31I mean, I don't take a bite,
10:33but I know what this is going to taste like.
10:35They just renamed that the jalapeno and onion pizza.
10:38I like those things, but just that and a pizza.
10:41Now, the U.S. has supreme pizza
10:43and a super supreme pizza,
10:45but in the U.K., they have a chicken supreme pizza
10:47and also a vegetable supreme pizza,
10:49which we did not get.
10:51So, I'm under the impression that supreme
10:52just means onions, peppers, and mushrooms.
10:54That makes it like supreme.
10:55All right.
10:56So, this is chicken, peppers, onions, mushrooms.
10:59It lacks flavor.
11:03It lacks, like, excitement.
11:04There's actually several vegan options in the U.K.
11:07The cheese they use is Violife branded
11:10with some Beyond Meat plant-based protein options.
11:13Now, what you can get on the menu in the U.K.
11:15is the vegan margarita,
11:17the vegan vegetarian sizzler,
11:19the vegan vegetarian supreme,
11:21the vegan Beyond Italian-style sausage supreme,
11:24and the Beyond Italian-style sausage supreme.
11:28You know those weird, like, simulator games
11:31where it's like Pizza Chef Simulator
11:34was, like, really hard to make the stuff?
11:35This looks like a pizza
11:36that would be in one of those games
11:38when it comes out.
11:39It looks cartoonish.
11:41Like, the closer they make this stuff,
11:42they try to make this stuff
11:43look like the real thing,
11:44like, the less it does.
11:46This is Uncanny Valley pizza.
11:51Completely flavorless.
11:52Here's why they screwed up.
11:54Pizza, one of the two reasons
11:55a pizza with, like, sausage on it tastes good
11:57is the cheese and the sausage.
11:59When we replace that with the fake stuff,
12:01it has nothing to stand on.
12:02If they want to continue doing this,
12:04they should have,
12:05I'm about to blow everybody at Pizza Hut's mind,
12:07seasoned it.
12:08They got loaded pizzas here in the U.K.
12:10I'm told that the cheeses are
12:11mozzarella red lesher?
12:14Red lesher?
12:17Lester.
12:17I was close.
12:18Red Lester and Monterey Jack.
12:20Okay, everyone in the comments
12:21who's not in the U.K.,
12:22let them know how we don't know
12:23what this is.
12:24This whole time I've been here,
12:25you're like,
12:25you don't know what bleh is?
12:26Like, no, I don't.
12:28Here are the options they got.
12:29Loaded pepperoni feast
12:30with triple cheese blend.
12:31Loaded margarita
12:32with triple cheese blend.
12:34Loaded chicken supreme
12:35with triple cheese blend.
12:36And loaded Hawaiian
12:37with triple...
12:39Nah.
12:39Nah.
12:40This is the loaded pepperoni feast.
12:42This looks like it has more cheese,
12:44not that much more.
12:45But loaded pepperoni,
12:47surely you jest.
12:49I see one, two,
12:51and maybe a third.
12:53This is not loaded pepperoni
12:55by any means.
12:56That's regular pepperoni.
12:59Incredibly greasy.
13:00This might have the greasiest bottom.
13:02Can you see there?
13:02This would be something
13:03you'd find in America.
13:05So I would get this to see...
13:06If you're planning a trip to America,
13:08maybe, like,
13:09have a couple of these
13:09leading up to trips
13:10to, like, help your stomach adjust.
13:12I definitely want to be
13:13near a home base
13:14if I was eating one of these,
13:16if you catch my drift.
13:18Diarrhea.
13:18US Peterhut has a lot
13:19of exclusive wing options.
13:21I've got four in front of me today
13:22to try,
13:23and we'll start with this one,
13:23which is hot honey.
13:24Sounds like it could be pretty good.
13:26Again, sweet and heat
13:27is a good combination,
13:28particularly when wings are concerned.
13:29It's pretty good.
13:33The wings themselves
13:34could be slightly crispier.
13:35I think an issue
13:36with these containers
13:36that they come in,
13:38which look like
13:39little alien spaceships,
13:41is that they're airtight.
13:43So when you put hot stuff in it,
13:44it just kind of steams.
13:46So I think maybe
13:47work on the vessel of delivery.
13:49But the wing itself is pretty good.
13:50It's a big wing,
13:51quite juicy.
13:52I do like the hot honey as a flavor.
13:54Not too spicy.
13:55Mostly sweet, I would say.
13:56Next up are the
13:57Buffalo Burning Hot Wings.
13:58You know it's burning hot
14:00because it's got three
14:00of these little heat symbols
14:01on the packaging.
14:03So I'm wondering
14:04if this will finally kill me off
14:06with my weak British mouth.
14:10It's definitely on the spicier side.
14:13It's that same kind of like
14:14Frank's Red Hot Buffalo
14:16type of wing sauce.
14:17This is Buffalo Burning Hot.
14:19It's on the higher end
14:20of my spice tolerance.
14:20What happened here?
14:21I don't really know.
14:22It doesn't seem like it has
14:23a lot of the sauce on it.
14:24Get a good dunk
14:25of what sauce is in the pool.
14:30This is the highest it hap.
14:31Mm-hmm.
14:32It's burning hot, apparently.
14:33Three flames.
14:36One and a half at best.
14:37Yeah, the verdict is
14:38it does build up on you
14:39a little bit,
14:40but probably not worthy
14:41of the three flames.
14:42Next up,
14:43we've got this
14:43Lemon Pepper Dry Rub Wing.
14:44It's not too bad.
14:48I'm not really getting
14:49that like artificial
14:49cleaning product lemon flavor
14:51that I've had in the past
14:51with some of these wings.
14:52Then finally,
14:53we have Cajun wings.
14:54I actually think
14:55they could have been
14:56even more generous
14:57with the seasoning.
14:58I think in general,
14:59the size of the wings
15:00from Pizza Hut
15:01seems to be really big.
15:02And one issue
15:03I'm running into
15:04is that that kind of like
15:05creates a different ratio
15:07of seasoning to meat.
15:09Now, while we only got
15:10four wing options today,
15:11there are a bunch more
15:11U.S. exclusive wing flavors.
15:13You can get
15:14garlic parmesan,
15:15naked wings,
15:16sweet chili wings,
15:18buffalo mild,
15:19buffalo medium,
15:20and spicy garlic.
15:21All of them can also be
15:22ordered in the form
15:22of boneless wings.
15:23Although once again,
15:24do not get naked boneless wings,
15:26just order chicken nuggets
15:27from somewhere else.
15:28Pizza Hut in the U.S.
15:29has six pasta options
15:30and I got three of them.
15:31We'll start with this one,
15:32which is the oven-baked
15:33Italian meats pasta.
15:34It seems to just be
15:35the Italian sausage
15:36and the pepperoni
15:37baked into a pasta
15:38with a tomato-y sauce.
15:44I've got issues with these.
15:46While my body and brain
15:47are screaming at me
15:48to not try any of these,
15:49I am going to have a bite
15:50in the name of science.
15:53It's kind of just the most
15:54average pasta
15:55you've ever had in your life.
15:57I think if you gave this
15:58to an Italian person,
15:59they would probably
15:59throw it in your face
16:00like a clown getting hit
16:03with a pie.
16:04Just get Italian food
16:05from somewhere else,
16:06to be honest.
16:06We also have the oven-baked
16:08cheesy Alfredo pasta,
16:09which to me looks
16:10kind of just like mac and cheese.
16:11And here we have
16:12the oven-baked veggie pasta,
16:13which is pretty much
16:14all of the veggie pizza toppings
16:15dumped on top of that pasta.
16:17In addition to that,
16:17you can get an oven-baked
16:18chicken Alfredo pasta,
16:19which I imagine is just
16:20this with some chicken,
16:21and just plain pasta
16:22with marinara sauce,
16:24if you are four years old.
16:25UK Pizza Hut sides.
16:29Here are some of the ones
16:31that they have.
16:32We got the bread chicken strips.
16:34There's also hot spicy
16:35chicken strips.
16:36Those are somewhere over here.
16:37Oh, chicken strips,
16:38chicken tenders.
16:39Breaded chicken strips.
16:40There's a bunch of dipping
16:41sauces here.
16:42I mean, it's just chicken tenders,
16:43right?
16:43I don't know what the difference
16:44between a strip and a tender is.
16:46Also for dipping sauces,
16:47barbecue, garlic, herb,
16:50sour cream and chive,
16:51and sweet chili.
16:52This is the barbecue bacon
16:54loaded mac and cheese.
16:55You should go right to jail
16:56for ordering this.
16:57There's also a carbonara
16:58loaded mac and cheese
16:59and a margarita
17:00loaded mac and cheese.
17:01Guys, enough with the mac and cheese,
17:03all right?
17:04Mac and cheese is perfectly fine.
17:06Must everything be mac and cheese?
17:07And it's weird
17:08that a pizza place
17:09is really going
17:10all in on mac and cheese.
17:11But I guess
17:12you ought to get the ovens
17:13to go ahead and bake it.
17:14I don't think I've ever
17:14put barbecue sauce
17:15on mac and cheese.
17:17Maybe I've gotten
17:18barbecue sauce on it
17:19because mac and cheese
17:20would be the side
17:21in barbecue.
17:23So I guess
17:24the logic
17:25of
17:27barbecue's popular.
17:29Mac and cheese
17:30is usually
17:30on a barbecue
17:31plate
17:32along with
17:33barbecued ribs
17:34and
17:35brisket and beef
17:36and all that.
17:38So let's put
17:39the barbecue sauce
17:40on the mac and cheese.
17:42But
17:42F minus
17:43on this.
17:43This is like
17:44bleh.
17:45Uh,
17:46halloumi fries.
17:48UK,
17:48I'm about to
17:48blow your mind
17:49and tell you
17:50that halloumi
17:50is almost non-existent
17:51in America.
17:52Nobody cares about
17:52halloumi.
17:54I'm not quite sure
17:55what it was
17:55until I came over here.
17:57It's good though.
17:58I actually prefer this
17:58to mozzarella sticks
17:59because the halloumi
18:00has a way better flavor
18:01to it.
18:02I like it.
18:02I think Americans
18:04would like it
18:04if it was more readily
18:05available,
18:05it just isn't.
18:06In the US,
18:06Pizza Hut has a bunch
18:07of breadstick options
18:08with various toppings.
18:09Again,
18:09for the UK audience,
18:10these are not breadsticks
18:11as we know them,
18:12they're kind of crunchy
18:12snack things.
18:13These are breadsticks
18:14as in basically
18:15just pieces of dough
18:16with stuff on them.
18:17There are four types
18:18of breadstick
18:18on the Pizza Hut US menu.
18:20Firstly,
18:20we just have the plain ones.
18:21Even though they're
18:21the plain ones,
18:22they do still come
18:23with quite a lot of this
18:23like garlic parmesan
18:24crust topping on them.
18:26And of course,
18:26all of these will come
18:27with a little dipping
18:28cup of marinara.
18:29Over here,
18:29we have the cheese sticks.
18:32I've told that so badly.
18:33I think Pizza Hut
18:34is cooking these
18:34in the same pans
18:35that they cook
18:36the pan pizzas in
18:37because you do get
18:37this really nice
18:38kind of crispy cheese
18:39crust on the outside.
18:42They are very bready
18:43as the name suggests.
18:45Not lying.
18:46But it's quite like
18:47a nice soft pillowy bread.
18:48In addition to
18:49the cheese breadsticks,
18:50you can also get
18:51some roasted garlic
18:52cheese sticks.
18:55That's pretty good.
18:56It is garlicky.
18:57And the final breadstick
18:58option is bacon cheddar.
18:59We love our cheddar cheese
19:00in the UK.
19:01We invented it,
19:02in fact.
19:03These are dry.
19:03You can see why
19:04you kind of need
19:05the marinara sauce
19:06to dip them in.
19:07You guys have wedges.
19:09These are the cheese
19:10and jalapeno loaded wedges
19:11smothered in cheese
19:13and jalapeno.
19:14Jalapeno?
19:14The jalapeno lobby
19:15is just killing it
19:18on this island, man.
19:19You guys can also get
19:20barbecue bacon loaded wedges
19:22and just regular potato wedges.
19:23There's also beyond
19:24Italian-style sausage
19:26hair and share topper.
19:27What is that?
19:28And a cheesy garlic
19:28terran share,
19:29which is what we are
19:30like, one of those
19:30toppings, eh?
19:31Pizza Hut in the US
19:32actually serves fries
19:33as a side.
19:34I feel like it's more
19:34common to find fries
19:35on UK menus
19:37where you might not
19:37expect them,
19:38but Pizza Hut in the US
19:39holding it down.
19:40They're pretty good.
19:41They're kind of like
19:41textured.
19:42Almost that kind of
19:43like curly fry
19:44like coating
19:45that you would expect.
19:46Also in the US,
19:46you can get fried
19:47mozzarella sticks.
19:49In a tempted cheese pill,
19:50I think they might be
19:50a bit cold for it,
19:51but...
19:52Also if you want to bring
19:57the pizzeria vibes
19:58to your home,
19:59you can buy these
19:59little shakers
20:00from Pizza Hut.
20:01They have a crushed
20:01red pepper shaker
20:02and a grated cheese shaker,
20:04which is the
20:05Parmesan and Romano
20:06mixture.
20:06We do have
20:07the Doritos cheesy
20:08nachos.
20:09Oh my God!
20:11United Kingdom,
20:12what have you done?
20:14Oh!
20:16Oh, and there's like
20:17salsa underneath it!
20:19Oh, and some of the
20:20cheese didn't melt
20:21all the way!
20:22Look at the state of it
20:23is what you guys
20:23would say, right?
20:25Oh, the chips are chewy!
20:27That's disgraceful.
20:29That is absolutely
20:29disgraceful.
20:30I hate those.
20:31I feel sorry for you guys.
20:33Strengthens my theory
20:34that there's no good
20:34Mexican food
20:35in Great Britain.
20:36Garlic bread,
20:37which I don't have,
20:38and cheesy garlic bread.
20:39They also have
20:40cheesy triangles
20:41which are right here.
20:42Are these like
20:43mac and cheese bites?
20:44Oh, it's just
20:44a wedge of cheese!
20:47Oh, that's funny.
20:48Yeah, that's alright,
20:49I guess.
20:49Also, you can get
20:50a mixed leaf salad.
20:53I'm actually gonna
20:53sell it, Pizza Hut.
20:55Pizza Hut in the US
20:56has a bunch
20:57of exclusive desserts.
20:58I would say too many.
20:59First up,
21:00we have these
21:00chocolate donut bites.
21:02They look more
21:03cakey to me.
21:04I think in the UK,
21:05we associate donuts
21:06with those like
21:07yeasted donuts,
21:08whereas in America,
21:09there's kind of a divide
21:09between yeasted donuts
21:10and cakey donuts.
21:14Not a huge fan of these.
21:15The inside bit of chocolate cake
21:17is still quite nice
21:18and moist,
21:19but the outside
21:19has just gone like
21:20a little bit overcooked
21:21and dry.
21:22Next up,
21:22we have Cinnabon mini rolls.
21:24I think Cinnabon also
21:25partnered with Taco Bell.
21:26They seem to be
21:27just partnering with anyone.
21:28You get a tray
21:29of 10 Cinnabon mini rolls
21:30and they are absolutely
21:31swimming in the
21:32cream cheese frosting.
21:33I do love Cinnabon.
21:34I hadn't really ever had it
21:35until we did the
21:36US-UK Cinnabon episode.
21:38They were very tasty,
21:40although I was in a sugar coma
21:41for about a week
21:42after that.
21:43Look, it's Cinnabon.
21:44It's delicious.
21:45If you've had Cinnabon,
21:46you're lower to expect.
21:47If not,
21:48it's a really good
21:49cinnamon roll.
21:50Have it in icing.
21:52Exclusive dessert options
21:53in the UK.
21:55You can get
21:55a chocolate chip cookie dough.
21:57Well,
21:58I mean,
21:58this is a chocolate chip cookie.
21:59Is this considered
22:00cookie dough to you guys?
22:01You guys are calling
22:01a giant cookie
22:02that you didn't bother
22:03to shape cookie dough?
22:04It looks like
22:05it's a doughy in the middle.
22:07There's also white
22:07chocolate chip caramel
22:08cookie dough.
22:09And they also have
22:10Ben and Jerry's flavors here.
22:12We didn't get them all
22:13because they have
22:13many of them.
22:14This one we got
22:15was the Chocolata Cheesecake.
22:17Bam!
22:18I'm not reading off
22:19all the names
22:20of other Ben and Jerry's,
22:20but get those on screen.
22:22You can get those on screen.
22:24This doesn't surprise me
22:25having Ben and Jerry's
22:26at a fast pizza place
22:29because people,
22:30if they're getting Pizza Hut,
22:31they're probably
22:31expecting to eat a lot.
22:33So this makes sense to me.
22:34What doesn't make sense to me
22:36is what this is over here,
22:39an ice cream brand
22:40I've never seen before.
22:41And I don't know if this exists
22:42outside of Pizza Hut,
22:44but a brand called
22:45Rob and Nick's.
22:47Let's get a look at that label.
22:49Let's go ahead
22:49and get a look at the label
22:50of arguably the most famous
22:52ice cream brand update.
22:54We don't know what this is.
22:56The guy gave it to us.
22:59This could be just his ice cream
23:01that he's starting on.
23:03Kind of snuck it in there
23:04like, oh,
23:04throw a couple Rob and Nick's.
23:05I mean, actually,
23:06it's not the worst idea
23:07if you're trying to get people
23:08to try your ice cream,
23:09like whenever someone
23:10orders ice cream
23:10at where you work,
23:11just kind of throw
23:12one or two of these in there.
23:13So we think,
23:14oh, I made a mistake
23:14in Rob and Nick's.
23:16But then let's say
23:18we eat this and enjoy it.
23:19How can I ever order it again?
23:21It's not on the website.
23:23They also have
23:23Magnum branded ice creams,
23:25which you did not get today,
23:26but we did get Rob and Nick's.
23:29Magnum double salted caramel,
23:30Magnum double star chaser,
23:33and Magnum double sun lava.
23:35Next, we have the ultimate
23:37chocolate chip cookie.
23:38This thing is huge.
23:42It's okay.
23:43It's ultimate in size.
23:44It might not be ultimate in taste.
23:46Then we have the triple chocolate brownie.
23:48That's pretty good.
23:48It's a fudgy brownie.
23:49They've been pretty generous
23:50with the chocolate chips.
23:51Can't complain.
23:52The weird Death Star container things
23:54are back for the apple pies.
23:56These ones I am excited for.
23:58In the UK,
23:59McDonald's still fries its apple pies.
24:01You can tell it's fried
24:02because you get these little blisters
24:03all over the pastry.
24:05I know in America,
24:06at McDonald's,
24:06you guys bake your apple pies.
24:08Terrible idea.
24:09They're way better fried.
24:10They do look like mini versions
24:11of UK McDonald's apple pies,
24:12so I'm into it.
24:13I think I had a pretty clear expectation
24:15of what I wanted from those,
24:17and it delivered.
24:17Those are good.
24:18And then finally,
24:19we have cinnamon sticks.
24:20So these are the breadsticks,
24:21but instead of a savory one,
24:23it's a sweet version.
24:24The cinnamon sticks also come
24:25with a side of icing.
24:27It's hoping to get more of a drizzle
24:28than a series of plops,
24:29but oh well.
24:30Ultimately, I think by adding
24:31Cinnabon to your menu,
24:32you've kind of rendered
24:33any of your own cinnamon options useless,
24:35so probably skip these.
24:37If you want cinnamon,
24:37just get the Cinnabons.
24:39Pizza Hut in the US
24:39does have some exclusive sauces,
24:41which means it's time for a sauce talk.
24:43Sauce talk.
24:44On the US menu,
24:45you will find three dips,
24:46which are meant to be eaten
24:47with your savory foods.
24:48I don't want to eat
24:49any more breadsticks,
24:50so I'm going to finger dip these.
24:51Apologies.
24:52Start with the ranch.
24:53Little pinky dip.
24:55Yeah, pretty good.
24:56Good amount of tang to that
24:57is really like eating
24:58a cool ranch Dorito.
24:59That's kind of the only yardstick
25:00that British people
25:01can understand ranch by.
25:03Blue cheese,
25:03which I guess is kind of designed
25:05to be eaten with the wings
25:06on the menu
25:06because I wouldn't really
25:07put blue cheese on pizza.
25:08That's kind of underwhelming.
25:09I want more like funk
25:10from my blue cheese dip.
25:11That's just kind of like eating mayo.
25:12And of course,
25:13the marinara.
25:15It's not overly sweet,
25:16which I think some of the fast food ones
25:18can fall into that trap.
25:19We got sour cream and chive
25:20and sweet chili.
25:21Oh, that's good.
25:25I like the sweet chili.
25:26I would take this back to the U.S.
25:28Then Peter Hutt has two sweet dips
25:30which are designed to be eaten
25:31with the desserts.
25:32As we previously mentioned,
25:33they have an icing dip,
25:34mostly designed to be eaten
25:35with the cinnamon sticks.
25:37And if you really love your Cinnabon,
25:38you can get more
25:39of the cream cheese frosting
25:40as a dip.
25:41Exclusive drinks.
25:42You guys got tango.
25:43We do not.
25:44You guys have seven up free.
25:46I mean, it's sugar free.
25:48Put artificial sweetener,
25:49zero sugar, la-dee-da.
25:51And Pepsi Max.
25:53You also have Pepsi Max cherry
25:55and Robinson's refreshed apple
25:57and raspberry.
26:03That's pretty good.
26:04Here's why this doesn't work
26:05in the U.S.
26:05Too tart.
26:06Finally, we're on to
26:07the exclusive drinks.
26:08There are a bunch of them,
26:09but we only got three today.
26:10Firstly, we have a Pepsi wild cherry.
26:13I'm pretty sure we can get
26:14cherry Pepsi in the U.K.
26:15I don't think they describe
26:16it as wild, though.
26:17Next up, we have Mountain Dew.
26:18We did a Mountain Dew Food Wars
26:20a while ago
26:21and Joe sent me
26:21some American Mountain Dew.
26:23And let me say,
26:24it's very different to ours.
26:25In fact, I think in the U.K.,
26:26the only one we can get now
26:27is the sugar-free version,
26:29whereas this one,
26:30this little bottle,
26:31contains 154%
26:32of my daily sugar.
26:34Cheers.
26:38To those who haven't tried this,
26:39it's really hard to explain
26:40the kind of sensation
26:41that you get in your mouth
26:43when you drink it.
26:44It really is like you've
26:45kind of bitten into
26:46an electrical cord or something.
26:47And just in case my body
26:49hasn't had enough sugar today,
26:50we also have Crush Orange.
26:52Not quite as sugar-filled
26:53as the Mountain Dew.
26:54This one only has 142%
26:56of my daily sugar in it.
26:57In the U.K.,
26:58if you want an orange soda,
26:59you're probably going for Fanta
27:00or maybe Tango.
27:01Those are probably
27:01the two biggest brands.
27:03Neither of them are this color,
27:04I'll tell you that.
27:05Noticing our good old friends
27:06red 14, yellow 6
27:07in here on the ingredients.
27:09Won't find those in the U.K.
27:11Yeah, there's just like
27:14basically no orange flavor to it.
27:19At least in the U.K.,
27:20I'm pretty sure the Fanta
27:21and the Tango actually do contain
27:22either like a small amount
27:23of orange juice
27:24or at least like just
27:25better orange flavors than this.
27:27Americans visiting the U.K.,
27:28please try our Fanta
27:29because it's actually pretty good.
27:31The other drinks that you can get,
27:32which we didn't get today,
27:33include a Pepsi Zero Sugar,
27:35a Lipton Green Tea with Citrus,
27:37Lipton Iced Sweet Tea,
27:38Starry,
27:39Mug Root Beer,
27:411% low-fat chocolate milk,
27:43Lemonade,
27:44and 1% low-fat white milk.
27:49Okay, so what does the U.K. do better?
27:51Okay, so I like the mac and cheese pizza.
27:53I like the chili dipping sauce.
27:55Oh, I like the powdered Parmesan crust.
27:58Thought that added a nice flavor to it.
28:00Definitely liked the mac and cheese pizza.
28:04I have some few notes,
28:05but definitely worth checking out.
28:07What would I cut?
28:08Just about everything,
28:09but especially your nachos.
28:11Those are a crime.
28:12You estimate our stuff tastes better.
28:15Our pizza's more flavor.
28:16Maybe a little too much.
28:17If I could take one exclusive back,
28:18I would take back the chili dipping sauce
28:21and I would take the mac and cheese pizza,
28:23but I have notes.
28:25I like the idea,
28:25but we gotta adjust some noodle to cheese ratio,
28:29but I think it'll do pretty well.
28:30Overall, I think the U.S. Pizza Hut
28:31has actually done a pretty good job.
28:33I think compared to the other pizza chains
28:34I've tried while I've been out here,
28:36this one actually might come out on top for me.
28:38I quite like that the pizzas weren't too complicated.
28:40There weren't too many toppings on them.
28:41Also, when it comes to the mains,
28:43they didn't really overcomplicate the menu.
28:44There aren't that many options.
28:46I think the emphasis on creating your own pizza
28:48is actually quite a good thing.
28:49If I had to take one thing back to the U.K.
28:51with me from the U.S. menu,
28:52I think I actually might take
28:53that hot honey double pepperoni pizza.
28:56I like the hot honey as a topping.
28:57I think it added a nice sweet heat to the pizza.
28:59And I really like those smaller crispy pepperonis
29:01and they added some nice spice,
29:03some good texture,
29:04and would definitely be welcome on the U.K. menu.
29:06If I had to cut one thing from the U.S. Pizza Hut menu,
29:09it would probably come down to
29:10either the buffalo chicken pizza
29:12that I really didn't like,
29:13or maybe those pastas
29:15because they were a little bit offensive.
29:16Any of these catcher, eh?
29:17This looks interesting.
29:18Did you have these?
29:19I did, yeah.
29:20I tried all of them.
29:20Chocolate donut.
29:21Chocolate donut bite.
29:23I'm really dry.
29:23Yeah.
29:24Cinnamon stick.
29:25Right.
29:25I'm going to town on those.
29:28That was a big bite.
29:29Yeah, I'm good.
29:30It was good.
29:31You got Cinnabon right there, no?
29:35Muck bang with Joe.