British and American "Food Wars" hosts Harry Kersh and Joe Avella swapped places to try each other’s Starbucks 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 Starbucks.
00:03This is Food Wars Foreign Exchange.
00:07In the U.S., hot coffees come in four sizes.
00:10You can get a short coffee, which is 8 fluid ounces.
00:12You have a tall coffee, which is 12 ounces.
00:14The grande coffee here is 16 ounces.
00:17And a venti hot coffee in the U.S. is 20 ounces.
00:20Venti meaning 20 in Italian.
00:21And in the U.K., you can get hot coffees in these sizes.
00:25Short, which is the 8 fluid ounces.
00:27Tall, 12 fluid ounces.
00:29Grande, 16 fluid ounces.
00:31Venti, 20 fluid ounces.
00:34Starbucks also offers its coffees in iced versions.
00:37In the U.K., they come in sizes of tall, grande.
00:41I've been informed there was some spillage with Deliveroo.
00:43And venti.
00:45You can get a short version, but it's not officially listed on the menu.
00:47You have to specifically ask for it.
00:49In the U.S., you can get iced coffees in four sizes.
00:52We start with the tall, which is 12 ounces.
00:54The grande is 16 ounces.
00:56The venti jumps up to 24 ounces, so you're no longer going by the Italian.
01:00And then we have this, which is the Trenta coffee.
01:04This is 31 fluid ounces of coffee.
01:07Now, if we're comparing classics, I really had to try the American version of an English
01:11breakfast tea.
01:12I need to see if you guys are doing it justice over here, or if there are any notes that I
01:16can offer for you.
01:21Okay.
01:22I mean, instant reaction there.
01:24I think they might have, like, frothed the milk, which is not something that Brits do for
01:29breakfast tea.
01:30I'm going to take the bag out of this because it's already been sat there for too long.
01:32It depends who you ask.
01:33Sometimes you shouldn't even put the milk in before the tea bag is taken out of it.
01:38I mean, honestly, that's not too bad.
01:41I was fearing worse, slightly on the milky side.
01:43I think my main notes here would just be, don't froth the milk and be quite sparing with
01:48how much milk you're putting into it.
01:49Not the worst version of an English breakfast tea I've had by a long shot.
01:52Here's a UK English breakfast tea with milk.
01:55Now, we want to see how this compares to the US version.
01:58To be honest, I've never had an English breakfast tea at Starbucks.
02:02I'm not quite sure I've had an English breakfast tea ever.
02:08It's okay, I guess.
02:09Eh, it's kind of growing on me.
02:11Yeah, not bad.
02:12What?
02:13Oh, okay.
02:13He's grabbing it.
02:15There's actually a lot of differences between the food menus in both countries,
02:17but there still is some overlap.
02:19You'll, of course, find cake pops in both countries.
02:22Here is ours.
02:23Ready, everybody?
02:29Shameful.
02:30Shameful, Starbucks.
02:33Pretty close.
02:34This is good.
02:35Here's the US version of the iconic Starbucks cake pop.
02:38This is the birthday cake flavor.
02:42That's really good.
02:43I think, actually, that might be slightly better than a UK cake pop.
02:45In the US and the UK, Starbucks sells sous vide egg bites.
02:48Each country has slightly different flavors.
02:50I've got two of the American ones here.
02:52I'll start with these ones, which I think are the classic.
02:53These are the bacon and Gruyere egg bites.
02:56I don't know if I've ever had a Starbucks egg bite before, so I'm kind of intrigued.
03:01They're not bad.
03:01I like the bacon flavor.
03:03You definitely get some Gruyere cheesiness from that.
03:05Not sure if this is the best delivery method for eggs, but...
03:08And the other version we got today are these kale and mushroom egg bites.
03:11It's pretty good. Not bad.
03:14I think I might actually slightly prefer these to the meat version, which for me, kind of unusual.
03:20Egg bites.
03:21I will say right off the bat, they do not come in a box in the US.
03:24Your guys' egg bites come with the understanding that when you get to your destination,
03:29or when they get to you, you cook them.
03:31Or you microwave them.
03:32I guess it's cooking.
03:33This is brought to us by Deliveroo, so we ordered it online.
03:36If you're wondering if maybe this is why.
03:38Uh, I'm gonna say no.
03:40Because...
03:42I mean, this came from the store.
03:43Sounds like my egg bites are done.
03:45All right.
03:46Thank you, kind sir.
03:47These don't look like our egg bites.
03:50These don't taste like our egg bites at all.
03:52It tastes like, um, microwaveable eggs, actually.
03:55The egg bites in America.
03:56Way better.
03:57I love them.
03:57I get them all the time.
03:58This is...
03:59This is a disgrace.
04:01A bloody disgrace.
04:03On the US Starbucks menu, you can also find a crispy grilled cheese on sourdough.
04:07That sounds fancy.
04:07I want to see what it's like.
04:08So the issue with bagging sandwiches like this is that they lose crispiness pretty fast,
04:14because they're kind of steaming in the bag.
04:19As far as, like, just a standard grilled cheese goes, yeah, actually pretty good.
04:23I like that.
04:24I like the bread.
04:24Over here in the UK, they call it a five cheese toastie.
04:27Unclear which five cheese they've used.
04:29Oh, is there cheese baked on top of this?
04:31Why is my one cheese on top?
04:34I'm getting, like, a hint of mustard on this?
04:36I like mustard, but I taste the mustard more than the cheese.
04:40For a five cheese sandwich, I don't taste a lot of cheese.
04:45Here's everything you can find at a Starbucks in the UK I can't get in the US.
04:49Here are all the items you'll find at a Starbucks in the US that we don't have in the UK.
04:53Now, while I was over here, I really wanted to try an Oleato coffee from Starbucks.
04:56We might actually be able to get these in the UK, but I definitely wanted to try the US version,
05:00because it does still just baffle me as a concept.
05:02For those who don't know, Starbucks Oleatos are coffees,
05:04which then have a shot of olive oil added to them.
05:06The olive oil isn't, like, mixed in or emulsified.
05:08As far as I can tell, they literally just take, like, a shot and drop it into your coffee.
05:12Apparently, the rumor is that the Starbucks CEO, or someone higher up in Starbucks,
05:16went to Italy, saw people in Italy having little shots of olive oil with their morning coffee,
05:22and thought it was such a great idea that he had to bring it to the rest of the world.
05:25So, the one we've got here is an oat milk Oleato cafe latte.
05:29If you look inside, it looks kind of like an oat milk latte,
05:32but then you do just see these bits of oil just kind of floating around on top of it.
05:37Pretty much like I expected it to taste, which is like an oily latte.
05:41The olive oil, whatever olive oil they're using here in the US for this,
05:44doesn't have that strong a taste.
05:46It's more just the texture. Not great. Not for me, I don't think.
05:49UK has three exclusive hot drinks. I was only able to get two.
05:53The one I did get was this, the toffee nut latte.
05:56Toffee's fine. Nuts are okay, I guess. Lattes, sure.
06:02Yeah, this doesn't work for me.
06:03Also, here in the UK, you can get a caramel waffle latte.
06:07We do have it in frappuccino form, but we don't have it in hot form, sorry.
06:11Also, you can get yourself a cortado, which looks like a little espresso shot with
06:15something special, I assume. I've been informed that it's like a tiny cappuccino,
06:18where it's 50% espresso, 50% milk or cream. I actually would like that.
06:23Next up, we've got some Starbucks exclusive hot coffee options.
06:26The first one I'm going to try today is this one, the honey almond milk flat white.
06:30I am not like the biggest almond milk fan.
06:33If it's honey like in place of sugar, then I might like this.
06:36A lot of the issues that I have with Starbucks and the blended drinks that they create
06:39are more because they overdo it on the syrups and the sugars,
06:42and it ends up tasting kind of artificial and horrible.
06:44Yeah, that's actually not too bad. It's very gentle.
06:48Flat whites are really popular in the UK. I will say, for some reason,
06:51that's like what a lot of people will now order by default in like a Starbucks or a prep,
06:55for example. It's kind of like a latte, but they just change the ratios of like coffee,
06:59milk and froth milk a little bit. Next up, we have the cinnamon dulce latte.
07:03Dulce, of course, meaning sweet. Cinnamon, of course, meaning cinnamon.
07:08That's not too bad, actually. It's not like overwhelmingly sweet, which is good.
07:11I was kind of surprised. I was expecting that to be worse.
07:14It's exceeded my admittedly quite low expectations.
07:17This one I'm actually kind of excited for. This one is a pistachio latte.
07:20Pistachio is great usually. It's like kind of a gentle, nutty flavour.
07:25That's actually fairly accurately recreated the taste of pistachio.
07:28Next up, we have a sugar cookie almond milk latte.
07:31Sugar cookies aren't really a thing in the UK. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in the US before.
07:35Are they those kind of like quite pale, iced, brittle cookie things?
07:40So in terms of sweet coffees, I am bracing myself for this one.
07:46Yeah, that's bad.
07:48It's just very sugary. Also, because it's made with almond milk,
07:52I feel like you're not getting quite as much creaminess from the milk itself.
07:56So it's a little bit watery and very sweet.
07:59And for me, that's yeah, that's not doing the job.
08:01The last hot coffee exclusive I got today was this chestnut praline latte.
08:05I'm not really getting much chestnut or praline flavour from that. Don't love it.
08:12Don't hate it. It's kind of just fine.
08:13Here's some UK exclusive iced coffees and cold brew flavours.
08:18Starting with this one right here, the before mentioned caramel waffle Frappuccino.
08:22I am never kind to Frappuccinos. The whole Frappuccino thing, I'm just not into it. I never want
08:29a coffee milkshake ever. They're way too sweet. Every caramel drink we've had at Starbucks has
08:36made me gag because I think it's just too sweet and too gross and too syrupy. Let's see if the UK
08:41got the formula right. Nope, this is bad too. Not as sweet. I'll give it to you. It's not as sweet.
08:48Just couldn't get excited about drinking a whole one of these. Even two sips, I'm kind of like this.
08:51The next drink that I have here is the Clotted Cream Fudge Cold Brew Clotted Cream. United Kingdom?
08:59What does that mean? One thing I will say that's remarkable about how unsweet this is,
09:05I just realized our Starbucks is going to put Harry in a grave. Here's what I like about this.
09:09If I was to get a fudge or chocolatey flavored cold brew, I'd prefer yours to ours because this
09:16tastes more like a cold brew. I've just been informed that the fudge was maybe made with clotted
09:20cream and that doesn't help. And of course, being America, here we have a bunch of iced coffee options.
09:26For something pistachio flavored, I would expect some green color in there, but very much just
09:30looks like a cold brew coffee. Pretty similar. There's not a lot of pistachio flavor, just quite
09:36gentle, but not bad. I'm not sure I love the texture of the cream on top of the cold brew. Next up we have
09:41the Cinnamon Caramel Cream Cold Brew. All of these drink names just sound like tongue twisters. There are
09:46just so many words and they all kind of sound similar. Something about the cinnamon flavoring or
09:52syrup that they're using at Starbucks just doesn't taste quite like cinnamon should. This one is a
09:57vanilla sweet cream cold brew. On the surface, I can get on board with this one. Yeah, that one's pretty
10:03good. Gentle vanilla flavor. Here is the iced brown sugar oat milk shaken espresso. I'm getting weirdly,
10:11similarly, cinnamony flavors from this one and that one. Here we have the iced honey almond milk flat
10:19white. I didn't hate the honey coffee from before. See how it holds up in iced form. Oh.
10:28It might be something to do with iced almond milk, but the texture and the flavor of that is way off.
10:34Then we have an iced cinnamon dolce latte. I think I get more cinnamon from that than I do from the cinnamon
10:40cold brew, for example. It's not too bad, actually. That's all right. I think my main takeaway from
10:45these so far is that I'm not a big fan of like cold milk alternatives. I think I'm getting an iced
10:50coffee. I need actual milk in there. The texture is slightly off with the almond milk, for example,
10:56and I think the flavors just kind of get carried better by actual milk. Sticking with the cold coffee
11:00theme, we have a few frappuccino options in the US that you won't find in the UK. I got three of them
11:05here today, including the mocha cookie crumble frappuccino. This one looks pretty appealing.
11:11It's got like actual crumbles of cookie stuff on top. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty good. It doesn't
11:16taste of coffee at all to me. This is kind of just like a Oreo milkshake masquerading as a coffee, I
11:22think. Next up we have the caramel ribbon crunch frappuccino. Not too bad. You definitely get a caramel
11:29flavor from it. The last one I got today was the pistachio frappuccino.
11:32Again, I think it's something to do with this in the iced form. It doesn't seem to hold up well when
11:40iced for some reason. It's like the pistachio flavor has been like hijacked by the sugar in there
11:44and neither flavor is coming out of that well. I know you guys love iced coffees in the US. I've got
11:49to say from these ones, I've been disappointed. I'm not getting really any coffee flavor from almost any
11:55of these. And I think just in general, when you ice a coffee like this, you add so much ice to it.
12:01As soon as it starts to melt, any flavor that was in there just gets really diluted.
12:04The texture kind of goes as well. So yeah, I mean, from what I've had today,
12:09kind of underwhelmed by your iced coffee options in the US.
12:11Ah, yes. Tea. The United Kingdom. Tea is very popular here. I'm not a big fan of tea. We also
12:18have these iced teas. Two exclusive to the UK are the lemon iced tea and the peach iced tea.
12:23One thing I've noticed about iced tea in the US, not all iced tea, but usually our iced tea is also
12:29very sweet. I don't know if that is the case here in the UK and we'll find out together. First one we
12:34got here, mix it up, is the peach iced tea. That's sweet and not good. No. Oh boy. And we're going
12:42into the lemon one now. I can only imagine what this is going to taste like, so.
12:47Okay. I was expecting that to be a lot worse. It's just okay. You know, you go to a restaurant
12:53and you get water and there's like a lemon wedge in it. That's closer to what this tastes like.
12:59Next up, we're onto the teas, which obviously I feel very passionate about as a Brit. At Starbucks
13:03in the US, you can get a range of hot and iced teas. We'll start with the hot teas down this end.
13:08Firstly, we have something that seems to be kind of a hybrid between a tea and a coffee. This is a
13:12London fog tea latte. I don't know what a London fog is. It's not a British thing. Joe,
13:17can you please explain? So watching the first season of The Crown, there was this fog that rolled in and
13:22actually it was like smog or something because of, is it like the first, you know, the first major
13:25environmental disaster, I guess, because of all the coal and stuff you guys use in the industrial
13:29revolution? Yeah, yeah. So you are the two in the one in five, right? Like kill a bunch of people,
13:31make sure to show up like a real belly. I did it in the crown. I don't know how actually I do it.
13:34What's in it?
13:37And milk because of it's a latte.
13:42Okay. It's Earl Grey tea, basically. Earl Grey tea. Grey fog? Sure. Yeah. As far as I can tell,
13:49this is kind of just like an Earl Grey tea with milk. I think maybe the milk has been steamed again. Is that like
13:54another fog reference? Next up, we have a honey citrus mint tea. That sounds okay,
13:59but there's just like a lot going on. I'm either used to having a mint tea or like tea with honey
14:04or maybe a citrus tea. They just combined all of the mints of one because Americans love flavors.
14:11I don't mind that. I like that they just put two tea bags in the same cup. You can see here,
14:15they put the jade citrus mint tea in there, but then they've also just put a peach tea in there as well,
14:22which I guess is supposed to be that kind of like honey sweetness. I don't get a lot of the citrus.
14:26I think the mint is kind of overpowering the citrus, so you end up with kind of just like
14:29a minty peachy tea. Then beyond the hot drinks, we have some iced teas in the US. Here we have an iced
14:35black tea. Yeah, again, that is just water. Look how clear that is. It shouldn't be that clear.
14:42Next up, we have an iced black tea lemonade. Even that doesn't have a ton of flavor. I'm not getting
14:48much lemon from that at all. This one upsets me. I don't know what's going on here. This is an iced
14:53royal english breakfast tea latte. This looks just like a cup of milk. I don't even know if I want
14:59to try this, but I'm going to have to for science. When Americans confidently state that tea is gross
15:05and that they don't drink it, I think it's because they're basing it on this. That's terrible. Like,
15:11what even is this? There's so much more you can do with tea and you're really wasting the opportunity.
15:15On behalf of all Brits, like, stop doing this. It's just such a waste.
15:23We also have an iced London fog tea latte, which I will take a small sip of because, yeah, again,
15:32it's just a very watery, very milky and very sweet Earl Grey tea effectively. And then finally,
15:38for the cold beverages, Starbucks in the US offers a few exclusive customizations and flavors of the
15:43refreshers. I've got three of them here today. The first one is a pineapple passion fruit refresher.
15:49So it does taste very pineapple-y. That's refreshing. Does what is in the tin. Lives up to the name
15:54refresher. Next up, we have a strawberry acai refresher. Also not bad. And the last one I got
16:00today was a mango dragon fruit refresher. That's nice. That might have the most gentle flavor of these
16:07ones. But I think that's kind of what I want from, like, a refresher drink. Everything on the food!
16:14The breakfast menu in both countries is a pretty different, uh, starting with the savory stuff
16:18here in the United Kingdom. Down here. Signature breakfast sandwich. What the hell?
16:28The signature breakfast sandwich? What? First of all, what kind of bun is this? Brioche? No. What is this?
16:33Pretzel bun breakfast sandwich? Already, this country is upside down. You're sad bacon. Oh.
16:41I called it ham a second ago because it looks like ham. Oh, no.
16:47I love pretzels. I love pretzels. I love a pretzel bun on a burger or sandwich. In the morning,
16:53and on this, no. Beyond meat breakfast sandwich. Plant-based meat.
16:57Beyond meat is actually, uh, flavored well. Has a bit of a, like, almost like sausage-y taste to it.
17:07Moving on, egg bites. I'm not heating these up, but, uh, we got them. Red pepper and spinach.
17:11Traditional sausage sandwich. Here's what I love about this country. This keeps coming up. You people love
17:21your sausages so much, so much. You're constantly making things like this, where you take a very
17:26specific shape of a sausage and try and cram it into different shaped bread? Why? What is this?
17:34It's a sausage and bread.
17:38Your sausage. I can't place my finger on it. It just tastes different over here.
17:43Smoked bacon roll. Your bacon is so weak. It's so weird and flimsy. Smells weird.
17:51How did you manage to get the flavor out of bacon? How did you get you pulled it off?
17:56You guys have no problem putting a skimpy amount of meat in a way too thick roll.
18:01We'll start with the breakfast menu. Apparently, Starbucks recently added a chicken option to its
18:06breakfast menu, which has got people very excited. Here it is. This is the chicken,
18:10maple butter and egg sandwich. When I saw chicken, I thought maybe it would be more of like a
18:15actual chicken breast, but it's kind of like a big nugget. Fried chicken and maple with egg,
18:21not a combination that I think you'll find very commonly in the UK.
18:26I don't mind that as a flavor combination. The texture of the chicken isn't very good.
18:29When it's in a sandwich with the other ingredients, the breading on the chicken has gone a bit soggy.
18:33There is a wrap option on the US breakfast menu. This contains bacon, sausage and egg.
18:37The sausage in the US tends to be more like sausage meat, kind of like ground up.
18:43So you get these small pieces rather than like sausages running through it.
18:46Like it's probably more common in the UK.
18:51I can't tell if there's actually any bacon in here because I'm not really seeing or tasting any.
18:54But the sausage is good. The eggs are good. Scrambled eggs have a great texture to them.
18:58Next up, we have a bacon, gouda and egg sandwich.
19:02It's quite dense. The roll is good, but it's like quite chewy.
19:05The US has an impossible breakfast sandwich. I don't know if I've really had much impossible meat before.
19:12Yeah, I'm really impressed by that. I would honestly think if you handed me this and told me it was sausage,
19:16I don't think I would correct you. This is the turkey bacon, egg white and cheddar sandwich.
19:23It's okay. The US Starbucks also has two bagel options. I know Americans love their bagels,
19:28so I'm excited to see how Starbucks have done. You can either get a plain bagel with cream cheese,
19:32or you can get an everything bagel with cream cheese. Everything refers to the way that they
19:36just kind of combine all of the most popular American bagel toppings. So you get things like
19:40poppy seeds, sesame seeds, salt and garlic. I'll try a bit of everything bagel with a bit of that
19:45cream cheese. A little schmear going. It's not the best bagel I've had. They're just a little bit
19:53bland, I think, for my liking really. Cream cheese is fine. Just pretty standard cream cheese.
19:58Here are all the UK sweet options I can get in the US, starting with this in front of me.
20:02Uh, peach and raspberry overnight oats, and in parentheses, it says plant-based.
20:08Yeah, okay. Uh, not bad. I mean, I don't have an American palate, so every time I'm by the bite
20:12of something that's fruity, I'm expecting it to be also very sweet. But actually, I would probably
20:15lean more towards this in the morning because I really don't like sweets in the morning. Let's go
20:19down over on the side. Caramel shortbread. Another cake pop. Caramelized. So I'm assuming it's
20:24caramel. Caramelized biscoff. Oh, very caramel-y. Yeah, biscoff's all right, I guess. Ooh, what do
20:32we got here? Cookies and cream brownie bite. You just get one? Fine. Red velvet cake. So it's
20:39chocolate and cream cheese. I closed my eyes and thought of chocolate, and I was like, that's
20:44exactly what chocolate is like. Oh my god. Luxury fruit toast. Ugh. That sucks. I don't like that at
20:53all. There's a few holiday selections over here. Christmas tree brownie. I know what a brownie
20:57tastes like, but fun little Christmas tree design. Chocolate twist. You get the little chocolate
21:01chips. I like that. Banana caramel muffin. It's supposed to be all right, but banana and caramel,
21:07never going that well together, I don't think. Lemon and poppy seed muffin.
21:12It's not really good. Lemon flavor with the poppy seeds, but poppy, does poppy have like a specific
21:16flavor? Oh, cinema scroll. Why is it square? I know that seems like a mood point. Why is it square?
21:24Just like they do in the UK, Starbucks has quite a big bakery section in the US.
21:28We'll start with another cake pop. This one is a peppermint brownie cake pop. It looks like it's
21:33covered in broken glass, so I'm going to hope that that's not the case. Again, that really chewy
21:39texture, which I really quite like actually. Thankfully, the outside bits are not broken glass. I think they're
21:43actually like crushed up mints, which is where I'm getting most of the mint flavor from.
21:47That's a pretty good cake pop. I like it. Next up, we have a marshmallow dream bar.
21:53So simple. So tasty. Next up, we have a slice of banana, walnut, and pecan loaf.
22:00That's really good. It's good banana bread. It's got that real moist texture to it. A little bit of
22:05crunch from the nuts on the outside. Yeah. Big fan. Thumbs up. This one I'm interested in. This is a
22:09blueberry scone. I'm intrigued to see how Americans approach a scone. Obviously, the shape is slightly
22:16different to what you'd expect in the UK from a scone. Ours tend to be circular or more circular,
22:21whereas this one is kind of a triangle shape. It's okay. It's quite dry. I think maybe this,
22:28with some cream cheese, could work actually, like a blueberry cream cheese thing, because right now
22:32it is dry, as scones tend to be, but in a kind of bready way that I'm not used to. The final baked
22:37good we have here today is this cheese danish. It's very flat.
22:42Yeah, not bad. The taste and flavor I get from the pastry is kind of like those cheap
22:47supermarket croissants that you get. All right. Exclusive hot sandwichy, guys. This is the oak
22:54smoked ham and cheese toastie, so if you want your ham and cheese to taste like it just came from a
22:59forest fire, this is your sandwich. Chipotle chili, tater tat bites. Unforgivable.
23:06Tuna melts panini. Bro, it's got corn in it. And even though I hate this, there's like no tuna in
23:12this. Moving on. Tomato and mozzarella panini. I would say this was skimping on the ingredients.
23:19For saying, what is this, mozzarella in it, right? I don't see cheese anywhere in here, really. I would
23:23return that. I'd be like, you guys forgot to put the stuff in my sandwich. I'm wondering why is the
23:27chicken Caesar wrap package like this? Oh, these are. Gotcha. Uh, yeah, I mean, you know. Chicken
23:36sandwich. Red Leicester? Leicester? No, that's not right. Cheese and pickle. Nope. Harry's going to
23:47explain something to me. A plowman's lunch is pretty commonly eaten here in the UK. Generally,
23:52it will be like a platter and we'll include things like cheese, pickle, which is what you're about to
23:57eat, not pickles. Very, very key distinction there. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's like a condiment,
24:02like almost like a relish of some kind. And then other things as well, you'll usually find like
24:06maybe a pickled onion on the plate, some bread, rather just random bits like that you'd eat and
24:11then you'd go off to, uh, to apply your fields. And then this is the sandwich version of that.
24:15The sandwich version effectively of apartments. It's a cheese and pickle. So the pickle isn't
24:19American pickles. It's like relish. We call relish, even though our relish is greener. Thanks, bud.
24:25This does not taste like relish. I'm very confused on what it is. It isn't bad. It's just, it's,
24:30it's a strange to me. So I'd like to learn more about this. There are lots of lunch options from
24:34a U S Starbucks. And the one we got today is this one, the ham and Swiss on a baguette.
24:38I don't know. Yeah. That's from the hard work. Yeah. Whatever bread they're using there,
24:47it's extremely chewy. Flavours are pretty good. I like the ham flavour. A little bit of flavour from
24:52the Swiss. Overall, I don't know how impressed I am with the U S Starbucks. I think the basic
24:59things we actually might be doing slightly better in the UK. Even the coffee was just kind of like
25:03a little bit burned and bitter tasting over here. I think in the UK, you're generally getting a more
25:07reasonable portion and the actual coffee itself might be slightly better quality.
25:11If there's one thing the US is doing better, I'd say I was pretty impressed by the bakery section.
25:15I think pretty much all the baked goods I tried were great. Even just things like the cake pop
25:19had like a really satisfying texture and flavour to them. I really liked that banana walnut loaf. I
25:24thought that was great as well. Honestly, I just wasn't really impressed by any of the drinks you
25:27guys have over here. I thought the ice beverages were just all a bit weird tasting and ended up just
25:31being very watery. I think the hot beverages, some of the flavours just needed like a real rebalancing there
25:36because they were either way too strong or not strong enough. If I had to pick something to take
25:40back with me to the UK, I'm kind of split between a couple of options. There were some good things,
25:44particularly more on the food side of the menu. I thought the Impossible sandwich was actually
25:48really good. They really did replicate the texture and the flavour of the sausage patty. So I'd kind
25:53of like that in the UK as like a non-meat option that actually tastes really good and close to meat.
25:57I really like the cake pops. It seems like a really basic thing, but just in terms of the taste and the
26:01texture, way better here than they are in the UK. If I had to choose one thing to cut from the US menu,
26:06actually quite a tricky decision because there were several things that I thought were just bad.
26:10One thing might be the Trenta iced coffee, because I think that's just an absurd amount of coffee.
26:15It's excessive. That cannot be good for anyone's health. You guys really aren't doing tea very well
26:19in the US. I thought the breakfast tea with milk was actually kind of fine, but all of those iced tea
26:24options were really, really bad. Despite all of that, I think the item that I'm actually going to cut
26:28from the US menu, given the chance, would probably be the Ice London Fog Latte. Just to reiterate,
26:35London Fog is not something that anyone from London knows of or drinks, so that's really bad to begin
26:40with. Also, just something about the ice again, diluting it. It just ended up being like the worst
26:47cup of Earl Grey tea you've ever had, and then you've just added a bunch of ice to it. So honestly,
26:52just appalling. If you're going to keep that on the menu, just take London out of the name. Stop
26:56dragging us through the mud to have your disgusting, disgusting tea drinks.
27:00As you can see, it pretty much was a lot like what a Starbucks in the US is like, so
27:05kudos to Starbucks to having pretty good consistency. What would I keep? I like the clotted cream fudge
27:11cold brew. It wasn't too sweet. Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by that drink. And if I wanted
27:15something healthy, maybe the peach and raspberry overnight oats. This is nice. Yeah, I can get into
27:20that. What would I cut? Well, I know I did not like the tuna panini. I'm not a big tuna guy anyway,
27:25but it just smelled horrible, rough. No thanks. And that traditional sausage sandwich is just
27:30sausage and bread. Ah, there's nothing to it. I know other fast food menus have just a sausage
27:35and bread sandwich, but Starbucks, you don't got to do that. Not a fan of that either. So those can
27:39stay in the UK. Joe informs me that the average bladder can contain around 400 to 500 milliliters of
27:45urine, which is around half of a Trenta. So if you take this, you will be visiting the bathroom
27:51probably at least twice.