We wanted to find out all the differences between seasonal fast food menus in the UK and the US This is food wars.

Let's start with McDonald's Now.

They've gotten quite big and added five seasonal items to their menu.

McDonald's in the U.

S.

Only has two menu items, and actually one of them isn't very festive.

This thing is itching me and making a lot of noise.

I'm taking it off Santa Claus.

You got it in the U.

S.

McDonald's has the holiday pie and the McRib.

Now let's start with what for me is probably the main event.

Which is this The double Big Mac.

Now I have a couple of reservations about this burger number one.

I'm not sure what makes it Christmassy on number two.

I'm not sure you can really call it a double Big Mac unless it is actually double the weight and size off a regular Big Mac.

It is kind of it all that 275 So it's actually only a 30% increase if you get the double big mark, which, as I suspected, it's far from doubling it Harry, I feel you on that double, Big Mac.

So I'm gonna make one of my own and see exactly what you're working with over there.

One piece of bread in the middle.

The middle piece of bread is always really strange, E.

I mean, this is looking that this is actually looking pretty good, right?

Let's see how much it weighs.

But 280 g McDonald's.

I'm a bit disappointed because you've advertised.

This is a double Big Mac, but you've only given us 30% more.

So what we're gonna do now is make our own double Big Mac the official way, but well, well, well to do nothing.

Now the other seasonal sandwich items on the McDonald's menu is this.

The jerk chicken sandwich.

Now in this burger, you'll find two chicken strips, Cem Bacons and cheese, some lettuce onions on a spicy jerk sauce.

Next up we have these things, which are cheese melt dippers.

These come in portions off four or as a share box off 12 On.

It's basically like a breaded and fried bite off Camembert cheese.

On the dessert menu, we have a celebrations.

Mcflurry, which is a nod to Britain's obsession with chocolate selection boxes around Christmas time.

Now celebrations is Mars is addition to this on what they have in here is galaxy, Twix, Mars, Snickers on more Caesars of those candy bars you mentioned.

I've heard of two of them, one of the most Twix.

But besides that, I'm not familiar with all of those candy bars.

So maybe we should do a Food Wars candy bars episode.

Finally, McDonald's offers a salted caramel latte.

One thing to know is that the anti caking agent used in the caramel sugar for this lot is calcium silicate.

Now this is fairly commonly used in food.

However, it's also one of the most popular fireproofing materials, and it's also used to neutralize acids that leak out of minds.

The McRib.

I have no idea why the McRib is during this holiday season at McDonald's.

I think what they do with the McRib is they pretty much liquefy the meat import into a rib shaped mold.

Oh, yeah, Oh, yeah.

Okay.

KFC in the UK only has one exclusive seasonal menu item, and it is this.

This is the gravy burger box meal.

This is a combo meal in which you get a regular portion of fries, a single chicken, Philip some gravy, gravy neighs, which is a new addition to the menu, which is a kind of gravy and mayo combination.

And then the main event is the burger.

So what they've done here is taken a Philip burger.

Put some cheese on it, and then on top of it, it's got a hash brown.

They've kind of put like a divot in it, and the idea is that you pour the gravy straight on there and it kind of collected in a pool.

In this, there are 1215 calories, which is quite a lot.

I'm not sure how this is the case, but this is actually more calories than a 14 piece bargain bucket.

I love that reservoir.

That's such a good idea.

That innovation is that only in the UK that's fantastic.

Here in the US are KFC actually doesn't have any exclusive menu items.

We do, however, have this exclusive KFC festive bulk.

A boy colonels were in a hat similar to mine.

What else done here?

Cursive fonts.

That's holiday.

Got the, uh, ornament.

But that's it.

Oh, wait.

I almost forgot.

Damn.

Look at this thing.

You know what this is?

Do you guys know what this is?

Look at this.

So this yule log smells executive This lame ass bucket out of my way.

This smells exactly like KFC fried chicken.

Do you put a fight with the papal?

Does this work?

No, it doesn't.

I think the burning of it is crucial for it to smell.

Doesn't smell like Oh, man.

Yeah, it doesn't.

Okay, so it doesn't smell like fried chicken now, But I'm gonna take this, so I'm gonna throw it on my grill.

I'm gonna light it up.

My whole neighborhood is gonna smell like fried chicken.

Thanks to me, that's gonna be my holiday gift to my neighborhood.

Three gift of things.

Smelling like things.

Now, if there's one change you can count on to go all out for the holidays, it's Starbucks.

Let's take a look at some of their exclusive menu items starting with Theo drinks.

Starbucks UK has added four drinks to its seasonal many, and we'll start on this side.

This is a truffle deluxe hot chocolate.

This is a gingerbread latte, which is festive for obvious reasons.

This is an eggnog latte?

No, I've never actually tried eggnog.

And then finally, we have a toffee nut latte again.

Not hugely.

Sure how?

This is festive, but I like coffee.

I like nuts.

Sounds like my kind of drink.

Oh, so you think about eggnog is every year I look forward to the holiday season when I finally get my hands on some nag and then, like clockwork, I have, like, a couple sips.

And then I realized, why didn't think of eggnog for the past 11 months, And I feel like this year will be no difference.

Mm.

I'm a knobhead.

I love eggnog.

Mhm.

And two sips is all I can handle for the rest of that in the toilet Thes air.

The four exclusive Starbucks holiday drinks that we did get her hands on.

They didn't label them.

So I'm gonna find out in real time what they are.

It was like smelling the cork.

Just I'm pretty sure this is the toast of hot chocolate.

Yeah, it's just okay.

This is the They labeled it the Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino.

And ask a bits of stuff in it.

Ah, toothpaste E.

That's what it tastes like.

when you know when you brush your teeth and then you drink a milkshake.

That's exactly what it tastes like on his last 10 God, I know which one this one is.

This is a caramel brulee latte.

The caramel stuff at Starbucks is all terrible.

Help.

This is no different way.

Love Christmas sandwiches in the UK Ah, lot of like the supermarket chains will bring them out around Christmas.

Time on Starbucks is getting in on the act with quite a few of its own offerings.

Let's start with this one.

This is the tis the season turkey sandwich.

This is the very merry vegan rap I love the festive colors they've got going on here.

Great edition.

Now this one might provoke some philosophical questions as to what constitutes a sandwich, but this is a celebration.

Salmon and cream cheese Cristante.

This is the turkey festive feast panini.

All the good stuff.

No vegetables.

Fantastic.

Now the one I'm probably most excited to try it is this one.

It's the one with the gravy layer sandwich.

Now, if you're a fan of the show friends, you might recognize this as a moist maker.

You can probably tell by the difficulty of having swallowing this got us.

And I'm a little disappointed.

The whole point of the friend's sandwich is that had a gravy layer in the middle that made it super moist.

They've not really done that with this.

One is just three layers of breath.

The ratios roll off.

Over here is a cranberry bliss bar.

You could get a whole tray of the cranberry bliss bar.

They toasted ham and Swiss sandwich.

And, of course, egg.

This handsome gentleman right here, you got yourself snowman shaped cookie frosty.

And if you want just the head boo yah!

A decapitated frosty head on a stick sending a message to the rest of the snowmen.

Stand line.

Stay in line.

Salted peppermint bark, right?

Yeah.

Classic.

Keep us in the case and then surround out the Christmas menu from Starbucks.

We have a bunch of festive baked goods.

Will start on this side with a cranberry cheesecake.

Come off in a bad time.

Come on, guys.

Now, I'm not sure if mince pies are a thing outside of the UK or at least to the degree they are inside the u.

K.

But basically it's made with mince meat, which is not as bad as it sounds.

It's like baked fruits.

That kind of stewed a bit.

We have this adorable little guy who's called South Pole Sam.

I love him.

He is my son.

See?

Salted caramel swell.

Which I don't know when salted caramel became festive.

Then we have this guy the Christmas tree.

Brownie on.

Then finally, we have this thing, which is a raspberry and pistachio Lin's a cookie.

It looks like a fancy Jammie Dodger.

I want to take this brief moment to talk about that snowman had cake pop you saw on Lee a moment ago.

Now I know that little guy is cute.

You want to snack out of this holiday season?

I would be remiss test if I didn't share with you the ingredients list.

Okay.

Ingredients The cake, Which is sugar enriched wheat flour, which is wheat flour.

Malted barley flour, niacin reduced iron thiamine, Mina nitrates, riboflavin, folic acid.

Dig Lyssarides polish orbits.

16 60 Citric acid.

B h t antioxidant.

We bookmark that one.

Thank you.

Malted extra.

Not color extract and potassium hydrates.

You know, the one ingredient I bookmarked five minutes ago, Bhd that is beautiful ated hydro to lean.

I think that's how it's pronounced and pretty shows how that's pronounced.

If I've never had to say it's beautiful.

Hydro Delek, Telos Elin Studies That's just the B H t, along with similar chemical B H A.

Increased the risk of cancer and animals.

Wolf.

Even though that cake pop a little frosty snowmen had on it looks cute and fun.

Your kids wanna have it.

You'd be better off skipping the cake, Pop.

Just feeding them to stick.

Now let's look at some of the best of the rest, starting with Pizza Hut.

What pizza has have done is take some classic UK Christmas dinner ingredients on put one toe a pizza.

So we've gone for the classic base, and then on top of that, we have a red wine gravy instead.

Off pizza sauce, we have some cheese, some bacon, Cem stuffing on some rotisserie chicken.

The red wine base does actually contain alcohol, so there is some real red wine in there.

I'm not sure how many of these you'd have to eat to get drunk.

I think the Greece would probably kill you before alcohol poisoning.

Did I don't know what it is about that pizza, but it's incredibly depressing.

Something about all the things that should be at this full family Christmas feast, all in one pizza.

Let's be honest for some guy by himself.

It's a bummer, I imagine a guy eating that pizza alone, his apartment, one lightbulb just swinging above his head just like staring out into the distance.

Just no one in his life.

I don't know why I'm projecting such sadness on his pizza, but that is a very depressing pizza chick.

Fil A in the U.

S has to exclusive holiday menu items a soup, their chicken tortilla soup and a shake a peppermint chip shake a T first glance kind of yuck.

Smells all right.

And it comes with these, uh, crispy seasonal tortilla strips.

All right, I'll try it for you guys.