British and American “Food Wars” hosts Harry Kersh and Joe Avella swapped places to try each other’s Subway menu items and find all the differences between the two. This is “Food Wars: Foreign Exchange.”

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29:46 – Credits

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Joe: A Brit and an American swap countries to try each other’s Subway. This is "Food Wars: Foreign Exchange." We’re comparing classics, and the first thing we are comparing is a foot-long turkey sub. This is what you get here in the UK. Yeah, this looks exactly like what you get in America. So, in the US they don’t have hearty Italian. We’ve got this on artisanal Italian bread. I feel like Subway calling anything they produce "artisanal" is a bit of a reach. But visually, looks pretty similar to a sandwich I would expect to get from a Subway in the UK. Firstly, we’ve got to keep them honest. See if this is actually 1 foot long. Subway lives to fight another day. That’s pretty much exactly 12 inches. Really gotta work to taste anything on this sub. But to be fair, I feel like our turkey has a little more emphasis on the oven-roasted, so it has a bit of a smokier flavor to it. It’s got to have cheese, and it’s got to have sauce. Yeah, it’s not too bad. I quite like the bread. Bread’s got a good amount of chew to it, bit of tear. Yeah, I’d say taste-wise, pretty similar to the UK’s as well. Maybe slightly saltier than I’m used to. That turkey’s definitely got a bit of a salty bite to it. The other thing we wanted to compare was a 6-inch meatball marinara, although Joe has ordered me a foot-long one, so Joe, do you want to come and take half of this? Yes, I do. Yoink. I think the full sandwich came with seven meatballs. There’s also the cheese on there, the tomato sauce. Looks pretty familiar. When I get these in the UK, I tend to order them with pickles. I’ve been told that’s weird. I think Joe thinks that’s weird. Pickles? What? No, no way. Looks like a 6-inch you’d get in the United States. Yeah, not too bad. I quite like the flavor of the meatball. The meatballs here are quite big and thick, a little bit dry on the inside. So I think with that, and the fact that the bread is also a little bit on the drier side, little bit on the stale side, bit more sauce would probably have helped this out a lot. And also, they could be slightly more generous with the cheese. I think taste-wise, fairly similar to what I’m expecting from the UK one. The taste is not nearly as pronounced as the United States. I feel like also the sodium of this is a lot lower. That’s just me saying, like, it’s not very salty. Not that I want it to be overly salty, but this one feels like they missed some of the seasoning or the seasoning was turned down a little bit. I almost always get this with cheese, so that might also have something to do with it. But just straight up, the meatball and the sauce and the bread, too boring. Drinks from a US Subway come in three sizes, small, medium, and large. Subway drinks delivered in the UK, they provide these bottles of soda. This Pepsi is 500 milliliters. Couple of things to note here. The small in the US is effectively the size of our large in the UK. In fact, I’m going to measure it out now to check. So, the US small has come out to just over 500 milliliters, which is pretty standardly a large UK soda. So if the US small is basically the same as a UK large, how on Earth is this allowed? I’m going to have to measure this thing out because it is ridiculous, and I need to see exactly how much is in there. So, it looks like the US large has come out to around 1,150 milliliters, over a liter of soda. Of course, Subway sells chocolate chip cookies in both the US and the UK, although over here they’re called chocolate chip and I think we call them chocolate chunk. Honestly, Subway cookies in the UK are pretty legit. I like them. I feel like cookies in the UK can be on the crunchier side. I prefer a bit of chew, and Subway’s one of the few places that actually delivers on that. Your chocolate chip cookies are so chewy they fell apart. Taste that British chocolate I’m so fond of. It’s actually a very good cookie. It’s not so soft, but it has a little bit of a bend to it. That’s really not the best Subway cookie I’ve ever had. It is chewy, but kind of on the drier side of chewy, rather than that really gooey chocolate chip feel that you want. Taste-wise, pretty similar to the UK. Texture-wise, not the best I’ve had. Here’s everything at a UK Subway I can’t get in the US. And here are most of the things you’ll find on a Subway menu in the US that we won’t have in the UK. Here in the UK they have a few exclusive sandwich combos ready to go. The chicken tikka is the first one. We definitely don’t have a chicken tikka sub in the US. Just going to go down here. It’s just, it’s dry. It needs some sort of sauce or something. I do like the tikka flavor, just isn’t enough to really make it jump. I mean, the vegetables and the bread are just so, there’s so much of it. I’ve got a couple of US preset sandwiches here that I don’t think are on the UK menu. We’ll start with this one, which I’m shocked isn’t on the menu. It’s a BLT. Whenever Joe tries UK bacon, he’s quick to point out how pale and floppy and tasteless it is, and I’m starting to wonder now if he’s being a bit of a hypocrite, you know, because that’s pretty shocking as far as bacon is concerned. I do not think this is going to be the best BLT I’ve ever had. We just ordered this kind of as it comes on the menu, didn’t try to customize it. Usually I would expect a BLT to have at least some mayo on it, but Subway has not done that. It’s just a very dry, chewy, and slightly bland BLT. There’s also roasted chicken breast. I know we had roasted chicken for a minute. I think it’s off the menu, and now we just have, like, classic sliced chicken breast. And you can get this fun grainy bread. Oh, yeah. Look at those marks. It totally was roasted. I get it, I’m an American. Our food is usually, especially our fast food, is usually way too flavorful because we put so much junk in it. My palate hasn’t adjusted yet, but all these are just feeling like, yeah, you’re in the ballpark, can you just turn it up a little bit? That’s a decent-tasting roasted chicken breast, but. Maybe I should just, like, I’m going to wipe off all the lettuce on all these. I think that’s really doing some damage. Also, this bread’s pretty good. I like that bread. Next up we have this one, which is a Cold Cut Combo. I hope the cameras can accurately capture the color of these meats. I’m going to have to lay these out though, because I truly can’t tell. If you told me these were all the same meat, I would believe you. It’s genuinely taken four of us to try and identify which meat is which. I think the answer is bologna, ham, salami. This also comes with some kind of cheese. It’s a very pale-colored cheese, so it makes me think it’s maybe provolone or, like, a white American. I don’t actually know if I’ve ever had bologna before. At least what Americans consider to be bologna. I know it’s, like, a sort of sandwich meat for preschoolers usually, but I’m sure there are adults eating it as well. It’s a weirdly matte color. The taste is kind of similar to what I would expect from, like, a mortadella. It’s the texture on that that’s really messing with my head. It’s very rubbery and spongy. Try a little bit of ham. Still not good. And what we think is salami. I think we have correctly identified them. The salami at least tastes a little bit different to the other two. Something about the texture of those processed meats, the way they’ve clearly been, like, reformed into logs and then sliced, is deeply unpleasant. We don’t really use the term "cold cuts" to refer to sliced meats in the UK, so maybe that’s why it’s not on the menu. There are also some other preset sandwich options that we didn’t get today, because I’m kind of going to be experiencing them in other forms throughout this video. And there’s a Philly cheesesteak. Oh, no! And here it is. Philly cheesesteak. Nope, no. Got F+ on this. There’s next to no peppers. The cheese isn’t even melted. Certainly not mixed in. We did a whole video about this. You can see why people are very passionate about this, about how it should be done, how it shouldn’t be done. Philly’s protective about a lot of stuff, and cheesesteaks might be at the top of the list. This is absolutely not a Philly cheesesteak. Attention, the United Kingdom, not Philly steak, at all. Not even close. I don’t want to … Disgraceful. Any of the create-your-own menu you can also get in wrap or salad form. These are wraps right here. In an effort to increase efficiency, Subway recently introduced their Subway Series sandwiches. I think these have now made their way to the UK, but they are very different in both the US and the UK. UK recently also got the Subway Series sandwiches. Congrats, guys. This one says, I think this is the Big Bombay. Oh, OK. Now, I don’t know how this tastes, but take note, United Kingdom. See that? That’s sauce. Let’s sauce it up, huh? None of these dry sandwiches. Look at all that sauce. Generous sauciness from the Subway near the studio. The flavor coming off of that, stronger than the other sandwiches that I’ve previously had, so that might be a winner. That’s a tasty sandwich. All right. We’ll start down this end with No. 30, aka The Beast. They’re not kidding. This thing is a bit of a beast. If you get a foot-long, it comes with half a pound of meat in it, because it seems to pretty much contain all of them cold-cut options. Also comes with some cheese. I believe this is provolone. I’m going to do something weird and bite the side, because I want to kind of get a bit of everything in there and the ends look a little bit bare. It’s actually not terrible. Obviously there’s a lot of meat, as you can expect. And particularly on the top half of the sandwich when you bite into it, it’s just meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, and then all the toppings below it. I can’t really tell which of the flavors is really coming to the fore. The pepperoni I think is really coming out there. It’s OK. It’s a bit of a chaotic and slightly gross-looking sandwich, but if you’re a big fan of your cold cuts, actually not the worst option. The Great Caesar. Oh, who the hell put vegetables on this? Meh. There’s bacon in there too. Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t think you need a whole one of those. The Caesar dressing flavor’s really overpowering. Next up, we have The Philly. As you can imagine, it’s a Philly cheesesteak, or at least Subway’s take on a Philly cheesesteak. I have now had an authentic Philly cheesesteak. I’ve had several, in fact. So I’m relatively qualified to say whether this is or is not a proper Philly cheesesteak attempt. Nah. This one, you’re getting so little flavor from that beef. I don’t like the mayo on there. I want Cheez Whiz rather than the mayo. That’s a pretty shocking attempt at a Philly cheesesteak. Meatless Philly? Ugh. The vegetarian meat is meh, not as bad. It’s not the worst part about it. That sauce is just terrible. Ugh. Next up, No. 33, Teriyaki Blitz. At a glance, this just looks kind of identical to the Philly cheesesteak. I think the main difference is that they’ve subbed out the mayo for some teriyaki sauce. The issue with both of those is kind of the same, in that the beef just doesn’t have any real flavor to it. They can’t keep getting away with this. This is just the same toppings again! This is No. 3, aka The Monster. There is a slight difference in this one, in that this also has bacon and maybe the cheese is different. But it is kind of becoming increasingly apparent that the Subway Series is just ways that they can recycle basically the same ingredients into a few different sandwiches. All I really taste in that one is the cheese and the bacon. Notorious BMT. Feel a lawsuit coming on, guys, come on. I love this little cheese baked in here, right? Looks like your dentist’s signature. So, apparently BMT stands for Biggest, Meatiest, Tastiest. I don’t think so. Definitely not the biggest. Definitely not the meatiest. So, see how tasty it is. That’s just OK. There’s bacon in there. I think there’s a salami on there as well. I like that. I’m assuming the bread is included in this, as far as the preset option. This bread is very good. Next up, we have the elite chicken and bacon ranch. I know you Americans love your ranch. Lot of nodding heads in the studio. Chicken bacon ranch. Pretty classic. I don’t know if I just got a weird bite or something, but I didn’t really get that much of the ranch in there. Quite gentle, not as punchy or tangy as some of the other ranches that I’ve had in the US. That’s OK. Again, I think I just want more flavor, really. Joe always goes on about how we don’t have any flavors in the UK. None of these I’ve tasted really have had much flavor to them. Tex Mexan. Not a typo, according to Subway.com. .co.uk. The colors in this are just sending off alarm bells. Oh, this has chips in it? You put chips in the sandwich! Your chef is a 7-year-old who just went swimming. This is actually pretty good. I was dogging it. I do like this. It’s spicier than I thought it was going to be. All right, UK Subway, I’m coming around. I’m coming around. I thought this was going to be a horror show, but actually this stuff’s all right. Next up, we have The MexiCali. So, we’re filming this in California, and I also spent all of yesterday eating Mexican food, so this has a lot to live up to. There is some avocado in here and quite a lot of this Baja chipotle dressing. That actually could be a lot worse. It’s not authentic Mexican food. I think that’s very clear. But I like the avocado. The chipotle sauce is good. Nice flavor to it. A little bit of heat. Those grilled chicken pieces are actually pretty good. I might have spoke too soon, though. The Baller. Oh, God! Man, this is like, you ever seen that movie "The Thing" where the guy’s chest breaks open and it’s, like, a monster mouth in there? That’s what this looks like. Good God. No. No. Here we have the Turkey Cali Club. We got more of their slightly sad bacon. This looks pretty good. I don’t know if it’s the bread or the fillings in here. I like the spinach. Vibrant. I wouldn’t say it’s, like, bursting with flavor. In terms of the Subway Series sandwiches, admittedly quite a low bar so far, this one’s doing all right. There are these two wraps. We got The Emperor, who got their new groove. Not bad. I kind of wish I got that in a sandwich form. Does this have to be a wrap? Eh, I think it would be better in sandwich form, guys. Just saying. And the Rockin’ Moroccan vegan, ugh. Yeah, it’s not bad. It’s just OK. The final Subway Series sandwich that we got today is this one, the Pickleball Club. It’s got lots more of this quite alarmingly colored purple ham. I’ve never played pickleball. It seems to be, like, an American trend that’s really picked up again recently. As far as I can tell, it’s like tiny tennis. OK, yeah, table tennis is tiny tennis. Pickleball is like medium tennis. I mean, I like pickles, I like honey mustard. I’m really unconvinced by this ham situation you guys have going on over here, but. I am a sucker for pickles, but that’s pretty good. I like how the pickles and the honey mustard work together. That kind of sweet and tangy flavor combination is really good. The ham across any of these sandwiches just hasn’t really had much flavor to it or added much. Same with the bacon. Most of what I’m getting there is pickles and honey mustard dressing, which is OK. These have all just kind of been disappointing. These two salads, exclusives, they got the Great Goddess. Oh, goodness. And the Fine Catch, which I’m assuming is a tuna salad. Is that tuna right there? Or was a cat sick on my salad? Subway in the US has a lot of wrap options. We got two of them today because a lot of them share the same options as the subs. So, this is the rotisserie-style chicken wrap. The tortilla itself actually looks pretty good. The rotisserie-style chicken doesn’t have enough flavor on its own to kind of hold up against all of that, so I’m mostly just getting lettuce and cucumber, which for me makes for a bit of a sad mouthful. Then the other one we got is the roast beef wrap. I’m British. We like our roast beef, got high standards for roast beef, and I’m not sure that this is going to live up. I got quite a lot of red onion in that bite, and it led to a very harsh mouthful. Let me just try and pull out some of the beef and at least try that on its own. It tastes of roast beef, but it is kind of that not-fresh roast beef flavor. I’m not averse to the concept of having wraps on the menu at Subway. Like, the tortillas themselves are actually fine. If you’re going to have wraps, ease up slightly on the other fillings, because currently I’m just basically tasting only the salad. Needs some sauce. Yeah, not averse to the concept. Currently, the execution is not quite there. The UK also has SubMelts, which is a registered trademark, which are effectively just panini versions of some Subway sandwiches. They’re available in pizziola, tuna kahuna, oh, Christ. Supremo, and big cheesesteak. I mean, can we even tell what this is? What the hell’s happening here? OK, that does that too. Oh, OK, this might be something. Oh. Oh, geez. There we go. Put that over there. What else are we curious about? I don’t know about the tuna kahuna. What is inside of this? Tuna, cheese, sautéed onions, and peppers. I mean, I don’t know. Are melts supposed to look appetizing when you rip them open? Subway in the US offers a range of No Bready Bowls, which are effectively just their preset subs but without the bread. I don’t know why places do this. We had the Papa Bowls in the Papa Johns episode, which were mortifying, and this is kind of the same thing. Joe kindly ordered me the meatball marinara No Bready Bowl today. There’s cucumber on here, which, particularly when you’re getting a warm topping like this, is just a dreadful idea. I think this should be outlawed under the Geneva Convention as a cruel and unusual form of torture. I will not be trying it. We’re not done with bowl options from Subway in the US. You can also get salads. In this case, we’ve got the Cold Cut Combo salad. So, as you can see, they slice up the meats that you would normally find in a Cold Cut Combo sub. And as far as I can tell, the salads are pretty much the same in this and the No Bready Bowl. There is lettuce right on the bottom, spinach, tomatoes, red onions, cucumber, and black olives. We ordered this just as it comes, so it doesn’t come with any dressing, although I think in the restaurant you can specify that you would like a dressing with this, which to me would make way more sense. I think maybe the main difference between this and the No Bready Bowl is that these come with croutons, which I will sprinkle in for dramatic effect. There aren’t as many options when it comes to the salad bowls as when it comes to the No Bready Bowls. The No Bready Bowls, any sub could be made into. Whereas this, they’ve actually slightly curated the list. So you can get the Cold Cut Combo, you can get Buffalo chicken, BLT, grilled chicken, roast beef, or sometimes pizza subs. My takeaway from today’s episode is if it’s in a bowl, skip it. Savers and snacks. So savers, as in priced to move. And snacks, which are of course snacks. I got a whole list in front of me. I’ll just go down here and call them out. This is a, what? This looks like a cheese toasted bite. What’s inside of here? I don’t know. It’s, like, chicken? I can’t tell what the base is. All right, moving on. These are the, just, what we would say is hash browns? Yep, OK. It’s a little slice of bread with some fun stuff on it. Um. [bread thudding] These were fresh a while ago. Currently not. Pepperoni and cheese. Just cheese. Also, this is funny. This is really funny. You can get a bowl of meatballs. A little cheese on there. Hey, yeah, meatballs. Why not, right? That’s fun. And the thing I’ve been dreading for, what, three years now? Is your infamous Subway nachos. Three different versions. Why not? Starting with the chili heatwave. What are these, the real spicy ones? Ah. To quote many a British bloke, "Look at the state of it. Oi. The freshest thing I’m holding right now is the bloody box." OK, these look terrible. These look disgusting. It looks like you just dumped salsa on Doritos chips and then microwaved it. I don’t think there’s any cheese on this, is there? Yeah, there’s a little bit. All right. These are so bad. Unless they were free, you paid too much. But you have three different versions of them. Who the hell is getting nachos at Subway? These are even worse. I think these are the ones you showed last time. This is such a joke. This is such a joke. Oh, no. I know you think you’re putting salsa on these, but your salsa is really, really weak and really bad. The chips are chewy. Ugh. Terrible. These were, by the way, the lightly salted. Oh, thank God. God forbid you put salt on anything. Tang cheese. All right, seriously, why do you have three different types of nachos at Subway? You should have zero nachos at Subway. Terrible. Absolutely terrible. Like I said, the second-worst thing to happen to the Subway franchise are these nachos. Subway in the UK actually offers breakfast. Here they have bacon, sausage, poached egg, and cheese; bacon, poached egg, and cheese; sausage, poached egg, and cheese; and the Big Breakwich, which is everything from the above list all in one sandwich. Looking at this breakfast one right here, we can see this has the poached egg and the Lincolnshire sausage. Ooh, man, it’s been sitting for a little too long. Oh, God. They cut the poached egg in half. Oh, they have a couple in here. I mean, when does a poached egg become a hard-boiled egg? So a bunch of that’s in here. Let’s give it a shot. There’s a ketchup or a brown sauce on that. Harry: Ketchup. Ketchup, was not expecting that. Ah, it’s not very good. I do not like that at all. Treats and chips, aka crisps. Here you can get a sugar doughnut, an Oreo muffin, Cadbury’s caramel muffin, and a Bear pure fruit yo-yo. Also, the chips, here’s a few you can get here in the UK I can’t get in the US. You got baked cheese and onion. Doritos tangy cheese, mm. If you want a side to go with your Subway sandwich in the US, then they have a few options not found in the UK. Firstly, we have a couple of chip, or crisp, options, starting with these SunChips Harvest Cheddar flavor. Mm. I feel like in the UK, whenever we get, like, a healthy crisp, it kind of ends up tasting of like unseasoned cardboard. Whereas these ones actually do have a nice cheesy flavor to them. There is Quavers? What is it called? Quavers? I have no idea what a Quaver is. Harry: Try a Quaver. Try a Quaver for the first time. Oh, look at these. Ugh. And the last time. And you can also get these Miss Vickie’s jalapeño crisps. I’ve definitely seen Joe eating these in previous episodes, and I know he loves them. Joe, do you want to come and have one? No, man, not in the UK. How spicy are they? Mm. Yeah. Yeah, those are good. No, man. We need these. Shout-out to Vickie. Ooh, the Walkers. Legendary, ready salted. You people salt your food so little, when you have potato chips, you’re like, "Hey, these are salted." Like, yeah, they should be, right? That’s funny. And the Walkers glorious cheese and onion. Let’s go. I think technically on the kids menu, but adults can also purchase too, is this GoGo Squeez apple apple flavor. I’m a child, so I’m kind of the target audience for these anyway. Yeah. Not bad. It’s pureed apple. What can you expect? Yeah, just checking the ingredients, this actually seems fairly natural, which for America is rare. Just apple, apple puree concentrate, and lemon juice concentrate. Also this thing. Oh, wait, we just mentioned before, you do have the Bear pure fruit yo-yo. What’s a yo-yo? I hear it’s twisted. Oh, look at this. It’s a decent amount, right? It’s a decent amount of fruit leather for the kids. Also you can get Walkers prawn cocktail, Doritos cool original, and Doritos chili heatwave. Subway has started doing foot-long desserts for some reason. They have the foot-long cookie now, and apparently they have a foot-long Auntie Anne’s pretzel, which has just immediately ripped in half. Auntie Anne’s is a popular mall pretzel chain in the US. I think we actually do have a couple of locations in the UK. But I’ve never had one of their pretzels before. It’s been overbaked. You can see on the bottom, it’s quite charred, and that has just led to it being super dry. So, I’ve been informed that they’re ready salted because you used to all have to salt them, in at least the ’90s? And now it’s been said that the ready salted are too salted. Nostalgic for salting your own chips? OK. [drumroll] These are not salty at all. Dude. I wish I knew this! I could’ve gotten you potato chips in America that would’ve knocked you off your a–. You’d be shriveled up like a prune, they’re so salty. They suck all the moisture out of you. These would be lightly salted in America. I’m not kidding. Subway in the US has two cookie flavors not found in the UK. First up we have this white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie. I’m not the biggest white chocolate fan. A bit too sweet for me. The US also has a raspberry cheesecake cookie flavor. It’s got that same white chocolate sweetness, so it is a very sweet cookie. But I do like the flavor of that paired with the raspberry. The raspberry’s really good, actually. In addition to the foot-long cookie, you can also now get from Subways, you can also find a Cinnabon foot-long churro at some locations. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get it today. Cookies, you can get a rainbow candy chip and a white chocolate macadamia. Rainbow candy chip, white chocolate macadamia nut. So, I’ve been told that it’d be Smarties in these, but you guys’ Smarties are like another version of M&M candies. Our Smarties are sweet. I haven’t had them in forever. But they’re, like, little fruit-flavored things, kind of tart, I think, if I remember. Subway drinks, they have a bunch of bottled sodas and drinks you can’t get in the US. Here are few of the many that we can get here in the UK. Pepsi, right? OG Peps. Pepsi Max, which means it’s sugar-free, correct? Pepsi Max Cherry, 7Up Free, which I believe means sugar-free. "Zero sugar." Man, they’re just like, "There’s no sugar in this, we promise!" We get it! Harry: Sugar tax. The sugar tax. And then Mountain Dew, "All Dew, no sugar." I hear the Mountain Dew here is drastically different than in the US. But this also is sugar-free, so. Oh, yuck. That’s not very good. Terrible aftertaste. Yeah, it tastes closer to what I think 7Up would taste like, so let’s taste 7Up. I can’t remember the last time I had a 7Up. Maybe, like, my grandma’s house. Actually, that’s better than this, but this is also pretty bad. And juice. You guys like juice, or you call it a squash? "Robinsons real fruit in every drop." Yeah, right. This is the raspberry apple. "No added sugar." Also yeah, right. Yo, that’s got a strong aroma to it. Oh, wow. That’s, like, really tart. And kind of sweet for a UK beverage. All right, good on you, guys. Also you can find here in the UK Robinsons apple and black currant; Lipton iced tea, peach; Tropicana orange juice; Tango orange no sugar; and Tango orange with sugar. Also, they got coffee, regular and large, lattes, teas, cappuccinos. Subway in the US has a bunch of drink options that we don’t have in the UK. The differences really come down to the fact that Subway in the US stocks Coca-Cola products, while Subway in the UK stocks Pepsi products. As such, the fountain drinks that you can find in the US include Diet Coke, Sprite, Coca-Cola classic, and Hubert’s Lemonade. And in addition to the fountain drinks, you can get a range of bottled drinks. Because they stock Coca-Cola products, of course you can just get Coca-Cola. Here we have a bottle of Simply lemonade. This is the American-style lemonade, so, again, it’s a cloudy and still beverage. It is a shock for a Brit to try American lemonade because we are used to what is effectively Sprite as our lemonade, but that’s pretty good. It’s still. There’s actual lemon in there, which is nice, like little bits of pulp floating around, so it’s got a bit of tang and sweetness to it. Yeah, pretty good. Here we have a Vitaminwater XXX. Then the last beverage that we got today is possibly another one that’s aimed at children. It’s Shamrock Farms chocolate milk. Delicious. Can feel my bones getting stronger by the second. Final thoughts, my likes and dislikes. OK, what did the UK do better? Well, it’s hard to say. I don’t like Subway, so I don’t know what you did better or worse than what we do in America. The likes. What’d I like? I liked the Rockin’ Moroccan wrap. I enjoyed the, yeah, the Tex Mexan, the Big Bombay. Yeah, I like those three. I would be happy if those were on the US Subway menu. I’d probably get those. Your Mountain Dew is dreadful, and your nachos are a crime. So that’s how I feel about your Subway here. Overall, it wasn’t very good, but I just don’t like Subway. You know what? I’m going to be a jerk and I’m going to take back the Tex Mexan. Look what I got from the United Kingdom! If I could cut this from all Subway menus, it would be your nachos. Get real. Look, I mean, I’m not the biggest fan of Subway in the UK, but coming to the US, I think I expected at least slightly more. Just hearing the way that Joe talks about British food in general being a little bit bland, I was expecting, you know, some good seasonings, for the meats to have some good flavor, the vegetables, the sauces to really just bring something to these sandwiches. But I have to say, overall, I’ve been pretty disappointed. There were none of the sandwiches that really leapt out to me as being good. The ones that I kind of liked were more just, like, not as bad as I feared they might be. If there was one thing from the US menu that I could take back to the UK with me, I don’t think it would be any of the sandwiches. I think it would actually have to be a side, probably those jalapeño chips. I see why Joe likes them so much. If there was one thing I could cut from the menu, I don’t think it’s going to surprise anyone when I say basically anything at Subway that comes in a bowl. Those No Bready Bowls and the salads were both just really, really depressing. Bland salads covered with bland meat. These are so bad. Unless they were free, you paid too much. And even then, you’d be paying on the toilet later. These are so gross! Ugh. Oh, God, this video’s going to kill me.

40 Comments

  1. I agree with you subway is boring and a last result for me and is it me or did anybody else take forever to notice harry is wearing shrek 😂

  2. I love these 2 men.
    Subway, however, is the pits. Just bad, bad food. Everything tastes like the bread. The fillings just taste of whatever sauce you put on it, you might aswell have the awful bread and the awful sauce.

  3. I'm from Canada where we have both Smarties similar to the British and M&Ms, and M&Ms are nothing like British Smarties. British style Smarties are good.

  4. The reason our lage is allowed because when you have a heart attack on the US you're just expected to die unless you're really fuckin rich.

  5. Good job Joe is great as an entertainment factor because the way he immediately decided quavers were awful just makes me question his tastes. I've tried many British and American chips/crisps, and the British ones are superior except spicey flavours.

  6. 19:35
    As someone unfortunate enough to have to work there for a year, I can confirm that's exactly how they did it. Pick a bag of (probably stale because they were kept on top of the warm meatball cabinet) Doritos, chuck a spoonful of sauce (I think it was marinara sauce from the meatballs), a pitiful handful of grated cheese (you got a stern talking to if you used too much), and chuck it in the microwave for a minute.

    I don't know why they didn't use the industrial toasters. To this day it baffles me that anyone would pay for that torture in a box.

  7. Instead of introducing more lowest common denominator food, maybe Subway should focus up the menu, increase quality, and pay people enough to actually care about their jobs.

  8. People still eat these overpriced sandwiches? i mean, theyre nothing you cant make at home for half the price..

  9. So for the foreign exchange, do they each go to each others countries, film and episode together then swap?

  10. Joe I used to have full respect for you then you insulted all quavers fans I mean seriously how can you not like quavers now I'm beginning to question all your decisions and choices in life

  11. It blows my mind that this is what the biggest food chain in the world has to offer. Quantity, definitely not quality.

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