For those interested in the ingredients list of the Terry's Chocolate Oranges, we posted a side by side picture on the community tab! 👀

@janolaful

7 ай бұрын

You can get dark chocolate orange and maltesrs, I have had reeces butter cup here in the uk which wasn't a favourite the chocolate is way to thick and hard this comes from a person who must be the only one who likes coffee chocolate 😉

@jasonmcgilloway2829

7 ай бұрын

Such a joy to watch, great fun. Best wishes from Belfast.

@DeviousWeaselUK

6 ай бұрын

It’s really surprising to see that the ingredients for the chocolate orange are the same for both US and UK. And the fact that the US one is made in France 😂

@neildavies6835

6 ай бұрын

i'm shocked by this.for me the essence of vomit in U.S chocolate is a firm no,but for people raised on it,it becomes natural. in some vids you say you look for better products,so maybe your not as honed on junk ingredients.

@cheche2181

6 ай бұрын

The elite way to eat chocolate is with a hot cup of tea…I might just join you…where’s my box of maltesers gone? 🤔

Who remembers when the Snickers bar was known as the Marathon bar and the same with Starburst was known as Opal Fruits in the UK?

@hardywatkins7737

7 ай бұрын

Who remembers when mars bars were the size of house bricks? I tell you one thing that is sadly not to be experienced this day... Snickers Crunchers.

@hardywatkins7737

7 ай бұрын

Yeah i do remember Marathons ... they were bigger too. How is it that these bars like snickers and mars get smaller and smaller whilst dairy milks get bigger and bigger?

@grunge_surf_witch_uk9130

7 ай бұрын

@@hardywatkins7737yep I remember marathons and opal fruits keep saying everything getting smaller!!! I had some wotsits the other day they have gone tiny!!

@samstevens7888

7 ай бұрын

Have any of you seen how small the boost bar is now in the multi pack? It's not much bigger than a fun size.

@hikariyouk

7 ай бұрын

Yupp. And "Marathon" was so much better a name that naming it after a derisive laugh.

Unfortunately the quality of Cadbury chocolate has decreased since it was purchased by mondelez foods (a US company, formerly Kraft foods) who dropped the ingredient quality to save money. This was in 2008/9

@happybunny8704

7 ай бұрын

When they did that I became a Galaxy girl can’t stand the taste of Cadbury now…

@dukedex5043

7 ай бұрын

By UK law they still need to have a higher cocoa percentage to be callec chocolate compared to those required in the US

@russcattell955i

7 ай бұрын

@@dukedex5043 For how much longer, I wonder ?

@CezTV

7 ай бұрын

In Ireland, they didn't drop any of the ingredients, as far as I'm aware. I have heard irish cadbury tastes different, now I'm wondering if that's the reason why. Still love the taste of cadbury chocolate

@Gambit771

7 ай бұрын

@@russcattell955i Why do you think that?

American chocolate makers should watch this and be embarrassed 😂 And do better! Americans deserve equal chocolate rights 😊

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

Now that's a petition I can get behind 😂

@cat-mum-Jules

7 ай бұрын

😂😂

@Debbie-henri

5 ай бұрын

Absolutely right. When a couple of friends came over from the US to visit us, we would take them out (as they found our tiny, twisty roads really nerve-wracking). One time, feeling peckish, they bought some chocolate from a petrol station for a snack. The reaction was, much to our amusement, loud, joyous, Californian-style amazement. They bought more throughout their holiday and took some home for their daughter.

@BigC1290

5 ай бұрын

Truss me 😆🤣

Amusingly "Dove" is a brand of soap in the UK.

@elyon1898

7 ай бұрын

And every time I hear about dove chocolate, I instantly gag a little because all I can think of is chocolate soap 😂

@scottiebainbridge7871

7 ай бұрын

I bet our Dove Soap tastes better than US chocolate, 😂

@kezlana6907

7 ай бұрын

​@@scottiebainbridge7871😂😂 yup!

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

It actually is here, too, so I'm not sure why they chose to name it that 😂

@daymja_9351

7 ай бұрын

Galaxy Dove UK used to be ice-cream covered in galaxy chocolate.

American Chocolate Companies ‘Well, if we can’t beat them, we can buy their companies and destroy them from the inside by changing the recipes’ Cadbury chocolate is absolutely nowhere near as nice as it used to be before it was bought by Mondolez International - in my opinion, you should try Aldi UK choceur chocolate bars, much nicer

@hardywatkins7737

7 ай бұрын

Yeah Aldi stock one or two decent chocolate bars.

@capastianluna8896

7 ай бұрын

Sadly Aldi puts in more sugars than Thortons or Lidt, I am okay with a Cadbury bar from time to time (personal favourite is a wispa or gold wispa depending on day). However, it doesn't top for being the dogs bollocks, that goes too Lidt and Throtons, chocolate is just Divine and rich you feel fulfilled with a single bite for your chocoholic needs 😍

@capastianluna8896

7 ай бұрын

Aldi doesn't make the best dark chocolate, they ruined it with SO MUCH SUGAR, dark chocolate is delicious as an adult, as a kid though, I enjoyed original Cadbury milk chocolate till it got bought out by an American company -_- 😭

@felixhenson9926

7 ай бұрын

ew no, not a fan personally

@MrSirusDvirus

7 ай бұрын

Love chocolate as a brit..but you must try marabou chocolate ,its swedish but its soooo good 👍

I’m a Brit and when I was working in Germany,we were working with a bunch of Americans and we did the same blind test,they brought half a dozen of their most popular brands and we did the same. In EVERY case,our American friends much preferred the UK brands. When we did it it,we knew immediately the difference. With the US versions,there was this strange aftertaste that was a little unpleasant and VERY sugary. As far as I know,they all import British chocolate to this day.

@capastianluna8896

7 ай бұрын

It is due to there milk and having a lack of access to sugar, whilst Europe can easily import sugar, America can not, they use substitutes which is why you have a nasty after taste with American chocolate. When I ate a hershys bar, I just threw the part bitten bar straight into a bin, that taste of puke flavour 🤢 nah, our British chocolate doesn't have it. I will give it credit, corn syrup can be nice, just not in chocolate, us Brits enjoy corn syrup in certain products, yet it is a banned production product, has some health concerns including the possible risk of heightened blood sugar levels, hence natrual is best.

@enkisdaughter4795

7 ай бұрын

I remember watching an item on BBC News many years ago. They had two versions of British chocolate bars, one made in the UK and the second in Europe. They were at the Eurostar terminal at Gare du Nord in Paris. It was one of the times when the -Fourth Reich- EU were trying to alter the way we manufactured our food and chocolate. We were being told that to call it chocolate, the amount of cocoa solids had to be increased. The reporter was stood there and an assistant stood next to him with two plates. On each plate there was a chocolate bar (I think it was a Mars bar) cut into pieces. One of the people they stopped had a piece of each and savoured each piece. The reporter then asked which one he preferred. He smiled and replied “I know I’m supposed to say that one.” pointing at one of the plates. He continued in a much lower voice “But I prefer that one; I love British chocolate.” Turned out he was a Belgian chocolatier!

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

Yeah it's pretty amazing!

@AlBarzUK

7 ай бұрын

@@enkisdaughter4795 I wish we were still in the fourth reich. They were less influenced by the Murdoch extremists.

@maninthestreet01

7 ай бұрын

The milk used in some American chocolate contains butyric acid as a preservative. This is also present in Parmesan cheese and human vomit.

Your lady wife is really becoming far more relaxed in front of the camera Steve, you really do make a good duo.

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Appreciate you watching :)

@elisamcgowan4774

7 ай бұрын

Always will Steve).@@reactingtomyroots

@misslday9848

6 ай бұрын

Lady wife 😂 is there a different kind of wife ?

@elisamcgowan4774

6 ай бұрын

Yes, a wife that is not a lady, and enough of those exist.@@misslday9848

So kitkat and Terry's chocolate orange originate from York in Northern England. Rowntrees was sold to Nestle who invested a lot of money in new factories. Unfortunately, Terrys was sold to American Kraft who immediately closed down all UK production and shifted it to Poland. The chocolate Orange is now made in France. So only its roots are English.

@furyiv

7 ай бұрын

Still banging though. Always liked Terrys chocolate over Nestles

@hardywatkins7737

7 ай бұрын

I'm not a fan of the mint ones. It's just not very good mint chocolate as mint chocolate goes. The orange ones are still ok but i thought i noticed a change a couple of years back. They seemed more sickly and more of a perfume orange smell.

@Aloh-od3ef

7 ай бұрын

The same happened when the yanks brought Cadbury! Hardly any Cadburys is made in England anymore 😢

@V.C.S69

7 ай бұрын

@@Aloh-od3ef….The country was up in arms when the Cadbury family sold their factory to an American buyer, the chocolate was much better under the original Cadbury owners. Unfortunately the corrupt U.K. governments under since Blair did nothing to stop our manufacturing closing down and moving abroad, encouraged in fact working with the E.U just to say we have 2% emissions.

@furyiv

7 ай бұрын

@@Aloh-od3ef the Dairy Milk sold in the UK is produced in the UK, the factories around the world produce it for markets around the world.

The UK chocolate orange is flavoured with natural orange oil. Maybe the US is artificial orange flavouring making it taste stronger? Great video!

@101steel4

7 ай бұрын

Definitely. They do love an artificial flavour in the US 😂

@Trebor74

7 ай бұрын

Think it contains paraffin wax,too

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

That's a possibility! We did notice the orange oil is slightly further up in the ingredients list in the US version as well

In the UK can anyone remember Pacer’s spearmint chewy sweets, they were lovely 😊

@gothicgeisha2929

5 ай бұрын

I see these in my local pharmacy now & again

@ninjeera

4 ай бұрын

in Canada we have spearmint chewy candies that look like leaves. we call them green leaves. but we are fortunate to have the sweets from both the US and the UK. i much prefer the UK versions too.

@TheWizardOfEgo

3 ай бұрын

Got me through my A Levels

@VixGB

2 ай бұрын

I remember the TV commercial with the white tees and green stripes 😂

I think Lindsay is more used to the fake orange taste. The British flavour is genuine orange oil.

@kezlana6907

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I think so too. I think deep down she knew it was the US one as well 😂

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

That's a possibility! We did notice the orange oil is slightly further up in the ingredients list in the US version as well

@ElizabethMackenzie69

7 ай бұрын

​@@reactingtomyrootshi Steve, just wondering if you found the xmas card, note, and Harrods postcard I sent you. (The box with Bagpuss). 🙂

@samjj8942

7 ай бұрын

​@SmearCampaignUK the US is Orange Oil flavour, the UK version is Natural Orange Oil.

@philipocallaghan

7 ай бұрын

@SmearCampaignUK Wrong ...... Try again!

I’m Irish and an American friend kindly sent me over a box of American sweets and treats to try. I was grateful but didn’t encourage her to send another box 😅

Who remembers Treets. Toffee Treets, Peanut Treets & Chocolate Treets. I loved the peanut ones and much preferred them to m&m's. It's weird cause Mars made them both.

@seanmcmichael2551

7 ай бұрын

Did the Chocolate Treets get rebadged as Minstrels ? Peanut Treets were the absolute business. Are they now M&M's ?

@claireboddey3273

5 ай бұрын

Poppets?

@gothicgeisha2929

5 ай бұрын

Poppets

@VixGB

2 ай бұрын

Treets were gorgeous 😍 now, Peanut M&Ms are very similar but not as chocolatey!

I was genuinely shocked at the amount of chemicals and additives in your food in general compared to ours in the UK. Absolutely bonkers!!!!

@marydavis5234

2 ай бұрын

In the US, all ingredients in sugar, salt and oils etc have to listed and in other countries they are not required to be listed.

Thank you for the camera switch. So much better being able to see you and whatever it is you are showing us as they really are.

Good morning Steve household!! 😁 That blindfold looks like a teenage bra on your head Steve! 🤣 That Snickers at the end, you look like a couple of crack addicts fighting over the last rock! 😂

@kimarnill7648

7 ай бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing 😂😅

@ohwiseowl9163

7 ай бұрын

Same thinking 😂 bless him

@tamielizabethallaway2413

7 ай бұрын

Lol guys! It reminded me of Weird Science!

@kimarnill7648

7 ай бұрын

Poor Steve, he does also look like Seth brundle from the fly 🪰

@claregale9011

7 ай бұрын

😂

I love that the text on everything was the right way round this time. It makes a big difference.

As a Brit, the result does not surprise me. But UK chocolate is not the best. The European Union once threatened to ban the Uk for calling its cholcolate 'chocolate' because it doesnt't contain enough cocoa butter. You need to now try Belgian and Swiss chocolate. I now live in Belgium, but it is less common to see chocolate bars like Mars, KitKat and Snickers, although they do exist. The best chocoloate here is out of this world. Brussels Airport sells more chocolate than anywhere else in the world.

Terry's who make the chocolate orange used to make something called " Pyramint " pyramid shaped dark chocolate filled with peppermint fondant... they were gorgeous.

@julianaylor4351

6 ай бұрын

I still have two of the little boxes they came in, unfortunately the only two I ever got to eat. 😋

@DenisePeel

3 ай бұрын

They were delicious! I had forgotten all about them until you jogged my memory 😋😋

@VixGB

2 ай бұрын

They were gorgeous! I liked the Biarritz bars too, minty lush!

This was really good way of doing a taste test. Lindsey once you taste Galaxy milk chocolate there is no going back to Cadbury imo….

@Paul-hl8yg

7 ай бұрын

Absolute rubbish! Its a matter of personal taste, like being a marmite lover/hater. Many prefer Cadbury's over Galaxy. Just because you prefer one over the other, does not mean everyone does.

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

She really enjoyed the Galaxy but says Cadbury is still her favorite overall :)

@stephaniehamilton6217

7 ай бұрын

No way, I used to love Galaxy chocolate, but it doesn't taste as nice now

@shirleyanneyoung955

5 ай бұрын

Galaxy is my preference too, it’s much creamier and smoother.

@gothicgeisha2929

5 ай бұрын

Cadbury all the way, whatever is in Galaxy bars leaves a burning sensation at the bk of my throat, but I'm OK with all other Mars chocolate

Because it's Mars, the UK Snickers is essentially coated in Galaxy chocolate, same with the Maltesers

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

Well that explains it! Definitely a noticeable difference.

@ironmonger27

7 ай бұрын

Malteser chocolate is unique

@furyiv

6 ай бұрын

@@ironmonger27 it's not, it's the same recipe

The difference really is because the main ingredient in UK chocolate is milk, whilst in the US it is sugar. That is why, as you mentioned, it is 'sweeter'

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, definitely makes a difference!

@EmilyCheetham

7 ай бұрын

I thought it was because UK used cane sugar where USA used high fructose corn syrup.

@epsleon

6 ай бұрын

@@EmilyCheetham The UK doesn't use cane sugar, we use beet sugar.

@EmilyCheetham

6 ай бұрын

@@epsleon fine. My point was we use proper sugar not high fructose corn syrup which is just far too freeking sweet.

@waynemful

4 ай бұрын

Watched another video and the reason given why some British people think American chocolate tastes like vomit is something to do with something they add to the milk

Is it just the kid in me having "tee-hee" moments, or does Steve's blindfold look like a bra? 😮

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

It definitely does! An upside down one

@gothicgeisha2929

5 ай бұрын

​@reactingtomyroots no its the right way round, a foam form t-shirt bra is what they're called in uk, it looks like a triple A cup, which is the smallest cup size in the UK, usually kept as starter bras, the weird thing us when you get past Acup and the bras get bigger the double letters indicate the larger sizes, but in A cups they're the smaller sizes. Dunno who thought that up, guessing they copied the batteries sizes 😂

Hi Steve! Hi Lindsey! Happy Holidays! In the UK, Galaxy is much sweeter than the most popular brand "Cadbury's Milk Chocolate". BTW that's not a blindfold, that's an eye bra! LOL

@Rachel_M_

7 ай бұрын

Rowntrees chocolate. Now that's a blast from the past for you 😉 Was never the same after Nestlé bought them

@neilgayleard3842

7 ай бұрын

They did the same with trebor sharps.

@rachelpenny5165

7 ай бұрын

I still use the phrase Rowntrees of York gives best in value for the colours of the rainbow.

@wenglishsal

7 ай бұрын

@Tymbus .. I was thinking the same thing, when Steve had that 'blindfold' on.. It did indeed look like a bit of extra support for the lesser blessed ladies in the chesticles department.. LOL

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

yeah, when we went back and edited we thought the same thing lol

The standard of Cadbury chocolate definitely went down once the US company took it over, definitely more oily now & coats your mouth in it ! The Cadbury Crème Egg!! It’s never been put right!! ☹️

@RobFalla

6 ай бұрын

That’s why so many people stopped buying Cadbury cream eggs. They now use the same horrible chocolate as Hersheys

@user-sz6nb1vk6q

6 ай бұрын

They said they’d got it wrong & change it, they didn’t! I think the same happened to Galaxy when they “improved” the flavour, I used to prefer it to Cadbury’s but it went all oily after they changed it

That was fun! I have to say that I much prefer Galaxy to Cadbury chocolate. I'm glad you've flipped the camera around now, too! It made things very tricky when you held things up to the camera for us to read, and also did odd thinks to the map of the British Isles on the back wall. 😁

@kezlana6907

7 ай бұрын

Yeah Galaxy is so much creamier than cadburys. Cadburys used to be so much better than it is now.

@mmckenzie8085

7 ай бұрын

Yes I prefer Galaxy. So creamy mmmmhmm. My favourite chocolate though is Lindt.

@davidstewart2996

Ай бұрын

Galaxy Chocolate is the best tasting bar against Dairy Milk and Yorkie in UK, probably because Mars haven't changed the recipe.

Morning guys, having spent 10 yrs living in the US the results didn’t shock me at all. I missed eating chocolate so much when I lived in the US. Glad you guys are enjoying our chocolates 😊

@cookielady7662

7 ай бұрын

You can buy UK chocolate, or at least European chocolate, in the US in most places. I'm American and I prefer it, so I look for it. If all else fails, there's always Amazon.

@Garuthius

7 ай бұрын

@@cookielady7662 yes but as has been mentioned a lot .... there is UK chocolate manufactured in the US which is what you find on sale all over ,.... and there is UK Chocolate made in the UK to our own recipes which is the superior stuffs and is hard to get hold of in the US unless you pay through the nose or get someone to ship it out to you.

@cookielady7662

7 ай бұрын

@@Garuthius Then Amazon. LOL.

As many commentators have already said US companies buying and closing U.K. firms or changing the recipes has meant the quality of what used to be U.K. chocolate has gone down the pan. Still at least the alleged U.K. ones came out well. We really need to get you some proper Belgian chocolate - that’s how our chocolate USED to taste when I was a kid in the 50s. Enjoyed that lots folks.

@flemishhaggis3474

7 ай бұрын

My mom, who was Belgian, would not agree with you. She always said the closest we got to the taste of Belgian chocolate was Bournville. Wonder what she would make of the new Cadbury's Darkmilk

@vallejomach6721

7 ай бұрын

Nestle are the biggest source of ruin in my opinion when they bought out Rowntree Mackintosh...Kit Kat, Lion, Rolo, Toffee Crisp, Yorkie to name but a few, not a shadow of their former selves...and the least said about Quality Street the better.

@bob_sim

7 ай бұрын

@@vallejomach6721 I have to agree about Quality Street at christmas as a kid I loved it now I can do without it, in fact the tin we got for xmas has only had a few taken and will last for months

@chrisaskin6144

7 ай бұрын

When Nestlé took over Rowntree in the 80's, the flavour of Kit Kat definitely changed - the chocolate tasted less chocolatey but sweeter. I much preferred the Rowntree's Kit Kat.

@gillianknight9796

6 ай бұрын

I so agree , 😁👍

Steve looks like a giant fly in that blindfold! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@AndrewwarrenAndrew

7 ай бұрын

i thought the blindfolds looked like tiny sports bras

@CarolWoosey-ck2rg

7 ай бұрын

​@@AndrewwarrenAndrewha ha!😂

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

haha yeah, Lindsay said the same thing :)

You've sorted out the reverse image issue at long last! Thank you, it's been driving me mad with everything backwards. 🤣

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

We filmed this on our phone. A bit more hassle, but felt it was quite important for this video! :)

@Stevesixty7

7 ай бұрын

Steve, you need to keep it like this. From one Steve to another 😁

The camera has been flipped to the correct way!!!! Awesome

mainstream British chocolate like Cadbury has gone seriously downhill in recent years, mainly because US companies have bought them out and changed the recipe, even though they say they havent. I tend to stick to smaller independent chocolate brands now and just dont eat so much of it, more of a luxury than a go to snack. Terry's all gold and Terry's chocolate orange used to be a favourite in my house at Christmas, Terry's all gold was discontinued when Kraft took over and Terry's chocolate Orange was moved to Poland and I think its been sold off yet again by Kraft to a French company. I still like the dark choc orange, not so much the milk choc version anymore but I think my tastes have also changed as I have aged.

@emilydavison2053

6 ай бұрын

Same - dark chocolate for me. I like Divine and Montezuma best. Both British brands. Even as a child I liked Terrys all gold, dark chocolate bounty, frys chocolate cream. Also caramac. Nearly all gone now. I did eat Cadbury fruit and nut sometimes. Now it's all popping candy and jelly bits. Bleurgh.

In GB we have strict rules on sugar in all consumables, we have cut the amount of sugar allowed in sweets and drinks. We also monitor salt.

Undoubtedly, the British Chocolate will taste better not bias because I am British but because British Chocolatiers source the best Cocoa beans, in the world from West Africa. #Facts Just saying😊

The camera is fixed, I can read the words the right way! Glad you enjoyed the chocolate

For my very first (summer) job, I worked at Pedigree, which was (and is) owned by Mars. Staff sales were interesting...I would regularly come home with a box of 36 Snickers (called Marathon then) or Twix. They never lasted long! Unlike Cadburys, whose chocolate was ruined when those pillaging chemical merchants at Kraft/Mondocrap/whatever they are called now took it over, Galaxy ( and Snickers, Maltesers etc) has always been made by Mars under continual ownership in Europe.

@geoffpoole483

7 ай бұрын

When I was a teacher I had a colleague who would give out Mars bars and Twix as prizes in quizzes. He had a never-ending supply; it turned out that his sister worked for Mars.

Steve's taste buds are telling him to move to the UK ASAP :D

Thats a cry for help if I ever saw one "SEND MORE SNICKERS!!!!!!"

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

😂

Just starting but thank you for flipping the video!

Does anyone remember Duncan's Walnut Whips? They were taken over by Roundtree and then Nestlé. The original Walnut Whips were chocolate piped into a cone and filled with a fondant cream with a walnut in the base and one on top; they also did a coffee fondant flavour. Nestlé used a moulded chocolate cone, and the chocolate was less thick. They removed the walnut in the base (you probably need to be in your mid-60s to remember them).

@raycardy4843

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I remember the original 'Walnut Whips', with the walnut in the bottom - I loved the coffee ones, but used to give the nuts to my dad as I didn't like them back then! (PS I was born in 1960!)

@Cleow33

7 ай бұрын

Loved a walnut whip. Can you still get them?

@raycardy4843

7 ай бұрын

@@Cleow33 Yes, if you're in the UK - Morrisons (on offer!), Iceland and B&M seem to stock them in a 6-pack!

@astrecks

7 ай бұрын

@@Cleow33 I believe so, but I've not looked for them recently.

@tireeandcoll2603

6 ай бұрын

My uncle worked at Duncan's in Edinburgh and used to bring home bags of rejects. He never ate chocolate himself though. The coffee walnut whips were my favourite.

I read somewhere the US FDA philosophy on food additives that until its proved harmful it stays in. In the UK Europe NZ and Australia food additives stay out unless theyre necessary. Food safety regulations and standards in those places are much higher so US processed foods arent allowable or the recipes ars modified.

This was hilarious to watch, I agree he looks like a fly 😂. How did you keep a straight face I would have been laughing so much 😆

Hands down the UK chocs are better - correct lol

@MikeGSK

3 ай бұрын

Yeah UK snacks in general are far better in my opinion but US has some fast food places, that i would love to try i cant lie lol

Steve you look like your wearing a very small brasserie lol 😂 Peace love from the U.K

Watch quite a few different channels reacting to British chocolates and sweets and this is genuinely the best way I've seen it done so far! Definitely seems like the fairest way of doing it. Love it!

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed this format :)

You've now both become UK citizens 🇬🇧😁 Great video..👍🏻

What a great reaction, I love the uniqueness to the taste test, rather tasting it knowing what you're going to have. The galaxy is one of my favourite chocolates

Really enjoyed the blindfold tasting, that was a great way to do it. Loved seeing your facial reactions to the differences. Keep up the great videos ❤

Im from York, England and if you visit York check out the Terrys factory. Its now expensive apartments and a restaurant but the history of chocolate making in York is there to be seen.

@garyfisher247

7 ай бұрын

@SmearCampaignUK you can visit the factory and see it from the outside/ walk the ground etx. York Chocolate story is a museum on the history of chocolate making in York and you can visit Goddard's house which was the Terry family home.

Oh! you fixed the camera issue. Only took me 10 minutes to realise 🤦🏼‍♀️ .... Feeling A bit slow this morning Be honest Lindsay, we're you tempted to sneak a spoon of Marmite in while Steve was blindfolded?

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

😂 Don't give her any ideas..

@Rachel_M_

7 ай бұрын

@@reactingtomyroots oops...... 😁

Very interesting. Clever format. Just the right amount of editing and smoothly done at that. Even the background music was perfect. Pro video all round. Good job and thanks.

WOAH! The camera is the correct way around. Not sure how I feel about that. Steve goes on the left....can't compute....

@Rachel_M_

7 ай бұрын

For 10 minutes I was thinking "something is different", and then the penny dropped. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I think I might go back to bed for an hour and use a respawn for today

The one thing I did notice this Christmas is that all the chocolates in Cadburys roses just don't seem to taste as good as they use too and I grew up with a lot of chocolate experience as my father worked for Cadburys which is probably why I prefer savoury snacks now a days as I'm all choched out

@leec6707

6 ай бұрын

Milk Tray used to be a brilliant box of chocolates. Last time I bought some, the centres had changed and the chocolate was waxy and nasty. Such a shame.

Lindsay, your face when Steve is munching away is hilarious!

Hi Steve! nice to see the background & packaging the correct way around, Happy New Year to your family Best wishes Mike

apparently our coke and dr pepper taste different even the fantas looks different so pop could be a good one

It won't come as a surprise to most British people.

I have been to the US and tried the snickers, i could not eat it. I actually went back into the shop and brought the UK version, which cost me more money. I did the same with the Mars bar. Great video guys.

It's hilarious - it looks like you're feeding a giant fly chocolate! I can't unsee it now!

I was going to send over some things for you to do a video like this, so I'm happy that you tried this format. 😄 Sounds like Lindsay would absolutely love the Galaxy Caramel. I've just had a couple of teeth removed and my mouth is still numb. I've been trying not to laugh throughout the video because it's difficult with a numb face. 😂

Cadbury dairy milk 200g bars were so nice , big chunks , now it’s 100g and tastes nothing like it used to , why ruin something that was so good , GALAXY chocolate all the way nowdays it’s way ahead of Cadbury ❤

Yeah!!!...your`e the right way round!!!!!..thank you for doing that, hope you don`t feel too ill after all this, happy new year.

So happy the image is now the right way round!

the method of preserving milk is different Butyric acid is a compound found in milk products and is also present in rancid butter and vomit, which is why it might evoke a “sick” taste association. Some American chocolate manufacturers add butyric acid during production to give the chocolate a longer shelf. Sorry about the description of the milk preservation but was one I found .

@RoyCousins

7 ай бұрын

Hershey deny adding Butyric Acid to their chocolate. I think this is correct, but it contains Butyric Acid as a byproduct of Milton Hershey's method of preserving the milk and they don't really want to change a formula that has been so successful over many years.

@EsoxLVCIVS6776

7 ай бұрын

I've used butyric acid as a flavouring for carp bait and it stinks of baby puke

@peterdavidson3890

7 ай бұрын

Butyric acid is also found in a dog’s anal gland

@Mloclam-kw

7 ай бұрын

US chocolate may actually have more cocoa solids but boy it tastes of disgustingly of sick 🤮

@Debbie-henri

5 ай бұрын

Is it butyric acid that starts the milk to cheese process? I know that rennet was used from the stomach's of calves for this process, and that smells of baby puke.

It’s always entertaining seeing you two together 😂👍 can’t wait for more videos

Hello there from the UK. I think all your videos are excellent and this was no exception, a great scientific and non biased approach, you are both to be applauded for your thoughtfulness and approach to the taste testing. Very entertaining too. Best wishes for 2024 to all of you, David from Staffordshire 🙂

Watching the two of you interact was delightful! Such genuine connection between you. Thank you

You finally have your camera the right way round 👍

This is great viewing,if nothing else the US definitely need to fix this issue, quite shocking the results,get them chocolate companies tagged in

@utha2665

7 ай бұрын

There's a lot of ingredients that are substandard compared to other parts of the world. It's mainly due to the fact that the FDA have a philosophy of we'll allow the product and then if it's found to be bad we'll ban it, where other countries are prove that it's safe first, until then it's banned. Added with the fact that it's all about making as much as you can, when a brand gets bigger they are forced out or consumed by the big manufacturers. That's capitalism on steroids.

@Rottnwoman

6 ай бұрын

US food in general is bad.

@Timbothruster-fh3cw

6 ай бұрын

​@@RottnwomanIt used to be better, but Bidenomics changed it!

A kitkat fact I love is that the chocolate bit between the wafers is made up of kitkats that didn't make it... like a kit kat reincarnation ❤

Hey! You're the right way round. SO much better. Thanks!

Here we go, the moment we've been waiting for where you scoff 50 kilos of dairy milk and chocolate oranges 😂 Just be careful ok!

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

😂

Wouldnt be the last time Steve blindfolds her asks her to open her mouth and says, "Are you ready for the whopper!" 🤣

@Timeteam-pl1si

7 ай бұрын

Wait till he here's it back sorry Steve

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

😂😂 Yeah...playing it back during editing felt really awkward lol

@Timeteam-pl1si

7 ай бұрын

Well it makes it good viewing

This was a lovely experiment, it warms my heart knowing you two are enjoying our food so much. ^_^ I was pleasantly surprised but not surprised, if I'm making sense, I KNOW our chocolate's good. 8-D

Snickers fan here....yep, I love our snickers. For me I think it's because you can taste the salt on or in the peanuts? I love this video by the way. Thanks for taking the time to do this. You two are great sports and it's good fun to watch your reactions and understand the differences. Thanks and wait until you try nutrageous 😍

Thought you had a mini bra on your head 😂 My dad worked in a chocolate factory and as kids we would get a large brown paper bag with misshaped bars in 😊 he worked for roundtrees that became nestle so we had toffee crisp etc he made Rolos for ten years 😊

@reactingtomyroots

7 ай бұрын

😂

So glad you've sorted the camera mirroring out. 👏🏼👏🏼 😊

@marydavis5234

2 ай бұрын

She commented they used a cellphone to film this video.

THE VIDEO IS THE CORRECT WAY ROUND, TIS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! 😂 great vid btw.

If you think UK chocolate is good, you should try the stuff we get from mainland Europe. Swiss Lindt and Italian Ferrero/Thorntons are incredible options.

@Rottnwoman

6 ай бұрын

I am Australian- we only ever buy Lindt.

@MotherGoose264

6 ай бұрын

Euh Hello 🖐 🇧🇪😂

@emilydavison2053

6 ай бұрын

Thorntons are British. I don't like Ferrero or lindt. Kinder is rubbish too. Nestle is poor and unethical.

@anashiedler6926

6 ай бұрын

@@emilydavison2053 Then try something from smaller factories. Like "Zotter" from Austria. Much better than lindt.

@penname5766

4 ай бұрын

Thornton’s is British. Also, brands like Hotel Chocolat, Monty Bojangles and Lily O’Brien’s (the last one is Irish) easily hold up against anything continental Europe has to offer.

In Britain dove is a brand of soap. That's why mars called it galaxy.

@sameebah

7 ай бұрын

I think Galaxy has been around a lot longer than Dove soap.

@abigail1st

7 ай бұрын

Dove soap came to the U.K. long after Galaxy chocolate.

@RushfanUK

7 ай бұрын

@@abigail1st Actually Dove soap was launched in the UK in 1957, 3 years before Galaxy chocolate.

@utha2665

7 ай бұрын

In Australia we have Dove soap and Dove chocolate, I don't know which recipe we get though.

@susanashcroft2674

7 ай бұрын

Imagine asking for a bar of Dove in the UK, you would get a bar alright but of soap. I'm sure there are brand names in the US that don't translate as to what you think they are in UK. 🍫🧼

Reese's stuff are comparatively new products in the UK...slowly started to appear probably some time over the last 20 years or so. Some other Hershey's bars have made their way over also in recent years but not massively. What surprises me about Reese's Cups though is the consistency of the chocolate...considering a lot of places in the US are much warmer than the UK it makes me wonder how they stand up to the heat. They must melt in no time. There isn't the number of flavours/varieties either...just normal peanut butter ones.

I don't know how i found your channel, but im pleased i did. Thanks from north east england. Now why do i have a craving for choccy orange and a coffee!!

Fantastic video. Not seen taste testing been done this way. Really good idea. Look forward to the next one

Who can finish this underrated ad song for Milky Way? The red car and the blue car had a race...

@kathrynabbott5032

Ай бұрын

All red could do was stuff his face - he ate everything in sight la la la la la la but good old blu he took the milky way

@TGSpectre1

7 күн бұрын

He ate everything he sees, from trucks to prickly trees.

Congrats on getting the camera (or camera angle) fixed, makes watching a greater pleasure !!!

@marydavis5234

2 ай бұрын

Lindsey commented they used a cellphone to film

Congrats on fixing your cam. It was like a whole new show 🤣

I enjoyed this, it’s great to see how different the “same” chocolate is

American Terry’s ingredients are: sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, non-fat milk, whey, vegetable oil (palm, shea nut oil), milk fat, soya lecithin, orange oil flavouring, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, vanillin (artificial flavour). British Terry’s ingredients are: sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, skimmed milk powder, whey powder (from milk), vegetable fats (palm, shea), milk fat, soya lecithin, E476 (emulsifier), natural orange oil.

@HSolar

7 ай бұрын

Cheers for that

@adriangoodrich4306

7 ай бұрын

E476 is polyglycerol polyricinoleate. Other than the cocoa mass/liquor substitution, the key difference is that the US version has artificial flavours, the UK version natural flavour. No contest for me.

@jeorjina

7 ай бұрын

@@adriangoodrich4306 I'm surprised the lists are near identical: I'm not surprised to see vanilla in the US version though, I suppose it helps to add a richness and depth where the chocolate itself is 'thinner'

@sharonmartin4036

7 ай бұрын

@@jeorjina It seems that in the US version the orange oil is merely a flavouring, whereas in the UK version it is actual orange oil.

LOVE THIS!! 🥰 🇬🇧

I tip my hat to you both, that was a brilliant way to make a video with some of the snacks....i thoroughly enjoyed watching that! 👍

Hi Steve and Lindsay, I'm so pleased to see the words of the items and the map on the wall behind you the right way around. It's so nice after so long to see that you got it sorted. Love most everything you do on the channel, keep it coming.

I still refuse to call a Marathon (1968-1990) a Snickers...

@obijon7441

7 ай бұрын

Same.

@bear6845

7 ай бұрын

You and me both!

@davidv.8655

7 ай бұрын

Campaign for return of our marathon bars officially underway

@daveofyorkshire301

7 ай бұрын

@@davidv.8655 way too late for that.

@julianaylor4351

6 ай бұрын

Snickers....knickers. 😆

This was exactly what I wanted to see... A direct comparison between US and UK equivalent brands. I think the reason that malteasers are waxy in the US and the train why dove doesn't melt as easily it's still down to three need to stop US chocolate from melting. I think they still add wax into dove and coat malteasers in wax. I think that US customers demand a perfect looking chocolate bar, whereas in the UK if we get a melty chocolate bar we'll just eat it, but in the US they will complain, claim some sort of emotional trauma and sue. The result is that the UK focuses on better tasting chocolate whereas the US gets shinier, harder formed chocolate to resist the higher temperatures which are more common in the US.

@joeasher2876

7 ай бұрын

*reason not train... I don't know why it autocorrected to that

@kezlana6907

7 ай бұрын

Sueing for emotional trauma 😂😂😂 true! Lol

@suemoore984

4 ай бұрын

I'm not sure that it's to do with the weather. Australia, which has similar summer temperatures to mainland USA, has much nicer chocolate than the USA

Thank you for posting this video! I remember commenting last month about wanting the side-by-side comparison.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. Probably why UK stuff is banned in US. You don't complain about things that you are unaware of.

As Lindsay said, you need to look at the ingredient lists, which for both countries are printed in order of ingredient quantity from highest to lowest. American chocolate always lists sugar first whereas British always lists milk. This alone explains the difference in creaminess, sweetness, and the granularity of some of the bars. However, to crack down on our national sugar intake, in 2016 the UK government handed the food and drink industry a deadline. By the end of 2020 any product that falls into one of the ten categories identified by health authorities as contributing most to sugar intake among children (a list which includes confectionery, yoghurts, pastries and breakfast cereals) must reduce sugar content by 20 per cent or risk more draconian steps, such as an extension of the 2018 tax on soft drinks. Older generations remember the chocolates with the original recipes, and as a result we don't think that todays are nearly as good, leading many to believe that the companies did it to save money by using cheaper ingredients (they are cheaper by the way), so although your taste test was valid it still was not a true reflection of what British chocolate used to be. With many of them, due to the alteration of the ingredients, there is a chemical/artificial aftertaste that never used to be there.

@GSD-hd1yh

7 ай бұрын

@SmearCampaignUK In a Linkedin article dated 1/1/17 Fiona Lomas, a former brand manager for Terrys Chocolate Orange confirmed the base recipe had been completely changed, quoting "Gone is the smooth rich chocolate with the perfect balance of orange oil and in it's place a sickly sweet chocolate, which makes the orange taste sharp and cheap." The American owners are Mondelez, and she goes on to proclaim her "utter disappointment at this change, which I assume has been implemented to save costs and increase production efficiency"

@TheJohnboyhunter

6 ай бұрын

​@@GSD-hd1yhTerry's hasn't been owned by Mondelez since 2016. The current owners of Terry's are a French company called Carambar.

@GSD-hd1yh

6 ай бұрын

@@TheJohnboyhunter The point was that Mondelez owned it when the recipe was changed.

I like how you guys did this. It’s fair because neither can see what one it is but going of taste only

Thoroughly enjoyed the way you did the comparisons. Really enjoyable to watch you both

Is the US orange an artificial flavouring rather than uk that is real orange oil. Just interested in how the orange is formatted

@paulmilner8452

7 ай бұрын

probably they tend to go for chemical based flavours than origin