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  • Harry Kersh: From calorie count to portion sizes,

  • we wanted to find out all the differences

  • between Pizza Hut in the UK and the US.

  • This is "Food Wars."

  • Joe Avella: At a Pizza Hut in the US,

  • the pizza size that you want to get

  • is often dictated by the type of crust you want to get.

  • For instance, this right here

  • is the smallest you can get, 6 inches,

  • but you can only get it with the pan crust.

  • Harry: In the UK, our pizzas come in three sizes.

  • Firstly, we have the small.

  • [crickets chirping]

  • OK, so they didn't actually

  • have a small pizza when we went,

  • because they said that no one orders them

  • and if they do they normally just give them mediums.

  • However, a small is supposed to be 9 inches across.

  • Joe: In the US, at a Pizza Hut,

  • Joe: In the US, at a Pizza Hut,

  • the only small pizza you can get

  • is one with gluten-free crust.

  • This one here is 10 inches.

  • Harry: The next size we have in the UK

  • is the medium pizza.

  • This one is 11 inches across.

  • Joe: The large you also get in the hand-tossed,

  • the pan,

  • or the thin and crispy crust.

  • This one: 14 inches.

  • Harry: Pizza Hut in the UK also offers

  • an all-in-one pan box meal,

  • where you can get a large pizza of your choice

  • as well as two sides and two sauces.

  • Joe: Here in the US,

  • you can get two box meal options.

  • This first one is a medium pizza,

  • five breadsticks, and some dipping sauce,

  • and then 10 cinnamon sticks with dipping icing.

  • And it comes in one box?

  • That really helps when you're eating this

  • in your car by yourself.

  • [laughing]

  • Not big enough, you say?

  • Don't worry. Pizza Hut has got you and the family covered.

  • This is the big dinner box.

  • Ooh, man!

  • [laughing] Look at this, dude!

  • It's like opening the suitcase in "Pulp Fiction."

  • [angelic music]

  • This looks awesome!

  • You got two pizzas.

  • I got pepperoni, and I got sausage.

  • 10 cheese sticks, and you get an option

  • of either pasta or chicken wings.

  • Get real. Get wings.

  • Joe: In the UK, we got these ones from a restaurant,

  • and they gave us a portion of six barbecue wings.

  • Joe: Not to be outdone,

  • we went ahead and proved a point to no one

  • by going just a little bit further

  • with our wing size options.

  • You can get six,

  • you can get 12,

  • you can get 18,

  • or 36.

  • [upbeat tuba music]

  • Lemon pepper?

  • Nope, I don't like that.

  • Harry: Who's getting the better deal for their money?

  • Well, in the UK,

  • a large cheese pizza will cost you 15 pounds 99.

  • That's a price of 15 cents per square inch.

  • Joe: The US large hand-tossed cheese pizza

  • is about $13.99,

  • which is about 9 cents per square inch,

  • making it about 40% cheaper

  • than the same pizza in the UK.

  • Harry: So, here we have

  • a large classic-crust cheese pizza

  • and a large pan-crust cheese pizza.

  • Now, these are the same price and the same diameter.

  • We wanted to find out

  • which one gives you more pizza for your money,

  • so what we're going to do

  • is try and weigh equivalent slices

  • and see which one comes out on top.

  • Joe: All right.

  • We will weigh a large slice ourselves.

  • Harry: So, Pizza Hut large pizzas in the UK

  • are supposed to be cut into 10 slices,

  • but they've actually cut this into eight,

  • so what we're going to do is try and find the slices

  • that are the same size, for scientific accuracy.

  • Let's weigh a slice of classic crust cheese

  • and see what it comes to.

  • Now let's weigh the pan crust.

  • So, our equivalent-size slice of pan pizza

  • is about 103 grams.

  • Joe: Similarly here in the US,

  • this is the hand-tossed, this is the pan,

  • both large cheese.

  • Pan.

  • So, one slice of pan is about 125 grams.

  • Hm.

  • Do the next one.

  • Slice is almost the exact same size.

  • 80 grams.

  • That's, like, significantly less pizza.

  • Same price. Ah, yeah. Stick with the pan.

  • Look how thick that is versus this.

  • Harry: In the UK, a large pan pizza

  • should be cut into 10 slices, but ours is eight.

  • Assuming it was 10 slices,

  • each slice would be 226 calories,

  • and that brings the total for a large pan

  • to 2,260 calories.

  • Joe: In the US, our pizzas apparently

  • are all eight slices regardless of size,

  • so one slice of a large pan Pizza Hut pizza

  • is 360 calories,

  • making the entire pie 2,880 calories.

  • Harry: One of these also contains 99 grams of fat

  • as well as 3,400 milligrams of sodium.

  • Joe: This entire pizza also has about 135 grams of fat.

  • 54 of those are saturated fat,

  • which I'm certain is the bad fat.

  • And it also has 5.31 grams of sodium.

  • That, in case you didn't know,

  • punch in,

  • is 221% of your daily sodium intake.

  • Don't eat this all in one day.

  • Harry: It's got 100% of your daily flavor in it.

  • What about the most calorific thing on the menu?

  • Well, in the UK, that's a large stuffed crust

  • pepperoni feast.

  • If it is 10 slices, each slice is 292 calories,

  • bringing the total to 2,920.

  • One of these pizzas contains

  • more than double your daily sodium allowance

  • and more than triple your saturated fat allowance.

  • Joe: If you want to have even more calories in your pizza,

  • then you've got to go with the most calorific pizza

  • on the Pizza Hut menu,

  • and, thank you, Conner,

  • that is, of course, the meat lovers.

  • This entire thing is

  • 3,760 calories.

  • 400% of your daily saturated fat.

  • 400!

  • And it also is three times your daily sodium.

  • If I've not put a fine enough point on it,

  • don't eat this.

  • Harry: Here's everything in a pan-pizza base

  • from a UK Pizza Hut.

  • Wheat flour, water,

  • yeast (baker's yeast, rehydrating agent E190),

  • vegetable rapeseed oil, salt,

  • premix (salt, calcium sulphate,

  • emulsifiers E481,

  • E472e, E471,

  • flour-treatment agent E300,

  • enzyme (alpha amylase, xylanase,

  • glucose oxidase, protease, cullulase)),

  • sugar, flour-treatment agent, ascorbic acid E300.

  • Joe: In the US, our pan dough has enriched flour,

  • which is bleached wheat flour,

  • malted barley flour, niacin,

  • furious sulfate?

  • Don't mess with that sulfate. He's pissed.

  • Thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin,

  • folic acid; water, yeast.

  • It contains 2% or less of salt, soybean oil,

  • vital wheat gluten, sugar,

  • enzymes, ascorbic acid,

  • sodium stearoyl lass-ih-tight.

  • Lac-the-lite.

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