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.

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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.

I think it's lac-the-lite.

Harry: Now, the UK list might actually look worse,

but you shouldn't be too scared of the E numbers.

For the most part, the chemicals actually exist

in the US dough as well

but are referred to by different names.

For example, E481 is just another way of referring to

the sodium stearoyl lactylate.

Also, the E472e that's found in the UK dough

is otherwise known as datem,

and that appears in the US hand-tossed crust.

What about the marinara sauce?

Well, in the UK it contains tomatoes,

citric acid, sugar, oregano,

basil, marjoram, thyme, salt, onion powder,

maltodextrin, yeast extract, rapeseed oil, guar gum,

garlic powder, and silicone dioxide.

Joe: Whereas our sauce contains tomato puree,

which is water and tomato paste,

maltodextrin, salt, spices, garlic powder,

tomato fibers, olive oil, canola oil,

citric acid, and natural flavors,

so it sounds like it's pretty much the same thing.

Harry: How about the cheese?

In the UK, we refer to our cheese as mozzarella,

and it contains the following:

mozzarella cheese, salt,

lactic cultures, and potato starch.

It's actually pretty short, compared to the first two.

Joe: In the US, the Pizza Hut refers to its cheese

as cheese, which contains mozzarella cheese,

pasteurized milk, cheese cultures,

salt, enzymes, modified food starch,

sugarcane fiber, potassium chloride –

[burps]

Excuse me. Ugh!

Natural flavors, ascorbic acid.

Bleh!

Harry: There is one thing to look out for on the menu.

If you're in the US and you get a salad,

the croutons contain azodicarbonamide, or ADA.

This is a substance that's usually used to make

vinyl foam plastics, which form things like yoga mats.

It's actually been banned from use in food

in the UK since the 1990s.

Joe: So, this is my comment on the yoga-mat thing.

It's always something.

Even when we're trying to be healthy,

our salad has yoga-mat plastic in it.

It's ridiculous. Like,

why do our croutons have plastic in them?

Just get regular croutons without plastic!

It doesn't make any sense.

This pizza is the bomb, dude. It's really good.

Harry: Here is everything you can only find on the menu

at a UK Pizza Hut.

And we've got quite a few exclusives!

Joe: And these are all the exclusives you can only get

at a US Pizza Hut.

Harry: So, I'm not sure if it's like this in the US,

but in the UK, Pizza Hut's operations

are kind of split into two halves.

You have a bunch of restaurants,

where you will go and have a sit-down meal,

and then you also have a bunch of carryout locations,

which just do delivery orders.

The menus are actually slightly different,

depending on where you get your food from.

The brown ones are actually from a sit-down restaurant,

and the red ones are from a takeaway restaurant.

We wanted to get a selection of both

to see all of the foods you can get from the UK Pizza Hut.

Joe: Per what Harry was talking about before,

places for carryout versus delivery only,

I have no idea.

I just went on the website and ordered it,

and this showed up, so.

Harry: Let's start with the exclusive pizzas.

So, across these few pizzas, we have pretty much

all of the exclusive customizations available in the UK.

We'll start with some of the doughs.

On the left we have our gluten-free option.

I think there actually is one of these in the US,

but could be fun to compare.

It looks pretty standard from the top.

Then my personal favorite is here,