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  • Harry: From calorie count to portion sizes,

  • we wanted to find out all the differences

  • between Jollibee in the UK and the US.

  • This is "Food Wars."

  • In the UK, Jollibee serves their famous Chickenjoy

  • in six portion sizes,

  • starting with a one-piece.

  • In the US, you can get your Chickenjoy

  • in five different portions.

  • A one-piece with a side.

  • Harry: Next up, we've got a two-piece.

  • Joe: A two-piece, also with a side.

  • Harry: We move to a three-piece.

  • Joe: A three-piece that comes with a side.

  • I'm so excited to try this.

  • It's my first-ever taste of Jollibee fried chicken.

  • [crunching]

  • Not my first time, Harry.

  • Oh, that's good. That's really good.

  • I don't know how it stayed so crispy.

  • The next sizes up are buckets of chicken.

  • You can get a bucket in six

  • or bucket of 10.

  • Buckets from a UK Jollibee come in three sizes,

  • starting with a six-piece.

  • Then from there, we move up to an eight-piece bucket.

  • And last but by no means least,

  • our biggest portion size is a bucket of 12.

  • Should've got a bigger plate.

  • I'm gonna eat some more.

  • It's really good.

  • [slow romantic saxophone music]

  • I just love chicken,

  • and this is a good example of it.

  • [crunching] [romantic music]

  • These little crispy bits that fall off your chicken,

  • gold dust.

  • Let's each weigh our six-piece buckets

  • to see if the Chickenjoy in one country

  • is bigger than the other.

  • It's time for some Jenga.

  • One.

  • Joe: Ah!

  • Harry: Two.

  • Joe: We have over 100 grams more chicken!

  • Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

  • I realize this is so arbitrary.

  • The size of the meats,

  • the amount of coating,

  • but it's nice to win regardless.

  • [laughs]

  • The chicken at Jollibee

  • also comes in the form of tenders.

  • In the UK, these are served in four portion sizes.

  • As a single tender.

  • What? One piece?

  • One piece?

  • Who's getting one chicken tender?

  • As two tenders.

  • There's a portion of three tenders,

  • and, finally, as a portion of four.

  • One chicken tender?

  • I've never heard of that, anywhere.

  • Well, here in America,

  • we have normal portion sizes for our chicken tenders.

  • You can get them in three pieces, six pieces –

  • I think three is not enough, but OK.

  • Three pieces,

  • six pieces,

  • 10 pieces.

  • Whoa!

  • Or 16.

  • ♪ Yeah! ♪

  • Tenders.

  • How do you like that?

  • Yeah, there's a little bit more going on there.

  • I like it.

  • Little bit of heat to it.

  • The batter seems different.

  • It has more of, like, the buttermilk flavor to it,

  • of, like, the coating. Yeah.

  • Garlic mayo, always.

  • Who needs ranch when you have garlic mayo?

  • Who needs garlic mayo when you have ranch?

  • [bell ringing]

  • Ranch is far superior to garlic mayo, no question.

  • Hell, yeah. Love ranch.

  • A worthy addition.

  • Ranch is way better. Herbs and spices?

  • Aren't they, like, basically the same thing?

  • Then we're on to some Jollibee specialities.

  • Now, one iconic dish is this one.

  • This is the Jolly spaghetti.

  • Now, this is a dish made of spaghetti with some cheese,

  • as well as a sweet-style sauce,

  • which is, I think, made with, like, banana ketchup

  • and some meats as well,

  • and then it's topped with hot-dog slices.

  • In the UK, this only comes as one portion size.

  • That's a cute size you got there, Harry,

  • but here in the US, we have three sizes.

  • Our regular portion,

  • our family portion,

  • and the party portion.

  • Look at this.

  • This is supposed to be eight to 10 people.

  • It's like a lasagna. Look at that.

  • Now, according to a friend of mine from the Philippines,

  • the pro move is to dunk the chicken

  • into the spaghetti sauce.

  • So let's give that a try.

  • The cold cheese isn't doing it any favors, I'll be honest.

  • [crunching]

  • OK.

  • Joe: Yeah. Harry: It's actually not bad.

  • Joe: It's a bit misleading, because their spaghetti

  • is actually, the sauce is sweet.

  • Very good.

  • Yeah, together, that's really good.

  • Then we're on to the burgers.

  • Now, Jollibee is famous for its Yumburgers,

  • which is a beef burger with its signature burger sauce.

  • In the UK, these come as either a single or as a double.

  • Over here in the US, you can get the classic Yumburger,

  • or this, the double Yumburger.

  • Don't want a bun for your burger, you say?

  • Jollibee has you covered.

  • They have something called the burger steaks,

  • patties of burgers smothered in their mushroom gravy.

  • You can get them in two patties, three patties,

  • or the six-patty family pack.

  • Over here, the burger steaks only come as a two-piece.

  • In the US, you can get a side of white rice.

  • We only have one size, and it's this one right here.

  • Same here. Our rice just comes in one portion,

  • and it's wrapped up like this, very cute.

  • Largest thing on a US Jollibee menu is this,

  • the Chickenjoy Bucket Treat D.

  • As in daaaamn!

  • I want to eat this all.

  • 10 pieces of chicken, five sides,

  • and five of the peach mango pies.

  • All of this for a reasonable price of $30.

  • This is the biggest thing on a UK Jollibee menu.

  • It's a 12-piece family feast,

  • and with one of these,

  • you get a 12-piece bucket of Chickenjoy,

  • two sides of fries, two chicken burgers,

  • four chicken tenders, six dips,

  • and a 1.5-liter bottle of a soda of your choosing.

  • I just want to start this section by giving

  • a shout-out to Jollibee.

  • Their nutritional information for the UK

  • wasn't publicly available when we were looking,

  • but we asked them to share it with us,

  • and they actually did.

  • So gold star for you guys.

  • Everyone else, take note.

  • The information is publicly available in the US,

  • so no special request needed over here.

  • We now know that an average three-piece from a UK Jollibee,

  • assuming they give you a drum, a thigh, and a breast,

  • would come to 1,059 calories.

  • I'd be lying if I said this was good for you.

  • The calories themselves aren't too bad.

  • However, there's just over 100%

  • of your daily sodium allowance in here,

  • as well as around 80% of your daily fat.

  • A drum, thigh, and breast from a US Jollibee

  • comes to 920 calories.

  • So our Chickenjoy actually has fewer calories

  • than the UK equivalent,

  • as well as less than half the sodium content.

  • In both countries, there are some differences

  • in the nutritional stats

  • between the different cuts of chicken.