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  • Joe: [British accent] From calorie count to portion sizes,

  • we wanted to find out all the differences

  • between Dunkin' Donuts

  • haha, it's me!

  • OK, I'll do it for real.

  • From calorie count to portion sizes,

  • we wanted to find out all the differences

  • between Dunkin' Donuts in the UK and the US.

  • This is "Food Wars."

  • At Dunkin' Donuts in the US,

  • you can get your doughnuts in three different...

  • sizes, I guess?

  • One doughnut,

  • half a dozen doughnuts, nice,

  • and, of course, everyone's favorite,

  • dozen doughnuts.

  • Harry: In the UK, our doughnuts also come

  • in three quantities,

  • and, shockingly, it's the same as in the States.

  • You can get one doughnut,

  • a half dozen doughnuts,

  • or you can be the life of the party

  • with the full dozen.

  • Joe: And it's "Food Wars," so you know

  • we're weighing a doughnut.

  • Harry: Now let's see how much a glazed doughnut

  • weighs in the UK.

  • Our glazed doughnut came to

  • pretty much exactly 50 grams,

  • so it looks like the States are getting a better deal.

  • Joe: At a US Dunkin' Donuts,

  • you can get your Munchkins

  • in four different units of Munchkin.

  • Five Munchkins.

  • 10 Munchkins.

  • Not enough?

  • Kick it up to 25 Munchkins.

  • See that?

  • And if that isn't enough,

  • you can go all the way to 50 Munchkins.

  • 50 of these things!

  • Wow, look at the size of this!

  • It's a lot of Munchkins.

  • Harry: In the UK, we also have four units of Munchkin,

  • starting with four.

  • From there, we move upwards to...

  • 12 Munchkins.

  • The next size up from 12

  • is in a box,

  • and the box contains...

  • 24 Munchkins.

  • And, finally,

  • our biggest size of Munchkins in the UK

  • is 50.

  • Now, it might not make too much sense

  • to compare just one Munchkin in the UK and the US,

  • because I'm sure they're all

  • slightly different shapes and sizes.

  • However, what we could do is

  • measure 24 Munchkins here and 24 Munchkins there

  • and hope that it provides a kind of overview

  • of the average weight.

  • That sound about right?

  • Joe: Sounds like science to me.

  • Let's do it.

  • All right.

  • This is 25, so I'm going to take one out.

  • Harry: Can I do it without spilling?

  • Oh, God.

  • Joe: Whoop.

  • Harry: [laughing] Oh, God.

  • Looking like a croquembouche.

  • What, how is that so good?

  • OK. Munchkin challenge No. 1:

  • How many Munchkins can I fit in my mouth

  • at one time without dying?

  • [jazzy music]

  • Cameraman: I'm not ready.

  • Joe: Can you hurry this up, man?

  • We got other stuff to --

  • ahhh!

  • [laughs]

  • If you guessed seven, you were roughly right.

  • Although I felt like I sort of cheated,

  • because I almost died.

  • Joe: In the US Dunkin' Donuts,

  • our hot coffees come in four sizes.

  • Small. Harry: In the UK,

  • our hot coffees come in two sizes,

  • regular and large.

  • Joe: Large

  • and

  • extra large.

  • The Dunkin' Donuts US website

  • says that their large hot coffee is 20 ounces.

  • Got a measuring cup here,

  • let's find out if that is true.

  • Now, full disclosure,

  • on the car ride over here,

  • had a little bit of a spillage.

  • So I'm gonna give this one,

  • we'll say, a 2-ounce leeway.

  • Should be 20 ounces, might be 18.

  • Yo!

  • OK, that's 16.

  • 4 more ounces.

  • [blows a raspberry]

  • Give me a break!

  • That's maybe an ounce.

  • 16 plus one, I think, is still 17.

  • There is no way

  • there is

  • this much of coffee

  • on my car seat.

  • Let's generously add 2 –

  • 16, 17, 18, 19 –

  • I don't want to be that generous.

  • Wait a second.

  • I got an idea.

  • 20 ounces, so that means I need 4 in here, correct?

  • OK. That's 20 ounces.

  • I'm gonna settle this right now.

  • OK. There's 16 in a cup, plus 4.

  • You know what's about to happen.

  • You ready?

  • [suspenseful music]

  • Come on, now.

  • Harry: Now, that all seems very dramatic,

  • so I'm also gonna measure our large coffee.

  • Not a black coffee.

  • Did I get that with milk?

  • I'm so stupid.

  • I just remembered I put milk in the large.

  • So, we're going to measure anyway

  • and see what happens.

  • Looks pretty much exactly 16 ounces.

  • Iced coffees in the UK

  • also come in two sizes, regular and large.

  • Joe: At a Dunkin' Donuts in the US,

  • we have three iced-coffee sizes,

  • small,

  • mediums,

  • and the large.

  • Harry: [laughing] No one needs, like,

  • 32 ounces of coffee.

  • That's just too much.

  • Joe: 32 ounces.

  • Do I have enough for 32 ounces?

  • This is 16, and this is...

  • 8. No, I don't.

  • Harry: We're also gonna measure our large iced coffee

  • to see what it comes to.

  • So, a large iced coffee in the UK came to 18 ounces.

  • Joe: Since I don't have another 16-ounce cup,

  • I will use this one.

  • Right on the 16.

  • OK. That's one 16 ounce.

  • Oh, jeez.

  • This is exactly 16 ounces here.

  • Was this the large?

  • Conner: I think that was the large, yeah.

  • Joe: This should be 16 more fluid ounces.

  • Shameful.

  • Absolutely shameful.

  • There definitely was not

  • this much space left in the cup.

  • 27 1/2 fluid ounces

  • in your 32-ounce large iced coffee.

  • It's still almost to the, I mean

  • our PA just pointed out

  • that maybe the density is different,

  • right when you put exactly the most frozen ice?

  • Maybe.

  • Well, let's ask someone who's a scientist.

  • [laughs]

  • Harry: Not a scientist, but that won't change anything,

  • and you guys are still kind of getting a bit shortchanged.

  • It's just 'cause the density

  • of the solid or the liquid might change.