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  • Joe: From calorie count to portion sizes,

  • we wanted to find out all the differences

  • between Domino's in India and the US.

  • This is "Food Wars."

  • Here in India, our Domino's pizzas come in three sizes.

  • Our Domino's pizza comes in four sizes.

  • Nikhil: The small, 8 inches with four slices.

  • Joe: The small, 10-inch, which is six slices.

  • The medium, 10 inches with six slices.

  • Joe: The medium, 12 inches, which is eight slices.

  • And the large, 12 inches with eight slices.

  • Joe: The large, 14-inch, which is,

  • I don't know, four, eight, nine,

  • 16 slices, 'cause I don't know why they cut it this way.

  • I didn't ask them to, so.

  • And the extra large,

  • 16 inches, or six slices.

  • Unfortunately, our large margherita pizza

  • only comes in one crust option, which is the hand-tossed.

  • You don't get it in pan

  • or in cheese burst or any other kind.

  • So I am going to weigh one slice

  • of large margherita hand-tossed pizza

  • to see how much it weighs.

  • 93 grams.

  • And I will weigh a slice of our hand-tossed

  • and our pan to compare the weight.

  • Please note that our mediums

  • are the same size as their larges.

  • That's pretty insane.

  • Yeah, I'm not surprised by that at all, buddy.

  • Hand-tossed.

  • One random slice is

  • 79 grams.

  • A slice of pan,

  • same surface size, we'll say,

  • but obviously a lot thicker,

  • like, way, I mean, come on.

  • Ha!

  • 139 grams.

  • So that's a little less than double.

  • This is a large Domino's margherita pizza.

  • It's also known as a plain or cheese in the US.

  • This is 12 inches long.

  • It costs 419 rupees, or $5.55

  • at current conversion rates.

  • So the total surface area of this pizza

  • is 729.7 centimeters squared,

  • which means it costs 0.76 cents

  • per square centimeter of this pizza.

  • Take our large 14-inch pizza,

  • which is $13.99, or 1,056 Indian rupee,

  • with an area of 993.1 squared centimeters.

  • Just like these slices are squared.

  • I totally did that on purpose.

  • That's 1.4 cents per square centimeter.

  • That means the Indian pizza is 45% cheaper

  • than the American version.

  • This is everything you'll get on a menu at Domino's India

  • that you will not get in America.

  • Little skyscrapers.

  • You guys have actual skyscrapers.

  • We have Domino's-pizza-box skyscrapers.

  • Here's everything at the US Domino's

  • you can't get in India.

  • We have five --

  • that's 10.

  • We have five different crust options.

  • We have pan.

  • Then you have wheat thin crust,

  • cheese burst.

  • Is there supposed to be cheese in here?

  • Oh!

  • There is cheese in here, for sure.

  • Then we have hand-tossed,

  • and we have something called new hand-tossed.

  • Maybe somebody else's hands were used to make this one.

  • In the US, our Domino's has five crust options.

  • This one right here, gluten-free.

  • But you can only get that as a small pizza.

  • Next, over here, hand-tossed.

  • Over here, the much thicker pan.

  • That's medium only.

  • This guy in the middle here is the crunchy thin,

  • which I just found out five seconds ago

  • they also cut in squares.

  • Didn't know that.

  • Last and certainly not least, this is the Brooklyn style.

  • They're thin slices, but you can only get this

  • as the large and the extra large.

  • Hell yeah, that looks so good.

  • Just by looking at them,

  • I can tell that the hand-tossed is slightly thinner.

  • Mm.

  • New hand-tossed.

  • It's a little firmer as a crust.

  • I would opt for the regular hand-tossed pizza.

  • Finally, just for fun,

  • the cheese burst.

  • That is such a guilty pleasure.

  • So, I thought this was cheese burst

  • in the sense that just the outer ring of crust had cheese.

  • The entire pizza base is cheese burst.

  • All right, here is our range of vegetarian pizzas.

  • Here in India, to keep with the religious sentiments

  • of both Hindus and Muslims,

  • who are a majority in our country,

  • we avoid using beef and pork in most fast-food restaurants.

  • But what that means is that we get

  • a lot of delicious vegetarian options.

  • No. 1, Mexican Green Wave.

  • I will say the colors on this pizza

  • definitely look like the Mexican flag.

  • Jalapeños, some tomatoes, onion, cheese.

  • Next up, we have veggie paradise.

  • Wow.

  • Imagine calling an entire pizza a paradise.

  • Red peppers, capsicum, olives, corn, and cheese.

  • You guys in the comments, let me know,

  • does this look like paradise to you?

  • I'm not in the comments, but I'll tell you right now,

  • it absolutely does not.

  • It's funny. Their veggie paradise

  • is my pizza hell.

  • Next up, deluxe veggie.

  • Mushrooms, paneer, corn, capsicum, and onion.

  • I typically don't like when there's too much on my pizza,

  • but the things here really complement each other.

  • Pretty good. But, again, there's so much going on in this.

  • It's truly a deluxe pizza.

  • Next up, we have Peppy Paneer. How fun!

  • Red peppers, capsicum, and paneer.

  • If you are wondering what paneer is,

  • it's basically cottage cheese,

  • and we love our paneer.

  • OK, next up we have paneer makhani.

  • If you're wondering what makhani means,

  • it's a paneer version of butter chicken.

  • If you're wondering what butter chicken is,

  • friend, you need a culinary education.

  • Hm.

  • Would I ever want paneer makhani on a pizza?

  • Maybe not. I don't like it.

  • Next up, we have cheese and corn.

  • It's got cheese, it's got corn.

  • And finally, Indi paneer tandoori pizza.

  • Tandoor is basically an oven we use here.

  • It's cylindrical. We use wood fire and coal in it

  • to sort of give the meat and bread some char to it.

  • And Indi, well, this pizza has just not hit mainstream yet.

  • Oh, that is spicy and a half.

  • If you can't take heat, avoid this one.

  • My favorite so far,

  • none of them. I will order a non-veg pizza.

  • Wow, India has a lot more vegetarian options

  • than we do, and good for them.

  • I personally don't want any of that.

  • We do have two of our own exclusive veggie options.

  • This here is the Pacific veggie.

  • And over here we have the spinach and feta.

  • I don't want to try either of these.

  • Do I have to?

  • It's wasting valuable stomach space, you know?

  • Like, it's only so big.

  • All this awesome Domino's food here,

  • you think I want any of this in my stomach? Who cares?

  • All right, fine.

  • What's it got, like, feta cheese on it?

  • This isn't so bad.

  • Nonvegetarian pizzas.

  • No. 1, we have the pepper barbecue.

  • Doesn't look like it has any vegetables,

  • just a bunch of chicken pieces

  • and with a nice smoky barbecue flavor.

  • But you can choose a pepper barbecue chicken with onion.

  • That is a great combination.

  • Chicken sausage. Quite sausage-y, for sure.

  • The next pizza is what I believe to be

  • the best pizza you can order from Domino's India.

  • The Chicken Golden Delight.

  • What a delightful name.

  • This is one of the oldest pizzas that's been there

  • on the Domino's India menu.

  • It's got nice sweet corn,

  • it's got some jalapeños in there,

  • and some delicious, delightful chicken.

  • Next, we have the Dominator, which seems to have

  • every single meat-topping option on the menu.

  • My God.

  • Consider me dominated.

  • I don't think he knows what that means.

  • Wow. We're learning a lot about Nikhil today, aren't we?

  • Whatever you're into, my man.

  • And next we have chicken fiesta.

  • It's got some tandoori chicken pieces,

  • some capsicum, onion. Nice, simple flavors.

  • You can't go wrong with this one.

  • And finally, Indi chicken tikka,

  • which is just the chicken version

  • of that paneer pizza I had.

  • And that one just burned my lips,

  • so steer clear of this one if you can't handle spice,

  • but if you do, this is the one you should get.

  • Actually, some of those look pretty good.

  • I'm very impressed.

  • Now, here in the US,

  • every pizza that has beef on it is an exclusive.

  • And we also got some chicken ones.

  • Let's do this. I am starving.

  • All the way over here,

  • this is the ExtravaganZZa, which looks to have

  • bunch of veggies, mushrooms, and pepperoni.

  • Yeah.

  • This is the MeatZZa. That's with two capital Z's.

  • I'm seeing pepperoni, ham, sausage, possibly hamburger.

  • All the meats.

  • Hell, yeah. Let's go.

  • Mm.

  • I can maybe do one bite of that.

  • My neck's starting to sweat.

  • Next, we got the Hawaiian pizza.

  • Mm.

  • A-plus on this one. I f--- with this one.

  • Definitely. Very good.

  • Cali chicken bacon ranch.

  • And you see, it looks like it has sun-dried tomatoes,

  • bacon, I'm assuming, and chicken, white sauce.

  • Little flimsy guy. This is the Brooklyn style,

  • so I don't know why it's California.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • That white sauce.

  • Buffalo chicken pizza.

  • I mean, they drizzled it on there, right?

  • You see that? It's just drizzled.

  • This one's surprisingly very good.

  • The ultimate pepperoni.

  • Not just any pepperoni pizza.

  • The ultimate pepperoni.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • It's covered in pepperoni.

  • "Ooh" is right!

  • Mm!

  • Oh, yeah, put me in a pepperoni coma.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Oh, the deluxe.

  • Deluxe is just that, little bit of everything.

  • Black olives, sausage, peppers, ham, probably bacon.

  • You put black olives on anything,

  • it just tastes like black olives.

  • Ooh, Memphis barbecue.

  • I am pro barbecue sauce on pizza.

  • And it looks like they got chicken here too.

  • Yeah. Onions.

  • Mm.

  • Yeah. Oh, man.

  • That barbecue sauce. That's really nice.

  • Wisconsin six cheese.

  • There's no way there's six cheeses here.

  • I don't think I can name six cheeses.

  • We have mozzarella, cheddar, Asiago,

  • does American count as cheese?

  • Did I say cheddar yet?

  • Blue, I don't know.

  • Next up, if all of those non-veg pizzas

  • aren't enough for you,

  • they have an entire section called chicken lovers,

  • and they have these four pizzas that look absolutely insane.

  • They're more topping than pizza at this point.

  • This one is called the chicken five feast.

  • So they have chicken, pepperoni, chicken tikka,

  • chicken meatballs.

  • There is so much going on over there.

  • I like it, but it feels like a drug, a pizza drug.

  • Next up, we have the spicy double chicken.

  • It has two different types of chicken,

  • pepper chicken and tandoori chicken.

  • And I assume it will be spicy,

  • and I'm going to take Domino's word for it.

  • And then we have Chicken Maximus,

  • which sounds like a Roman emperor who was also a coward.

  • They have chicken sausage, chicken tikka,

  • just a lot of chicken. Just a lot of chicken.

  • That's what this has.

  • Like, oh, my God, can I just weigh this?

  • It feels like a small baby.

  • I'm holding a small baby.

  • 545 grams for a medium pizza.

  • And finally, we have what appears to be the king

  • of all of these chicken-lover pizzas.

  • It's an Indo fusion max.

  • Sounds like, I don't know,

  • some sort of detergent.

  • But, dude, you can't even tell what,

  • like, what number of ingredients is on this?

  • I can't even see the pizza at this point.

  • Oh, my God.

  • I feel like a new man.

  • You have to order this once in your life.

  • It gives me deep displeasure to announce

  • that Domino's India has decided to create

  • these monstrosities called pizza burgers.

  • Look at this. [knocking]

  • Is a burger supposed to make this noise?

  • In Bengaluru, where I'm from,

  • if something bad happens to you,

  • your friend will say you got a bun.

  • And this is the bun they're talking about.

  • They have three flavors, classic veg,

  • premium veg, and classic non-veg.

  • Ah! Oh, man!

  • No!

  • It's just veggies and sauce. Is that cheese?

  • No! No, no, no, no, no.

  • [sighs]

  • You know what?

  • I thought this would be bad.

  • And it's worse.

  • It's much worse. It's not a burger.

  • Nothing about this is a burger except for the bun.

  • This might be the worst thing I've eaten

  • on "Food Wars" so far.

  • OK. We did kind of the same thing,

  • only we call them sandwiches.

  • I've never gotten one of these outside of "Food Wars."

  • I'm just going to pick this one right here.

  • It looks like it is a chicken habanero.

  • Everyone want to get bummed out? Aw.

  • Philly cheesesteak. Listen up, Philadelphia.

  • Domino's wants to make you guys proud.

  • Philadelphia, why are you not rioting right now

  • at the Domino's headquarters, wherever it is?

  • Because this is just insulting.

  • Oh, no.

  • Remember the Mediterranean veggie?

  • Here it is in sandwich form.

  • Oh, this one has banana peppers on it.

  • Ooh, here we go.

  • Chicken bacon ranch.

  • Love that combination.

  • Oh, no. Yuelei, look at this.

  • Look at this!

  • This is just too much.

  • This one I just labeled "sandwich."

  • I didn't know which one it was.

  • What the f---? Look at this. What is this?

  • Is this the Buffalo chicken?

  • No on this one, guys.

  • Buffalo, let us know in the chat

  • how insulted you are by this.

  • Both residents of Buffalo and Buffalo the animals.

  • Uh, Italian.

  • They didn't skimp on the pepperoni,

  • I gotta give them credit for that one.

  • The chicken Parm sandwich.

  • Surprisingly bland.

  • They're not terrible, but, I mean,

  • why get this instead of pizza?

  • Continuing the list of exclusive abominations,

  • we have a string of pastas,

  • but also pasta pizzas,

  • which look, um, fascinating.

  • Here in Domino's India, we use fusilli pasta,

  • fusilli being the whole helix DNA strand of pastas.

  • We have creamy tomato, veg, non-veg,

  • and we have Moroccan spice, veg and non-veg.

  • And to accompany these I'm sure delicious pastas,

  • we have pasta pizzas in the same flavors.

  • Wow, just really inventive stuff going on over here.

  • This is the Moroccan spice vegetarian pasta pizza.

  • Here we go.

  • Voice-over: They ask you how you are,

  • and you just have to say that you're fine

  • when you're not really fine.

  • It sent a shiver down my spine.

  • It's so bad.

  • How many different types of carbs are in this?

  • My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

  • OK, I'm going to try one pasta just in case it's good.

  • Let's mix it up.

  • This one has some tomato sauce in it.

  • This is bad.

  • We here in the US have our pasta options

  • that come in penne noodles, these type of noodle guys.

  • Is that a good shot of a penne noodle?

  • You can get it in pasta primavera,

  • chicken carbonara,

  • chicken Alfredo,

  • Italian sausage marinara.

  • Again, I don't know why you're getting pasta

  • at a pizza place.

  • I like it just fine.

  • Is this the best pasta you can get in your neighborhood?

  • Most certainly not.

  • Now on to chicken wings.

  • We have three flavors, tomato chili sauce,

  • peri-peri, and boneless peri-peri.

  • I'm going to try the peri-peri wings

  • just to see how they stack up.

  • They're all right.

  • They're just your standard, run-of-the-mill chicken wings.

  • In a country full of millions of flavors,

  • I can't believe we're still doing these same

  • standard flavors like peri-peri, barbecue, and ranch.

  • Where is my chicken 65, my chicken mughlai,

  • my chicken ghee roast?

  • Oh, chicken ghee roast.

  • Domino's, if you do chicken ghee roast wings,

  • I think you're going to get a lot more people.

  • Wings in the US. We got them too.

  • Here's three flavors that we have here in the US.

  • Honey barbecue, sweet mango habanero, and garlic Parmesan.

  • Domino's, if you're watching,

  • you need to, effective immediately,

  • stop doing this.

  • I don't know who in your organization said,

  • "You know what we should do?

  • Instead of tossing it in the sauce,

  • you know, how everyone expects their wings to come,

  • we'll just put it on here and drizzle."

  • Look at this. Look at this mess.

  • Toss it. Toss the wings. Toss it in the sauce.

  • Toss it in the sauce.

  • That's how everyone does this, how it's supposed to be done.

  • Next up, exclusive sides.

  • No. 1, cheese pops.

  • Tater tots, as you call them.

  • We have fries, and they're crinkle-cut. That's unique.

  • Not a lot of restaurants here in India do this.

  • They have been flavored with a bunch of stuff, though, so.

  • I think they've used their oregano

  • and chili flakes over here.

  • They have here a veg parcel.

  • It's like a little puff

  • with the same paneer pieces over here.

  • Then they have what they call tacos.

  • There's a vegetarian version

  • with some simple veg cutlets,

  • and they have a nonvegetarian version with

  • [laughs] a slab of chicken.

  • I did not expect that.

  • I am speechless at the level of quality these sides have

  • compared to the pizzas.

  • Then you have a chicken parcel.

  • And finally, they have little meatballs of chicken

  • with peri-peri dust on top of them.

  • This is literally just one of their pizza toppings

  • that they're selling as a side.

  • Yes, India has breadsticks and stuff with cheesy bread,

  • but they don't have garlic ones.

  • We got those.

  • We also have these Parmesan twists.

  • Look at these twisty guys.

  • And for stuffed cheesy bread,

  • you can get it as spinach and feta

  • or bacon and jalapeño.

  • Dips. This, I don't know what,

  • they just were like,

  • "How can we give people pizza without bread?"

  • Behold, this.

  • It is a dish of cheese and marinara sauce.

  • They're calling them dips.

  • Cheesy marinara.

  • And the five cheese. Come on.

  • Look at that. Look at that oil.

  • You see that right there?

  • Exclusive sauces at the US Domino's.

  • You know what that means.

  • Sauce talk.

  • Here, you can get these exclusive sauces in the US.

  • Can't get them in India.

  • We got hot Buffalo, sweet mango habanero,

  • honey barbecue, ranch,

  • ooh, blue cheese, for the wings, right?

  • And garlic.

  • Yeah, it says ranch.

  • They gave us two ranches instead of

  • a ranch and a garlic.

  • And marinara.

  • They were generous with the marinara.

  • That's a big one.

  • We have two separate dips over here in Domino's India.

  • We have a cheesy dip,

  • and we have a cheesy jalapeño dip.

  • Cheesy dip.

  • Ooh.

  • Oh, that tastes good. OK.

  • Cheesy jalapeño dip, really yum.

  • Something about this tastes spoiled.

  • Is this past its expiry date?

  • It tastes like curdled milk.

  • Go with the cheesy jalapeño dip, for sure.

  • It's time for desserts!

  • Dessert.

  • We just have one dessert here in Domino's India,

  • but it's a banger.

  • This is a choco lava cake.

  • You heat it up, and boom,

  • gooey lava goodness.

  • Oh, wow.

  • This fixed everything that was wrong

  • with the menu of Domino's up until now.

  • Just eating this is so comforting.

  • I can feel those memories of the pasta

  • and the burger and that ridiculousness that they served

  • slowly disappearing from my head,

  • like thoughts from Dumbledore's head

  • when he's near the pensieve.

  • Hey, India, check out these desserts we got.

  • You can't have them.

  • Over here, we have a marbled cookie brownie.

  • I'd go for a brownie. Right?

  • What the hell, dude? These are great.

  • Oh, my God.

  • It's cookie dough and brownie.

  • What a great idea!

  • These dips. I don't know who

  • in your organization said, "Let's do dips,"

  • but you need to let that person go.

  • It's, like, chunky apple sauce and cinnamon twists.

  • Now it's time for drinks.

  • Yet again, it's PepsiCo winning.

  • Over here, we have Pepsi, we have 7Up, and Mirinda.

  • Unlike a lot of other restaurants,

  • Domino's is yet to switch from plastic PET bottles

  • to something like cans or reusable cups.

  • Drinks you can get in the US, can't get in India.

  • I almost said the UK. Jesus. I'm cracking up.

  • Coke, diet Coke,

  • Fanta orange, the Doctor,

  • Sprite, Dasani water.

  • I'm taking the Dr. Pepper.

  • It's time for calories.

  • Our large hand-tossed margherita pizza

  • has 256.4 calories per slice.

  • So that means the full pizza is 2,051.5 calories,

  • which is over twice your daily recommended protein intake

  • and 172.5%

  • your daily sodium intake.

  • Yeesh!

  • Our large cheese pizza is 2,240 calories.

  • That's a 9.19% increase

  • from India's cheese pizza.

  • Look, I screwed up.

  • I needed a thin crust for the crust section of this video,

  • and I just randomly made it this large.

  • Just understand that ...

  • maybe, Victoria, can you do me a favor

  • and take this pizza here and just put it right there?

  • Like, can you just do that in post, please?

  • Next up, one slice of a large deluxe veg pizza

  • is 220.5 calories.

  • And so the entire pizza

  • is 1,764 calories.

  • This is our large Pacific veggie veggie pizza,

  • and it is 310 calories per slice,

  • which makes the full pizza 2,480 calories.

  • That's a 40% calorie increase in the US.

  • And, oof, get a load of that sodium,

  • over 200% your daily amount.

  • At Domino's India, our highest calorific pizza

  • is the chicken dominatrix.

  • Chicken Dominator!

  • The chicken Dominator, dominating the calories, I guess.

  • One slice will cost you 399 calories,

  • and the entire pizza is a whopping

  • 3,192 calories,

  • which is 159.6%

  • of your recommended daily intake.

  • Please steer clear from eating

  • an entire chicken Dominator.

  • Our US Domino's pizza with the most calories is this,

  • the Cali chicken bacon ranch.

  • One XL Brooklyn slice of this is 560 calories.

  • That makes the full pie 3,360 calories.

  • That's 168% your daily recommended calorie amount.

  • It's worth it. It's delicious.

  • Go get a slice.

  • Tell 'em Joe from "Food Wars" sent you.

  • They'll have no idea what you're talking about.

  • All right! Thank you, Domino's India!

  • That was delicious.

  • God bless me for eating all of that,

  • but God bless you for continuing to make

  • some of India's favorite pizzas.

  • I am questioning the whole pasta and burger thing, though,

  • and I hope you do too.

Joe: From calorie count to portion sizes,

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